IMATRA SUMMER CONGRESSES 2013

25th INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL FOR SEMIOTIC
AND STRUCTURAL STUDIES

JUNE 8 – 11, 2013 Imatra State Hotel, Cultural Centre

Symposia and seminars on:

• Semiotics of Cultural Heritages
• Semiotics for Education
• 9th International Imatra Symposium on Semiotics and Translation
• Semiotics of the Disabled

Director: Eero Tarasti, President of the ISI and the IASS/AIS

PROGRAMME

1) 32nd Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of Finland: Signs in the Human Existence: Theories and Analyses

2) 9th International Imatra Symposium on Semiotics and Translation (SemTra2013); chairs: Prof. Pirjo Kukkonen (Helsinki) and Dr. Ritva Hartama-Heinonen (Helsinki)

3) Symposium on Semiotics of Cultural Heritages: Remembering, Renewing, Restoring; chair: Eero Tarasti (Helsinki); papers by the international research project

4) Semiotics for Education: Transforming Theories and Practices; chairs: Prof. Andrew Stables (Bath, U.K.), Dr. Eetu Pikkarainen (Oulu)

5) Challenge of the Disabled: Sounds and Signs of Difference; chairs: Sari Helkala-Koivisto (Helsinki); Prof. Ilya Utekhin (St. Petersburg)

SEMINAR ROOMS

Saturday, June 8

• Semiotics of Cultural Heritages (Imatra-Hall)
• Plenary: Solomon Marcus (Bucarest): Transcendence as a General Trend of Going Beyond the Existing Horizons (Imatra-Hall)

Sunday, June 9

• Semiotics of Cultural Heritages (Imatra-Hall)
• Semiotics for Education (Koski-Hall)
• Plenary: Andrew Stables (Bath): That-Which-Is-To-Be-Learnt-as External Relation (Imatra-Hall)
• ISI Board Meeting at 12 o’clock (Emperor-Hall)

Monday, June 10

• Semiotics of Cultural Heritages (Imatra-Hall)
• Semiotics for Education (Koski-Hall)
• 9th International Imatra Symposium on Semiotics and Translation (Kilta-Hall)
• Board meeting of the Semiotic Society of Finland at 12.30 (Emperor-Hall)
• Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of Finland at 13.00 (Emperor-Hall)
• Fest: 25 Years of the ISI at the Culture House Virta (Kaleva-Hall)
• Plenary: Dario Martinelli (Kaunas): Towards a New International Semiotics Institute (Kaleva-Hall)

Tuesday, June 11

• 9th International Imatra Symposium on Semiotics and Translation (Koski-Hall)
• Challenge of the Disabled (Imatra-Hall)

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25th INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL FOR SEMIOTIC AND STRUCTURAL STUDIES

PROGRAMME

Symposium on Semiotics of Cultural Heritages: Remembering, Renewing, Restoring

Saturday, June 8

12.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 16.00

• Opening of the seminar Semiotics of Cultural Heritages
• Eero Tarasti (Helsinki): The Theory of Existential Semiotics Now
• Reza Hamid Shairi (Teheran): Les conditions existentielles de la transcendance du sujet mystique: le cas du poète person Mawlana et de la miniature ‘Ivresse’

16.00 – 16.30 Coffee
16.30 – 17.30

• Plenary: Solomon Marcus (Bucharest): Transcendence as a General Trend of Going Beyond the Existing Horizons

18.00 Rapids surge
19.00 Dinner

Sunday, June 9

Chair: Eero Tarasti
9.00 – 12.00 Cultural Heritages (continued)

• Kristian Bankov (Sofia): The Pleasure of Hypertext
• Ricardo Castro Monteiro (São Paulo): Semiotics Applied to the Analysis of Native-Brazilian Music
• Seema Khanwalkar (Ahmedabad): Indian Folk Culture and the Contemporary versions

12.00 – 14.00 Lunch/Business Meeting of the Board of the ISI
14.00 – 16.00 Cultural Heritages (continued)

