Chair of Estonian Studies Lecture at U of T – Dr. Kaarel Piirimäe

Monday, November 21st at 10am-12pm Dr. Kaarel Piirimäe from the Institute of History and Archaeology at the University of Tartu will be giving a lecture on the topic: A Country at a Critical Juncture: Historical Consciousness, and the Struggle over Estonian Foreign Policy, 1990-1991. The lecture will be held at the University of Toronto Lash Miller Chemical Labs, 80 St. George Street, Room 162.

In English. No admission fee.

Abstract

The lecture will be about the influence of historical imagination on peoples’ horizons of expectation on the example of the key players in Estonian foreign policy, foreign minister Lennart Meri and prime minister Edgar Savisaar. Dr. Piirimäe will argue that individuals play a key role at “critical juncture,” so the decisions that Meri and Savisaat made in the crucial years of 1990-1991 probably influenced Estonia’s path of development for a long time.