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International Conference
LEARNING IN TRANSFORMATION
28–31 August 2024 in Viljandi, Estonia.
Tartu Semiotics Summer School and 14th Annual Lotman Days (Tallinn University), celebrate 60 years from the beginning of the Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics.
As our understanding of what it means to learn in this changing world is going through a rapid transformation, the conference explores the nature of these transformations in education, art and culture.
Keynote speakers
Edna Andrews (Duke University, Durham, North Carolina)
Edna Andrews is professor of linguistics and cultural anthropology at Duke University. She combines tools from neuroscience and semiotics in the study of language acquisition and multilingualism. She authored one of the first influential English mediations of Juri Lotman’s legacy, „Conversations with Lotman: Cultural Semiotics in Language, Literature, and Cognition“ (2003).
Grete Arro (Tallinn University)
Grete Arro is a researcher at Tallinn University whose academic interests include educational psychology, especially the topics of conceptual change, motivation, and self-regulation as well as environmental psychology. She has been acknowledged as a fruitful popularizer of research into learning processes.
Barend van Heusden (University of Groningen, Groningen)
Barend van Heusden is professor of culture and cognition at the University of Groeningen. His research features a brain-centered approach to culture. Barend has also led a major project „Culture in the Mirror“ aimed at reforming the Dutch cultural education curriculum.
Deadlines
Submissions open: 18th of Januray 2024
Deadline for submissions: 1st of April 2024
Presenters will be informed of decision by 30th of April 2024
Early registration starts: 1st of May 2024
Early registration ends: 1st of June 2024
Registration closes: 1st of July 2024
More information
In case you have any questions, you can write to conference secretary Maarja Ojamaa, semiotics@ut.ee.
In case you prefer to write in Russian, then please contact Darja Dorving, darja.dorving@tlu.ee.
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Organisers
The Conference is organised by the Department of Semiotics, University of Tartu; the School of Humanities, Tallinn University; Juri Lotman Semiotics Repository, Tallinn University, Tartu University Viljandi Culture Academy, and the Estonian Association of Semiotics.