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Mart Kuldkepp, Tartu University, is the 2015 recipient of the AABS Emerging Scholar Award. His project is a biography of the Estonian politician Aleksander Kesküla. In Estonia, Kesküla is notorious as one of the most radical leaders of the 1905 revolution, but internationally he is primarily known for being the first to bring Lenin to the attention of the German General Staff in 1914 and for mediating as a German agent between the Germans and the Bolsheviks in their joint attempt at “revolutionizing” Russia.

On March 6th, 2015 at 10.30 o'clock the Department of Classical Philology organizes the international conference: Basic Latin and Greek in high school and university in the beginning of the 21st century: challenges and advantages

The Juri Lotman Seminar will take place from February 27th to March 1st 2015. See the programme in Russian and in Estonian. More information on the homepage of the department of Slavonic languages. Print the programme.

Everybody is welcome to a guest lecture taking place this Friday, April 10th at 11.30, at the German Department (Ülikooli 17, room 103): Prof. Dr. Dagmar Schipanski, a well-known German politician and physicist, will give a talk titled: "25 Jahre Deutsche Einheit - Teil des wiedervereinigten Europa." The talk will be held in German. Everybody interested in the German political situation and in the German language is welcome!