International Summer School for Semiotic and Structural Studies
25 YEARS SEMIOTICS IN IMATRA, June 11 – 15, 2010
Imatra, Valtionhotelli

PROGRAMME

Friday, June 11


Arrival by 16.00

17.00    Opening of the Art Exhibition: Anna Sahlstén Drawings and  Aquarelles

18.30    Opening of the International Summer School:  25 years Semiotics in Imatra, Imatra Cultural Centre, Karelia–Hall

Welcoming Reception in the Town Hall after the Opening
Bus leaves from front of Valtionhotelli to Cultural Centre at 16.30

 

1) Interrelationships of Arts: Gesture, Genre, Gender, The 29th Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of Finland , June 11–13

Director: Eero Tarasti

 

Saturday, June 12


Chair:  Pirjo Kukkonen

09.30–10.00    Pirjo Kukkonen (Helsinki): Opening of the session

10.00–10.30    Irma Sorvali (Oulu): Microhistorical studies

 

 

10.30–11.00    Myrdene Anderson (West Lafayette): Performativity: : Feeling, Thinking, Speaking, and Acting Forth

11.00–11.30     Coffee

 

11.30–12.00 Svetlana Pereverzeva (Moscow): Semiotic Conceptualization of Human Body in the Russian Language and the Russian Body Language: Orientation of Body and Its Parts and Its Linguistic Expressions

 

 

12.00–12.30 Arif Hakim (Bangladesh): Hand Is Communicating Culture: A Reflection of Bengali Emblematic Hand Gesture

 

12.30–13.00    Gabriel  Pareyón (Helsinki): Roman Ingarden's Objectivity vs. Subjectivity as a Problem of Translatability

13.00–14.30      Lunch

Chair: Irma Sorvali


14.30–15.00    Geoffrey Sykes (Wollongong): Two Accounts of Genre Formation in Gestural Fields
15.00–15.30    Kristian Bankov (Sofia): Genre, art or just access to paid-for experience?
15.30–16.00    Eero Tarasti (Helsinki):  The Concept of Genre in Semiotics
16.00–16.30    Coffee

16.30–17.15 Plenary Lecture: Vilmos Voigt (Budapest) On the Actuality (?) of Finno-Ugric Semiotics

17.15–18.00    Plenary Lecture: Paul Cobley (London): Semiotics, genre and contingency

18.00    Dinner

20.00    Concert: Wagner and Wagnerism:

 

Satu-Sippola Nurminen, soprano, Eila Tarasti, piano

Petrus Laitinmäki, violin, Anna Hinkkanen, alto

Joanna Rinne, cello, Eero Tarasti, piano

at Imatra Cultural Centre, Karelia-Hall

(A  bus leaves from front of Valtionhotelli at 19.30)

Sunday, June 13


Chair: Vilmos Voigt

09.00–09.30 Leena Mäkelä-Marttinen (Kouvola): Verieties of Masculine Subjectivity in the Finnish Modern Literature. Eero Tarasti’s Z-model Comparing to M.M. Bakhtin’s Therory of  Novel

09.30–10.00 Vilmos Voigt (Budapest): Gestures Expressing Numbers – or – Numbers Expressed by Gestures

10.00–10.30    Altti Kuusamo (Turku): Gestures in a Self-Portrait. The Problem of Autocommunication. What and Where are “I-Gestures” and
“I-looking” in a Self-Portrait?
10.30–11.00    Grisell Macdonel (Helsinki): The Performer’s Moi as Body Gestures and The Limits of Werktreue
11.00–11.30     Coffee

11.30–12.00 Massimo Berruti (Helsinki): The Semiotic Sublime in Lovecraft.

12.00–12.30    Eila Tarasti (Helsinki): The Idea of the Sacred at Helvi Leiviskä
12.30–13.00    Eeva Iso-Koivisto, Katriina Kuusi: Blood, Vomit and Tears
13.00–14.30      Lunch

Chair: Altti Kuusamo

14.30–15.00    Tiit Remm (Tartu): "Architecture and architecture photo: modelling the same sociocultural space?"
15.00–15.30    Tarık Yazar (Samsun), Erdal Gumus (Mytilene), Nikolas Zouros (Mytilene): Evaluation of Geosymbol Designs and Applications on a Semiotic Level as a Universal Non-Verbal Communication Language and Location of the Information Panels in the Context of Visual Communication
15.30–16.00    Klaus M. Bernsau (Duisburg-Essen): Between Tweed and Twitter – Corporate Communication under the Conditions of Web 2.0
16.00–16.30    Coffee
16.30–17.30    Plenary lecture: Risto Hilpinen (Miami): On Types and Tokens
18.00    Imatra Rapids Surge
19.00    Dinner

 

2) International Symposium on 'Richard Wagner and his Symbols', June 11–13

Chair:  Professor Eero Tarasti (Helsinkii); co-chair:  Martin Knust, (Stockholm)

