INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL
FOR SEMIOTIC AND STRUCTURAL STUDIES

General:
We are pleased to announce the research seminars and International Summer School for Semiotic and Structural Studies of the Finnish Network University of Semiotics. The seminars will be organized by the Finnish Network University of Semiotics and International Semiotics Institute (ISI) at Imatra and open to any semiotician interested in the topics given below. The director of the Summer School, the Finnish Network University of Semiotics, and the ISI is Professor Eero Tarasti, and the summer school is funded by the European Social Fund and State Provincial Office of Southern Finland.
Dates and Locations of the Seminars:
June 11 - 15, 2005, Hotel Valtionhotelli, an art nouveau castle in Imatra, Eastern Finland (near the border of Russia and well-known for its historical, natural, and other tourist attractions) June 16 - 19, 2005, Seminar in St. Petersburg

Seminars (by topic):

1) "Birth of Language" - The Semiotics of St. Petersburg
The seminar deals with the general question of the emergence of different cultural languages, that is, with sign systems. The question is considered as broadly as possible. At the same time, special focus will be on the emergence of the myth, or "text", of St. Petersburg, and particularly on the birth and early stages of cinematic language. Directors: Pekka Pesonen (Helsinki) and Tomi Huttunen (Helsinki) Invited lecturers: Boris Uspenski (Rome/Moscow), Boris Gasparov (New York),Yuri Tsivian (Chicago), Roman Timenchik (Jerusalem), Tatjana Chernigovskaja (St Petersburg), Georgi Levinton (St. Petersburg), Ilya Utekhin (St. Petersburg), Peeter Torop (Tartu), Mihail Lotman (Tartu), Liubov Kiseleva (Tartu), Elena Hellberg-Hirn (Helsinki)

2) Global Semiotics
Director: Eero Tarasti (Helsinki) Invited lecturers: Jeff Bernard (Vienna), Adrian Gimate-Welsh (México), Richard L. Lanigan (Illinois), Marcel Danesi (Ontario), John Deely (Houston), You-zheng Li (PR China), Jean-Claude Mbarga (Cameroon), José Maria Paz Gago (Coruña), Susan Petrilli (Bari), Roland Posner (Berlin), Göran Sonesson (Lund), Gloria Withalm (Vienna)

3) New Media, New Semiotics, New Mediation? Directors: Guido Ipsen (Dortmund), Dario Martinelli (Helsinki); co-directors: Kristian Bankov (Sofia), Merja Bauters (Helsinki), Paul Cobley (London), Peeter Schulz (Lugano), Mauri Ylä-Kotola (Rovaniemi)

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4) Finnish Summer School (in Finnish), June 9 -11 Directors: Tomi Huttunen (Helsinki), Juha Pentikäinen (Helsinki)

>> pictures from the excursion "Rock Paintings"

5) 24th Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of Finland, June 10 - 11 Papers by Finnish and non-Finnish scholars

More information:
> First Announcement (pdf)