����Ӱ��

Professor Boris Uspensky of Russian National Research University Higher School of Economics was nominated Honorary Doctor of Tallinn University. Professor Uspensky also held a public lecture titled “Justice and religion in Muscovite Russia”. The event was organised by the Tallinn University School of Humanities, which has collaborated with professor Uspensky for a long time.

Boriss Uspensky is one of the last surviving founders of the Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School, and a close colleague and co-author of Juri Lotman. Professor of cultural history at the School of Humanities Marek Tamm says prof. Uspensky is a researcher who has greatly influenced the formation of humanities as a science in the second half of the 20^th century.

“It is probably easier to name the areas of humanities where he has not been active, than those where he has published groundbreaking papers,” explained Tamm. “He has been most interested in semiotics, Slavic studies, linguistics, cultural history, literary history, art history and religion history. A field of humanities, which is still relevant today – semiotics of history – could be called his own creation.”

Uspensky is professor emeritus of “L’Orientale” University of Naples and professor at the Russian National Research University Higher School of Economics. His research interests are wide-based, grasping everything from general linguistics to the history of the Russian language, literary theory to visual semiotics, religion studies to cultural theory and historical criticism to semiotics of history.

Additional information:

Marketing and communication specialist
School of Humanities
E-mail: eleen.anilane@tlu.ee
Tel: +372  5817 0936