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Revamped Philosophy Master's programme opens for admissions in January 2025
Our revamped English-language Philosophy Master's programme opens for admissions in January 2025. The updated programme equips students to address today’s global challenges – climate change, ageing populations, technological automation, and more - through well-founded philosophical reasoning and defensible solutions. Starting in 2026, the programme will be renamed Philosophy in Practice.
Eneken Riin Salong to lead University of Tartu Student Union
On Thursday, 5 June, a new board for the University of Tartu Student Union (UTSU) was elected during a meeting of the student parliament.
Signs of the times: semiotics' MA theses at the University of Tartu in 2025
What do psychedelic experiences, sports leagues, AI language models, post-Soviet nostalgia, teenage rebellion musicals, and brand-driven slang have in common? Each reflects a facet of meaning-making in the contemporary world — and each was explored through the lens of semiotics during the master's thesis defences at the University of Tartu's Department of Semiotics on 30 May 2025.
MA theses in philosophy focus on pressing issues of everyday life
On 29 and 30 May 2025, students of the English-taught Philosophy MA programme at the University of Tartu defended their final theses, addressing topics that reflect the practical relevance of philosophy — from legislation and medical ethics to the financial sector and experiences of war.
Colloquium: Bengt Molander – “Knowing Our Ways About – With and Without Language”
On Monday, 26 May 2025 at 16:15, Professor Emeritus of philosophy, Bengt Molander (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), will hold a colloquium. In his presentation, Molander will address alternative forms of knowledge that are often overlooked in standard epistemology. The colloquium is in English and takes place in Jakobi 2, room 336.
The Night Library Welcomes Late-Night Learners Once Again
From 19 May to 6 June, the university library will once again be open for studying until midnight. In addition to extended opening hours, a range of activities will take place during the Night Library period.
Writer Viivi Luik is University of Tartu’s next Professor of Liberal Arts
Next academic year, the professorship of liberal arts will be held by poet, children’s author and prosaist Viivi Luik.
Colloquium: Daniel Novotný on Francisco Suárez’s "Disputationes metaphysicae" – system, sources, influence
On 5 May from 16.15–17.45 in Jakobi 2 room 336, Daniel Novotný from the University of South Bohemia will deliver a colloquium exploring Francisco Suárez’s influential work "Disputationes metaphysicae“ (1597).
Colloquium by Piotr Kozak "On the Possibility of Non-Reductive Approaches to Imagination"
On Monday, 28.04.2025 at 16.15–17.45 in Jakobi 2-336 an open philosophy colloquium by Piotr Kozak "On the Possibility of Non-Reductive Approaches to Imagination". Students, both undergraduate and graduate, are especially encouraged to attend!
Abstract submission for the international student conference "Bridges in the Baltics" has started
Undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students from universities in the Baltic countries, including the University of Tartu, are invited to an international student conference ”Bridges in the Baltics“, held at the University of Latvia in Riga from 9 to 10 October 2025. Conference abstracts can be sent until 30 June 2025.