Chair: Kristian Bankov

• Eila Tarasti (Helsinki): Symbolism and intermediality: the Finnish Rosenkreutz (Rosy Cross) Movement and its Impact on the Arts in the 20th century Finland: Music, Dance, Theatre, Painting, Sculpture and Aesthetics
• Rufus Duits (London): Towards an Existential Semiotic Theory on Individuation
• Markku Sormunen (Helsinki): New Elaborations on the Existential Z model
• Majid Behboudi (Toronto): Iranian Architecture as a Cultural Heritage

16.00 – 16.30 Coffee

Chair: Myrdene Anderson
16.30 – 18.00

• Abhijit Dutta (Singapore): Resistance as Cultural Heritage: The Role of Memory and Tradition in the Kashmiri Movement
• Anuar Galiev (Almaty): Shamanism in the Kazakstan Culture
• Rahilya Geybulaeva (Baku): Azerbaijani Literature as a Cultural Heritage

18.00 – 19.00

• Plenary: Andrew Stables (Bath): That-Which-Is-To-Be-Learnt-as External Relation

20.00 Dinner

Semiotics for Education: Transforming Theories and Practices
chairs: Prof. Andrew Stables (Bath, U.K.), Dr. Eetu Pikkarainen (Oulu)

Sunday, June 9

Chair: Andrew Stables
14.00 – 14.30

• Opening of the symposium Semiotics for Education: Transforming Theories and Practices; Eetu Pikkarainen (Oulu)

14.30 – 15.00

• Eetu Pikkarainen (Oulu): Starting points for Empirical Semiotic Research of Teaching Interaction

15.00 – 15.30

• Eetu Pikkarainen & Jani Koskela (Oulu): Discontinuity and Semiosis – A Semiotic Approach for Existential Pedagogy

15.30 – 16.00

• Alin Olteanu (Bath, U.K.): The Path of Signs: the Path Towards Liberal Education

16.00 – 16.30 Coffee

Chair: Eetu Pikkarainen
16.30 – 17.00

• Il-Woo Park (Daegu, Korea): Where the Visual Semiotics has gone?

17.00 – 18.00

• Plenary: Andrew Stables (Bath): That-Which-Is-To-Be-Learnt-as External Relation

20.00 Dinner

Monday, June 10

Semiotics for Education (continued)

Chairs: Andrew Stables & Eetu Pikkarainen
09.30 – 10.30 Round table and Closure
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee
12.30 Board Meeting of the Semiotic Society of Finland
13.00 Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of Finland

15.00 – 17.30

Visiting the Culture House Virta (Imatra Cultural Centre:
Fest: 25 Years of the ISI

• Prof. Eero Tarasti, speech
• Prof. Pirjo Kukkonen, speech
• Music: Tero Halonen (tenor), Eila Tarasti (piano) –
• Richard Wagner 200 years
• Plenary: Dario Martinelli (Kaunas Technological University): Towards a New International Semiotics Institute
• Prof. Kristian Bankov (Sofia): The forthcoming IASS World Congress of Semiotics in Sofia Sept. 2014

17.30 – 18.00 Refreshments
18.00 – 19.00 Presentation of the collection of semiotic books in the Imatra Library
Art Exhibition by Inna Tarasti
21.00 Dinner

Monday, June 10

Cultural Heritages (continued)

Chair: Dario Martinelli
9.00 – 10.30

• Myrdene Anderson (West Lafayette): Semiosic Streams Touching Consciousness (Katja Pettinen)
• Martin Polák (Brno): Czech and Finnish Heritage of Musical Romanticism
• Nadezhda Pletneva (Tver): Semiosis as a Tool of Constructing the Social Reality in the Space of Culture

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee
11.00 – 12.00

• Martin Flašar (Brno): Elements of Czech an Moravian Folklore in the Works by Bohuslav Martinu an his pupil Jan Novák
• Svetlana Bauer (Munich): Das Phenomen der Reinterpretation aus semiotischer Perspective: Zu Hans Zenders komponierter Interpretation von Schuberts ‘Winterreise’

9th International Imatra Symposium on Semiotics and Translation (SemTra2013)
Chairs : Prof. Pirjo Kukkonen (Helsinki) and Dr. Ritva Hartama-Heinonen (Helsinki), June 10 – 11, 2013

