Liisi Keedus
Date of birth: 04. 12. 1977
Education
• Doctoral Studies, Department of History and Civilization,
European University Institute, Florence
2005 -
• MA, Nationalism Studies Program, Central European University,
Budapest
2001 – 2002
• BA, Theology and Studies of Religion, Tartu University
1996 – 2000
Professional and research experience
International Policy Fellow, IPF
Programme, Open Society Institute,
Budapest, Hungary
2003
• The policy project title is ‘The Role of Media in the Integration
of Estonians
and Russian Speaking Minorities: Towards and Inclusive
Public Sphere’.
OSI Junior Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow
Wilson International Center
for Scholars, Washington
DC, USA
2003
• During the three months of research, a set of policy recommendations
was
drafted on the basis of research into Estonian media regulations,
minorities’ protection measures, their compliance with EU legal
instruments,
and on the basis of interviews to determine the major obstacles
that hinder the
access of ethnic minorities to the mainstream media.
Lecturer, Estonian Art Academy, Tallinn, Estonia 2002
• lectures and seminars by the title "Presentation of Minorities in
Audiovisual Media: Narrative Analyses"
Lecturer, Nord University, Tallinn 2002
• Lectures and seminars by the title "Multiculturalism in the
Context of Estonia"
Chief Specialist, Ministry
of Internal Affairs of Estonia, Department of
Regional Development
2002-2003
• Responsible for EU Community Initiative Interreg III strand B preparations
for programme implementation in Estonia in 2004
• Co-ordinating the work of Baltic Joint Co-operation Committee for
Phare Cross-Border Cooperation (CBC) Programme in the
Baltic Sea Region
Lecturer, Nord University, Tallinn 2000-2001
• Two lecture/seminar series: History of Christian
Thought and Contemporary Ethics
Director’s assistant and translator for F-Seitse,
film-production company, Tallinn
1995-2000
• Translating Estonian documentaries into English
• Drafting and editing grant applications and reports
Academic awards
2005-2008 Doctoral grant from the Estonian Science Foundation
2005-2006 1-year doctoral research grant from DAAD (Deutscher akademischer Austausch Dienst, granted but not accepted)
2004 Junior research fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
2003-2004 Policy research grant, 1 year, Open Society Institute
2002-2003 Full grant for MA studies at Central European University
2000 1.-2. place award for the best BA thesis in humanities given annually by Estonian Ministry of Education
1996-2000 Undergraduate Student Grant from Tartu University
Publications
2009 Entries on Isaiah Berlin, Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss in TEA
filosoofialeksikon, an encyclopedia of philosophy, Tallinn: Tea, 2,
5 and 5 pages, in Estonian
2008 “Hannah Arendt’s and Leo Strauss’s Retrospects on Constitution.
Dissent and Beyond,” in East-West Studies, Journal of Social
Sciences of Nord University, Nr. 1 (36), May
2004 “Ethnic Minorities and Access to Mass Media: The Case of Estonia”
in Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars East-European Studies
Newsletter, January
2003 "The Role of Media in the Integration of Russian-Speakers in Estonia:
Towards an Inclusive Public Sphere", available here online as well as in
the archives of Public Policy Center at CEU
2003 ‘What if I remember it in my Dreams’ - a film review in the quarterly
culture magazine of Estonian Institute, available also online www.einst.ee
2003 ‘Estonian Russians - expensive and unnecessary?’ - a column in
Eesti Päevaleht, a national daily, on Estonian public broadcasting
policies, April, in Estonian.
2001 The Religious Identity of The Estonian Borderland People the Setus,
CEU SUN 2001 Papers, Central European University Press
Additional research experience
Since 2005, I am working on my doctoral dissertation, tentatively entitled
”Preliminaries for a Critique of Modern Concepts of Political Science.
A Study of the Intellectual Formation of Leo Strauss and Hannah Arendt.”
The title of my MA thesis defended at CEU was "Cultural Diversity as a
Value? Revisiting Debates of Liberal Culturalism". I wrote my BA thesis
on "Free Decision and Necessity in Augustine’s De libero arbitrio".
I have additionally conducted independent field work in the south-eastern
part of Estonia in 2001. The project was a part of a comprehensive research
project on Estonians’ religious and national identity conducted by the
director of Estonian
National Museum, Dr Jaanus Plaat.
Language skills
Estonian (native), English (fluent), Russian, Finnish, German (some working experience in all), French (reading experience)