Eero Tarasti#

Present and Previous Positions

• 1984 Professor of Musicology at the University of Helsinki
• 1983 Professor of Musicology, University of Jyväskylä
• 1979 Professor of Arts Education, University of Jyväskylä

• Semiotics
• Musicology

• 2004 – 2014 President of the International Association for Semiotic Studies
• Director of the International Semiotics Institute
• Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1997;
• Honorary Doctor of the Estonian Music Academy, 1999;
• Honorary Doctor of the New Bulgarian University, Sofia, 2001
• Honorary Doctor at Université Aix-Marseille, 2014
• Honorary Doctor at “Georghe Dima” Music Academy, Cluj-Napoca, Rumania, 2016
• Honorary Fellow of the Victoria College, University of Toronto; Fellow of the International Communicology Institute, Washington D.C., USA
• 1997 J.V.Snellman Prize of the University of Helsinki
• 1998 Science Prize of the City of Helsinki
• 2008 Honorary Member of the Richard Wagner Society in Finland
• 1999 1st Class Medal of the White Rose Order of Finland 1999
• 2000 The Medal of the Order of Rio Branco, Brazil (the category of Officials)
• 2004 Chevalier de l’Ordre Palme Académique, France

Curriculum Vitae

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Highlights of my work and anecdotes

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