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Timo Aava

@timoaava.bsky.social

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Historian of modern Europe. Baltic states, minorities, political thought. PhD from @univie.ac.at. Visiting Fellow @ox.ac.uk

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Timo Aava @timoaava.bsky.social · 18d

My new article is now online: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/CFI2J...

Between the individual and the group: minority rights in interwar Estonia

This article revisits theoretical debates over group rights and their impact on the individual in a democratic setting by looking at the Estonian example of collective minority self-government in t...

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Timo Aava @timoaava.bsky.social · 22d

Happy to be a Fellow at St Antony's College at Oxford this academic year: www.sant.ox.ac.uk/people/dr-ti...

Dr Timo Aava - St Antony's

Timo Aava is a historian of modern Europe focusing on the history of political thought and minority rights. He holds a PhD from the University of Vienna. After finishing his PhD, he has held postdocto...

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AABS @balticstudies.bsky.social · Sep 2

Congratulations to Timo Aava for completing his AABS Emerging Scholars Grant by making significant progress on his book manuscript during a research stay at Harvard!

Read more: https://aabs-balticstudies.org/2025/09/01/research-and-writing-at-harvard-emerging-scholars-grant-report-from-timo-aava/

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EMPSOLID ERC @empsolid.bsky.social · Apr 11

💡Our PhD call is now also available at EURAXESS!

You can find a thorough description of the position and of the application process here: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/333981

#EMPSOLID #EMPSOLIDnews #PhD

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Timo Aava @timoaava.bsky.social · Mar 3

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Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies | Timo Aava

He is a historian of modern Europe focusing on the history of political thought and minority rights Previously, Aava was a postdoctoral fellow at the…

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Timo Aava @timoaava.bsky.social · Mar 3

I’m delighted to start my term as a visiting scholar @europeatharvard.bsky.social today

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LSE Ideas @lseideas.bsky.social · Feb 12

📢The Anthony D. Smith Fellowship Seminar will be given by the 2024-2025 Fellow, @timoaava.bsky.social, on ‘From Empire to Nation-State. Minority Rights in Estonia in the First Half of the 20th Century'.

📅 18 Feb 2025 | 5.30pm
📍Online & In Person

⬇️ Register Here
www.lse.ac.uk/ideas/events...

Anthony D. Smith Visiting Fellow Talk

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ASEN @asenevents.bsky.social · Feb 11

This year's Anthony D. Smith Visiting Fellow, Timo Aava, is giving a talk on February 18th from 1730 at @lseideas.bsky.social (or live on Facebook and YouTube) on "From Empire to Nation-State: Minority Rights in Estonia in the First Half of the 20th Century" - details at asen.ac.uk/event/est...

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Timo Aava @timoaava.bsky.social · Feb 6

Here is a short news entry on my visiting fellowship at @lseideas.bsky.social:
www.lse.ac.uk/ideas/media/...

2025-2026 Anthony Smith Visiting Fellowship

fellowship

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Timo Aava @timoaava.bsky.social · Feb 6

I will be presenting at the symposium on Baltic Germans: macmillan.yale.edu/europe/balti...

Baltic | Bulwark against the East or Imperial Outpost? Baltic Germans in the Russian Empire

Fri, Feb 7 2025, 12am - Sat, Feb 8 2025, 12pm | Sponsored by: Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund Yale Baltic Studies Program Estonian Academy of Arts

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ASEN @asenevents.bsky.social · Jan 28

This year's Anthony D. Smith Visiting Fellow, Timo Aava, has started his stay at @lseideas.bsky.social, researching non-territorial autonomy in Estonia in the late Tsarist and interwar periods. We'll have an event later this year all about his work!
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Tel Aviv Review @telavivreview.bsky.social · Jan 19

Dr. Timo Aava examines Estonia’s establishment of non-territorial autonomies during the interwar period, with a particular focus on the Jewish self-government case, thereby providing intriguing insights into Estonia’s treatment of minorities.
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Minority Rights and Jewish Non-Territorial Autonomy in Interwar Estonia - Tel Aviv Review

Dr. Timo Aava examines Estonia's establishment of non-territorial autonomies during the interwar period

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