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“Necroeconomics and Georgia’s experience of post-communist economic transformation”
On 30 October, Professor of educational sociology at TU, Ivor F. Goodson delivered a lecture on the topic “School reforms: com- parative studies of European educational reforms”
On 6 November, a visiting lecturer at the TU Estonian Institute
of Population Studies, Jerome McKibben, delivered a lecture “Using surveys to replace censuses: The successes and failures of
the American community survey in the United States”
On 13 November, Mart Laanpere, a senior research fellow at the Centre for Educational Technology of the TU Institute of Infor- matics and programme coordinator of the Digital Turn project delivered a lecture “A digital turn at school and a new approach to learning”
On 4 December, Professor Emeritus Jesper Hoffmeyer from the University of Copenhagen delivered a lecture “Biosemiotics: Bridging the science-humanities gap”
Activity of TU creative groups and athletes
In 2014, the following cultural groups were active in TU:
» TU Men´s choir, conductors Jüri Rent and Indrek Vijard
» TU Chamber choir, conductor Sander Tamm, vocal pedagogue
Karin Salumäe
» TU Women´s choir, conductors Killu Rikker, Sander Tamm,
Rasmus Erismaa, vocal pedagogue Kristel Kurik
» TU Symphony orchestra, conductors Martin Sildos and Jüri-
Ruut Kangur
» TU Folk dance group Soveldaja, leaders Helen Reimand, Indrek
Hirsnik and Leaanika Parra
The song and dance festival “The touch of time, the time to touch” was a great event where all Tallinn University cultural groups partic- ipated. The conductor of symphony orchestra, Jüri-Ruut Kangur was also a leader of symphony orchestras, the conductor of the men´s choir, Indrek Vijard was the a leader of boys’ choirs and Jüri Rent, conductor of the men´s choir, was a guest conductor of the song and dance festival. TU men´s choir, women´s choir and folk dance group Soveldaja also participated in the XVII student song and dance fes- tival “Gaudeamus” that took place at the end of June in Daugavpils. TU men´s choir also participated in the song festival “Before and now” that was dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Miina Härma and took place on 7 June at the Tartu Song Stage.
In May, the men´s choir celebrated their 15th year of activity with a concert “School is over! I am already 15”. Also an exhibition introducing the men´s choir activity was prepared for the Night of
Museums in cooperation with the TU Museum. The board of the Estonian Male Choirs Association awarded letters of acknowledge- ment to Tallinn University and Janne Jakobson for supporting male choirs and maintaining traditions.
Throughout the year, several concerts were delivered across Estonia (Kehra, Pärnu, Tartu, Tallinn, Viljandi, etc), for the first time chamber choirs and symphony orchestras of TU and UT per- formed together. TU folk dance group Soveldaja participated in the Tuhamägede winter dance celebration, and Tallinn gymnastics fes- tival. Tallinn University men´s choir delivered two Christmas con- certs in Viljandi and Pärnu, together with the symphony orchestra of Nõmme Music School and the academic women´s choir of TUT. Collaboration was maintained with several groups at foreign univer- sities, e.g. Millikin University mixed choir, the symphony orchestra of Vytautas Magnus University, the orchestra Gaudeamus of the Riga Teacher Training and Educational Management Academy and others.
The Estonian Association of Female Choirs elected Killu Rikker and Sander Tamm, TU women´s choir conductors, as artistic direc- tors of their 20th anniversary concert.
The TU symphony orchestra performed during the year on 23 occasions, including the opening concert of the Estonian Music Days
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