Peeter Tinits

Peeter Tinits

data, history, science and humanities

CV

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Education

  • PhD (in progress) Linguistics. Tallinn University (2013-…).
  • MA (cum laude) Semiotics and Cultural Studies. University of Tartu (2015).
  • MSc Evolution of Language and Cognition. University of Edinburgh (2012).
  • BA Semiotics and Culturology. University of Tartu (2010).

Teaching

I sometimes give classes and workshops on cultural evolution, text mining, experimental semiotics, and historical sociolinguistics. See more under teaching.

Publications (selected)

  1. Kanger, Laur; Tinits, Peeter; Pahker, Anna-Kati; Orru, Kati; Velmet, Aro; Sillak, Silver; Šeļa, Artjoms; Mertelsmann, Olaf; Tammiksaar, Erki; Vaik, Kristiina; Penna, Caetano C.R.; Tiwari, Amaresh Kumar; Lauk, Kalmer (2023). Long-term country-level evidence of major but uneven ruptures in the landscape of industrial modernity. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2023.100765
  2. Tinits, Peeter (2023). Stratified Historical Corpus of Estonian 1800-1940. Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühingu aastaraamat = Estonian papers in applied linguistics, 19, 175−194. https://doi.org/10.5128/ERYa19.11 PDF
  3. Sobchuk, Oleg; Tinits, Peeter (2020). Cultural attraction in film evolution: The case of anachronies. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 20 (3-4), 218−237. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685373-12340082. PDF
  4. Tinits, Peeter; Sobchuk, Oleg (2020). Open-ended cumulative cultural evolution of Hollywood film crews. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 1−16. DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2020.21. https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2020.21 PDF
  5. Tinits, Peeter *; Nolle, Jonas *; Hartmann, Stefan * (2017). Usage context influences the evolution of overspecification in iterated learning. Journal of Language Evolution, 2 (2, 2), 148−159. * - Authors contributed equally https://doi.org/10.1093/jole/lzx011 PDF
All publications (13)

Publications last updated 02.05.2024.

