Estonian and Finnish Decadence

Launch of Volupté 9.1

Thursday 22 October 2026, 6.00-8.00pm 

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Institute of English Studies

Senate House

Room 264

Join us for an evening of music and literature to celebrate the publication of Volupté: International Journal of Decadence Studies, 9.1 which is devoted to the  magical  and  mythic  realms  of Estonian  and  Finnish decadence where we encounter dark forests and deep lakes, symbolic of the darker and deeper emotional states of isolation, ecstasy, disgust, and despair. Old worlds are ambivalently and affectively tied to accelerated states of transition and change and are succeeded by new, young Nordic nations.  We explore  the  (Euro)peripheries  of  the  Baltic  and  Nordic  countries  and  the interconnections  between  fin-de-siècle  culture  and  nationalism  and  between  different  forms  of nationalism and decadent literature and art.

Programme

Solo Cello Improvisation by the artist Ramilda; panel discussion about Estonian and Finnish decadence panel with Mirjam Hinrikus, Riikka Rossi, Viola Parente-Čapková; poetry reading by Hasso Krull; and a classical saxophone performance of Jacob TV’s The Garden of Love, based on William Blake’s poem, by Uku Gross.

Attendance is free but please register below!

Location

Senate House is in Bloomsbury, central London.

Senate House
Malet Street
London
WC1E 7HU
United Kingdom

For directions please visit their website.

For more information about this event, please email drc@gold.ac.uk.