Reading Time: 42 minutesInterview by Andrew Mark Creighton Introduction This interview with Nicola Zengiaro, a young biosemiotician currently working at Charles University in Prague, I feel, is warranted for a number of reasons concerning his career development, the centrality of his work to semiotic and wider societal concerns, and the advice he can offer students. Zengiaro has demonstrated […]
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Reading Time: 2 minutesHortus Semiotic has released a new call for papers for its upcoming general issue. Find the full CFP below: !!CALL FOR PAPERS!! Dear colleagues, We invite bachelor, master, and Ph.D. students to participate in a call for papers for an upcoming issue of Hortus Semioticus, the student academic journal of the Semiotics Department at the […]
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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: 2 minutesWe are happy to introduce the new, 12th number of Hortus Semioticus edited by Hongjin Song, Eleni Alexandri, and Andrew Mark Creighton. The current issue of Hortus Semioticus travels through various topics in semiotics by presenting student works from the discipline. As a general issue, there are no specific topics here. Yet, the following illustrates the author’s […]
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Reading Time: 6 minutesA Report on the Semiotic Summer Retreat in Olomouc. By Nick Cavazos In the fantastic book Sonic Experience, which describes the relationship between sound and the urban environment, philosopher Jean-François Augoyard and sociologist Henry Torgue define the phenomenon of resonance as being “the vibration, in air or through solids, of a solid element. The production […]
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Reading Time: 7 minutesInterviewed by Paola Pianese Introduction Have you ever asked yourself: “What if I hadn’t studied semiotics in Tartu? Would my approach to semiotics be different? Would I know different things now?” I’d say… perhaps. I’m currently studying for a Master’s degree in Semiotics in Bologna, but I spent 6 months in Tartu as an exchange […]
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Reading Time: 5 minutesMariia Korniietska MA 2, Dept. of Semiotics 15.03.2024 Signs of Inclusion: Inside a Behemoth’s Centre Internship Journey In my quest for internship opportunities this winter, I stumbled upon an offer from the Behemoth’s Centre (Peemoti keskus) on the Centre for Semiotic Application’s website. I chose to go for it and apply. Little did I know […]
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Reading Time: 5 minutesAutumn School of Humanities and Arts has always been an excellent platform for students to present their work and gather valuable feedback from their colleagues and attendees. Apart from the oral presentations that take place every year during the two-day conference, another option offered to the participants is to introduce their research with a poster […]
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Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe invite BA and MA students from the Department of Semiotics to take part in a collaborative workshop where we put the theoretical knowledge of semiotics into practice in a collaborative manner with graphic designers. The workshop will take place: January 29 – February 2, 2024, at the Department of Semiotics. The week-long workshop consists […]
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Reading Time: 16 minutesInterviewed by Andrew Mark Creighton Introduction IMPRINT, an exhibition on dark-themed collages and print art, is currently being hosted at TYPA Gallery. The exhibition, which opened on November 30th and will continue until December 30th, is the initiative of Dylan Michilsen and Agve Urm, the editors of Semioculus, a zine dedicated to the “worlds of […]
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