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The University of Tartu and the Higher School of Economics, Moscow have successfully conducted the 8th winter school in Kääriku as a part of the international project "Escapes from Modernity" which has been organizing summer and winter schools across all Europe since 2007. Traditionally, the school took place in Kääriku Leisure and Sports Centre of the University of Tartu, situated in a beautiful area in Valga County.

Winter school “Biopower and Semiotics of the Body” on February 20-25, 2017 in Kääriku, Estonia

The State and the Body: Borders, Security and Refugee Crisis Kääriku, Estonia, 15-20 February 2016 The University of Tartu and the Higher School of Economics, Moscow are organizing winter school “The State and the Body: Borders, Security and the Refugee Crisis”.

Cross the Bridge is a Erasmus+ Project which in today`s reality of rising mobility and big move of people in Europe, is trying to offer integration solutions to the educational systems, which are faced with numerous challenges. For now the project has 4 student and teacher exchanges (Italy, Iceland, Cyprus, Germany) and is getting ready for the fifth one (Greece).

On Monday, 8 October, the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies will host a seminar about Latvian parliamentary elections results and how it impacts the future of Latvia and Europe. The lecture takes place on 8 October at 16:15 in the UT Social Sciences building, Lossi 36, room 214.

Within five days in October Robert Henry Cox will visit University of Tartu and Tallinn University of Technology to give graduate seminars and workshops as well as meet with PhD students, researchers, policy makers and other experts. October 8 14:15 Doctoral seminar, “Ideas and Ideational Theorizing in the Social Sciences" Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, Lossi 36, room 305

On Friday, 5 October, a project “A Better Europe” will hold its open for students and public discussion seminar “The Future of Europe, the state of the Union and the Election of 2019: scenarios”. The event starts at 15:00, Lossi 36 – 214. The difficult and long title holds a simple idea. To come together and to collect opinions about the future of Europe. To see what people and students think, to hear different point of views and more generally be more aware of what people around us are thinking about when it comes to EU.

On Friday, 5 October, a project “A Better Europe” will hold its open for students and public discussion seminar “The Future of Europe, the state of the Union and the Election of 2019: scenarios”. The event starts at 15:00, Lossi 36 – 214. The difficult and long title holds a simple idea. To come together and to collect opinions about the future of Europe. To see what people and students think, to hear different point of views and more generally be more aware of what people around us are thinking about when it comes to EU.

64 participants, researchers from Tartu University and various Estonian science and teaching institutions, attended the HubIT project Annual Conference and workshop titled “Bridging the gap between social sciences/ humanities and ICT”, which took place on 18 September 2018, in AHHAA Centre in Tartu, Estonia. The aim of HubIT SSH Workshop was to discuss collaboration between social sciences/humanities and ICT research through success stories and discussions.

Professor Stefan Hedlund from the University of Uppsala, Sweden, will give a public lecture entitled: “The Putin Blowback: How Russia Drove Sweden into the Arms of NATO” on Monday, 1 October 2018, from 16:15 to 17:45 at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, Lossi 36, room 214.

On Wednesday, 3 October, the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies will host Dr. Heather Grabbe, director of the Open Society European Policy Institute, who will give a public lecture entitled “The Future of Europe: Populism and Illiberalism?”.

Today, on 26 April 2018, the 263-member electoral council elected Professor of Neurosurgery Toomas Asser as rector of the University of Tartu with 187 votes.

On Thursday, 27 September, Francisco Martinez from the University of Helsinki will introduce his new book “Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia. An Anthropology of Forgetting, Repair and Urban Traces“. The book presentation takes place at 16.15 in the UT Social Sciences building, Lossi 36, room 305.

On Thursday, 27 September, Francisco Martinez from the University of Helsinki will introduce his new book “Remains of the Soviet Past in Estonia. An Anthropology of Forgetting, Repair and Urban Traces“. The book presentation takes place at 16.15 in the UT Social Sciences building, Lossi 36, room 305.

The aim of the workshop is to initiate and extend cooperation in the field of Asian and Middle Eastern studies between University of Tartu and University of Cambridge, to enable scholars to present their research themes, to find possibilities for cooperation and to help PhD students present their current work and to find ideas for future research. This workshop includes topics from China and India to Semitic, Middle East and Persia Studies. The presentations will transmit the research interests between University of Tartu and University of Cambridge.

In September 2008, the European Union – Russia Studies MA programme was officially launched and the first generation of EURUS students started their studies. On September 20, a seminar will take place to mark the 10th anniversary of the programme.

The Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies invites you to the next event in our Election Analysis Series: General Election in Sweden: The Unknown Unknowns on Monday, 10 September at 16:15, Lossi 36-214

An international consortium of six universities, led by UCL SSEES, has received 3.5 million Euros for an innovative training network that over four years will train 15 Early Stage Researchers.

H2020-funded HubIT project is inviting researchers from the fields of social sciences and humanities (SSH) to participate in a workshop on the topic of cooperation between SSH and ICT researchers in AHHAA Centre, Tartu, on 18 September.

Two new OSF Eurasia Fellows – Irakli Sirbiladze (Georgia) and Viktoriia Svyrydenko (Ukraine) will be conducting five-month residential fellowships at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu.