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On October 6, Kairi Tamuri defended the doctoral dissertation ‘Basic emotions in speech read out in Estonian: acoustic analysis and modelling’ at the University of Tartu, during the preparation of which she managed to identify the acoustic sound of anger and sadness in text that is read aloud and teach a robot producing speech to express these.

On 4 September 2017, Viljandi Culture Academy opens the Centre for Arts in Tartu, in which more than 35 arts courses are offered for all students, teaching staff members and employees of the University of Tartu, enabling them to acquire new knowledge and skills and fully develop their creativity.

From 10 to 14 July, the 14th conference of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLC14) is held in the University of Tartu. The conference “Linguistic Diversity and Cognitive Linguistics” brings to Tartu nearly 500 participants from 50 countries all over the world.

Feature film "Dhokbu - the Keeper" June 16th at 18.00 Estonian National Museum (Muuseumi tee 2, Tartu) J. Hurt hall (A-entrance) The film is in Lepcha and in English, with subtitles, 88 min Free entrance

Academia Europaea, the European Academy of Humanities, Letters and Sciences, elected UT Professor of Literary Theory Marina Grishakova, Professor of Modern Estonian Language Helle Metslang and Professor of Comparative Literature Jüri Talvet members of the Academy of Europe. It is recognition of their international research work and continuous contribution to European research.

French Ambassador to Estonia Michel Raineri awarded University of Tartu Professor of Estonian as a Foreign Language Birute Klaas-Lang the French National Order of Merit for promoting cultural and academic cooperation between France and Estonia.

A workshop on the prosody of Finno-Ugric languages will take place at the University of Tartu on 9-10 April 2015. See the program of the workshop.

In 2013-2014 professors of national sciences introduce their professorships. In Tartu the lectures take place in Jakobi 2. Every lecture is followed by a seminar, discussion, film, or some other common activity. The lectures are in Estonian. More information in Estonian

Symposium The Second European and the 5th Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication will take place on 6-8 August 2014. The invited speakers are Alan Cienki ( VU University,Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Moscow State Linguistic University, Russia Kirsten Bergmann, University of Bielefeld, Germany. The symposium will be preceded by the Research Training Course "Pointing to Gestures"

On 28 and 29 November 2013, the Department of Estonian as a Foreign Language will hold its 8th conference in the series Native Language and Other Languages. The focus of the 2013 conference is on foreign language study. Invited speakers are Henriëtte Hendriks (Cambridge University), Pirkko Muikku-Werner (University of Eastern Finland) and Leelo Kingisepp (Iduleht Publishers). Conference home page is http://emakeeljateisedkeeled.weebly.com/in-english.html

Kristel Uiboaed defends the PhD thesis Verbiühendid eesti murretes (Verb Constructions in Estonian Dialects) on 16 December 2013. Supervisors: PhD Liina Lindström and PhD Kadri Muischnek. Opponent: PhD Maria Vilkuna (Institute for the Languages of Finland). Venue: Senat's Hall, main building (Ülikooli 18, Tartu) Time: 16 December 2013 at 14:15

The fourth conference on Grammar and Context: New Approaches to the Uralic Languages will be held in Tartu, on 6th-8th June, 2013. The conference follows up the previous symposia with the same name held in Budapest in 2004, Helsinki in 2007, and Budapest in 2011.

Sirli Parm defends PhD "Eesti keele ajasõnade omandamine" ("Acquisition of Estonian Temporal Adverbs") on 17 May 2013. Supervisors are prof. Renate Pajusalu and prof. Reili Argus (Tallinn University). Opponent is prof. Klaus Laalo (Tampere University).

Professor emeritus Kari Suomi from Oulu university gives lectures on 6-10 May. 6 May 14-16 and 10 May 12-16, Jakobi 2-427 "Aspects of (mainly) Northern Finnish Prosody" (allteemad: Durational and tonal properties of Northern Finnic (NF) stress and accent; importance of the morea in NF prosody; elasticity of segment durations to achieve uniform accentual FO curve; comparison of NF (Oulu) with two other varieties (Tampere and Turku)) (in English). 8 May 16-18, Jakobi 2-438 "Äännekestojen määräytymisestä pohjoissuomessa" (in Finnish).

Dr. Enikő Gréczi-Zsoldos (Miskolc University) gives lectures on Hungarian dialects and dialectology and sociolinguistics on 23 and 24 April. Agenda Tuesday, 23 April 4 pm - 6 pm, Jakobi 2-109 A magyar nyelvjárások és a mai magyar dialektológia (Hungarian Dialects and the Dialectology in Hungary). Working language is English. Thursday, 24 April 12 pm - 2 pm, Jakobi 2-422 Nyelv és társadalom (Language and Society). Working language is Hungarian.

Dr. Sándor Szeverény (Szeged Uniersity) gives 5 lectures on 15-18 April. Agenda and materials Monday, 15 April 14.15-16.00 Jakobi 2-106 Magyar őstörténet és nemzeti tudat Bibliai hagyomány Hun-hagyomány, krónikairodalom 4 pm - 6 pm Jakobi 2-103 A finnugor „rokonságtudat” – a (finnugor) nyelvhasonlítás magyarországi története

Krista Mihkels defends PhD "Keel, keha ja kaardikepp: õpetaja algatatud parandussekventside multimodaalne analüüs" ("Language, Body and the Pointer: A Multimodal Analysis of Teacher-Initiated Repair Sequences") on 19 March 2013