semiootika osakond
research fellow

contact:
Department of Semiotics, University of Tartu
Tiigi 78
50410 Tartu
Estonia

E-mail: kati.lindstrom@ut.ee

 
main fields of research:
Culture and Society
Semiotics of Culture
Japanese studies
Landscape Studies

current research projects:
basic aspects of landscape semiotics;
history of landscape representation and perception in Japan.

latest courses:
2007/2008 autumn - Landscape Semiotics

other academic activities:
Sign Systems Studies, Assistant Editor

selected publications:
Lindström, K. (2008). Umi ha atae, soshite ubau - ikimono no kyojūkūkan toshite no umi. Esutonia to Ribonia no rei wo motoni. (Sea gives, sea takes – the sea as a living space for sentient beings. Based on Estonian and Livonian examples) Biostory (x - x). Kyoto: Showado [in press; in Japanese)]
Lindström, K. (2008). Landscape image as a mnemonic tool in cultural change: The case of two phantomic sceneries. Sarapik, V. (Eds.). Koht ja paik = Place and location : studies in environmental aesthetics and semiotics (227 - 238). Estonian Academy of Arts
Lindström, Kati (2007). From Experiential to Chronometric Seasonality – the Establishment of Seasons as a National Symbol in Modern Japan. Palang, Hannes; Sooväli, Helen; Printsmann, Anu (Eds.). Seasonal Landscapes (215 - 224). Springer-Verlag
Lindström, K. (2006). Kinsei bungaku kara mita keikanbyousha to sono shisou . In: Nakai, Seiichi (ed.) Nihonkai engan no shizen to kankyo ninshiki - keikan no keiseishi, Toyama University Toyama, Japan, February 11, 2006. (Landscape description and thought in the early modern Japanese literature) Toyama University Press, 2006.
Deely, John; Lindström, Kati (transl.) (2005). Deely, John. Basics of semiotics. Semiootika alused. Tartu: Tartu University Press.

honours and awards:
2007 Estonian National Literature Award, runner-up in the category of translation (foreign language to Estonian)
2002, Kati Lindström; National Student Research Award, runner-up in BA category


complete CV (pdf)