10.06.2022
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The Juri Lotman scholarship

The Juri Lotman Foundation has been awarding scholarships since 2002. The scholarship competition is open to graduate students at the University of Tartu who, in their research, continue the traditions of Juri Lotman and his school in the fields of philology and semiotics. Each year, the scholarship is awarded to one graduate student in Slavic Philology and one in Semiotics (and Culture Studies). The call for applications is announced at the end of the preceding year, remains open until the end of January, and the scholarship recipients are announced on Juri Lotman’s birthday, February 28.

The Juri Lotman scholarship competition 2026

Scholarship recipients

2025

Martin Oja (semiotics)
Semiotics of multimodal conflict: modes, modalities, and audio-visual incongruence in feature film

Anna Murashova (Slavic philology)
Категория авторства и авторские стратегии на платформах интернет-самиздата (Authors and Authorship on the Internet Self-publishing Literary Platforms)

2024

Tuuli Pern (semiotics)
Affective-imaginative Modelling in Semiotic Context: A Vichian Perspective

Marina Bulakhova (Slavic philology)
Жанровые корни ранней русской уголовной прозы 1860–1870 гг. (The Genesis of Russian Crime Prose of the 1860s–1870s)

2023

Katarina Damčević (semiotics)
For her semiotic study of conflicting sociocultural processes

Valerii Otiakovskii (Slavic philology)
Институции формализма и Кабинет современной литературы (Institutions of Formalism and the Cabinet of Contemporary Literature)

2022

Merit Rickberg (semiotics)
For her work on the potential of Juri Lotman’s cultural semiotics for the complex-systems-based interpretation of education

Jelena Aksamentova (Slavic philology)
For the research work “Representations of Sculpture in Russian Literature of the Second Half of the 18th Century and the First Half of the 19th Century”

2020

Erik Kõvamees
Alexey Kozlov

2019

Andre Uibos
Maria Nesterenko

2018

Ott Puumeister
Alekseis Samarins

2017

Taras Boyko
Karina Novaševskaja

2016

Tyler Bennett
Tatjana Stašenko

2015

Mari-Liis Madisson
Andrei Fedotov

2014

Maarja Vaikmaa
Elizaveta Fomina

2013
Lauri Linask
Artjoms Shela

2012
Remo Gramigna
Pavel Uspensky

2011
Tiit Remm

2010
Riin Magnus
Alexey Vvodin

2009
Andreas Ventsel
Inna Bulkina

2008
Berk Vaher
Anna Poruchko

2007
Vadim Verenich

2006
Ester Võsu
Fyodor Vinokurov

2005
Riste Keskpaik
Maria Borovikova

2004
Alo Joosepson
Dmitri Ivanov

2003
Elin Sütiste
Timur Guzairov

2002
Kaie Kotov
Maria Artemchuk