Topic: research

Report: Struggling Across Screens: Production and Consumption, Threats and Opportunities in Central Asia’s Mediasphere

We are pleased to invite you to a guest lecture titled “The Sumerian Word That Could Start a War: ég.ki.sur.ra and the Language of Boundary Transgression in Pre-Sargonic Lagaš” The lecture, presented by research fellow Edward Coidani, will take place on May 14 at 16:15 in room 218 of Ülikooli 16.

Guest Lecture: The Case of Hieromonk Iakov (Vorontsov) and the movement for an Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Kazakhstan

We are pleased to invite you to a workshop, “Central Asia at the Crossroads: Powers, Visions, Images of the Future,” which will be held on January 12-13 at 08:50, Ülikooli 16-218.

We are pleased to invite you to a guest lecture “Lamenting the destroyed city from Mesopotamia to Estonia” by Senior Scientist Sebastian Fink, to be held on December 10 at 14:00, Jakobi 2-110.

We are pleased to invite you to a book presentation “„Russian Influence Operations and the War in Ukraine: Hybrid Warfare and Disinformation Campaigns” to be held on December 19, at 17:30, Ülikooli 16-216.

The Centre for Oriental Studies of the University of Tartu will hold a book presentation „Towards a History of Assyriology: What’s Next” on December 12.

20th Annual Conference of the Nordic Association of Japanese Studies (NAJS) will be held in Tartu on May 28-29, 2026.

The symposium "Vernacular Knowledge and Indigenous Traditions: Perspectives from Fieldwork" will take place on November 14–15 at the University of Tartu.

On Wednesday, October 29, from 12:15 to 13:45, Ülikooli 16 – Room 216.