Publications

  1. Pahker, Anna-Kati; Kanger, Laur; Tinits, Peeter (2024). Where is the deep sustainability turn most likely to emerge? An Industrial Modernity Index. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 201, 123227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2024.123227
  2. Kanger, Laur; Tinits, Peeter; Pahker, Anna-Kati; Orru, Kati; Velmet, Aro; Sillak, Silver; Šeļa, Artjoms; Mertelsmann, Olaf; Tammiksaar, Erki; Vaik, Kristiina; Penna, Caetano C.R.; Tiwari, Amaresh Kumar; Lauk, Kalmer (2023). Long-term country-level evidence of major but uneven ruptures in the landscape of industrial modernity. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2023.100765
  3. Tinits, Peeter (2023). Stratified Historical Corpus of Estonian 1800-1940. Eesti Rakenduslingvistika Ühingu aastaraamat = Estonian papers in applied linguistics, 19, 175−194. https://doi.org/10.5128/ERYa19.11 PDF
  4. Kanger, Laur; Tinits, Peeter; Pahker, Anna-Kati; Orru, Kati; Tiwari, Amaresh Kumar; Sillak, Silver; Šeļa, Artjoms; Vaik, Kristiina (2022). Deep Transitions: Towards a comprehensive framework for mapping major continuities and ruptures in industrial modernity. Global Environmental Change, 72, 102447. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2021.102447
  5. Tinits, Peeter (2023). Finding environmental discourse in historical newspapers: a topic model workflow for query disambiguation. Digital Humanities in The Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications, 5, 344−354. https://doi.org/10.5617/dhnbpub.10663 PDF.
  6. Tinits, Peeter; Klavan, Jane; Lindström, Liina (2021). Digihumanitaaria Eestis. Keel ja Kirjandus, 64 (8-9), 667−677. DOI: 10.54013/kk764a1.
  7. Sobchuk, Oleg; Tinits, Peeter (2020). Cultural attraction in film evolution: The case of anachronies. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 20 (3-4), 218−237. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685373-12340082. PDF
  8. Tinits, Peeter; Sobchuk, Oleg (2020). Open-ended cumulative cultural evolution of Hollywood film crews. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 1−16. DOI: 10.1017/ehs.2020.21. https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2020.21 PDF
  9. Roberts, Seán G; Killin, Anton; Deb, Angarika; Sheard, Catherine; Greenhill, Simon J; Sinnemäki, Kaius; Segovia-Martín, José; Nölle, Jonas; Berdicevskis, Aleksandrs; Humphreys-Balkwill, Archie; Little, Hannah; Opie, Christopher; Jacques, Guillaume; Bromham, Lindell; Tinits, Peeter; Ross, Robert M; Lee, Sean; Gasser, Emily; Calladine, Jasmine; Spike, Matthew … (2020). CHIELD: the causal hypotheses in evolutionary linguistics database. Journal of Language Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1093/jole/lzaa001
  10. Nölle, Jonas; Hartmann, Stefan; Tinits, Peeter (2020). Language evolution research in the year 2020: A survey of new directions. Language Dynamics and Change, 10 (1). https://doi.org/10.1163/22105832-bja10005. PDF
  11. Tinits, Peeter *; Nolle, Jonas *; Hartmann, Stefan * (2017). Usage context influences the evolution of overspecification in iterated learning. Journal of Language Evolution, 2 (2, 2), 148−159. * - Authors contributed equally https://doi.org/10.1093/jole/lzx011 PDF
  12. Kanatova, Maria *; Milyakina, Alexandra *; Pilipovec, Tatyana *; Shelya, Artjom *; Sobchuk, Oleg *; Tinits, Peeter * (2017). Broken Time, Continued Evolution: Anachronies in Contemporary Films. 14, 1−22. PDF * - Authors in alphabetical order.
  13. Tinits, P. 2014. Language stability and morphological complexity in situations of language contact. An experimental paradigm. Conference proceedings for the International Congress of Linguists 19. PDF

Varia

  1. Tinits, P. 2015. Language interest: Estonia. In: Leerssen, Joep (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe (ERNiE). (electronic version; Amsterdam: Study Platform on Interlocking Nationalisms, www.romanticnationalism.net) Link
  2. Tinits, P. 2017. How to make an opera about science? (Kuidas teha ooperit teadusest?) A review of the opera „Der nordische Baer” by Dominy Clements. Teater. Muusika. Kino. May, 2017. Link
  3. Tinits, P. 2014. Meaning and meaning fields: A non-dualist approach by Martin Staude. Review of Staude, Martin 2012. Meaning in Communication, Cognition, and Reality: Outline of a Theory from Semiotics, Philosophy, and Sociology. Sign Systems Studies, 42(1), 147 - 156. http://dx.doi.org/10.12697/SSS.2014.42.1.07

Presentations (selected)

  1. Tinits, P. 2023. Talk. Studying major transitions in literary communities through the Estonian National Bibliography (1800-1940). The Cultural Data Analytics Conference 2023. Tallinn, Estonia 13.12-16.12.2023 Slides
  2. Tinits, P. 2023. Talk. The Stratified Corpus of Estonian Written Language 1800-1940. (Eesti kirjakeele kihiline korpus 1800-1940.) 20th Conference of the Estonian Association for Applied Linguistics: Language and Users (ERÜ kevadkonverents 2023: 20. rakenduslingvistika konverents: keel ja keelekasutajad) Tallinn, Estonia. 27.04-28.04.2023 Slides
  3. Tinits, P. 2022. Talk. Deep Transitions: Mapping Long-Term Changes in Industrial Modernity. Tallinn, Estonia. 05.10-07.10.2022 Slides
  4. Tinits, P. 2021. Talk. Mechanisms behind standardization of written Estonian 1880-1920. Hison 2020: Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics. Erlangen, Germany 01.04-03.04.2020 (took place virtually 17.03-19.03.2021) Slides
All presentations (54)

Talks last updated 02.05.2024.

