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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.

The Centre for Oriental Studies at the University of Tartu will host a guest titled "The Collapse of the Growth Model and Fiscal Crisis - Rethinking State Capacity in Japan" on 11 December at 12:00

With the annual awards, the university aims to recognise its employees’ and students’ outstanding achievements in teaching, doing research and serving society.

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.

Report: Russia’s and China’s Influence in Central Asia: New shifts in national and foreign policies in Central Asian countries and neighbourhood

We are pleased to invite you to the international conference “Russia's Historical and Political Narratives in the Kremlin's Influence Activities” on September 25, 2025, at the University of Tartu.

Yerkebulan Sairambay: Post COVID-19 Media Trends in Central Asia

Sumeyye Temirov: Between Surveillance and Innovation - Human Rights Risks in AI Adoption in Central Asia

Field report on Georgia: Adjara’s identity, Turkish influence, and Muslim life; deep political polarisation between GD and opposition; Russian émigrés reshaping Tbilisi and Batumi

The research project: A Comparative Study of Media Engagement and Adaptation of Russian-Speaking Immigrant Communities in Estonia and Kazakhstan

International Conference on Ancient Migrations and Cultural Exchange to be held in Tartu

In April 2025, representatives of the Centre of Oriental Studies at the University of Tartu, Vladimir Sazonov and Rodion Krupin, made a working visit to Japan. The main goal of the visit was to develop academic cooperation, establish new professional contacts, meet with long-standing colleagues, and participate in an international scientific conference.