Finnish Network University of Semiotics

 

THE SEMIOTIC WEB

International Summer School for Semiotic and Structural Studies

 

Imatra, Valtionhotelli, 3.-9.6.2004

 

 

 

 

PROGRAMME

 

 

SEMINARS OF INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL

 

 
Mind and Matter in the Life of Signs. Sciences vs Humanities in (Bio)semiotics, June 6

 

Directors: Kalevi Kull (Tartu), Mart Saarma (Helsinki)

participants: Kristian Bankov (Sofia), S¸ren Brier (Copenhagen), Tatiana Chernigovskaya (St. Petersburg),

Dario Martinelli (Helsinki), Eero Tarasti (Helsinki), Aleksei Turovski (Tallinn)

 

Sunday June 6

 

9.00-9.30                           Kalevi Kull: Opening of the seminar

9.30-10.00                         Mart Saarma: Signs of Life and Death in the Nervous System

10.00-10.20                      S¸ren Brier: Cosmos, Infos, Semios

10.20-10.40                      Kristian Bankov: Is There Any Semiosis Out of the Human Mind?

10.40-11.10                      Coffee

11.10-11.30                      Dario Martinelli: Binary Problems within a Binary Issue

11.30-11.50                      Tatiana Chernigovskaya: From Bi-Hemispheric Brain  and Grammar Explosion to Semiotic Breakthrough and Collapse

11.50–12.10                     Viljo Martikainen (Espoo): Concepts, Signs and Meanings in RA-Model

12.10-12.30                      Aleksei Turovski: Ethological Anamnesis as Biosemiotic Approach to Epizootology

12.30-14.00                      Lunch

14.00-16.30                      Roundtable

16.30-17.00                      Coffee

17.00-18.00                      Plenary lecture: Eero Tarasti (Helsinki): Signs Around Us  - Umwelt, Signscape and Sonosphere

18.30                                  Imatra Rapids (waterfall) surge

19.00                                  Dinner         

20.30                                  Video presentations (in Imatra Hall):

Valerie Morignat (Paris): Artemis &

Costin Miereanu (Paris): Immersion

21.00                                  Film presentation in Imatra Hall: Sibelius, directed by

Timo Koivusalo

 

 

Codes of Biological Sign Systems, June 7

 

Director: Kalevi Kull (Tartu)

Co-directors: Dario Martinelli (Helsinki), Aleksei Turowski (Tallinn)

 

Monday June 7

 

9.00-10.00                         Kalevi Kull: Codes in Biological Sign Systems

10.00-10.45                      Dario Martinelli: Introducing Anthropological Zoosemiotics

10.45-11.15                                                      Coffee

11.15-12.00                      Han-Liang Chang (Taipei): Encoding the Textual

Sign in Natural History versus Natural System

12.00-12.45                      Mikolaj Sobocinski (Torun): S Stands for Semiotics (or Was It Sexuality?) – Semiotician’s Concerns over the Definitions of Sex and Sexuality in New Europe

12.45-14.00                      Lunch

14.00-15.00                      Aleksei Turovski: An Animal Caught in Passage Between Adjustment and Adaptation – the Mutability of Codes in Animal Behaviour

15.00-15.45                      Jarmo Eronen (Helsinki): Etymologies and Semiotics of Birds Names: Crane, Raven and Swan in Eurasian Languages

15.45-16.30                      Seppänen Jouko (Espoo): So Nature Created Man in Her Own Image – Origin and Evolution of Life, Mind, Language and Culture as Autosemioses

16.30-17.00                      Coffee