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The Yuri Lotman Fund establishes two bursaries
From: "Eric Dickens" <eric.dickens@wxs.nl>
To: <Bakhtin.Centre@Sheffield.ac.uk>
Copies to: "peeter torop" <torop@ut.ee>
Subject: The Yuri Lotman Fund establishes two bursaries
Date sent: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 17:24:52 +0100
The Yuri Lotman Fund establishes two new bursaries
The Professor Yuri Lotman Fund in Estonia intends to award two one-
year bursaries to students. The Baltic News Service press agency
announced the initiative on Tuesday on behalf of the chairman of the
fund, the head of the School of Semiotics at the University of Tartu,
Peeter Torop.
The intention is to grant two one-year bursaries to students at master’s and
doctoral levels, whose research is thematically or methodologically
connected with areas of knowledge in which Professor Lotman also took
an interest. Torop says: “One of the bursaries will be for a student of
semiotics, the other for one studying Slavonic language and literature, both at
the University of Tartu.”
Professor Torop has said that a special account will be opened at the
Hansapank bank for donations to create a capital base for the bursaries.
The fund has been created in memory of Professor Yuri Mikhailovich
Lotman who would have been 80 on the 28th February 2002, and who
worked at the University of Tartu, Estonia, from 1950 until his death on
28th October 1993.
The address of the fund is:
Juri Lotman Fond
Account number 221015826045 Hansapank (Branch code 767)
Liivilaia 8
15040 Tallinn
SWIFT code: HABA EE 2X
[The above details obtained from the Russian-language press in Estonia]
Further information can be obtained from Professor Torop himself at the
e-mail address: torop@ut.ee. He is the editor of, among other works, the
collection of essays “Sign Systems Studies” issued by the University of
Tartu, volume 27 of which was published in 1999 and contains essays by
Göran Sonesson, Bruno Osimo, Mañuel Cáceres Sánchez, Marcel
Danesi, Yelena Grigorevya, Victor Terras, Irene Portis-Winner and
others.
Professor Torop has also published a monograph collection of his own
essays in Estonian entitled “Kultuurimärgid” (Cultural Signs). The book
contains 34 essays written between 1981 and 1998 on aspects of
semiotics and cultural science such as culture and translation(e.g.
translation and reception, the translation of poetry) , intersemiosis (mainly
film essays), Russica (Berdyaev, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy) plus a lighter
section on Lotman the man (e.g. the Tartu-Moscow School, Lotman and
Eco). The 480-page collection was published last year in the prestigious
“Estonian Thought” series by the Ilmamaa publishing house alongside
works by the present Estonian president Lennart Meri who is a former
film-maker and cultural anthropologist, the Hispanicist and comparative
lettrist Jüri Talvet, and a number of historical and contemporary Estonian
scholars such as psychiatrist and cultural commentator Juhan Luiga, poet
and publisher Hando Runnel, religious historian Uku Masing, and expert
on Estonian folklore and folk beliefs Oskar Loorits.
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Eric Dickens, 18th January 2001
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