2024

  1. Tinits, P.; Kruusmaa. K. 2024. Talk. AI-based solutions in the workflows of memory institutions (Tehisintellektipõhised lahendused mäluasutuste töövoos). 8th Conference of Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (DHNB 2024). Reykjavík, Iceland. 27.05.-31.05.2024
  2. Kruusmaa, K.; Nemvalts, L.; Tinits, P. 2024. Talk. AI-based solutions in the workflows of memory institutions (Tehisintellektipõhised lahendused mäluasutuste töövoos.) 1st Annual Conference for Humanites in Estonia. (1. Eesti humanitaarteaduste aastakonverents.) Tallinn, Estonia. 10.04.-12.04.2024
  3. Tinits, P.; Kruusmaa. K. 2024. Talk. The 19th Century Baltic Literary Space in the Estonian National Bibliography. (19. sajandi Balti kirjaruum Eesti Rahvusbibliograafias.) 1st Annual Conference for Humanites in Estonia. (1. Eesti humanitaarteaduste aastakonverents.) Tallinn, Estonia. 10.04.-12.04.2024 Slides
  4. Tinits, P. 2024. Talk. Digitized Newspapers in Estonia as a Research Source (Digiteeritud Eesti ajalehed uurimisallikana.) 1st Annual Conference for Humanites in Estonia. (1. Eesti humanitaarteaduste aastakonverents.) Tallinn, Estonia. 10.04.-12.04.2024 Slides
  5. Tinits, P. 2024. Talk. Adapting newspaper and bibliographic data for historical research: tools and case studies in Estonia. Helsinki Digital Humanities Research Seminar. Helsinki, Finland 08.02.2024. Slides

2023

  1. Tinits, P. 2023. Talk. Studying major transitions in literary communities through the Estonian National Bibliography (1800-1940). The Cultural Data Analytics Conference 2023. Tallinn, Estonia 13.12-16.12.2023 Slides
  2. Tinits, P.; Nemvalts, L.; Kruusmaa, K.; Sinisalu, U.; Meiorg, M. 2023. Poster. Bringing community to the data Developing a digital lab at the National Library of Estonia. DH 2023: Collaboration as Opportunity. ADHO Digital Humanities Conference. Graz, Austria 10.06-14.06.2023. Poster
  3. Tinits, P. 2023. Talk. Newspaper collections and data mining access in Estonia. MEDAL Summer School in Corpus Linguistics. Tartu, Estonia. 19.06-23.06.2023 Slides
  4. Tinits, P. 2023. Talk. The Stratified Corpus of Estonian Written Language 1800-1940. (Eesti kirjakeele kihiline korpus 1800-1940.) 20th Conference of the Estonian Association for Applied Linguistics: Language and Users (ERÜ kevadkonverents 2023: 20. rakenduslingvistika konverents: keel ja keelekasutajad) Tallinn, Estonia. 27.04-28.04.2023 Slides
  5. Tinits, P. 2023. Talk. Virtual Lab at the National Library of Estonia. The 7th Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference. Oslo, Norway 08.03.-10.03.2023 (virtual event) Slides
  6. Tinits, P. 2023. Talk. Finding historical discourse on natural environment: Australian newspapers 1900-1990. The 7th Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference. Oslo, Norway 08.03.-10.03.2023 (virtual event) Slides