Saturday June 12


Chair:  Eero Tarasti

09.00–09.30     Eero Tarasti: Opening of the session

09.30–10-30    Paulo F. de Castro (London): Blind Spots of Utopia: Wagner’s Ring and the Aesthetics of the Undecidable

10.30–11.00     Coffee

11.00–12.00 Timothée Picard (Rennes): Postérité des symboles wagnériens à travers la littérature et l’histoire des idées européennes

12.00–13.00    Philippe Godefroid (Nantes): Vers la refondation, comme discours, du récit musical wagnérien
13.00–14.30     Lunch

Chair: Martin Knust

14.30–15.30    Antti Vihinen (Karlsruhe): Parsifal und die nationale Identität der Deutschen
15.30–16.00    Discussion
16.00–16.30    Coffee

16.30–17.15 Plenary lecture: Vilmos Voigt (Budapest): On the Actuality (?) of Finno-Ugric Semiotics

17.15–18.00    Plenary Lecture: Paul Cobley ( London):  Semiotics, genre and contingency
18.00    Dinner

20.00    Concert: Wagner and Wagnerism:

 

Satu-Sippola Nurminen, soprano, Eila Tarasti, piano

Petrus Laitinmäki, violin, Anna Hinkkanen, alto

Joanna Rinne, cello, Eero Tarasti, piano

at Imatra Cultural Centre, Karelia-Hall

(A  bus leaves from front of Valtionhotelli at 19.30)

Sunday, June 13


Chair: Eero Tarasti

09.30–10.30    Paolo Rosato (Fermo): Tonal Continuity / Discontinuity in Wagner's Harmony: an Analysis of “Träume” from Wesendonk-Lieder
10.30–11.00    Coffee
11.00–12.00    Martin Knust (Stockholm): Creating Different Layers of Signs: Richard Wagner as a Stage Director
12.00–13.00    Eero Tarasti:  Wagner, Proust and the Problem of Ekphrasis
13.00–14.30      Lunch
16.00–16.30    Coffee
16.30–17.30    Plenary Lecture:  Risto Hilpinen (Miami): On Types and Tokens
18.00    Imatra Rapids Surge
19.00    Dinner

3) Semiotics and Mathematics, with the Special Theme 'Peirce, the Mathematician', June 11–13

Director: Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen

 

Saturday June 12


Chair: Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen  

09.30–11.00    Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen: Introduction
11.00–11.30     Coffee
11.30–12.15    Jean-Louis Hudry (Tartu): Peirce on True Continuity
12.15–13.00    Frederik Stjernfelt (Aarhus): Peircean Continuum in a Semiotic Perspective
13.00–14.30      Lunch

14.30–15.30 Matthew Moore (Brooklyn): Peirce's Topical Theory of Continuity

15.30–16.00 Commentaries

16.00–16.30    Coffee
16.30–17.15    Plenary Lecture: Vilmos Voigt (Budapest): Gestures Expressing Numbers -- or -- Numbers by Gestures
17.15–18.00    Plenary Lecture: Paul Cobley (London): Semiotics, genre and contingency
18.00    Dinner

20.00    Concert: Wagner and Wagnerism:

 

Satu-Sippola Nurminen, soprano, Eila Tarasti, piano

Petrus Laitinmäki, violin, Anna Hinkkanen, alto

Joanna Rinne, cello, Eero Tarasti, piano

at Imatra Cultural Centre, Karelia-Hall

(A  bus leaves from front of Valtionhotelli at 19.30)

Sunday, June 13


Chair: Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen

10.00–11.00 Solomon Marcus (Bucharest): Peirce, The Mathematician

 

11.00–11.30     coffee
11.30–12.15    Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen: Pragmatism as a Philosophy of Mathematics
12.15–13.00    Geoffrey Sykes (Wollongong): Mathematics as a Diagrammatic Sign or Icon
13.00–14.30      Lunch
14.30–15.15    Gabriel Pareyón: The Role of Abduction in Self-Similarity: On the Peircean Concept of the 'Map of the Map'
15.15–16.00    Andrey Tashev: Chance, Determinism, and the Effete Mind
16.00–16.30    Coffee
16.30–17.30    Plenary Lecture: Risto Hilpinen (Miami): On Types and Tokens
18.00    Imatra Rapids Surge
19.00    Dinner

4)  Meeting of the Project Planning the Pan-European  Doctoral Program in Semiotics

Tuesday, June 15


09.00–11.00    Round table: 'Doctoral education of semiotics in the Europe', chaired by Eero Tarasti and Kristian Bankov (Sofia), participants: Federica Turco (Turin), Tiit Remm (Tartu), Kimberly Cornfield (Finnbarents, Rovaniemi); open for all the participants of the summer school

5) 6th International Imatra Symposium on Semiotics and Translation

Directors: Pirjo Kukkonen and Ritva Hartama-Heinonen, June 14–15

 

