Intensive course “Commercial applications of semiotics” – University of Tartu

Intensive course “Commercial applications of semiotics” by well known commercial semioticians Malcolm Evans and Chris Arning. November 13.-20., 2014. University of Tartu, Department of Semiotics. Everybody is welcome to join an intensive course where world leading commercial semioticians Malcolm Evans and Chris Arning will introduce how to use semiotics models in marketing research and apply…

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Lecture Series Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Journal „SIGN SYSTEMS STUDIES“, Autumn, 2014, The Department of Semiotics, Unioversity of Tartu, Estonia

LECTURE SERIES CELEBRATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE JOURNAL „SIGN SYSTEMS STUDIES“, AUTUMN, 2014, THE DEPARTMENT OF SEMIOTICS, UNIVERSITY OF TARTU, ESTONIA This year we will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of our journal “Sign Systems Studies”, the oldest academic journal of semiotics in the world. A lecture series “Lectures on the study of sign…

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Collection for the portrait painting of Professor Eero Tarasti – University of Helsinki

Collection for the portrait painting of Professor Eero Tarasti – To complete the portrait gallery of the professors at the University of Helsinki, Galleria Academica, we invite you to congratulate Professor Eero Tarasti on his 65th birthday on September 27, 2013 by participating in the portrait project. The portrait of Professor Tarasti will be painted…

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Summer School 2013 – Autocommunication in Semiotic Systems: 40 years after the Theses on the Semiotic Study of Culture

Summer School 2013 Autocommunication in Semiotic Systems: 40 years after the Theses on the Semiotic Study of Culture Summer School 2013 is five-day event taking place from August 18 to 23 in a secluded Kääriku in South Estonia. Theses on the Semiotic Study of Cultures first appeared 40 years ago, in 1973. The title of this publication indicates that alongside…

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On Youtube: Eero Tarasti lectures on music history

The lectures by Professor Eero Tarasti, University of Helsinki,  on music history are now available in the youtube, entitled “Music History: Style Periods and Aesthetics”. The lectures (7) deal with classical composers, such as J.S. Bach. W.A. Mozart, Ludwig van  Beethoven and Richard Wagner; their main works are analyzed at piano, and  connected to other…

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