INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES:

The ASAP (Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present) 8th symposium "Alternatives to the Present"
September 3 - 5, 2016, Tartu

The IAPL (International Association for Philosophy and Literature) annual conference "Archaeologies of the Future: Tracing Memories, Imagining Spaces".
May 28 - June 3, 2012, Tallinn

Place and Location conferences

ESTONIAN CONFERENCES:

Heterologies: a seminar on Estonian culture in the 1990s.
May 20.-21. 2017, Laane pansion, Käsmu, Estonia

Conferences on contemporary Estonian culture:

Conference on historization of contemporary culture.
May 16, 2019, Tallinn.

Conference on picture.
December 10, 2018, Tallinn.

Conference on Esto-Russian culture.
October 6, 2017, Tallinn.

Conference on Hasso Krull.
November 18, 2016, Tartu.

Conference on the use of cultural history in performing arts.
September 18, 2015, Tallinn.

Conference on (:)kivisildnik.
September 19, 2014, Tallinn.

Conference on the films by Sulev Keedus and Madis Kõiv.
November 8, 2013, Tallinn.

Conference on Dead Mountaineer`s Hotel ("Hukkunud alpinisti hotell"), an Estonian cult film adaption of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky`s same-titled novel (published in English as Inspector Glebsky's Puzzle).
August 29, 2011, Tallinn.

Conference on the Mari Saat.
September 16, 2011, Tallinn.

Conference on contemporary criticism and analysis of speculative fiction in Estonia.
June 18, 2010, Tartu.

Conference on Mehis Heinsaar.
May 29, 2009, Tartu.

Conference on Autumn Ball ("Sügisball"), a novel by Mati Unt and its film adaption by Veiko Õunpuu.
June 9, 2008, Tallinn.

Conference on Jüri Ehlvest.
May 11, 2007, Tallinn.

The "Archive Conferences":
Conference series on contemporary philosophy, memory, past, present and future.
Organised in Tartu by Jaak Tomberg and Neeme Lopp.

The aesthetics of Boredom.
April 20, 2018

Affect >< Effect.
May 16, 2014

REALISM!!!!
May 17, 2013

Aesthetics and the Politics of Indetermination: Conference on the political potential of art.
April 27, 2012

Eschatology and Apocalypse: Conference on the boundaries of representation.
May 13, 2011

The Archaeologies of the Future.
March 19, 2010

The Archaeology of Oblivion.
March 28, 2009

The Archive of Oblivion.
April 25, 2008

Earlier conferences:

Texts in Adaptation II ("Kohanevad tekstid II").
April 23-24, 2004, Tartu, principal organisers Virve Sarapik, Sirje Olesk, Piret Viires, Rein Veidemann (in co-operation with the Chair of Estonian Literature, University of Tartu).

Texts in Adaptation I ("Kohanevad tekstid I").
May 16-17, 2003, Tartu, principal organisers Virve Sarapik, Rein Veidemann (in co-operation with the Chair of Estonian Literature, University of Tartu).

The Signs of Conformity II ("Kohandumise märgid II").
April 3-4, 2002, Tartu, principal organisers Virve Sarapik, Rein Veidemann (in co-operation with the Chair of Estonian Literature, University of Tartu).

The Signs of Conformity I ("Kohandumise märgid I").
April 20, 2001, Tallinn, principal organisers Virve Sarapik, Rein Veidemann (in co-operation with the Chair of Estonian Literature, University of Tartu).

Besides that the research group has organised regular department seminars.