Topic: international

Asia Centre at EACS 2026 conference

A recently completed study on conspiracy theories, the most extensive one ever conducted in Europe, found that narratives circulating across national borders adapt to local history, cultural memory and social tensions. A book presenting the study’s findings has now been published, co-edited by Mari-Liis Madisson, Associate Professor of Semiotics at the University of Tartu.

Andrew Huebner will deliver a lecture “Yanks in the Land of the Midsummer: American Foreign Aid and the Estonian War of Independence, 1919–1921”

Uurimisseminaride sari Folklore and Friends ("Folkloor ja mõttekaaslased") on uurimisseminaride sari, mis toob kokku Eesti ja võrdleva folkloristika osakonna töötajad, tudengid ja külalised.

Djuddah Arthur Joost Leijen, Associate Professor of English Language and Head of the Centre for Academic Writing at the University of Tartu, has been selected to participate in a three-year research seminar organised by the Center for Engaged Learning at Elon University in the US.

From 20 to 23 August 2026, the University of Tartu hosted the 62nd Annual Conference of Societas Ethica, the European Society for Research in Ethics, under the title “Crisis & Recovery – Ethics in Interdisciplinary Dialogue”.

The University of Tartu will welcome hundreds of students, researchers and academics from around the world in 2027 as it hosts the European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI) for the first time in Estonia.

You can now watch TEDx University of Tartu talks on TEDx YouTube channel.

2026 University of Tartu Asia Centre Scholarship recipients

On 12 June, representatives of Canadian universities participating in the Canada–Baltics Education in Defence Partnership Mission visited the University of Tartu.