New Bulgarian University
“Sign Theories in Use”
5-14 September 2003, St. Kyrik Complex – Assenovgrad, Bulgaria
Outline
Undergraduate School, 5-14 September 2003
Semiotics and Literature Conference, 6-8 September 2003
Moderator: Assoc. Prof. Miroslav Dachev (NBU)
Invited Speakers: Karin Boklund (Thessaloniki), Janez Justin (Ljubljana), Harri Veivo (Brussels),
Semiotics and Philosophy Conference, 9-11 September 2003
Moderator: Dr. Kristian Bankov (NBU)
Invited Speakers: Susan Petrilli (Bari), Augusto Ponzio (Bari), Eero Tarasti (Helsinki), Ugo Volli (Torino),
Language as Social Semiotic Conference, 12-14 September 2003
Moderator: Assoc. Prof. Borislav Gueorguiev (NBU)
Invited Speakers: Jeff Bernard (Vienna), Patrizia Calefato (Bari), Paul Cobley (UK), Alexandros Lagopoulos (Thessaloniki), Peter Schulz (Lugano), Gloria Withalm (Vienna).
Roland Pozner (Germany)
Round tables and Workshops (preliminary topics)
Semiotics of Space, Semiotics of Advertising, Gender and Semiotics, Balkan Café, Semiotics of Subcultures, Southeast Europe vs. the Balkans: signs of cultural identity, The Creolized Discourse.
Southeastern-European Semiotic Centre
at New Bulgarian University
9th Early Fall School of Semiotics
6-14 September 2003, St. Kyrik (Plovdiv)
6 September, Saturday
Semiotic school for Ph. D. and undergraduate students
9:30-10:15 Jeff Bernard: Culture(s) – a Conceptual Analysis
10:15-11:00 Jeff Bernard: Culture & Society from a Semiotic Point of View
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:15 Alexandros Lagopoulos, Karin Boklund: Mental Maps Revised I
12:15-13:00 Alexandros Lagopoulos, Karin Boklund: Mental Maps Revised II
Lunch
16:00-17:30 Workshop
Alexandros Lagopoulos, Karin Boklund, Krasimir Angelkov, Stefka Kristeva: Mental Mapping: instructions for the interviews
18:00-19:00 Welcoming of the Erasmus students
7 September, Sunday
Opening of the 9th Early Fall School of Semiotics
9:00-9:10 Welcoming words by Maria Popova, Kristian Bankov
9:10-9:45 Prof. Bogdan Bogdanov, Opening lecture: Static and Dynamic, or about the Understanding of the Human Being and the Human Situation
Semiotic school for Ph. D. and undergraduate students
9:45-10:30 Roland Posner: Semiotic foundations of text theory
10:30-11:15 Roland Posner: Culture as a hierarchy of texts
11:15-11:45 Coffee break
11:45-12:30 Eero Tarasti: In the Search for Aesthetic Experience I
12:30-13:15 Eero Tarasti: In the Search for Aesthetic Experience II
Lunch
Semiotic school for Ph. D. and undergraduate students
15:00-15:30 Ivanka Apostolova: In Science the Facts persist, the metaphors change
15:30-18:30 Conference: Language as Social Semiotic
Roland & Vessela Posner: Synaesthesia: Physiological Diagnosis, Practice of Perception, Art Program – a Semiotic Re - Analysis
16:30-17:00 Coffee break
Jeff Bernard: Signs & Society: The "Fourth" Current
Borislav Gueorguiev, Lora Shumkova: Languages of subcultures
Karin Boklund: Semiotics and Theory of Culture
20:00 Theater show
8 September, Monday
Semiotic school for Ph. D. and undergraduate students
9:30-10:15 Patrizia Calefato: Language, power, identity I
10:15-11:00 Patrizia Calefato: Language, power, identity II
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:15 Alexandros Lagopoulos, Karin Boklund: Discourse Analysis and the Region I
12:15-13:00 Alexandros Lagopoulos, Karin Boklund: Discourse Analysis and the Region II
Lunch
15:00-18:00 Conference: Language as Social Semiotic