2022

  1. Tinits, P. 2022. Talk. With databases on the sources of Estonian written language norms (Andmebaasidega eesti kirjanormide lätetel). Day of Text. Krista Kerge 70 (Tekstipäev. Krista Kerge 70). Tallinn, Estonia 07.11.2022 Slides
  2. Tinits, P. 2022. Talk. Virtual Lab at the National Library of Estonia. 8th Estonian Digital Humanities Conference. Tallinn, Estonia. 05.10-07.10.2022 Slides
  3. Tinits, P. 2022. Talk. Deep Transitions: Mapping Long-Term Changes in Industrial Modernity. Tallinn, Estonia. 05.10-07.10.2022 Slides
  4. Tinits, P. 2022. Talk. Deep Transitions: text mining historical newspapers for social history. Workshop “Cultural Evolution & Computational Humanities”. Jena, Germany 29.06-30.06.2022 Slides
  5. Tinits, P. 2022. Talk. Intentional language change: written Estonian ca 1900. Congress “Juri Lotman’s Semiosphere”. 25.02.-28.02.2022 Slides

2021

  1. Tinits, P. 2021. Talk. Mechanisms behind standardization of written Estonian 1880-1920. Hison 2020: Intra-Writer Variation in Historical Sociolinguistics. Erlangen, Germany 01.04-03.04.2020 (took place virtually 17.03-19.03.2021) Slides

2020

  1. Tinits, P. 2020. Talk. Estonian language community ca. 1900: learning from linked metadata. 5th Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries. Rīga, Latvia, 17.03-20.03.2020 (took place virtually 21.10-23.10.2020) Slides
  2. Tinits, P. 2020. Talk. Using digital texts at the National Library of Estonia. Nordplus ‘Beyond search’ workshop (virtual event). Rīga, Latvia, 28.10.2020. Slides
  3. Tinits, P. 2020. Talk. The use of text data at the National Library: open data and open code (Tekstiainese digikasutus Rahvusraamatukogus: avatud andmed ja avatud kood). Day of Oskar Kallas (Oskar Kallase päev). Tartu, Estonia. Slides
  4. Kanger, L.; Tinits, P.; Pahker, A.; Orru, K 2020. Talk. Measuring industrial modernity, 1900-2020: Evidence from Australia, Germany, and Russia. The 11th International Sustainability Transition conference: Governance in an Era of Change – Making Sustainability Transitions Happen, online event Vienna, Austria, 18.08-21.08.2020
  5. Tinits, P.; Pahker, A.; Kanger, L.; Orru, K.; Sillak, S. 2020. Measuring Industrial Modernity, 1900-2020. Deep Transition in the Transatlantic Zone in the long twentieth century. Utrecht, Netherlands, 18.05-20.05.2020. (virtual event) Slides
  6. Tinits, P. 2020. Talk. Mining texts at the National Library of Estonia: potential for learning and discovery. Symposium Digitizing Cultural Heritage and its Innovative Usage. Tallinn, Estonia 12.03.2020 Slides
  7. Tinits, P. 2020. Talk. The mechanisms of spelling standardization for written Estonian 1880-1920. 42nd International Conference of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS). The evolution of writing systems workshop. 04.03.-06.03.2020 Slides [Talk cancelled due to Covid-19]

2019

  1. Tinits, P. 2019. Talk. Estonian Language Community ca. 1900: Learning from Linked Metadata. 7th Estonian Digital Humanities Conference: Use of Digital Cultural Heritage in Research and Education. Tallinn, Estonia. 04.12-06.12.2019 Slides
  2. Tinits, P. 2019. Talk. Of Digital Humanities (Digihumanitaariast). Fall Conference for Teachers of Estonian (Eesti keele õpetajate sügiskonverents). Tartu, Estonia. 08.10.2019 Slides
  3. Tinits, P. 2019. Talk. Mining texts for social history: Research from spelling standardization to sustainability transitions. Helsinki Digital Humanities Seminar. Helsinki, Finland. 17.10.2019 Slides
  4. Tinits, P. 2019. Talk. Experiments in combining databases: Estonian language community at the end of the 19th century (Katsetused andmebaaside ühendamisel: eesti keele kogukond 19. saj lõpul). Estonian Language Institute Graduate Seminar ‘Language and Technology’. Taagepera loss, Estonia. 11.09-13.09.2019 Slides
  5. Tinits, P. 2019. Talk. A digital humanities approach to historical sociolinguistics of Estonian. Baltic Summer School of Digital Humanities. Riga, Latvia. 22.07-26.07.2019 Slides

