Category Archives: Tartu

A Year in Tartu

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Francesco Orsi

Francesco Orsi is a postdoctoral researcher at the UT Department of Philosophy. Today, on his birthday, Francesco shares his thoughts on the first year spent in Tartu. Continue reading →

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Podcast: Semiotics – Lingering or Thriving?

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Inga Külmoja

Listen to what Boris Uspenski, a member of Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School, Eero Tarasti, the President of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, Winfried Nöth, Professor of Linguistics and Semiotics at the University of Kassel, and Marcel Danesi, Editor-in-Chief of Semiotica, a major academic journal covering semiotics, think about the past, the present and the future of semiotics. Continue reading →

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Gallery: The President of Lithuania in Tartu

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Inga Külmoja

The President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė visited the University of Tartu on June, 17th. She met Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves and Rector Alar Karis, and made a surprise appearance at a graduation ceremony. Continue reading →

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Bringing The World to Tartu’s Orphanages

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Tom Boyle

Tom Boyle, MA student of semiotics at the University of Tartu, shares his experience of working as a volunteer in Tartu’s orphanages as a part of the AIESEC project “World at Home”. Continue reading →

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Two Students Locked Up on Museum Night

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Inga Külmoja

On a Museum Night, two 19th-century students populated the attic of the University of Tartu’s Main Building, the former students’ lock-up. Continue reading →

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Concert: Ka Moosiga & Too Hot For Teacher

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Inga Külmoja

Last Friday, teachers and students were rocking the audience at the Athena Centre in Tartu. A hardrock band THFT (Too Hot For Teacher) got the show going while Ka Moosiga, comprised of our uni’s international students, a postdoc researcher and … Continue reading →

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Student Video: I Just Can’t Get Enough!

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Rūta Petersonaitė

This is a diary video by Rūta Petersonaitė, a fourth year student of publishing at Vilnius University, about her 2010/2011 semester in Tartu, Estonia. Continue reading →

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