Southeast
European Centre for Semiotic Studies
at
New Bulgarian University
10th
Early Fall School of Semiotics
“CULTURE AND TEXT”
15-23
September 2004, Sozopol, Bulgaria
The school
is organized with financial support from New Bulgarian University.
Preliminary program:
15 September, Wednesday
Arrival and Accommodation
Lunch
Opening of the 10th Early Fall
School of Semiotics
15:00-15:30 Welcoming words by Professor Maria Popova
15:30-16:15
prof. Bogdan Bogdanov (NBU): to be specified
16:15-16:30 Break
16:30-17:15 prof. Ivailo Znepolski (Sofia State
University, Bulgaria): “Is there semiotic tradition in Bulgaria?”
16 September, Thursday
Semiotic school for Ph. D. and undergraduate
students
10:00-10:45 Peeter Torop
(Estonia): “Culture as translation: intersemiosis and intersemiotic
translation” (in Russian)
10:45-11:30 Mihhail Lotman (Estonia): “Semiotics of fact” (in Russian)
11:30-12:00 Coffee
break
12:00-12:45 Kalevi Kull (Estonia): “Semiotics in Tartu
before 1960’s”
12:45-13:30 Miriam Or (Izrael): "Script and image in culture and belief"
Lunch
15:00-19:00 Conference,
dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the First Tartu - Moscow
Semiotic School
“Tartu – History, Traditions and Contemporaneity.”
-
Ivailo Znepolski (Sofia State University,
Bulgaria): “Lotman and his semiotics”
-
Mihail Nedelchev (NBU): “Tartu - a happy
heterotopy”
-
Jordan Eftimov (NBU): “Tartu rediscovers
symbolism: why and how?”
17:00-17:30 Break
17 September, Friday
Semiotic school for Ph. D. and undergraduate
students
10:00-10:45 Anti Randviir (Estonia): “Text, textuality
and semiosis: cultural semiotics, semiology and semiotics”
10:45-11:30 Peeter Torop (Estonia): “Ad hoc semiotics
and a problem
of objects of semiotics of culture”
11:30-12:00 Coffee
break
12:00-12:45 Kalevi Kull (Estonia): “Uexküll and
biosemiotics”
12:45-13:30 Miriam Or (Izrael): "Deciphering the hidden codes in emblematic
cultures"
Lunch
15:00-19:00 Conference,
dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the First Tartu - Moscow Semiotic School
“Tartu – History, Traditions and Contemporaneity.”
-
Jordan
Eftimov (NBU): “Symbolism and anthroposophy in works by Beli
and Grozev”
-
Moris Fadel (BAS): “The concept of text in the
literary theory works of Yuri Lotman”
- Ekaterina
Todorova (SU): “Words, silence, gesture and cry in Old Russian literature: a nonverbal semiotic
perspective”
17:00-17:30 Break
18 September, Saturday
Semiotic school for Ph. D. and undergraduate
students
10:00-10:45 Mihhail Lotman (Estonia): “Semiotics of fear: glossophobia and agoraphobia in
Russian culture”
10:45-11:30 Kalevi Kull (Estonia): “Levels of sign
systems”
11:30-12:00 Coffee
break
12:00-12:45 Peeter Torop (Estonia): “Semiospherical
understanding: textuality, chronotopicality, multimediality”
Lunch
15:00-17:00
Round table: “Advertising through semiotics”: moderator: Kristian Bankov (NBU) and
team
17:00-17:30 Break
17:30-18:30 Round table: “A cybersemiotic
understanding of Cosmos, Infos and
Semios”, moderator: S¸ren Brier (Denmark)
19 September, Sunday
Semiotic school for Ph. D. and undergraduate
students
10:00-10:45 Fjodor Uspenskij, Anna Litvina (Russia):
“The semiotics of personal names in Medieval Europe” I
10:45-11:30 Sara Rubinelli (Switzerland): “Semiotics in ancient philosophy (with special
reference to Aristotle and the stoics)”
11:30-12:00 Coffee
break
12:00-12:45 Anti Randviir (Estonia): “Culture and
society in the era of globalization: how to measure communities?”
Lunch
14:30-18:00 Conference:
20 years of “Myth, Art, Folklore (MAF)”, moderators: Ivan Marazov (NBU), Plamen
Bochkov (NBU) and team
15:45-16:15 Break
20 September, Monday
Semiotic school for Ph. D. and undergraduate
students
10:00-10:45 Borislav Georgiev (NBU): “Why do we
address god in the second person singular?”
10:45-11:30 Anti Randviir (Estonia): “Semiosphere and
semiotic reality”
11:30-12:00 Coffee
break
12:00-12:45 Ivan Kasabov
(NBU): “Minimum language for optimum communication”
12:45-13:30 Lidia Denkova (NBU): “Of philosophy’s
tender skin: Plato’s poesis”
Lunch
15:00-16:30
Round table: “Culture
and poetics of the philosophic text”, moderators: Hristo Todorov (NBU), Lidia
Denkova (NBU)
16:30-16:45 Break
16:45-18:00
Workshop: “Tolerance or violence:
signs of minority differences”, moderators: Maria Popova (NBU), Antonii Todorov
(NBU), Plamen Bochkov (NBU)
18:30-19:30 Performance:
“Signs of the Commencement“ by Mihail Chomakov and students (on the central
beach)
21 September, Tuesday
Semiotic school for Ph. D. and undergraduate
students
10:00-10:45 Sara Rubinelli (Switzerland): “Semiotics
of dance”
10:45-11:30 Moni Almaleh (NBU): “The mirror
structure and the “Seal of Moses” (as based on the Hebrew version of the Old
Testament)”
11:30-12:00 Coffee
break
12:00-12:45 Fjodor Uspenskij, Anna Litvina (Russia):
“The semiotics of personal names in Medieval Europe” II
Lunch
15:00-16:00
Workshop: "Values of existence in ancient Greek culture:
semiotic implications" , moderator: Sara Rubinelli
(Switzerland)
16:00-16:30
Break
16:30-17:30
Workshop: “Semiotics of urban space
– mental maps”, moderators: Borislav Georgiev (NBU), Stefka Angelkova (NBU),
Krasimir Angelkov (NBU)
17:30-18:30 Workshop
of Students in the MA and PhD programs of Semiotics
22 September, Wednesday
Semiotic school for Ph. D. and undergraduate
students
10:00-10:45 Georg Kraev (NBU): “Folklor
text of a Christmas game”
10:45-11:30 Sara Rubinelli (Switzerland): “Semiotics of health communication”
11:30-12:00 Coffee
break
12:00-12:45 Fjodor Uspenskij, Anna Litvina (Russia):
“The semiotics of personal names In Medieval Europe” III
Lunch
15:00-16:30 Conference:
“Rhetorical pragmatics:
ideology or science?”, moderators: assoc. prof. Borislav Georgiev (NBU),
Vladimir Ignatov (NBU)
16:30-17:00 Break
17:00-18:00
Round table: “Toward
semiotics of the musical and the dramatical in Niezche”, moderators: Neva
Krasteva and Dimitar Zashev
23 September, Thursday
DEPARTURE