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Sociosemiotician Hongjin Song on rumours.

Reading Time: 5 minutesSociosemiotician Hongjin Song on Rumours. Interviewed by Andrew Mark Creighton Introduction The following is a short interview I conducted with Hongjin “Jhin” Song a few weeks before his thesis defense. I emailed him a number of questions, with the goal of hearing about his work, as well as the importance of his research and wider […]

PhD student profile: Gabriel

Reading Time: 2 minutesHello! My name is Gabriel Matthew Bergman, and I am a first year PhD student in thedepartment of Semiotics at the University of Tartu. I hold an MA in Semiotics from theUniversity of Tartu, and a BA in Creative Writing and Philosophy from Eckerd College. My MAthesis work explored the concept of intimacy as a […]

PhD student profile: Marleen

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI’m Marleen Mihhailova, a Junior Research Fellow at the Department of Semiotics at the University of Tartu. My path to semiotics began almost by chance: while studying philosophy, I took cultural theory as a minor and was inspired by lecturers who spoke warmly about Tartu’s Department of Semiotics. That eventually led me to pursue a […]

Postdoc profile: Ilana Hartikainen

Reading Time: 3 minutesHortus Semioticus welcomes the newest postdoc to the Department of Semiotics at the University of Tartu, Ilana Hartikainen. To celebrate we asked Ilana to introduce herself, and you can find her introduction below! Let me get this out of the way: I just started a postdoc at the Department of Semiotics, and I am not […]

Semiootika linnalooduses: kaks paljuliigilist päeva Ülejõel

Reading Time: 3 minutesKirjutanud Nelly Mäekivi Tartu Ülikooli semiootika osakonna looduse ja teiste liikide tähendusmaailmu uurivatel töötajatel oli septembri esimene nädal eriti tegus. Ülejõe päevade programmis avati 4. septembril Emajõe-äärsel paplialleel näitus „Paljuliigiline Tartu: kohtumised linnalooduses“ ning 5. septembril toimus omailmajalutuskäik. Need sündmused viisid semiootika linnaruumi ja kutsusid märkama Tartut jagatud elukeskkonnana, kus inimeste kõrval elavad ja tegutsevad […]

An Interview with Translations Studies Scholar and Semiotician, Irmak Mertens

Reading Time: 10 minutesInterviewed by Andrew Mark Creighton Introduction The following is an interview I conducted with Dr. Irmak Mertens, a specialist in translation studies, semiotics, and museum studies. Mertens is currently a research fellow at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Institute of Cultural Research at the University of Tartu. Her PhD thesis, How Layers of Meaning […]

Perspectives from the 2026 Gatherings in Biosemiotics, Part 2: Praveen and Josh.

Reading Time: 5 minutesPraveen Prathapan and J. “Josh” Augustus Bacigalupi in discussion with Andrew Mark Creighton Introduction: The following are talks with Praveen Prathapan — a medical writing from London, England — and J. “Josh” Augustus Bacigalupi — a PhD student in Semiotic and culture studies at the University of Tartu, Estonia — regarding their experiences at the […]

Perspectives from the 2026 Gatherings in Biosemiotics, Part 1: Alice and Federico.

Reading Time: 6 minutesAlice Zaccagnini and Federico Comollo in conversation with Andrew Mark Creighton We are in the afterglow of the 2026 Gatherings in Biosemiotics, which took place from the 27th to the 31st of July. Having taken place at the University of Sheffield and organized by semioticians Tim Ireland and Paul Cobley, the conference was 5 days […]

CfP: Sui generis or/and Entangled?: Rethinking the Relationship between Culture and Ecology

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe call for papers (CFP) for the conference, “Sui generis or/and Entangled?: Rethinking the Relationship between Culture and Ecology”, has been released. Organised by translation scholar Reine Meylaerts and translation scholar and semiotician Kobus Marais, the conference will take place 2-4 June 2027, in Leuven, Belgium, in association with KU Leuven. Abstracts of 250-400 words […]