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Come to Blood Donor Day on 26 November!

The University of Tartu and the Blood Centre of Tartu University Hospital invite the university family to a blood donor day on Tuesday, 26 November, from 10:30 to 15:00 at the Delta Centre.

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24.10.2024

The exhibition “Missing” sheds light on the dark side of biodiversity – the extinction of species

On Friday, 23 August, at 17:00, the art exhibition “Missing” will open at the Tartu Art House, displaying contemporary artworks made from 40-million-year-old bones.

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21.08.2024

Musician Kadri Voorand to be the new Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of Tartu

In the coming academic year, singer, pianist and composer Kadri Voorand will become the new Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of Tartu, with a lecture course focusing on life-changing creation. She will be succeeded by Peeter Jalakas, former professor and director, who will participate in a public discussion titled “Feeling and meaning” in the attic hall of Tartu Cathedral on the evening of 23 May.

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16.05.2024

The ecological art exhibition "Unknown" draws attention to the extinction of species

As part of the main programme of the European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024, the exhibition “Unknown” invites visitors to reflect on environmental degradation and endangered species.

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18.03.2024

Public lecture on Mother Tongue Day: come and find out whether Wikipedia has a place in schools and universities

On 14 March at 13, all university members and language lovers are welcome to the university assembly hall to celebrate Estonia’s Mother Tongue Day.

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06.03.2024

Unique winter school unravels the interactions between humanity and planet survival

From 29 January to 2 February, the international winter school "Survivance and Survival:  Theory and Method" will focus on the question of the survival of humanity by looking at it from the perspective of the humanities.

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23.01.2024

Fo Guang Shan Memorial Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Lecture series "The Stories of Buddhism"

Richard F. Gombrich, Professor Emeritus of the University of Oxford, will be the main speaker of the lecture series.

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02.11.2023

Doctoral defence: Marit Karelson „Le Temps d’engagement dans les œuvres d’André Gide et de Johannes Semper: les univers fictionnels entre l’élan vital et la littérature engagée“

On 17 November at 12:00, Marit Karelson will defend her doctoral thesis „Le Temps d’engagement dans les œuvres d’André Gide et de Johannes Semper: les univers fictionnels entre l’élan vital et la littérature engagée“

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01.11.2023

Doctoral defence: Aleksejs Samarins „Литературная позиция и творчество С. А. Ауслендера в 1906–1908 гг.“

On 20 November at 14:00, Aleksejs Samarins will defend his doctoral thesis „Литературная позиция и творчество С. А. Ауслендера в 1906–1908 гг.“

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25.10.2023

Doctoral defence: Susanna Soosaar “Reading time: experiencing story time in postmodernist fiction”

On 8 May at 15:00 Susanna Soosaar will defend her doctoral thesis „Reading Time: Experiencing Story Time in Postmodernist Fiction“.

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14.04.2023