The Under and Tuglas Literature Centre of the Estonian Academy of Sciences is a research and development institution. Its overall purpose is the study and theoretical modelling of the written culture in the Estonian language in its entirety and the multilingual Baltic-German culture from earlier eras, making it visible and interesting to international scholarship.

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Events

Aare Pilv in Georgia

Aare Pilv in Georgia on the trail of Titsian Tabidze and Paolo Iashvili

An evening of literature and wandering in the Museum of the Literature Centre
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Teeme Ära talgud 2022

Let’s Do It! Collective Action Day 2025

Collective action day in the Literature Centre's museum garden
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Stephanie Rendón de la Torre

Stephanie Rendón’s Journey from Mexico to Setomaa

An evening of literature and wandering in the Museum of the Literature Centre
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Hendrik Relve with friend Molly at Vanuatu.

Hendrik Relve’s journeys into the worlds of indigenous peoples

An evening of literature and wandering in the Museum of the Literature Centre
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Mari Laan next to the painting by Aureliano de Beruete.

From Tuglas’ Toledo to Toledo Publishing

An evening of literature and wandering in the Museum of the Literature Centre
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News

Websites of Research Projects

Publications

Literarischer Wandel in der Geschichte der baltischen Literaturen

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Briefe, Recht und Gericht im polnischen Livland am Beispiel von David Hilchen

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Game and Melancholia. Friedebert Tuglasʼ novel „Felix Ormusson”

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The Rhetoric of Culture

The Case of Infinity

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Virtual exhibitions