Topic: research

Student presenting
Linguistics
Our main focus is applied linguistics, which entails the teaching and learning of foreign languages, contrastive linguistics, lexicography and corpus linguistics.
15. December 2021 research
Students in large auditorium raising hands
Foreign Language Acquisition and Teaching
Research in this field is closely related to the main practical activities of our college: teaching foreign languages and cultures and training foreign language teachers for different education levels
15. December 2021 research
Students at the University of Tartu Art Museum
Early European Cultural Tradition
This tradition covers a time span, from the 2nd millennium BC to today, and a vast geographical area, from the ancient Near East and Mediterranean region to the British Isles and northern Scandinavia.
15. December 2021 research
Research
Scholars at the College of Foreign Languages and Cultures engage in multifaceted international research in European languages, European and North American literatures, literary theory, translation studies and applied linguistics.
14. December 2021 research
The Abyss conference photos
Researchers discuss the concept of abyss at an international conference
On 1 and 2 October, the University of Tartu College of Foreign Languages and Cultures hosts a conference where scholars will provide a comparative investigation into the conceptual history of the abyss and on its corresponding notions to gather insights into the meaning of depth in human cultures.
29. September 2021 internationalresearch
Guest lecture by Andrew Chesterman (University of Helsinki)
"The significance of doubt in research methodology" on October 27th 2021 at the University of Tartu.
23. September 2021 research
Collapse and Extinction: Art, Literature and Discourse
The conference will deal with cultural images of collapse that are endorsed by the extinction of biological species and disappearance of familiar biological communities.
30. March 2021 research
Giovanni Battista Piranesi - Le Carceri d'Invenzione - First Edition - 1750 - 10 - Prisoners on a Projecting Platform
The Abyss - Ethnolinguistically
On 1 and 2 October, the University of Tartu College of Foreign Languages and Cultures hosts a conference where scholars will provide a comparative investigation into the conceptual history of the abyss and on its corresponding notions to gather insights into the meaning of depth in human cultures.
21. January 2021 internationalresearch
12th seminar: Jürgen Trabant
Research seminar: "Wilhelm von Humboldt and the languages of the world"
21. October 2019 research
11th seminar: Fabrizio De Donno
Research seminar: "Linguistic Pilgrimages: Exophonic Writing in the Age of World Literature"
21. October 2019 research