On 10-12 April 2024, the First Estonian Annual Conference of Humanities will be held in Tallinn titled Future humanities: how the humanities shape society in an era of transformative changes. Our project will have there a panel Innovative cultural practices in the first half of the 20th century and their reflections today: critique, crises, affects. The following papers will be presented in the panel: Leo Luks Decadent aesthetics as a programme for humanities, Mirjam Hinrikus (Anti)feminism in literary decadence and modernism: the case of Tammsaare, and Aare Pilv On the aestheticist substratum of leftism.