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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Reading Time: < 1 minute!!CALL FOR PAPERS!!
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteApplications for the Prague Erasmus Blended Intense Program (BIP) are open to researchers, teaching staff, Ph.D. students, and graduate students to attend the Semiotic Society of America’s (SSA) 2025 Conference The Semiotics of Friendship: taking place in Prague from September 23-28, 2025. There will also be a virtual component for the BIP attendees on September […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutesTshinar-Kristi Shahmardan Identiteet Identiteet kujutab endast seda, kuidas inimesed end defineerivad ja väljendavad ning on mitmekülgne ja muutuv nähtus. Ehala (2018: 16) toob välja, et nii nagu kõneldes, edastab inimene ka oma käitumise ja olekuga identiteedisignaale, mille põhjal teevad teised järeldusi tema uskumuste, hoiakute ja eeldatava käitumise kohta, muutes identiteedi mõneti sarnaseks märgiga. Rahvusidentiteeti määratletakse […]
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