Imatra Summer Congresses of Semiotics 2012
IMATRA SUMMER CONGRESSES OF SEMIOTICS JUNE 7-12, 2012
ISI Imatra State Hotel, Cultural Centre
Arkielämän semiotiikkaa: suomalaisten ja venäläisten merkit/
Semiotics of Everyday Life – On the Signs of Finns and Russians
27th International Summer School for Semiotic and Structural Studies
June 7–12, 2012, Imatra, Valtionhotelli
Director: Eero Tarasti, President of the ISI and the IASS/AIS
PROGRAMME
Symposia:
1) The 31st Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of Finland (open also for international scholars), June 9–10; chair: Eero Tarasti (Helsinki); Special themes: Performing Arts (chair: André Helbo, Bruxelles); Consumption as Signification (chair: Kristian Bankov, Sofia)
2) Nordic Semiotic Paradigms – NASS 25 Years: “Where Cognitive, Bio- and Existential Semiotics Meet?”, chair: Luis Emilio Bruni, Göran Sonesson
3) Semiotics of Belonging: Existential, Axiological and Praxeological Aspects of Self-Identity at Home and Abroad; chairs: Elzbieta Wąsik (Poznan) and Josef Zaprucki (Jelenia Góra)
4) Metamind Symposium: Modelling of Time and Space; chair: Daina Teters (Riga)
5) Places of Memory; chair: Altti Kuusamo (Bologna)
6) 8th International Imatra Symposium on Semiotics and Translation,
chairs: Pirjo Kukkonen and Ritva Hartama-Heinonen (University of Helsinki)
SEMINARS:
Arkielämän semiotiikkaa: suomalaisten ja venäläisten merkit/ 4
Semiotics of Everyday Life – On the Signs of Finns and Russians
1) The 31st Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of Finland (open also for international scholars)
Performing Arts, Consumption as Signification
2) Nordic Semiotic Paradigms – NASS 25 Years: “Where Cognitive, Bio- and Existential Semiotics Meet?”
3) Semiotics of Belonging: Existential, Axiological and Praxeological Aspects of Self-Identity at Home and Abroad
4) Metamind Symposium: Modelling of Time and Space
5) Places of Memory
6) 8th International Imatra Symposium on Semiotics and Translation
Social Programme
SEMINAR ROOMS
| Thursday, June 7 | |
| Arkielämän semiotiikkaa: suomalaisten ja venäläisten merkit / Semiotics of Everyday Life – On The Signs of Finns and Russians | Imatra-Hall |
| Friday, June 8 | |
| Arkielämän semiotiikkaa: suomalaisten ja venäläisten merkit / Semiotics of Everyday Life – On The Signs of Finns and Russians | Imatra-Hall |
| Konsertti: ”L’heure exquise”, Huippuhetki, musiikkia romantiikasta impressionismiin/ Concert, Music from Romanticism to Impressionism | Imatra-Hall |
| Kulttuuritalo Virta Karelia- sali/ Concert at Cultural Center | Karelia Hall |
| Saturday, June 9 | |
| 1) The 31st Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of Finland (open also for international scholars) Performing Arts, Consumption as Signification | Emperor–Hall |
| 2) Nordic Semiotic Paradigms – NASS 25 Years:“Where Cognitive, Bio- and Existential Semiotics Meet?” | Koski–Hall |
| 5) Metamind Symposium: Modelling of Time and Space | Imatra-Hall |
| Opening of the International Summer School for Semiotic and Structural Studies | Cultural Centre Karelia Hall |
| Welcoming Reception after the Opening | Town Hall |
| A bus leaves in front of Valtionhotelli to Cultural Centre at 17.30 | |
| Sunday, June 10 | |
| 5) Metamind Symposium: Modelling of Time and Space | Imatra-Hall |
| 3) Semiotics of Belonging: Existential, Axiological and Praxeological Aspects of Self-Identity at Home and Abroad | Kilta-Hall |
| 1) Performing Arts, Consumption as Signification | Imatra–Hall |
| Monday, June 11 | |
| 1) Performing Arts, Consumption as Signification | Imatra–Hall |
| 6) Places of Memory | Kilta-Hall |
| 4) 8th International Imatra Symposium on Semiotics and Translation (SemTra2012) | Koski-Hall |
| Plenary Lecture: Zdzisław Wąsik : Modeling the Solipsistic Conception of Subjective Significance in the Semiotics Spheres of Human Nature and Culture | Imatra-Hall |
| Tuesday, June 12 | |
| 5) 8th International Imatra Symposium on Semiotics and Translation (SemTra2012) | Koski–Hall |
Arkielämän semiotiikkaa: suomalaisten ja venäläisten merkit/