2018

  1. Tinits, P. 2018. Talk. Integrating databases to study language history. 6th Estonian Digital Humanities Conference: Data, humanities & language: tools & applications. Tartu, Estonia. 26.09.2018-28.09.2018 Slides
  2. Tinits, P. 2018. Talk. The spread of standard language in Estonian community in 1880-1920 (Standardkirjakujude levik Eesti ühiskonnas 1880-1920). Changes and influences in language (Mõjutusi ja muutusi keeles) Narva-Jõesuu, Estonia. 13.09.2018-14.09.2018 Slides
  3. Tinits, P. & Hartmann, S. 2018. Poster. Social learning of knowledge representations in Wikipedia. Applications in Cultural Evolution: Arts, Languages, Technologies. Tartu, Estonia 05.06-08-06.2018 Poster
  4. Sobchuk, O. & Tinits, P. 2018. Poster. Films become more complex: three case studies. Applications in Cultural Evolution: Arts, Languages, Technologies. Tartu, Estonia 05.06-08-06.2018 Poster
  5. Tinits, P. 2018. Talk. Intelligence of the crowds in nature and culture. Semiosalong. Tartu, Estonia. 02.04.2018 Slides

2017

  1. Tinits, P. 2017. Talk. Of the replication crisis and its influence to research in a small community (Replikatsioonikriisist ja selle mõjust teadusele väikses kogukonnas). Theoretical Linguistics in Estonia V. Tartu, Estonia. 23.11.2017 - 24.11.2017 Slides
  2. Tinits, P. & Sobchuk, O. 2017. Talk. Digital humanities meets film history: is there progress in films? Digital Humanities in Estonia: Open licences, open content, open data: tools for developing digital humanities. Tartu, Estonia. 01.11.2017 – 03.11.2017 Slides
  3. Tinits, P. & Hartmann, S. 2017. Talk. The grammar of knowledge: Investigating the emergence of conventions in the evolution of Wikipedia. XLanS: Triggers of language change in the Language Sciences. Lyon, France. 11.10.2017 - 13.09.2017.
  4. Tinits, P. & Sobchuk, O. 2017. Talk. Cumulative cultural evolution in film production crews. Inaugural Cultural Evolution Society Conference. Jena, Germany. 13.09.2017 - 15.09.2017.
  5. Sobchuk, O.; Tinits, P.; Shelya, A. 2017. Poster. Cumulative cultural evolution of films: the case of anachronies. Annual Conference of European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association 2017 (EHBEA-17). Paris, France. 06.04.2017 - 08.04.2017.

2016

  1. Tinits, P. Talk. Of arbitrariness anno 2016 (Arbitraarsusest aastal 2016). XVIII Autumn School of Semiotics in Tartu - “Language-like”. Taevaskoja, Estonia. 05.10.2016-06.10.2016 Slides
  2. Nölle, J.; Tinits, P.; Hartmann, S.; Pleyer, M. 2016. Talk. Investigating the emergence of overspecification in an Iterated Learning setup. The Second Conference of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics. Lublin, Poland. 20.06.2016-22.06.2016. Slides
  3. Hartmann S.; Tinits P.; Nölle J.; Hartmann T.; Pleyer M. 2016. Talk. Plain Simple Complex Structures: The Emergence Of Overspecification In An Iterated Learning Setup. The 11th International Conference on the Evolution of Language. Evolang XI 21.03.2016-24.03.2016

