Tallinn University

School of Governance, Law and Society

Global Forum

Meeting the Spirit of Time

About

SOGOLAS Global Forum is a space that provides continuity and brings a wider scope to the debates and discussions taking place amongst international scholars vigorously engaged in the study of the thorny issues concerning our present and future and amongst citizens that are caring about the fate of their community.

We embrace the spirit of the time and its predicament as the primary object of our search, a search that is nothing less than the pursuit of sense and direction.

Stephan Kirste

Professor, University of Salzburg

“I have now participated in two conferences at the SOGOLAS Global Forum now. Although I get around quite a lot, I have rarely experienced such a harmonious combination of perfect organization of both the scientific part of the conferences and the accompanying program and warm support as I have found here: An advertisement for Tallinn and Estonia! No wonder that this is a place, where you meet interesting scholars from around the globe. Would I come again? – Yes, without hesitation!”

William E. Scheuerman

Professor, Indiana University

“The SOGOLAS Global Forum is a venue for high-level intellectual discussion, bringing scholars from around the world to debate with Estonian colleagues about matters of great significance. My visit for the “Angry Times” conference on populism was hugely illuminating and stimulating. I learned a great deal from Estonian colleagues as well as others from elsewhere.”

John Keane

Professor, University of Sydney and WZB (Berlin)

“The Angry Times symposium was a seriously good-humoured gathering of world-class scholars concerned to understand the origins and dynamics of the new populism and how best to protect democracy against its pathologies.”