To be announced as University of Tartu's Honorary Doctor of Folkloristics and Semiotics, Prof. Mihály Hoppál will give a lecture "Influence of the Tartu-Moscow semiotic school on Hungarian ethnosemiotics”
The lecture will take place 29.11.2017 at 14.15 Jakobi 2-336 Abstract in English: SEMIOTIC RESEARCH IN HUNGARY (2017 TARTU) In Hungary research into semiotics began in the late 1960’s. This departure and later increasing significance had a great deal to …
Doctoral defence: Sanna Puusepp “Comparison of molecular genetics and morphological findings of childhood-onset neuromuscular disorders”
… Sanna Puusepp will defend her doctoral thesis “ Comparison of molecular genetics and morphological findings of childhood-onset neuromuscular disorders” for obtaining the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (in Medicine) . Supervisors: Professor Katrin Õunap, …
Wilson Ofotsu Otchie defended his doctoral thesis „Social Media in Education: Contextualizing Teaching with Social Media in High School“
… On May 13th, Wilson Ofotsu Otchie defended his doctoral thesis “Social media in education: contextualizing teaching with social media in high school” . To sum up his doctoral …
Spring Semiosalong Series: Semiotics in a Post-Truth World, Session 4: Andreas Ventsel & Mari-Liis Madisson: Affective Communication and Semiotic Mechanisms of Misinformation
… contradiction interrupts our daily broadcast we reject its sources, ignore its particulars, or troll the sender. In the … process we legitimize the polarization of discourse. We do so tongue in cheek, or with fingers crossed behind our back, as if to absolve ourselves from the price. It is easier to dip back …
2022 call for JSPS (Japanese Society for Promotion of Science) Postdoctoral Fellowship for Research in Japan is open – deadline March 7
… applications until March 7. All fields of the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences are included under …
Competence Centre on Health Technologies (CCHT) established an international consortium to boost Personalised Medicine product development
… CCHT has been preparing a Personalised Medicine project since last year, in the framework … using integrated genome- and other health data. The consortium members are Competence Centre on Health Technologies … development of clinically valid and commercially viable personalised medicine products and services” will be …
Dr. Merilin Kiviorg (Senior Research Fellow in Public International Law) is an invited expert speaker at a roundtable organized by OSCE/ODIHR on "Legal Personality of Religious or Belief Communities in the Kyrgyz Republic: Discussing Challenges and Formul
… a paper on “International standards on the Legal Personality of Religious or Belief Communities”. …
"The Guise of the Good: A Philosophical History" by Francesco Orsi Was Published in April 2023
… Did you ever do, or want, something you thought there was absolutely and literally nothing good about, not even in terms of self-interest? Most philosophers in history would say no, you didn't. This thesis, …
Defence of Piret Koosa's PhD thesis "Negotiating faith and identity in a Komi village: Protestant Christians in a pro-Orthodox sociocultural environment"
… in a Komi village: Protestant Christians in a pro-Orthodox sociocultural environment" on 19 June 2017 at 14:15 in Ülikooli 16-214. Supervisor : Professor Art Leete Opponents : Professor Alexander Panchenko (St. …
Doctoral defence: Tõnis Tokko “The association of risky traffic behaviour with personality factors, lifestyle and biological predisposition, and a driving school intervention aimed at impulsivity awareness”
… 16:00 Tõnis Tokko will defenc his doctoral thesis “The association of risky traffic behaviour with personality factors, lifestyle and biological predisposition, … awareness” for obtaining the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (in Psychology). Supervisors: Professor Jaanus Harro, …
Doctoral defence: Wilson Ofotsu Otchie “Social media in education: contextualizing teaching with social media in high school”
… On 13 May at 15:00 Wilson Ofotsu Otchie will defend his doctoral thesis “Social media in education: contextualizing teaching with social media in high school” . Supervisors: Professor Margus …
Professor Akihiko Tanaka’s online lecture “The rise of the Indo-Pacific: opportunities for cooperation between Japan and Europe”
… FOR COOPERATION BETWEEN JAPAN AND EUROPE” by Professor Akihiko Tanaka on 14 February at 11:00– 12:30 (EET). Professor Akihiko Tanaka is the President of the National Graduate …
Doctoral defence: Aleksandr Bregin “Alterations of emotional behaviour induced by the genetic invalidation of the limbic system associated membrane protein (Lsamp) – potential implications for neuropsychiatric disorders”
… induced by the genetic invalidation of the limbic system associated membrane protein (Lsamp) – potential implications for neuropsychiatric disorders” . Supervisors: Associate Professor Mari-Anne Philips, University of …
Open anthropology lectures: the influence of personal convictions on research and the ethnographic criminology of cocaine trafficking, 22 and 23 May
… (lecturer at the University of Helsinki, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, and senior researcher at … Tartu, Department of Ethnology) and by Henrik Vigh (professor at the University of Copenhagen, Department of … the ethnographic reality. On the morning of 23 May, Professor Henrik Vigh looks at cocaine trafficking from South …
Symposium and workshop of the Graduate School of Culture Studies and Arts "Mythology, discourse, and authority: Retrospective methods in cultural research" on November 22-23, 2016
… “Tales”: Tools for Reconstruction of Deep and of the Not So Deep Prehistory 10.40 Joonas Ahola: Myth, Language, … of the Knowing Cobra (discussion of a folk narrative from South Africa) 18.00 Reception Ülikooli 20 ( Ülikooli Kohvik … of Finland project “Mythology, Verbal Art and Authority in Social Impact” (Folklore Studies, University of Helsinki). …
Anna-Lisa Aavik: "We studied and worked together with the most amazing people from all across the world, and we now have many lifelong friends, and many couches to sleep on in every corner of the globe."
… after this is all blood, sweat, and tears... and hopefully some great success! When we first started our MA journey, I … wearing suits and dresses and getting our MA degrees. So congratulations to us all! I know that our time at Skytte … Nevertheless, we still got to study and work together with some of the most amazing people from across the world, and …
Deadline for proposals extended to February 28: Tartu Summer School of Semiotics: Semiotic dimensions of spaces & literacies, 17-20 August 2019
… […] The nature of the second primary language is not so obvious. What is under discussion is the structural model … models of space facilitate making sense of nature, society and culture as living environments. The creation of … all the semioticians studying the dynamics of nature, society and culture to Tartu in order to discuss a topic …
Abstracts of the presentations "Challenges of interdisciplinary research from the perspective of philosophy of science" - workshop
… an asymmetrical relationship between disciplines violates some “genuine” interdisciplinarity. This is a mistake. Many … disciplines and their parts are asymmetrical in many ways. Some of these asymmetries are “imperialistic” relations, and … answer is that it depends – and this in turn leads to all sorts of complexities. It depends on what is going on in an …