Reading Time: 4 minutesBy Youxin Wang A fiction inspired by real history and academic research. Enjoy the journey, and see if you can uncover the truth! The following tips may sound absurd, but they are based on beliefs that actually existed in the past — and some of them still exist until today. However, through these funny yet […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 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: 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: 3 minutesI’m Sebastián Nabón Hernández, from Uruguay. I have a master’s in semiotics and cultural theories from the University of Tartu, Estonia, and a master’s in Music Composition from the Postgraduate Program in Music at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. I’m also a composer and a musician and work as an assistant […]
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteDear Semiotics By Oscar MiyamotoTartu, October 2nd, 2024 You are my type,I am your token.If you were a bodily syndrome,I’d be your number one symptom. “Semiosis ad infinitum” you say?Is it some kind of Tourette?Please keep talking nerdy to me.You’re such a wordy vedette. You are my symbol,I am your replica.If you were less cryptic […]
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteWith the new academic year, Hortus Semioticus is very happy to welcome our new PhD students, the first being Nina Kozachynska. Nina is pursuing a PhD in semiotics and culture studies and a new Jr. Researcher in the department of semiotics at the University of Tartu. We asked Nina to describes her semiotic interests, and […]
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