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News  Summer School 2013 - Autocommunication in Semiotic Systems
40 years after the Theses on the Semiotic Study of Culture
Summer School 2013 is five-day event taking place from August 18 to 23 at the Kääriku Leisure and Sports Center in Southern Estonia. This year's Summer School is dedicated to the 40th anniversary from the publication of the Theses on the Semiotic Study of Cultures, which first appeared in 1973.There lies a quintessential coincidence between cultural semiotics, Tartu-Moscow school, and the Theses which places this triplet amongst both the important and the amusing in the story of humanities. Taking the example of Theses from the past, and reflecting over it together with its influences across times to today, the semiotic circles might take up reflective autocommunication in order to set future steps in organising both the paradigm of semiotics and communicate the institution of semiotics to neighbouring paradigms. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Theses on the Semiotic Study of Cultures, we call for reflections on the context and co-texts leading to and from that milestone in semiotic studies. For more information, see the Summer School's home page. Semiosalong: Tyler Bennett 23. mai kl 19, Nälg (Rüütli 8) Counter-Hegemonic Discourse Practice and Post-World Electronic Music. Abstract: Counter-hegemonic discourse practice consists in the destabilization of entrenched ideological superstructures with the aim of opening space in contemporary thought for subjugated knowledges. Hegemony as the monopolization of possible cultural mobility in thought forms and practices (or dominant discourse) is grounded in the thought of Antonio Gramsci. Counter-hegemonic practices are those which achieve autonomy from within dominant discourses by upsetting those discourses. Dominant discourses are upset in a variety of different ways, but for our purposes, art-as-deautomatization of sign relations serves as the exemplar of counter-hegemonic practice. This functionality of art is grounded in the archaeological discourse method of Michel Foucault. The synthetic model of counter-hegemonic discourse practice is applied to the work of Grey Filastine’s new musical production Loot. The model construes Filastine’s work as employing deautomatization at three nested levels: that of venue, genre, and the politico-economic. Disruptions at the first two levels feed into and crystallize disruption at the third level such that the work cannot be tied to particular political movements. The post-Marxian theoretical descriptive lens avoids the vulgar Marxist trap of attributing economic determinism to the work, while maintaining labor and currency relations as prominent factors in the constitution of hegemony. It shows how Filastine’s work opens discourse at the more fundamental semiotic level, such that new sign relations proliferate in the space of the music, the trajectory and configuration of which remain undetermined.
Sündmus Facebookis Guest lectures by Patrick Seriot Prof. Patrick Seriot (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) will give three lectures in the Semiotics Department of the University of Tartu: (Jakobi 2 aud. 306)
May 8, Tuesday 14-16 May 9, Wednesday 10-12 May 10, Thursday 16-18
Semiosalong: Daniel Edward Allen May 9. 19:00, Nälg (Rüütli 8) "It started when I tried to discover something about photography in order to produce some pictures that looked like Pääsuke's pictures from 100 years ago. When I looked at his pictures, and other photographs from the same period, some similarities to paintings became obvious, then I realised that many phtographs and other images, like TV and films, have some of the same elements, so the talk is really about this. What I noticed on the journey to taking a photograph."
Guest lecture by Stuart Kauffman On Friday, April 27, 15:00 Jakobi 2-336 seminar with Stuart Kauffman : From physics to semioticsStuart Kauffman is a world leading scholar in complex system studies. He is a founding member of Santa Fe Institute. See his lecture "The end of a physics worldview"  Intensive course: Semiotics and phenomenology Lecturer: Morten Tønnessen, PhD candidate Credit points: 2 AP / 3 EAP/ECTS Class meeting time April 11-13 and May 16-18: Location: Tiigi 78-311 Target group: The course is an elective subject in the master level curriculum of Semiotics and Culture Studies. Other interested students are also welcome. Brief course description: This course offers an account of the fundamental relation between semiotics and phenomenology, with the Umwelt theory of Jakob von Uexküll used as a focal point. Major topics include semiotic aspects of phenomenology, phenomenological aspects of semiotics, the threshold of these two fields, the role of semiotics and phenomenology respectively for the empirical sciences/academia in general, and their place in the scheme of sciences/academia; ontology and epistemology with regard to the whole more-than-human vista of phenomenal creatures, the perceptual capacity of various living beings, and the distinctiveness of the specifically human world-relation. The course provides historical accounts, particularly of the reception of Husserl and Uexküll, but also has a view to contemporary and future theoretical developments. Course objectives and learning outcomes: Time schedule
PhD theses defence On tuesday, 29. March 2011 at 12.15 in University of Tartu main building Ülikooli 18 room 232. Kati Lindströmi (PhD (semiotics and culture theory)) theses "Delineating Landscape Semiotics: Towards the Semiotic Study of Landscape Processes". Supervisor: professor Kalevi Kull Opponents: prof. Patrick Laviolette, PhD, University of Tallinn; Summary: The present doctoral dissertation aims at delineating landscape semiotics and discussing some of the main topics that arise in the semiotic study of landscape processes. First, the Introduction gives a definition of landscape, its potential for semiotic analysis and introduces the most important semiotic themes developed in the following articles. The methodology of the thesis is mostly based on the semiotic theory of Tartu-Moscow school and most of the analysed material comes from the Japanese culture, including, for example, /hanami/, ecological landscape ideals and traditional ecosystems, rice cultivation, Eight O-mi Landscapes, traditional landscape representations, haiku poetry, and others. The articles incorporated into this thesis deal with seven major semiotic themes: (1) The boundaries of self/other, public/private and the relation of internal and external conceptualisation of landscapes; (2) Communication and autocommunication in landscapes; (3) Temporality; (4) National landscapes; (5) Memory and landscape change; (6) Representation; (7) Landscape protection and management policies. The author finds that the concept of ‘landscape’ could contribute to the quest for integrated ecosemiotics, which would unite the advantages of the biological and cultural definition of ecosemiotics.
Intensive course by Ahtti-Veikko Pietarinen Professor Ahtti-Veikko Pietarinen from Helsinki University gives in Tartu an intensive course Introduction to Peirce's Philosophy and Logic Timetable: Additional information about the professor: www.helsinki.fi/~pietarin/ Reading materials:Charles S. Peirce, 1877. The Fixation of Belief. The President of Estonia to acknowledge Peeter Torop On the eve of the 93rd anniversary of the Republic of Estonia, the President of Estonia, Mr Toomas Hendrik Ilves will acknowledge 99 people with state awards, among them Mr. Peeter Torop, UT professor and semeioticist. "Estonia wishes to thank those who have done much to make our country secure; to make Estonian science, culture, and its economy known at home as well as abroad; to make Estonia successful yet mindful of its people," said the Head of State. President Toomas Hendrik Ilves signed a decree to award 99 people from both Estonia and abroad with state awards to recognise the service they have rendered to the Republic of Estonia. The award ceremony will take place on 23rd of February. Older events |
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