Semiotics of Everyday Life – On The Signs of Finns and Russians
Programme
| Thursday, June 7 | |
| 9.30 – 10.00 | Registration and coffee |
| 10.00 | Opening wordsMayor Pertti Lintunen (Imatra)Professor Eero Tarasti (Helsinki)
Vice-rector Galina Sudakova (St. Petersburg) Viktor Dukaltetenko (St.Peterburg), accordion |
| 10.45 – 12.30 | Ilya Utekhin (St. Petersburg): Neighborship: Living Together in Contemporary Urban Russia Stanislav Tiunov (St. Petersburg): The history of Russian immigration to Finland |
| 12.30 – 14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 – 16.00 | Pirjo Kukkonen (Helsinki): Ruotsin kieli SuomessaNiclas Sandström (Helsinki): Vaikeuspuheen semiotiikkaa, suomalaisten oppimisesta
Eila Tarasti (Helsinki): Ikonit musiikissa |
| 16.00 – 16.30 | Coffee |
| 16.30 – 18.00 | Tero Halonen (Helsinki): Suomalaisten seremonioiden merkitEero Tarasti (Helsinki): Mannerheim, keisarin upseeri |
| 19.30 | Dinner |
| Friday, June 8 | |
| 9.00 – 11.00 | Vesa Matteo Piludu (Helsinki): Venäjä ja Suomen karhu – kansanuskosta politiikkaan |
| 11.30 – 12.30 | Eero Tarasti (Helsinki):Sibeliuksen suomalaisuus ja venäläiset vaikutteetMart Humal (Tallin): Leo Normetin monografia “Simfonii Sibeliusa” (1968, ilm. 2011) – yksi venäjänkielisen sibelianan peruskiviä; Монография Лео Нормета “Симфонии Сибелиуса”(1968, опубл. 2011) |
| 12.30 – 14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 – 16.00 | Itä-Suomen yliopiston (oppiaine historia) Imatra-tutkimusryhmän töitäJani Karhu (Joensuu): LähiötutkimuksestaMaria Lähteenmäki (Helsinki): Puhetta nykykarjalaisuudesta
Altti Kuusamo (Turku): Teknillinen osaaminen ja kulttuurin päättelyn typistyminen |
| 16.00 | Closure and coffeeViktor Dukaltetenko, accordion |
| THE 31ST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SEMIOTIC SOCIETY OF FINLAND PERFORMING ARTS, CONCERT | |
| 18.00 | “L’heure exquise”, (“Huippuhetki”) – Music from Romanticism to Impressionism – Concert at Cultural Center, Karelia HallTero Halonen, tenori, Eila Tarasti piano, Helsingin yliopiston musiikkiseuran kvartetti (Petrus Laitinmäki, viulu; Mikko Metsälampi, altto; Holger Kaasik, sello; Eero Tarasti, piano)
Hahn, Fauré, Liszt…
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| 20.00 | Dinner |
| Saturday, June 9 | |
| 1) THE 31ST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SEMIOTIC SOCIETY OF FINLAND (OPEN ALSO FOR INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARS) | |
| 12.30 – 14.00 | The lunch meeting will be held at the Emperor Hall |
| 2) NASS 25 YEARS: WHERE COGNITIVE, BIO- AND EXISTENTIAL SEMIOTICS MEET? Chair: Luis Emilio Bruni and Göran Sonesson | |
| 9.00–10.30 | Opening Words Eero Tarasti, Göran Sonesson and Luis Emilio BruniLuis Emilio Bruni (Ballerup, Denmark): Embedded semiotics systems. Bridging bio- and cognitive semioticsGöran Sonesson (Lund): From the window to the movie by the way of the mirror.A phenomenologically inspired approach to the cognitive semiotics |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee |
| 11.00–12.30 | Morten Tønnesen (Trondheim): Existential universals: A link between biosemiotics and existential semioticsTimo Maran (Tartu): Biosemiotics and its applications to the study of culture |
| 12.30–14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00–17.00 | Lauri Linask (Tartu): Is Vygotskian perspective suitable for describing the emergence and development of sign?Morten Tønnesen: Introducing semiotic economyClosure |
| 16.00–16.30 | Coffee |
| 18.00 – 22.00 | Opening Ceremony of the International Summer School: Cultural Centre, Karelia HallWelcoming Reception in the Town Hall after the OpeningA bus leaves in front of Valtionhotelli to Cultural Centre at 17.30 |
| 5) METAMIND Symposium: Modelling of Time and SpaceChair: Daina Teters | |
| 9.00-10.30 | Daina Teters (Riga): Opening of the symposiumSolomon Marcus (Bucarest): Time Space and MetaphorErnest Hess-Lüttich (Bern): Semio-spatial functions of the ‘Stolpersteine’ (Spatial turn, The concept of Space in Cultural Geography and Literary Theory) |
| 10.30-11.00 | Coffee |