Monday, June 10

Chair: Pirjo Kukkonen
9.00 – 9.30 Opening of the SemTra2013

• Pirjo Kukkonen & Ritva Hartama-Heinonen (Helsinki): Translations We Live By

9.30 – 10.00

• Lothar Černý (Cologne): Semiotics and Hermeneutic Levels of Translation

10.00 – 10.30

• Ritva Hartama-Heinonen (Helsinki): Symbols in Use: Philosophical Thought Translated and Retranslated

10.30 – 11.00 Coffee

Chair: Ritva Hartama-Heinonen
11.00 – 11.30

• Irma Sorvali (Helsinki): The Role of Translation in Historical Documents

11.30 – 12.00

• Tero Halonen (Helsinki): Singer’s Intersemiotics

12.00 – 12.30

• Mira Nyholm (Helsinki): A Semiotic, Translation-theoretical, and Ontological View of Some Swedish an Finnish Somatic Phrases

12.30 – 14.30 Lunch
12.30 Board Meeting of the Semiotic Society of Finland
13.00 Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of Finland

Tuesday, June 11

9th International Imatra Symposium on Semiotics and Translation (CONTINUED)

Chair: Irma Sorvali
09.30 – 10.00 Pirjo Kukkonen (Helsinki): Signs and Traces in Translation: Translation Studies and Existential Semiotics

Chairs: Pirjo Kukkonen & Ritva Hartama-Heinonen
10.00 – 11.00 Discussion & Research Project Meeting: Semiotics and Translation
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee

Tuesday, June 11

Challenge of the Disabled: Sounds and Signs of Difference
chairs: Sari Helkala-Koivisto (Helsinki); Prof. Ilya Utekhin (St. Petersburg), a Finnish-Russian-French Symposium

Chairs: Sari Helkala-Koivisto & Ilya Utekhin
9.00 – 12.00 Opening of the symposium Challenge of the Disabled

• Sari Helkala-Koivisto (Helsinki): Sounding Other – Musical Signin Non-Verbal Autism

• Victoria Ryskina (St. Petersburg): Augmented and Alternative communication: development in Russia

10.00 – 10.30 Coffee
10.30 – 12.00

• Ilya Utekhin (St. Petersburg): On Semiotic Foundations of Augmented and Alternative Communication
• Tania Aleksandrova (St. Petersburg): Semiotic Aspects of Blind-oriented design
• Alena Serkova (St. Petersburg): Communication and Control: Down Syndrome residents of Camphill therapeutic communities

12.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 16.00

• Sylvain Brétéché (Aix-Marseille): Au-dela du paradoxe: L’experience musicale sourde (Beyond the Paradoxe: Deaf Musical Experience):
• Anna Klepikova (St. Petersburg): Body and Personhood of the Disabled Persons as Constructed through Social Interaction
• Alya Kudriasheva (St. Petersburg): Russian Gestural Language and Sociolinguistic Situation of the Russian Deaf

16.00 – 16.30 Coffee and Closure

The Summer Congresses are organised by the kindest support of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, City of Imatra, Niilo Helander Foundation Kulmakoulu Foundation and the Semiotic Society of Finland

SOCIAL PROGRAMME

Saturday, June 8

16.30 – 17.30 Plenary: Solomon Marcus (Bucharest): Transcendence as a General Trend of Going Beyond the Existing Horizons
18.00 Imatra Rapids Surge
Sunday, June 9
18.00 – 19.00 Plenary: Andrew Stables (Bath): That-Which-Is-To-Be-Learnt-as External Relation

Monday, June 10

15.00 – 17.30 Fest: 25 Years of the ISI
at the Kaleva Hall of Culture House Virta
Prof. Eero Tarasti speech
Prof. Pirjo Kukkonen, speech
Music: Tero Halonen (tenor), Eila Tarasti (piano) –
Richard Wagner 200 years
Plenary: Dario Martinelli (Kaunas Technological University): Towards a New International Semiotics Institute
Prof. Kristian Bankov (Sofia): The forthcoming IASS World Congress of Semiotics in Sofia Sept. 2014
17.30 – 18.00 Refreshments
18.00 – 19.00 Presentation of the collection of semiotic books in the Imatra Library
Art Exhibition by Inna Tarasti
Art Exhibition of the collections of Imatra Art Museum