Ugo Volli: Time and Language
Eero Tarasti: to be specified
17:00-17:30 Coffee break
Patrizia Calefato: A-gro-ba: contaminations, translations, transcultures
Kristian Bankov: To be specified
9 September, Tuesday
Semiotic school for Ph. D. and undergraduate students
9:30-10:15 Ugo Volli: Semiotics of Advertising I
10:15-11:00 Ugo Volli: Semiotics of Advertising II
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:15 Gloria Withalm: Semiotics of Film & Media
12:15-13:00 Gloria Withalm: Self-Referentiality in Film & TV
Lunch
14:30-16:00 Conference: Language as Social Semiotic
Round table for final discussions. Chair: Borislav Gueorguiev
16:00-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-19:00 Workshop
Alexandros Lagopoulos, Karin Boklund: Mental Mapping: analysis of the results
Todor Tsigov - presentation
10 September, Wednesday
Debates on language
9:30-10:30 Deniz Abik: to be specified
10:30-11:00 Vania Batchvarova: Phonetic Similarities between Bulgarian and Turkish languages
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
Workshop
11:30-13:00 Dora Blagova: Translation in language education in a semiotic perspective
Lunch
15:00-17:00 Workshop
15:00-16:00 Ugo Volli, Kristian Bankov: Semiotic analysis of advertising.
16:00-17:00 Semiotic analysis of advertising: Student’s contributions
17:00-17:30 Coffee break
17:30-19:00 Workshop
17:30-18:30 Arianna De Luca, Rosa Stella Cassotti, Julia Ponzio: Musical Semiotics
18:30-19:00 Musical Semiotics: Student’s contributions
11 September, Thursday
TOURISM
12 September, Friday
Semiotic school for Ph. D. and undergraduate students
9:30-10:15 Søren Brier: Mechanistic science, information science and Peircian biosemiotics I
10:15-11:00 Søren Brier: Mechanistic science, information science and Peircian biosemiotics II
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Round table
Prof. Giurov & students: Gemology & Semiotics
Lunch
15:00-16:30 Discussion on student’s projects. Chair: Maria Popova
16:30-17:00 Coffee break
17:00-19:00 Workshop
Harri Veivo, Yordan Eftimov and Lora Shoumkova: Semiotics and Literature
13 September, Saturday
Semiotic school for Ph. D. and undergraduate students
9:30-10:15 Arianna De Luca: Semiosis, interpretation, dialogue I
10:15-11:00 Arianna De Luca: Semiosis, interpretation, dialogue II
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:15 Harri Veivo: Abject spaces?
12:15-13:00 Harri Veivo: Literary representation of post-urban cities
Lunch
14:30-17:00 Conference: Semiotics and Philosophy
Søren Brier: Cybersemiotics
Janez Justin: to be specified
Hristo Todorov: to be specified
Lydia Denkova: The Philosophy of Images in the Contemporary “Empire of Signs”
17:00-17:30 Coffee break
17:30-19:00 Workshop
Harri Veivo, Yordan Eftimov and Lora Shoumkova: Semiotics and Literature
14 September, Sunday
Semiotic school for Ph. D. and undergraduate students
9:30-10:15 Rosa Stella Cassotti: Semiotica, semeiotica, semioetica I
10:15-11:00 Rosa Stella Cassotti: Semiotica, semeiotica, semioetica II
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:30 Conference: Semiotics and Philosophy
Arianne De Luca: The Figure of the eyes between the Amorous Discourse and the Literary Writing
Rosa Stella Cassotti: The artwork, answerability and interpretation in Bakhtin's Circle
Julia Ponzio: Emanuel Levinas’ Philosophy of Language
Kristian Bankov: Semiosis, Reality, Resistance
Lunch
DEPARTURE
