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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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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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/

💡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

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

📢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

28 Feb | 6pm GMT | Jack Macklack | Anthony D. Smith Visiting Fellow | John Breuilly | Free public event hosted by LSE IDEAS | Free and open to all

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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...

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

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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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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! 1/2

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. tlv1.fm/the-tel-aviv...

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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