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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.

On 27 November, the University of Tartu announced its teaching excellence ambassadors, who set an example for the entire university community. The title is given to recognise 20 academic staff members who develop their teaching based on evidence and support an open teaching culture that values learning.

On 9 December at 16:15, Elmar Gams defends his doctoral thesis "The release procedure of the deportees from the Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian SSR, 1945–1989".

As part of a European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant project, archaeologist Mari Tõrv from the University of Tartu will study how hunter-gatherers across the Northern hemisphere achieved significant population growth and social complexity long before agriculture and cattle farming became the dominating way of life. Tõrv’s research team will contribute to the project with material analysis from the Baltic region.

University of Tartu Asia Centre Annual Conference: Asia Update. Transformations and Futures of the Middle East will be held in Tartu on 23-24 April, 2026.

Bart Gaens will talk about Japan’s global “strategic partnership diplomacy” beyond the Japan-US alliance

Aigi Rahi-Tamm is the new head of the Institute of History and Archaeology

Public lecture about medieval tournaments by Honorary Doctor of the University of Tartu, Professor of the University of Leeds Alan V. Murray

On 31 October, the senate of the University of Tartu decided to award the University of Tartu Grand Medal to former rector, Professor emeritus Jaak Aaviksoo, Professor Marlon Gerardo Dumas Menjivar, Professor Kalle Kirsimäe, and Professor Ivo Leito. The recipients of the University of Tartu Star of Appreciation, Medal, Badge of Distinction and the decoration “100 Semesters at the University of Tartu” have also been selected.

The 10th conference will take place on the 27th–28th of November at the University of Tartu Library.

Olli Nurmi " Finnish President Urho Kekkonen’s multifaceted relations with Estonia"

The University of Tartu was founded on 25 October 393 years ago. This year, the anniversary was marked by memorial ceremonies, a concert and other events.

From 13 October to 16 November, the university family and all others are invited to complete the orienteering course “160 years of making sense of weather observations”.

On 9 October at 16:15, Riikka Taavetti, a lecturer at University of Turku will give a lecture "Queer Connections between Finland and Estonia, from the 1970s to the 1990s" in room 114 of Jakobi study building.

The Estonian Maritime Museum and the University of Tartu Foundation have created a scholarship fund to popularise the research of Estonian maritime history and maritime heritage. Each year, one person will get a 7,500-euro scholarship.

On 7 October at 16:15, Anu Lillak will defend her doctoral thesis "From ashes to interpretation: Fragmented, commingled and cremated human remains in Estonian Roman Iron Age (50‒450 CE) tarand cemeteries".

On 27 October from 13–18, the University of Tartu development conference “A university for us, Estonia and the world” took place at the assembly hall of the university's main building and online to initiate a discussion on topics important for society and the university. The discussion were be based on the new University of Tartu strategic plan approved in June.

During the Peeter Tulviste memorial week held from 27 October to 2 November, a memorial conference takes place in the university assembly hall, and the exhibition “Bibliophile Peeter Tulviste” opens at the university library.

Until 31 October, nominations can be submitted for the “Contribution to Estonian National Identity” award.