2015

  1. Tinits, P. 2015. Talk. Perspectives on language during language renovation in Estonia (Vaateid keelele keeleuuenduse ajal). Johannes Aavik’s 135th jubilee conference: “Language renovation and publishing”. (Johannes Aaviku 135. sünniaastapäevale pühendet konverents: „Keeleuuendus ja kirjastamine“). Kuressaare, Estonia. 04.12.2015-05.12.2015. Slides
  2. Sobchuk, O.; Shelya, A.; Tinits, P. 2015. Talk “Evolution within cinemetrics: A quantitative study of American mystery films.” Digital Humanities in Estonia A° 2015: Conference on translingual and transcultural digital humanities. Tartu, Estonia. 19.10.2015-21.10.2015.
  3. Hartmann, S.; Nölle, J.; Pleyer, M.; Tinits, P. 2015. Talk “Communicative Relevance and Morphological Complexity: An Iterated Learning Approach”. Protolang: Ways to (proto-) language. Rome, Italy. 24.09.2015 – 26.09.2015.
  4. Nölle, J.; Tinits, P.; Hartmann; S.; Pleyer, M. 2015. Talk “Experimental Approaches to the Evolution of Morphological Complexity”. 48th annual meeting of European Linguistics Society (Societas Linguistica Europaea). Leiden, Netherlands. 02.09.2015 – 05.09.2015. Slides
  5. Tinits, P. 2015. Oral mini-presentation. “How does one become a standard language culture? Reflections on language in historical contexts. Estonian language standardizations 1900- 1920”. 9th Summer School of Historical Sociolinguistics. Metochi, Greece. 01.08. – 08.08.2015 Slides
  6. Tinits, P. 2015. Talk. “Standard language culture and the case of Estonian (around 1880- 1920)”. 12th Summer School of Salos Grammar Academy (Academia Grammaticorum Salensis Duodecima). Rokiškis, Lithuania. 26.07. – 02.08.2015. Slides
  7. Nölle, J.; Tinits, P.; Hartmann, S & Pleyer, M. 2015. Talk. “People make things messier: How communicative pressures shape linguistic complexity”. The 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-13). 20 - 25.07.2015.
  8. Tinits, P. 2015. Talk “Reduction in variation in written Estonian in 1880–1920”. The International Conference on Language Variation in Europe 8 (ICLaVE-8). Leipzig, Germany. 27.05.2015 – 29.05.2015. Slides
  9. Tinits, P. 2015. Talk “Language ideologies: A perspective from standardization”. Tracking down ideologies – workshop on the methodologies of language ideological research. Helsinki, Finland 27.02.2015.–28.2.2015. Slides

2014

  1. Tinits, P. 2014. Oral mini-presentation “Language Simplification in the Laboratory: A Behavioural Experiment for Linguistic Typology”. 8th Summer School in Historical Sociolinguistics. Kristiansand, Norway 27.07.2014 – 03.06.2014. Slides

2013

  1. Tinits, P. 2013. Talk “Bias for Language Simplicity in Composite Populations?“. 19th International Congress for Linguists (CIL-19). Geneva, Switzerland. 22.07.2013 – 27.07.2013. Slides
  2. Tinits, P. 2013. Talk “Application of Semiotic Experiments in Linguistic Research”. 8th Conference of Nordic Association of Semiotic Studies: Sign Evolution on Multiple Timescales (NASS-8). Aarhus, Denmark 29.05.2013 – 31.05.2013. Slides

Organizing work (last updated 2020)

I’ve been involved in organizing a number of conferences and academic events. Particularly:

