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International Conference, Center of Exellence in Estonian Studies |
 Plenary speakers and lecturesDownload the information about plenary lectures in one PDF here. Krzysztof Duda (Jesuit University Ignatianum in Krakow)
Krzysztof Duda is a researcher in the field of cultural science. He works at Ignatianum Jesuit University in Krakow,
where he is head of the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Tourism at the Institute of Cultural Studies.
He has been a member of the American Anthropological Association since 2018, a member of the history of
science section of the Polish Academy of Sciences since 2020, and director of the Institute of Zootechnics in
Kracow, also since 2020. He is a member of the Carpathian society, Res Carphatica and other societies. Dr Duda
is also a Member of the Scientific Policy Committee affiliated with the Minister of Education and Science. He is
the author of national and international publications in the field of cultural anthropology, the history of
science, and culture. Tõnno Jonuks (Estonian Literary Museum) Tõnno Jonuks is an archaeologist, specialised on materiality of religion and on the history of Estonian religions. He has conducted a number of case studies to see how religion has been expressed in material form since the Early Mesolithic to the Modern Ages. Studies of prehistoric materiality of religion has guided him to modern reception of past beliefs and thus the nature religions and contemporary paganism have both been a genuine continuity of previous subjects. More about Tõnno Jonuks research activity on Estonian Research Information System Marju Kõivupuu (Tallinn University, Institute of Humanities, Center for Landscape and Culture)
Marju Kõivupuu is a folklorist and cultural historian. Her research interests at the Centre for
Landscape and Culture are related to the relationship between humans and
nature/landscape and the topic of cultural heritage. She also researches the culture of death
and folk medicine. She has successfully supervised doctoral and masters students. Several of
her monographs have received recognition at both the Tallinn University and national levels.
She teaches Estonian and comparative folklore, as well as several special courses (worldviews
and religions, landscape heritage and everyday culture, and others). Yuri Berezkin (Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera))
Yuri Berezkin, professor of the faculty of anthropology, European University at Saint Petersburg, and head of
the American department of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera), Member
of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. Professor Berezkin’s main research areas are the history of
cultural anthropology, political anthropology, folklore databases, comparative mythology and non-
classical mythology, the peopling of America, prehistoric migrations and interactions spheres, and
archaeology. Selected publications |
