Topic: research

Translation as Transfer of Cultural Images
This colloquium is the fifth workshop of the Cultural Transfer Research Group of the Enlight University Network.
09. April 2022 internationalresearch
Conference: "Museums as Spaces of Cultural Translation and Transfer"
On 10-11 May an international Enlight network conference titled "Museums as Spaces of Cultural Translation and Transfer" takes place in Tartu.
23. February 2022 research
Day of Women in Science is celebrated on Friday
On 11 February, the International Day of Women and Girls in Science will be held for the second time in Estonia, initiated here by the University of Tartu and the Estonian Young Academy of Sciences.
10. February 2022 research
International community discusses ancient Nordic love and emotions in Tartu
On 27–29 January, the University of Tartu hosts the conference “Love and Emotions in Old Norse Literature”, which brings together leading experts from different parts of the world.
25. January 2022 internationalresearch
Conferences
Conferences held at the University of Tartu Institute of Foreign Languages and Cultures
15. December 2021 research
International Conference: Strange Intimacies
We ask what kinds of intimacies have a life and how is intimacy influenced by normative life-narratives? What new intimacies emerge from this new attention and what effect do they have on our thinking, our aesthetics, ethics, and politics?
15. December 2021 internationalresearch
Borders and Crossings: A Transdisciplinary Conference on Travel Writing
The 2022 edition of the Borders & Crossings conference series acknowledges more than two decades of intense development in the transdisciplinary study of travel writing, which is now a well-established field of research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.
15. December 2021 internationalresearch
Love and Emotions in Old Norse Literature
The present symposium is devoted to the theme of love and the depiction of emotions in Old Norse literature. All Old Norse genres will be in focus, the courtly translations as well as the native sagas and poems. Both the role of love and the description of it will be discussed. At the symposium, we will share our knowledge, present and discuss our ongoing research, test new perspectives, develop new methods and make new contacts for future collaboration.
15. December 2021 internationalresearch
Translation Studies
Translation Studies systematically studies translation, interpreting, localisation, adaptation and similar rewriting practices.
15. December 2021 research
Modern and Contemporary Literature
Our scholars work on British, American, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Scandinavian, Canadian and Quebec literatures, above all on the 19th-21st centuries.
15. December 2021 research