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Today, on 26 April 2018, the 263-member electoral council elected Professor of Neurosurgery Toomas Asser as rector of the University of Tartu with 187 votes.

Professor Cheryl Geisler will deliver an open lecture titled “Coding Language Data: A Framework for a Systematic and Valid Analysis” on September 17 at 10-12 at Jakobi 2-114.

On September 10th at 18.15, the UT College of Foreign Languages and Cultures is holding its third research seminar: Professor Sara Bédard-Goulet is giving an open lecture titled “Uses of Cinema in Les Grandes Blondes and Envoyée Spéciale by Jean Echenoz". Sara Bédard-Goulet has summarised the lecture as follows:

On March 26 at 18.15, UT's College of Foreign Languages and Cultures is holding its second research seminar: Professor Janika Päll is giving an open lecture titled “Pindarising for the Glory of the Lord.” Janika Päll has summarised the lecture as follows:

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On 29 May, UT Professor of Romance Studies Sara Bédard-Goulet delivers his inaugural lecture “Inhabiting the Contemporary World: The Novels of Jean Echenoz” in the university assembly hall.

The Polish Culture Days hosted by the UT College of Foreign Languages and Cultures are already taking place for the second time. The four-day event offers concerts, workshops, film screenings, competitions and many other activities for all age groups.

On Wednesday, 16 May at 16:15, the University of Tartu Professor of Translation Studies Luc van Doorslaer delivers his inaugural lecture “The Inbetweenness of Translation Studies” in the university assembly hall.

On March 26 at 18.15, UT's College of Foreign Languages and Culture is holding its first research seminar: Professor Marko Pajević is giving an open lecture titled “Poetics’ transformative power. Bible translation and society”.

On 2-3 March, an international symposium on practical and methodological issues of teaching Mandarin Chinese as a foreign language will be held at the UT College of Foreign Languages and Cultures.

Starting from January 1st the German Department of Tartu University runs its own doctoral school (Vladimir-Admoni-doctoral school) in cooperation with the Institute of German Philology at Georg-August-University of Göttingen supported by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service).

With great sorrow, the University of Tartu announces the unexpected death of Rector Volli Kalm on Saturday, December 23. Volli Kalm was born on February 10, 1953 in Vändra. He graduated from the University of Tartu in 1976 with a degree in geology. In 1984, Kalm earned his PhD in geology from the Estonian Academy of Sciences after successfully defending his doctoral thesis "Formation, composition and usage of glaciofluvial deposits in Estonia." From 1988-1989, he attended postdoctoral studies in the geology department of the University of Alberta.

At the extraordinary senate session on 27 December, the senate of the University of Tartu unanimously appointed professor Tõnu Lehtsaar as the acting rector. In his speech to the senate, Lehtsaar said that his primary goal as the university’s acting rector is to maintain stability and find a new rector. “We will keep the university going. I asked members of the Rector’s Office at the meeting this morning if they were willing to continue in their office. I didn’t expect them to answer right away, but they confirmed that we will go forward together,” he said.

Professor Volli Kalm, Rector of the University of Tartu (10 February 1953 – 23 December 2017)

Friday, December 1 2017 marks the 98th birthday of the Estonia’s national university in Tartu. To celebrate the event, several events take place during the week-long celebrations – honorary doctorates and doctorates are conferred, the University’s honorary member named and the laurate of The University of Tartu Award for Contribution to Estonian National Identity named.

On December 1-3, Tartu hosts the conference Crossing Disciplinary Borders in Viking Age Studies, the 7th Austmarr Symposium, which brings together experts from different parts of the world.

Textbooks are a topic that concerns and fascinates students, teachers and scholars. Textbooks can be studied from multiple angles and with different pragmatic aims. On 29-30 September the Department of Slavic Studies of the University of Tartu College of Foreign Languages and Cultures organises an interdisciplinary academic seminar “Textbook as an Ideological Text” that focuses on textbooks as mediators of ideology and instruments shaping the worldview of young people.

On 4 September 2017, Viljandi Culture Academy opens the Centre for Arts in Tartu, in which more than 35 arts courses are offered for all students, teaching staff members and employees of the University of Tartu, enabling them to acquire new knowledge and skills and fully develop their creativity.

The University of Tartu has the largest number of graduates in Estonia—an estimated of 70 000 graduates. Aiming to bring the alumni community closer together, link them more to the university, develop mutual communication and professional cooperation, the University of Tartu launched a network for its alumni (www.utalumni.ee), novel in Estonia as well as Europe, the like of which is also used by the University of Oxford.

The Department of Scandinavian Studies at the UT College of Foreign Languages and Cultures is proud to announce two scholarships worth 500 euros to Bachelor students majoring in Swedish language and literature.