All events and organizations (last updated 2017)
  1. Workshop instructor. Summer School for Baltic Enlightenment and its inheritance. Tartu, Estonia. 05.09.2017-06.09.2017.
  2. Conference volunteer. The Fourteenth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-14). Tartu, Estonia. 10.07.2017-14.07.2017.
  3. Organizing committee member. The 11th conference of the International Association for Research in L1 Education. Tallinn, Estonia. 15.06.2017-17.06.2017.
  4. Organizing committee member. 5th conference for Estonian Scientific Language. 02.12.2016-03.12.2016.
  5. Conference volunteer. d2e: from data to evidence: Big Data, Rich Data, Uncharted Data. Helsinki, Finland. 19.10.2015-22.10.2015
  6. Conference volunteer. 4th annual meeting of Wikimedians from Central and Eastern Europe (WMCEE). Voore, Estonia. 10.09.2015-13.09.2015
  7. Organizing committee member. The Why Linguistics Conference. Tartu, Estonia. 07.05.2015-09.05.2015
  8. Organizing co-chair. Mapping Methods: Approaches to Language Studies (MaMe-2014). Tartu, Estonia. 08.05.2014-10.05.2014
  9. Conference volunteer. Graduate Conference on Areal Linguistics: Grammar and Contacts. Tartu, Estonia. 04.05.2012-06.05.2012
  10. Conference volunteer. Spring School ‘Interdisciplinary College 2010’. Günne, Germany. 12.03.2010-19.03.2010
  • 2016 - … Estonian Society for Applied Linguistics. Member.
  • 2016 - … Estonian Society for Digital Humanities. Founding member. Board member.
  • 2015 - … Johannes Aavik Society. Member.
  • 2015 - … Society for the Study of Cultural Evolution. Founding member.
  • 2013 - … International Association for Cognitive Semiotics. Founding member.
  • 2013 - … Nordic Association of Semiotic Studies. Member.
  • 2012 - … United Kingdom Philological Society. Member.
  • 2011 - … International Semiotics Association. Member.
  • 2011 - … Estonian Semiotics Association. Member.
  • 2010 - … University of Tartu Linguistic Circle. Member.

Conference attendance

I once started keeping a log of conferences or workshops visited (as registered participant). This is now up to 40+ (last updated 2017).

