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…
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…
We are happy to announce that Professor Eero Tarasti has been nominated as Doctor Honoris Causa of Aix-Marseille University. The ceremony will take place on Nov. 18, 2014 at 5 pm during the “Soirée Scientifique” at Aix-Marseille University. Our congratulations to Prof. Tarasti.
In order to honour the work of biosemiotician Jakob von Uexküll, the Department of Semiotics of the University of Tartu, in association with Jakob von Uexküll Centre, present a lecture series by eminent scholars in the fields related to Uexküll’s legacy. The lectures will be recorded and made available at the homepage of Jakob von…
2-days seminar on Brand Semiotics George Rossolatos MSc, MBA, PhD Tartu University May 13-14 2014 Whom is this seminar for? Primary target-group: Semiotics students from all levels (BA, MA, PhD) and faculty whose primary field of research is not marketing semiotics. Secondary target-group: Academic researchers in the field of branding (in the wider marketing discipline)…
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…
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…
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…
