News

So far, the university has favoured preferring face-to-face learning to distance learning. However, as the coronavirus infection rate is increasing, the Rector’s Office decided at its today’s meeting that it is reasonable to rapidly reorganise studies wherever possible to safeguard the health of all university members.

View the video address of Rector Toomas Asser focusing on coronavirus prevention at the university on UTTV and read revised coronavirus guidelines at the university.

This week the Government of Estonia announced new coronavirus measures and based on the government’s recommendations, members of the UT Rector’s Office have laid down the following guidelines.

The University of Tartu announces a design contest to find a mascot to represent the university’s visual identity.

All students, staff and alumni of the university are welcome to submit their design projects until 22 November. The winner will be selected in two rounds: in the first round, a committee comprising the representatives of students, alumni and staff will choose three best projects that will be put to a public vote in the second round. The public vote among students, alumni and staff of the University of Tartu takes place in December.

In September, Peeter Selg, Professor of Political Theory at Tallinn University, and Andreas Ventsel, Senior Research Fellow in Semiotics at the University of Tartu, published a monograph synthesising the research on relational political analysis and political semiotics that the authors have been conducting over the past decade. The book provides a systematic basis to political semiotics as a discipline and proposes a method of political form analysis.  

On 30 October, the University of Tartu Senate decided to award the Johan Skytte Medal to the President of the Republic of Estonia Kersti Kaljulaid. The highest award for university members, the University of Tartu Grand Medal, will be given to four long-term high-calibre researchers. Also, the recipients of the University of Tartu Star of Appreciation, Medal, Badge of Distinction and the decoration “100 Semesters at the University of Tartu” have been selected.

The university invites all staff members, students, alumni and their families to city orienteering in Tartu from 19 October to 1 November. Do you know the buildings and sites connected with the university? Do you know what was in these places in the past? Grab a map and find out!

Today, on 11^th of March, an international scholarly conference begins at the University of Tartu, focusing on the philosophical analysis of disagreements. The conference also constitutes discussions with an international community of scholars of the results of a funded investigation led by Margit Sutrop, Professor of Practical Philosophy at the University of Tartu.

Researchers of the Centre for Applied Social Sciences of the University of Tartu have conducted a survey to analyse how the university as an organisation responded to the crisis, and to what extent it is possible to use the gained experience to plan future work.

For everyone interested!

Registration for the MOOC course "Autonomous Women: Pressures from Liberalism and Feminism" (HVFI.TK.013) has been extended!

The new registration deadline is October 21.

The course is in English and takes place in Moodle.

Course description:

For everyone interested!

The philosophy department offers a MOOC course "Autonomous Women: Pressures from Liberalism and Feminism" (HVFI.TK.013).

The course begins on October 7 and lasts until November 7. The course is in English and takes place in Moodle.

Course description:

This seems to be what politicians from the Conservative People’s Party of Estonia (EKRE) have asked. As an answer, they have proposed a draft legislation aiming to prevent young people from Ukraine, Georgia, Russia or another non-EU country from coming here to study unless they pay for their studies. The draft legislation turned up at the beginning of September, without any analysis or legislative intent, without notifying the parties concerned or coordinating the draft with them.

A visiting lecturer in philosophy Laura Viidebaum completed her Ph.D. studies in Classics at Cambridge University in 2015 after which she moved to New York to take up first a Visiting Assistant Professorship and subsequently the Assistant Professorship in Greek at New York University.

M. Jimena Clavel Vázquez and Simon Barker have taken up the positions of visiting lecturer in philosophy on the 1st of September, 2020.

On 22th of September 2020 the chair of Philosophy of Science will begin with a reading group on Professor John Dupré’s work on different fields of Philosophy of Biology from the perspective of seeing biological entities as dynamic processes, not static objects. This reading group is a preparation for the workshop "Biology as Process: Philosophical Background and Implications" in spring (most likely in May, if global health conditions permit) 2021 with John Dupré, organized by the chair of philosophy of science. However, those two courses can be taken independently of each other.

In a live interview on Tuesday, 1 September at 13:00, Rector of the University of Tartu Toomas Asser spoke about the organisation of studies and work at the university this autumn. 

The interview focused on what to keep in mind in this academic year in the circumstances of the spread of coronavirus and to what extent regular classroom studies will be replaced by e-learning. In addition, the rector once again reminded viewers how to keep oneself and others safe at work and during studies and what to do in case of illness.

Dear members of the university,

To recover from the extraordinary situation that hit the world in spring, a summer holiday is vital for all of us. However, we must remember to exercise caution when returning to work to make sure our life at the university and in the country as a whole could continue as normally as possible.

Futulab, the university-wide platform for mediation of internship, invites students of all curricula to join an internship project of interest. Registration is open until 20 September.

Project-based internship provides students with project work experience and therefore, a labour market advantage. It also helps expand their horizons, bring them out of their comfort zone, and forces them to develop.

Project-based internship enables students to

Theoretical Philosophy
August 26 at 11:00, MS Teams

11:00 Emmi Närvänen
A Non-Moral Critique of the Norm of Assumed Objectivity
Supervisor Alexander Davies, reviewer Patrick Shirreff

12:10 Nikolai Shurakov
The Logic of Knowledge and Demonstratives
Supervisors Patrick Shirreff, Juhani Yli-Vakkuri, reviewer Alexander Davies

Everybody is welcome to attend! For a link to MS Teams meeting, please contact Ruth Jürjo.

University gradually returns to the normal organisation of work.

Below, the units have described their organisation of work starting from 18 May. 

The page will be updated as needed.

[collapsed]

The graduation ceremonies of the University of Tartu are held from 15 to 20 June. All ceremonies are held in an online environment, meaning that all who wish can participate.

Online graduation ceremonies can be watched live in UTTV at the announced time. Links to recordings will be added to the table below after each ceremony.

Read how students can receive their diplomas.