Conferences visited (last updated 2017)
  1. 23.11.2017 - 24.11.2017 Theoretical Linguistics in Estonia V. Tartu, Estonia.
  2. 01.11.2017 – 03.11.2017. Digital Humanities in Estonia: Open licences, open content, open data: tools for developing digital humanities. Tartu, Estonia.
  3. 11.10.2017-13.09.2017. XLanS: Triggers of language change in the Language Sciences. Lyon, France.
  4. 13.09.2017-15.09.2017. Inaugural Cultural Evolution Society Conference. Jena, Germany.
  5. 05.09.2017-06.09.2017. Summer School for Baltic Enlightenment and its inheritance. Tartu, Estonia.
  6. 28.08.2017-01.09.2017. First Potsdam Summer School on Statistical Methods for Linguistics and Psychology (SMLP). Potsdam, Germany.
  7. 10.07.2017-14.07.2017. The Fourteenth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC-14). Tartu, Estonia. Conference volunteer.
  8. 15.06.2017-17.06.2017. The 11th conference of the International Association for Research in L1 Education. Tallinn, Estonia. Organizing member.
  9. 12.05.2017-14.05.2017. 43rd summer school of theoretical biology in Estonia. Pühajõe, Estonia.
  10. 31.03.2017-01.04.2017. Data as Remedy for Post-Truth, 24h Hackathon. Tartu, Estonia.
  11. 02.12.2016-03.12.2016. 5th conference for Estonian Scientific Language. Organizing committee.
  12. 05.10.2016-06.10.2016. XVIII Autumn school of Semiotics in Tartu - “Language-like”. Taevaskoja, Estonia.
  13. 20.06.2016-22.06.2016. The Second Conference of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics. Lublin, Poland.
  14. 21.03.2016-24.03.2016. The 11th International Conference on the Evolution of Language. Evolang XI. New Orleans, USA.
  15. 04.12.2015-05.12.2015 Johannes Aavik’s 135th jubilee conference: “Language renovation and publishing”. (Johannes Aaviku 135. sünniaastapäevale pühendet konverents: „Keeleuuendus ja kirjastamine“). Kuressaare, Estonia.
  16. 29.10.2015-30.10.2015 Estonian Language Technology 2015 (Eesti keeletehnoloogia 2015). Tartu, Estonia
  17. 19.10.2015-22.10.2015 d2e: from data to evidence: Big Data, Rich Data, Uncharted Data. Helsinki, Finland. Conference volunteer.
  18. 10.09.2015-13.09.2015 4th annual meeting of Wikimedians from Central and Eastern Europe (WMCEE). Voore, Estonia. Conference volunteer.
  19. 02.09.2015-05.09.2015 48th annual meeting of European Linguistics Society (Societas Linguistica Europeana). Leiden, Holland. Oral presentation.
  20. 01.08.2015-08.08.2015 9th Summer School of Historical Sociolinguistics. Kristiansand, Norway. Oral presentation.
  21. 26.07.2015-02.08.2015 12th Summer School of Salos Grammar Academy (Academia Grammaticorum Salensis Duodecima). Rokiškis, Lithuania. Oral presentation.
  22. 27.05.2015-29.05.2015 The International Conference on Language Variation in Europe 8 (ICLaVE-8). Leipzig, Germany. Oral presentation
  23. 07.05.2015-09.05.2015 The Why Linguistics Conference. Tartu, Estonia. Moderator. Organizing member.
  24. 13.04.2015-15.04.2015 Causality in the language sciences. Leipzig, Germany.
  25. 27.–28.2.2015 Tracking down ideologies – workshop on the methodologies of language ideological research. Helsinki, Finland. Oral Presentation.
  26. 01.12.2014-03.12.2014 HCAS Symposium: Big Data Approaches to Intellectual and Linguistic History) + satellite seminar Helsinki Digital Humanities Day. Helsinki, Finland.
  27. 27.10.2014-28.10.2014 Estonian Digital Humanities: Infotechnological Innovation in Humanities Research and Education. (Eesti digitaalhumanitaaria A° 2014: infotehnoloogiline innovatsioon humanitaarteadustes ja -hariduses.) Tartu, Estonia.
  28. 20.08.2014-22.08.2014 Reading and Writing from Below: Exploring the Margins of Modernity. Helsinki, Finland.
  29. 27.07.2014-03.08.2014 8th Summer School of Historical Sociolinguistics. Kristiansand, Norway. Oral Presentation.
  30. 08.05.2014-10.05.2014 Mapping Methods: Approaches to Language Studies (MaMe-2014). Tartu, Estonia. Moderator. Organizing member.
  31. 20.01.2014-24.01.2014 Winter School of the Graduate School of Cultural Studies and Arts Absence, Presence, Distance: Ways of Seeing the Past. Tallinn, Estonia.
  32. 25.10.2013 Digital Humanities in Estonia 2013: IT-applications in humanities. (Digitaalhumanitaaria Eestis A° 2013: IT-rakendused humanitaarteadustes.) Tartu, Estonia.
  33. 18.08.2013-23.08.2013 Tartu Summer School of Semiotics: Autocommunication in Semiotic Systems: 40 years after the Thesis on the Semiotic Study of Culture. Kääriku, Estonia.
  34. 22.07.2013-27.07.2013 19th International Congress of Linguists. Geneva, Switzerland. Oral presentation.
  35. 29.05.2013-31.05.2013 8th Conference of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies (NASS). Oral presentation.
  36. 04.05.2012-06.05.2012 Graduate Conference on Areal Linguistics: Grammar and Contacts. Tartu, Estonia. Session chair.
  37. 16.03.2012-17.03.2012 United Kingdom Philological Society Symposion on Synchrony and Diachrony: Variation and Change in Language History. Oxford, United Kingdom.
  38. 22.08.2011-26.08.2011 Tartu Semiotics Summer School on Semiotic Modelling. Palmse, Estonia.
  39. 01.09.2010-05.09.2010 6th International Conference on Construction Grammar (ICCG-6) + satellite seminar on Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG) framework for construction grammar. Prague, Czech Republic.
  40. 16.06.2010-18.06.2010 14th workshop on ‘Semantics and Pragmatics in Dialogue’ (SemDial 2010). Poznan, Poland.
  41. 12.03.2010-19.03.2010 Spring School ‘Interdisciplinary College 2010’. Günne, Germany. Volunteer.