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Welcome to the shared official page of two Estonian graduate schools: Graduate School of Culture Studies and Arts, and Graduate School of Linguistics, Philosophy and Semiotics. Graduate School of Culture Studies and Arts is a joint venture of Tallinn University (coordinator), University of Tartu, Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, and Estonian Academy of Arts. Graduate School of Lingu

istics, Philosophy and Semiotics engages the doctoral students and supervisors of the University of Tartu (coordinator), Tallinn University, Estonian Literary Museum, and the Institute of the Estonian Language.

04/02/2022

Our winter school closes with a lecture from Stefan Berger (Ruhr University Bochum) at 13:30 titled „Memories of Violent Conflict in Europe – towards agonistic perspectives?”. In this talk, Prof. Berger will introduce theories of agonistic memory and ask how the memory of violent conflict in Europe, wars, civil wars, ideological conflicts, social upheaval, might be affected by moving towards more agonistic perspectives. Building on the work by Anna Cento Bull and Hans Lauge Hansen on agonistic memory, the lecture will work with various examples to underpin how agonistic perspectives might be usefully employed in memory studies across a variety of different themes. Come end your work week with an engaging talk! See you on Zoom!
https://ut-ee.zoom.us/j/93708139171?pwd=QlNsSEl3bVZiaGRaL2JwRVNpZ1UxQT09

04/02/2022

The last day of the winter school is here! Luckily, we still have two great lectures ahead. The first talk of today will be given by Mette Louise Berg (University College London) at 9:30. Intensified globalization, growing inequality, and upheaval and conflict are creating new patterns of migration and mobility in the 21st century. In her talk, Prof. Berg will address questions such as What differences make a difference in diverse neighbourhoods? Who is rendered deserving of inclusion in the welfare state and its services, and who is not? What forms of hospitality and welcome, as well as hostility and exclusion, are constructed, mobilised, and contested in diverse urban spaces? Join us and Prof. Berg in Jakobi 2-226 or on Zoom!

03/02/2022

Universal basic income (UBI) has been a topic of discussion for many years and the concept has gained increasing support over the years. According to some analysts we are in the middle of the ‘fourth industrial revolution’ in which Artificial Intelligence will take over many existing forms of work, creating mass unemployment. Is UBI the best response to this crisis in employment? Find out today at 13:30, when Jonathan Wolff (University of Oxford) will give his talk “The Future of Work”. Join us on Zoom:
https://ut-ee.zoom.us/j/93708139171?pwd=QlNsSEl3bVZiaGRaL2JwRVNpZ1UxQT09

02/02/2022

As today our participants are enjoying a change of pace on our workshops day, let us introduce the first lecture of tomorrow. At 9:30 tomorrow, Lionel Ruffel (Université Paris 8) will delve into the essence of literary genres: a concept that we usually take as something given and stable. Prof. Ruffel argues that this is not the case, and literary genres are fluid in nature as he discusses a non-binary approach to literature (trans)formations. Join us and Prof. Ruffel in Jakobi 2-226 or on Zoom!
https://ut-ee.zoom.us/j/93708139171?pwd=QlNsSEl3bVZiaGRaL2JwRVNpZ1UxQT09

01/02/2022

Timo Maran (University of Tartu) will give a lecture today at 14:30 on the degrowth movement: a societal movement which argues against the rapid growth in economy which we have seen over the past years. Prof. Maran will analyse the movement from a semiotic perspective. “To support the degrowth transformation, I propose the view of the semiosis of the living as an understanding that significance arises foremost from the semiotic participation in the specific lived (cultural, social, and natural) ecologies.” Join us and Prof. Maran in Jakobi 2-226 or on Zoom!
https://ut-ee.zoom.us/j/93708139171?pwd=QlNsSEl3bVZiaGRaL2JwRVNpZ1UxQT09

01/02/2022

At 9:30 today, Laurajane Smith (Australian National University) will give a talk “The emotional politics of heritage” where she will discuss how heritage is mobilized for political gain, both in obvious populistic ways and in a more subtle manner. Laurajane Smith has been the Director of the Centre of Heritage and Museum Studies at the Australian National University since 2014. Her research interests include understanding the way heritage is used as a cultural tool in the process of remembering, forgetting and identity construction and the re-theorisation of heritage. Join us on Zoom!
https://ut-ee.zoom.us/j/93708139171?pwd=QlNsSEl3bVZiaGRaL2JwRVNpZ1UxQT09

31/01/2022

At 4 o’clock today, William Croft, a world-renowned linguist most known for his work on construction grammar, will give a lecture entitled “Mechanisms of language change (and cultural transmission)". In his talk, Croft will introduce an evolutionary framework for understanding language change for a theory of how linguistic variation is generated and then propagated through a speech community. Join us on Zoom!
https://ut-ee.zoom.us/j/93708139171?pwd=QlNsSEl3bVZiaGRaL2JwRVNpZ1UxQT09

31/01/2022

Our first lecture will be by Rebecca Braun (National University of Ireland Galway), who will talk about exploring literary texts as tools for social transformations. In her own words: “I show how literary texts allow their readers to reposition themselves in relation to multiple possible worlds and sketch out distinct plans of action, for both themselves and others, that are informed by powerfully imagined lived experience.” Join us on Zoom at 9:30!

28/01/2022

Järgmisel esmaspäeval algab kultuuriteaduste ja kunstide doktorikooli raames korraldatav 11. talvekool, mille keskseteks teemadeks on sotsio-kultuurilised muutused ja siirded. Loengud ja doktoriõppe reformile keskenduv ümarlaud on jälgitavad ka veebis.
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Have you already checked out the programme for the 11th Winter School of the Graduate School of Culture Studies and Arts? The Winter School, entitled “Transformations, Transfers, Transitions” starts next Monday, 31.01. The full programme with links is available here: http://doktorikool.humanitaarteadused.ut.ee/talvekool...
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