| 11.00–12.30 | Bernard H. Bikhakjian (Nijmegen, The Netherlands): The Staggered Development of Time and SpaceWinfried Kudszus (Berkeley): Linguistic Emergence of the Time and Space: Paul Celan’s Poetological Reflections |
| 12.30–14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00–17.00 | Daina Teters: Modeling of Time and SpaceFarouk Seif (Seattle): What is Real in not Always True! Modeling the Illusion of Space and Time |
| 16.00–16.30 | Coffee |
| 18.00 – 22.00 | Opening Ceremony of the International Summer School: Cultural Centre, Karelia HallWelcoming Reception in the Town Hall after the OpeningA bus leaves in front of Valtionhotelli to Cultural Centre at 17.30
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| Sunday, June 10 | |
| METAMIND (CONTINUED) Chair: Daina Teters | |
| 09.30–11.00 | Winfried Nöth (Kassel/Sao Paulo): Culture as a Semiotic Space: Yuri Lotman’s Semiosphere |
| 11.00–11.30 | Coffee |
| 11.30–12.30 | Richard Trim (Marseille, Aix): Variability of Time and Space in Cross-cultural metaphorisation; the Role of extraction levels René Jorna (Groningen): How to Model Time and Space: the non-tangible and semiotics aspectsClosure |
| 18.0 | Imatra Rapids Surge |
| 3)SEMIOTICS OF BELONGING: EXISTENTIAL, AXIOLOGICAL AND PRAXEOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF SELF-IDENTITY AT HOME AND ABROAD; chairs: Elżbieta Wąsik (Poznań) and Josef Zaprucki (Jelenia Góra) Chair: Elżbieta Wąsik | |
| 9.30–11.00 | Elżbieta Wąsik: Opening/Identity as a Semiotic Property of the Transcendential SelfZdislaw Wąsik (Wroclaw): On the interdiscursive competence and identity of communicating selves in the semiotic ecosystems of human life-world |
| 11.00–11.30 | Coffee |
| 11.30–12.30 | Anna Granat-Janki (Wroclaw): Music as Political Discourse. On Works of Polish Composers of the Second Half of the 20thCenturySari Helkala-Koivisto (Tampere): Existential signs between musical signification and faceless mind of autism |
| 12.30–14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00–16.00 | Maria Dzysiuk(Wroclaw): Praxeological ad Axiological Aspects of Liberal Identity in Ludwig von Mise’s Human Action: A Treatise on EconomicsBenoît Mauchamp (Limoges): Participant Observation: a Move Beyond Cultural BelongingJόzef Zaprucki (Jelenia Góra): Coping with Ecological Identity under the Conditionings of Linguistic and Cultural Interference (on the Basis of German and Polish Literary Output in Lower Silesia) |
| 16.00 –16.30 | Coffee |
| 16.30 – 17.30 | Massimo Leone (Turin): The Semiotics of non-belongingClosure |
| 18.00 | Imatra Rapids surge |
| 19.00 | Dinner |
| 1) PERFORMANCE, CONSUMPTION, SIGNIFICATION | |
| Consumption , chair Kristian Bankov | |
| 09.30–11.00 | Kristian Bankov (Sofia): Websites as Possible Worlds of Consumer ExperienceMassimo Leone (Turin): Urban performing arts: on living statuesIlya Utekhin (St. Petersburg): Contemporary Utopia and Placemaking for Sociability |
| 11.00–11.30 | Coffee |
| Performance, chair Altti Kuusamo | |
| 11.30–12.30 | Eero Tarasti: Proposal for a Theory of Performing Arts |
| 12.30–14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00 – 16.00 | Pentti Paavolainen (Helsinki): Transferrable Signs – paradoxes of Kaarlo Bergbom’s Sceneries in the Finnish Theatre Company (1872-1905)Klaus Bernsau (Wiesbaden): Being Brand –Define yourself or you will be definedMuzayin Nazaruddin (Tartu): The Structure of Disaster Discourse in the Indonesian Newspaper |
| 16.00 – 16.30 | Coffee |
| 16.30 – 18.00 | Sandra Mänty (Oulu): Zoosemiotics in Literature AnalysisOtto Lehto (Helsinki): The Tragedy of Choise and the Performance of ExellenceKyrill Lobkov (Moscow): Zen and meta-consciousness |
| 18.00 | Imatra Rapids Surge |
| 19.00 | Dinner |
| Monday, June 11 | |
| Performance, closure, chair Eero Tarasti | |
| 09.00–10.30 | Lazaros Papoutsis (Florina, Greece): Football ‘fan-ship‘ and identities. Football fans and their slogans as creators of political and transcultural identitiesGrisell Macdonel (Helsinki): Temporal Dimension of art music performance; Existential Signs and the performer’s subjectivity |
