Topic: international

Yerkebulan Sairambay is talking at the Nordic Asia Podcast about dating apps, queer stigma, and digital intimacy in Kazakhstan.

How Western media shapes public understanding of Gaza, Palestine, and conflict through language, political narratives, and global power structures.

The University of Tartu Asia Centre invitation to a conference on China.

Helen Haas interviews Sean Lee on Middle Eastern identity, conflict, and minorities.

On 15 May, from 10:15 to 11:45, he gives a public lecture “Applying for ERC grants. The future of European research” in the building of the Institute of Cultural Research (Ülikooli 16–216).

Book presentation by Asia Centre researchers in Singapore

The call for applications for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships is open until 9 September 2026. In April and May, the Estonian Research Council (ETAG) will host info sessions to help prospective applicants prepare their applications.

Speaker application is open until April 1 for TEDxUniversity of Tartu.

On 27 October from 13–18, the University of Tartu development conference “A university for us, Estonia and the world” took place in the university assembly hall and online. Keynote speakers were Toomas Hendrik Ilves, Kersti Kaljulaid and Kristina Kallas.

Scholarships and fellowships for studies and research in Asia and the Middle East