Topic: international

On 15 September, His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew paid a visit to the University of Tartu and delivered a public lecture in the assembly hall.

On 27 June, the global higher education consultancy Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) launched its World University Rankings 2024, adopting a methodology that has undergone considerable change. The University of Tartu is ranked 358th and again tops the list of Estonian universities.

Cambridge University Press has released a paperback version of the volume Augustine in Context. The volume is edited by Tarmo Toom, Associate Professor of Patristics at the University of Tartu.

Three full-time four-year paid PhD positions are available for theology and religious studies at the School of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Tartu.

Next week, the School of Theology and Religious Studies will host Eran Viezel, Professor at Ben-Gurion University.

Latvian researcher Agita Misāne gave a lecture on the perception of death and imagined afterlife in Latvian traditional and contemporary religious cultures.

School of Theology and Religious Studies of Tartu University and Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften are organizing an international conference “Adolf von Harnack – bridging the gaps”.

International conference “Authority and spirituality in Islam: sources of diversity" 29–30 November 2022, Tartu, Estonia.

EASR conference "Religions and States of Freedom" takes place in Cork from the 27th of June till 1 of July.

The Estonian Research Council submitted the names of 65 Estonian researchers for inclusion in the AcademiaNet portal for successful women researchers.