Research projects

Ongoing projects:

Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore

• Vernacular Interpretations of the Incomprehensible: Folkloristic Perspectives Towards Uncertainty (2020–2024)
• Re-storied Sites and Routes as Inclusive Spaces and Places: Shared Imaginations and Multi-layered Heritage (2019–2023)
• Performative negotiations of belonging in contemporary Estonia (2018–2021)
• Tradition and Vernacular Discourses in the Context of Local Christianities in Northeastern India (2018–2021)
• Traumatized Borders: Reviving Subversive Narratives of B/Order, and Other (2016–2020)
• Inequalities of Mobility: Relatedness and Belonging of Transnational Families in the Nordic Migration Space (2015–2019)
• Inequalities in Motion: Transnational Families in Estonia and Finland (2015–2019)

Department of Ethnology

• Cultural heritage as a socio-cultural resource and contested field (2015–2020)

Department of Literature and Theater studies

• The Role of Imaginary Narrative Scenarios in Cultural Dynamics (2017−2020)
• Technological saturation in literary representation: from the realization of science fiction to utopian realism (2017−2019)
• Centre of Excellence in Estonian Studies (2016−2023)
• Estonian Literature in the Paradigm of Comparative Literary Research (2014−2019)

Completed:

• Balti kirjakultuuri ajalugu II (2014–2018)
• Contemporary Finno-Ugric Animism: Functions and Social Context (2015–2018)
• Tradition, creativity and society: minorities and alternative discourses (2013–2018)
• From War History to Modern Education (2015–2017)
• Living together with difficult memories and diverse identities (2015−2017)
• SPeCTReSS - Social PracticE Cultural Trauma and REestablishing Solid Sovereignties (2014−2017)
• Symbolic Cultural Landscapes: Development and Protection of Local Communities in the Russian North (2015−2017)
• Ethnicity, Nation Building and Nationalities Policy in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: The Finno-Ugrians (2012−2015)
• Practices of memory: continuities and discontinuities of remembering the 20th century (2010−2014)
• Dynamic Perspectives of Identity Politics − Analysis of Dialogue and Conflict (2008−2013)
• Eesti elulood kultuurimälu kandjana (2009−2013)
• Eesti muinasjuttude teaduslikud väljaanded (2009−2013)
• European National Museums: Identity Politics, the Uses of the Past and the European Citizen (2010−2013)
• Writing Cultures and Traditions at Borders (2010−2013)
• Analysis of Knowledge Production in the Context of (National) Heritage Scholarship (2009−2012)
• Folklore and Society: Tradition Memory, Creativity, Applications (2008−2012)
• Vernacular religion, genres and the social sphere of meanings (2008−2011)
• Dialogue of Cultures in the Arctics: Way of Life and Worldview, Mentality and Stereotypes (2006−2009)
• Places of Memory and Cultures of Remembrance (2006−2009)