Southeast European Center for Semiotic Studies

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.

15 September, Wednesday
Arrival and Accommodation

LUNCH

Opening of the 10th Early Fall School of Semiotics
15:00-15:30 Welcoming words by Prof. Maria Popova
15:30-16:15  Ivailo Znepolski (Sofia University, Bulgaria): “Bulgarian semiotic studies in the light of Lotman’s semiotics”

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”

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 University, Bulgaria): “Lotman and Barthes: Eastern and Western semiotics in comparative perspective.”
- Mihail Nedelchev (NBU): “Tartu - a happy heterotopy.”
17:00-17:30 Break
- Jordan Eftimov (NBU): “Tartu rediscovers symbolism: why and how?”


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”

LUNCH

15:00-19:00 Conference, dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the first Tartu - Moscow semiotic school
“Tartu – history, traditions and contemporaneity.”
-Yordan Eftimov (NBU): “Symbolism and anthroposophy on examples of Beli and Grozev”
- Moris Fadel (BAS): “A concept of text in the literary theory works of Yuri Lotman”
17:00-17:30 Break
- Ekaterina Todorova (SU): “Words, silence, gesture and cry in Old Russian literature: a nonverbal semiotic perspective”

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

15:00-15:45 Miriam Or (Israel): "Deciphering the hidden codes in emblematic cultures", presented by Maja Kohen
15:45-17:30 Round table: “Advertising through semiotics”: moderator: Kristian Bankov (NBU) and team

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

20 September, Monday
Semiotic school for Ph. D. and undergraduate students
10:00-10:45 Borislav Gueorguiev (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 Kassabov (NBU): “Minimum language for optimum communication”

LUNCH

15:00-15:45 Lidia Denkova (NBU): “Of philosophy’s tender skin: Plato’s poesis”
15:45-17:30 Round table: “Culture and Poetics of the Philosophic Text”, moderators: Hristo Todorov (NBU), Lidia Denkova (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
16:30-17:15 Workshop: “Semiotics of urban space – mental maps”, moderators:  Borislav Gueorguiev (NBU), Stefka Angelkova (NBU), Krasimir Angelkov (NBU)

22 September, Wednesday
Semiotic school for Ph. D. and undergraduate students
10:00-10:45 Georg Kraev (NBU): “On the notion of treasure in folklore: a Bulgarian folk 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?”, chairman: assoc. prof. Borislav Gueorguiev (NBU), Vladimir Ignatov (NBU)
16:30-17:15 Workshop of students in the MA and PhD programs of semiotics

23 September, Thursday
DEPARTURE