Topic: continuing education

Explore what it means to be a self by examining how identity emerges from the brain, how it can fragment, and how mind and self may extend beyond the body into the world.

On 1 October 2025 at 10:15, the Department of Semiotics of the University of Tartu, Jakobi 2, room 306, will host a public lecture by Senior Lecturer and ecosemiotician Xany Jansen van Vuuren from South Africa. Jansen van Vuuren will discuss how animal welfare work functions as interspecies translation. Special attention will be given to equine-based welfare work in South Africa.

University of Tartu semioticians Andreas Ventsel and Mari-Liis Madisson, along with Junior Research Fellow in Information Resilience Diana Poudel, have developed tools for enhancing critical digital literacy in cooperation with international partners. The practical materials are designed for use in higher education, schools, companies and organisations to support navigating the digital landscape and countering the spread of disinformation.

Prof Kay O’Halloran (University of Liverpool, UK), one of the world’s leading experts in multimodal analysis, will lead a two-day seminar on August 7–8 at the Department of Semiotics. The seminar is open to all interested participants, and no prior knowledge of semiotics is required.

Adult learners are welcome to participate in micro-credential programmes starting in the spring semester to acquire an additional specialisation or competence in a narrow field. Applications can be submitted until 26 January.

September 4–7, 2023, workshop "Postphenomenology, Technoscience and Hermeneutics" by Robert Rosenberger. Preregistration until July 29. The workshop is free of charge.

Centre for Semiotic Applications at the Institute of Philosophy and Semiotics.

Summer University Course: Love and Sex in Digital World: Philosophy, Ethics and Theology

Application for UT International Summer University Course "The Semiotics of Pop Culture and Human and Other-Than-Human Relations" is open til 19th of June, 2022.

Until October 2022, all UT members can take one free Coursera course. Students can also use it towards the completion of their curriculum if they wish.