Round Table: New normality, new life forms: Semiotics and Pandemic (Virtual), Moscow (January 23, 2021)

State Academic University for the Humanities, Moscow
International Center for Semiotics and Intercultural Dialogue in collaboration with the Center for Franco-Russian Studies

Under the Auspices of the International Association for Semiotic Studies
IASS-AIS

ROUND TABLE
New normality, new life forms: Semiotics and Pandemic

Nouvelles normalités, nouvelles formes de vie : sémiotique et pandémie
Nueva normalidad, nuevas formas de vida: semiótica y pandemia
Новая нормальность, новые формы жизни: семиотика и пандемия

Saturday 23 January 2021
4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Moscow (GMT+ 03:00)
Zoom platform

Discussion with scientists and experts around the collective publication in Russian and the Online Forum dedicated to the semiotic conceptualization of the pandemic as a great societal challenge. The Forum is a member of “The World Pandemic Research Network”.

Participants from Russia, Europe, Middle East, Asia, Latin America, Australia.

Jacques Fontanille (Limoges), Juan Alonso Aldama (Paris), Semir Badir (Liège), José Maria Paz Gago (La Coruna), Kestutis Nastopka (Vilnius), Jean-François Bordron (Limoges), Lucrecia Escudero Chauvel (Lille), Jean-Marie Klinkenberg (Liège), Massimo Leone (Turin/ Shanghai), Jacques Dürrenmatt (Paris), Hamid Reza Shairi (Teheran), Tiziana Migliore (Urbino), François Rastier (Paris), Neyla Graciela Pardo Abril (Bogota), Susan Petrilli (Bari/ Adelaide), Didier Tsala Effa (Limoges), Gaston Cingolani (Buenos Aires), Franciscu Sedda (Cagliari), Bianca Suarez Puerta (Bogota), Rahilya Geybullayeva (Baku), Frédéric Laugrand (Leuven), Natalya Emelyanova (Moscow), Marina Merkoulova (Moscow), Inna Merkoulova (Moscow).

Special guest:
Dominique Raynaud, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate for the collective project Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Grenoble)

Working languages: Russian, French, English, Spanish

Coordination & registration:
Inna Merkoulova igmerkulova@gaugn.ru

PROGRAM

16.00-16.20 MSK
Introduction
RUSSIAN, FRENCH, ENGLISH
Denis Fomin-Nilov
Fabrice Rousseau
Dominique Raynaud
Inna Merkoulova

16.20-17.00 MSK
CONFINEMENT, PASSIONS, TRUTH
FRENCH
Jacques Fontanille
Jean-François Bordron
Semir Badir
François Rastier (to be confirmed)

17.00-17.40 MSK
LANGUAGE, MASKS, NORMS
FRENCH, ENGLISH, SPANISH, FRENCH
Jean-Marie Klinkenberg
Massimo Leone
Gaston Cingolani
Inna Merkoulova & Marina Merkoulova

17.40-18.20 MSK
TIME, BEAUTY, CHALLENGE
FRENCH, ENGLISH
Kestutis Nastopka (to be confirmed)
Juan Alonso Aldama
Susan Petrilli
Natalya Emelyanova

18.20-19.00 MSK
INFODEMICS, MUTATIONS, POST-CRISIS
FRENCH, SPANISH
José María Paz Gago
Lucrecia Escudero Chauvel
Didier Tsala Effa
Hamid Reza Shairi

19.00-19.40 MSK
VIRTUE, CITY, STATE
FRENCH, SPANISH, ENGLISH, SPANISH
Tiziana Migliore
Bianca Suarez Puerta
Rahilya Geybullayeva
Neyla Graciela Pardo Abril

19.40-20.00 MSK
COLLECTIVES, TRADITIONS
ENGLISH, FRENCH
Franciscu Sedda
Frédéric Laugrand (to be confirmed)