| 10.30–11.00 | Coffee |
| 11.00–12.30 | Solomon Marcus: A Typology of SpectaclesClosure |
| 16.00–17.00 | Plenary Lecture: Zdzisław Wąsik: Modeling the SolipsisticConception of Subjective Significance in the Semiotics Spheresof Human Nature and Culture |
| PLACES OF MEMORY , chair Altti Kuusamo | |
| 9.00-10.30 | Kristin Vaik (Tartu): Short insight into different (hi)stories of Estonian exile writers and their worksMaria Barrero Escribano (Barcelona): Le temps passé, le souvenir reste: deux propositions spatiales à l’écart de la temporalitéAltti Kuusamo (Turku): Memory, Public Art and the Rubbish Theory |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee |
| 11.00 – 12.00 | Maria Zhuravleva ( Moscow): Existential Self Identity in the aspects of Ouspensky’s teaching |
| 16.00–17.00 | Plenary Lecture: Zdzisław Wąsik: Modeling the SolipsisticConception of Subjective Significance in the Semiotics Spheres of Human Nature and Culture |
| 8TH INTERNATIONAL IMATRA SYMPOSIUM ON SEMIOTICS AND TRANSLATION (SemTra2012) chairs Pirjo Kukkonen and Ritva Hartama-Heinonen (University of Helsinki)Chair Pirjo Kukkonen | |
| 9.00–9.30 | Pirjo Kukkonen and Ritva Hartama-Heinonen: Opening of the 8th international Imatra symposium on semiotics and translation (SemTra2012) |
| 9.30-10.30 | Evangelos Kourdis (Thessaloniki): Semantic isotopies in interlingual Translation. Where the Paris School of Semiotics Meets Translation |
| 10.30–11.00 | Coffee |
| Chair Irma Sorvali | |
| 11.00–11.45 | Mauro Ferraresi: The Asymptonic Equivalence in Translation |
| 11.45–12.30 | Rovena Troque (Genève): La question épistémologique en traductologie: pour une perspective basée sur la sémiotique greimassienne |
| 12.30–14.00 | Lunch |
| Chair Ritva Hartama-Heinonen | |
| 14.00–14.45 | Lia Yoka(Thessaloniki): Painting The Performance of Reading: An Allegory of Signification and Its Limits |
| 14.45 – 16.00 | Irma Sorvali (Joensuu): What is ecotranslatology? |
| 16.00 | Coffee |
| 16.00–17.00 | Plenary Lecture: Zdzisław Wąsik (Wroclaw): Modeling the SolipsisticConception of Subjective Significance in the Semiotics Spheres of Human Nature and Culture |
| Tuesday, June 12 | |
| Chair Pirjo Kukkonen | |
| 09.00–10.00 | Ritva Hartama-Heinonen (Helsinki): Effect as a Translation-Theoretical Concept and a Semeiotic Category |
| 10.00–10.30 | Niclas Sandström (Helsinki): The Diminutive as a Sign: Towards a Model for the Description of the Semantics and Semiotics of Moders Spanish Affective Derivation |
| 10.30 – 11.00 | Coffee |
| Chair Ritva Hartama-Heinonen | |
| 11.00–12.00 | Pirjo Kukkonen (Helsinki): Signs of Childhood – Transcending Enchanted Signs: Oscar Parland’s (1912-1997) Swedish Childhood Novels in Finnish, English and German Translations |
| 12.30–14.00 | Lunch |
| 14.00–15.00 | Round Table: Chairs: Pirjo Kukkonen & Ritva Hartama-Heinonen: Translation: Events and EffectsClosure |
| SOCIAL PROGRAMME | |
| Friday, June 8 | |
| 18.00 | “L’heure exquise” (“Huippuhetki”) – Music from Romanticism to Impressionism – Concert at Cultural Center, Karelia Hall Tero Halonen, tenori, Eila Tarasti piano, Helsingin yliopiston musiikkiseuran kvartetti (Petrus Laitinmäki, viulu; Mikko Metsälampi, altto; Holger Kaasik, sello; Eero Tarasti, piano)
Hahn, Fauré, Liszt….
A bus leaves in front of Valtionhotelli to Cultural Centre at 17.30 |
| Saturday, June 9 | |
| 18.00 – 22.00 | Opening of the International Summer SchoolImatra, Cultural Centre, Karelia HallWelcoming Reception in the Town Hall after the Opening
A bus leaves from front of Valtionhotelli to Cultural Centre at 17.30 |
| Sunday, June 10 | |
| 18.00 | Imatra Rapids Surge |
| Monday, June 11 | |
| 16.00–17.00 | Plenary Lecture: Zdzisław Wąsik (Wroclaw): Modeling the SolipsisticConception of Subjective Significance in the Semiotics Spheresof Human Nature and Culture |
| Exhibition | Art exhibition: Cultural Signs and Places of Memory,oil paintings with some ISI photographs by Valery Bogdanov (Svetogorsk, Russia) |
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