SEBEOK SEMINARS
The International Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS-AIS) is proud to present ‘Sebeok’s millennium’ – a webinar series celebrating the work of Thomas A. Sebeok 20 years after his death and 101 years after his birth.
In 1999, John Deely telephoned Tom Sebeok at his Bloomington home to announce that the following year’s meeting of the Semiotic Society of America would be dedicated to and entitled ‘Sebeok’s Century’. To this, Tom replied with characteristic wit, “Why not Sebeok’s millennium?”
Why not, indeed? Sebeok regularly thought forwards, even as much as 10,000 years into the future. He saw the role of the international semiotics community as integral to the future of humanity and, in so doing, transformed semiotics, the academy and how humans at large see the world. This webinar series will celebrate that thinking with discussions featuring Sebeok scholars and colleagues.
The five webinars, each loosely focusing on areas where Tom Sebeok was particularly influential and revered, will be as follows:
SEBEOK AND FINNO-UGRIC SEMIOTICS organised by Anti Randviir
SEBEOK AND THE AMERICAS organised by Román Esqueda
SEBEOK AND BIOSEMIOTICS organised by Sara Cannizzaro and Timo Maran
SEBEOK, LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION organised by Susan Petrilli
SEBEOK AND EAST ASIA organised by Hongbing Yu
SEBEOK AND FINNO-UGRIC SEMIOTICS
15.00-15.15: Paul Cobley, ‘Opening speech’
15.15-15.45: Kalevi Kull, Anti Randviir, ‘Sebeok and the Estonian connection’
15.45-16.15: Vilmos Voigt, ‘Th. A. Sebeok the Hungarian. The road to semiotics’
16.15-16.45: Eero Tarasti, ‘A Life for Semiotics’
16.45-17.15: Zdzisłav Wasik, ‘Tom Sebeok’s way to the avant-garde: from project-designer to paradigm-creator’.
17.15-17.45: Questions and comments.
SEBEOK AND THE AMERICAS
15.00-1530: Alfredo Cid, ‘The influence of Thomas Sebeok in Latin American semiotics: a landscape vision’
15.30-1600: Román Esqueda, ‘Sebeok and the silent growth of semiosis outside academia’
16.00-1630: Questions and comments.
18.00 to 18.30: Timo Maran, ‘Finding the third way: Thomas A. Sebeok bridging biosemiotics and cultural semiotics’
18.30 to 19.00: Sara Cannizzaro, ‘Sebeok’s analogue modeling systems’
19.00 to 19.30: Questions and comments.
SEBEOK, LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION
16.00-16.30: Susan Petrilli and Augusto Ponzio, ‘Semiosic and semiotic in Thomas Sebeok’s global semiotics’
16.30-17.00: Dario Dellino, ‘Semiotics and educational processes’
17.00-17.30: Questions and comments.
16 December 2021
SEBEOK AND EAST ASIA
21.00-21.30: Hongbing Yu, ‘Sebeok’s Chinese connection’
21.30-22.00: Questions and comments.
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