Monday, June 14


Chair: Pirjo Kukkonen

09.30–10.00        Opening: Pirjo Kukkonen (Helsinki):
Signs and Translation are Everywhere
10.00–11.00        Ritva Hartama-Heinonen (Helsinki):
Semiotics of Translation from 1986 to 2010:
Possibilities, Actualities, Tendencialities
11.00–11.30     Coffee
11.30–12.30        Irma Sorvali (Oulu/Helsinki):
Translation Studies during 25 Years in Finland
12.30–13.00        Ritva Hartama-Heinonen & Pirjo Kukkonen & Irma Sorvali:
Semiotics and Translation Now
13.00–14.30      Lunch
Chair: Irma Sorvali

14.30–15.15        Evangelos Kourdis (Thessaloniki):
Quelques réflexions sur la nature de la traduction intersémiotique / transmutation
15.15–16.00    Drina Hočevar (University of Los Andes Mérida-Venezuela): Translating Emily Dickinson: From Cross-Cultural Understanding towards Self-Understanding
16.00–16.30        Coffee

16.30–17.30 Plenary Lecture: Solomon Marcus (Bucharest):    Syntax and Semantics; Cooperation or Conflict ?

18.00        Dinner

 

Tuesday, June 15


Chair: Ritva Hartama-Heinonen

09.30–10.15    Mikko Kervinen (Helsinki):
Wagner in Finnish, Sibelius in German – Contemplation of Vocal Translation Processes from a Semiotic Point of View
10.15 –11.00    Päivi Ibl (Helsinki):
The Cultural and Semiotic Value of Stone Markings in
the Andean Context: Case of the Nasca Geoglyphs
11.00–11.30    Coffee
11.30–13.00    Pirjo Kukkonen ( Helsinki):
Six Memos for Semiotics and Translation for this Millenium
13.00–14.30    Lunch
14.30–16.00    Discussion: 25 Years History of Semiotics and Translation
16.00–16.30    Coffee

 

6) Applied Semiotics: Constructivism and Identity Formation, June 14–15

Director: Zdzisław Wąsik

 

Monday, June 14


Chair:   Zdzisław Wąsik

09.30–10.20    Zdzisław Wąsik (Poznań): A Constructivist Perspective on the Semiotics of Human Identity  
10.20–11.00    Geoffrey Sykes (Wollongong): Reviewing Structuralist Theory of Social Constructivism and Identity
11.00–11.30     Coffee
11.30–12.00    Anna Cisło (Wrocław): The Semiotics of Irish Books in the Formation of National Identity
12.00–12.30    Zeyneb Cihan Koca Helvaci (Izmir): Identity Construction in the Turkish Paintings made between 1950 – 1980
12.30–13.00    Agnieszka Stępkowska (Poznań): Cantonal Identity and the Question of English as an International Language
13.00–14.30      Lunch

14.30–15.00    Jósef Zaprucki (Wrocław): A Constructivist Perspective on the Semiotic Formation of Regional Identity on the basis of Literature and Culture in Silecia, The South-Western Part of Poland

15.00–15.30    Dagmara Jodłowska (Poznań): Valuing Processes in the Discursive Construction of Personal Identities
15.30–16.00    Anastasia Christodoulou (Thessaloniki) and George Damaskinidis (Kilkis): Social Semiotics and Multimodality: A Synaesthetic Analysis of a PC-based Educational Microworld of a Press Briefing
16.00–16.30    Coffee

16.30–17.30    Plenary Lecture: Solomon Marcus (Bucharest):    Syntax and Semantics; Cooperation or Conflict?

 


18.00    Dinner

 

SOCIAL PROGRAMME

 

Friday, June 11

 

 

17.00        Opening of the Art Exhibition Anna Sahlstén

Drawings and  Aquarelles
From Private Collection
Imatra Art Museum  

18.30    Opening of the International Summer School:  25 years Semiotics in Imatra, Cultural Centre, Karelia–Hall
Welcoming Reception in the Town Hall after the Opening
Bus leaves from front of Valtionhotelli to Cultural Centre at 16.30

 


Saturday, June 12

 

20.00 Concert: Wagner and Wagnerism:

 

Satu-Sippola Nurminen, soprano, Eila Tarasti, piano

Petrus Laitinmäki, violin, Anna Hinkkanen, alto

Joanna Rinne, cello, Eero Tarasti, piano

at Imatra Cultural Centre, Karelia-Hall

(A  bus leaves from front of Valtionhotelli at 19.30)

 

Sunday, June 13


18.00        Imatra Rapids Surge

Exhibitions

 

Art exhibition: Anna Sahlstén  11.6.–11.9.2010

Drawings and  Aquarelles
from Private Collection
Imatra Art Museum  

Open: Monday–Thursday 10.00–19.00
Friday 10.00–16.00