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Centre for Ethics and Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology invite you to professor Roger Brownsword's public lecture „Big Biobanks: Three Major Governance Challenges“. Professor Brownsword is chairman of the UK Biobank Ethics and Governance Council and a professor of law in King’s College London.

Massimo Leone from the University of Turin will be visiting the Department of Semiotics this week. The schedule of his lectures is the following: Thursday 03.04. “Semiotics and Time, 1: on Nostalgia” at 12.15 in the room 306 Friday 04.04. “Semiotics and Time, 2: on Tradition” at 12.15 in the room 306 More information about Massimo Leone: unito.academia.edu/MassimoLeone All are welcome to attend! Katre Väli [email protected]

On the 23rd of April 2014, 13:15 Vadim Verenitš defends his thesis „Semiotic models of legal argumentation“ (UT Senat Hall). Thesis Supervisors: Mihhail Lotman, University of Tartu Igor Gräzin, Tallinn University Oponents: Anne Wagner, Université du Littoral Cote d'Opale, France Peeter Järvelaid, Tallinn University

On Monday February 17th PhD Edit Talpsepp from the the Department of Philosophy at the University of Tartu will give a talk called: "PRE-DARWINIAN TAXONOMIES AND THE 'DARWINIAN REVOLUTION'." The seminar will take place in the library of Skandinavistika (Ülikooli 17, 3rd floor, room 305) at 18.15.

A Different Nature :The Paradoxical World of Zoos and Their Uncertain Future, David Hancocks (ISBN: 0520236769) Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to be Human, Kelly Oliver (ISBN: 9780231147279) Animals and the Human Imagination : A Companion to Animal Studies, Aaron Gross and Anne Vallely (eds) (ISBN: 9780231152976) Anthropology of Extinction: Essays on Culture and Species Death, Genese Marie Sodikoff (ed) (ISBN: 9780253223647)

The seminar "Practical realism in historical context" will take place on Thursday, December 12th at 15:15 in Jakobi 2-114. Professor Kenneth R. Westphal from East Anglia University, UK, will give a guest lecture "'Of the Transcendental Power of Judgement as such' (KdrV B171–5): Hegel’s Pragmatic Critique & Transformation of Kant’s System of Principles" Professor Rein Vihalemm will act as commentator. Organised by the Chair of Philosophy of Science with support of the Doctoral School of Linguistics, Philosophy and Semiotics. Abstract:

IX Annual Estonian Philosophy Conference 2013 - Philosophy in Interdiciplinary Context, takes place from 13-14. December and is organized by the Tallinn University of Technology. Programm is downloadable here. You can find all organizational information from the conference webpage.

The registration for the fourteenth Autumn School may herewith be considered open.

Seminar on methodology of ecosemiotics November 28-29, Tartu, in Tartu Loodusmaja, Lille 10

On the 25th of September (10:15) Anu Sarv defends her PhD thesis „Õppejõu eneserefleksioon ja professionaalne identiteet“ (in Estonian) at the Senate Hall (University Main Building). Supervisors: Ülle Pärli, Senior Lecturer (University of Tartu); Mari Karm, Senior Lecturer (University of Tartu) Opponent: Professor Jaan Valsiner (Aalborg University, Denmark); Professor Tiina Ann Kirss (Tallinn University)

The IX Annual Estonian Philosophy Conference will take place at Tallinn University of Technology (Akadeemia tee 3) on Dec. 13 & 14, 2013. The general topic of the conference is "Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Contexts". There will be a special session dedicated to the 75th birthday of Rein Vihalemm where we expect the ideas of Prof. Vihalemm to be addressed.

EASLCE-NIES joint conference "Framing Nature: Signs, Stories, and Ecologies of Meaning" The European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and the Environment (EASLCE) biennial conference Nordic Network for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies (NIES) IX conference Hosted by the Department of Semiotics at the University of Tartu Tartu, Estonia, April 29 - May 3, 2014. (PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF CONFERENCE DATES! Organisers apologise for any inconvenience) Confirmed keynote speakers:

This year's Summer School is dedicated to the 40th anniversary from the publication of the Theses on the Semiotic Study of Cultures, which first appeared in 1973.There lies a quintessential coincidence between cultural semiotics, Tartu-Moscow school, and the Theses which places this triplet amongst both the important and the amusing in the story of humanities.

The summerschool "Concepts, Normativity, and Cognition: Philosophical and Empirical Perspectives" will take place in Pärnu, Estonia, from August 26 to August 30. The summer school is aimed at graduate students of philosophy, linguistics and psychology who are interested in the interdisciplinary study of concepts and cognition.

Supervisors: professor Rein Vihalemm ja vanemteadur Piret Kuusk Opponents: professor Joseph Rouse (Ph.D., Wesleyan University, CT, USA) ja professor Peeter Müürsepp (Ph.D., TTÜ)