Venue: Estonian Naturalists’ Society, Struve 2, Tartu, Estonia
8.-9. November 2008. Tartu, Estonia

PROGRAM


Chair: Ester Võsu
10.00-10.30 Peeter Torop (Estonia) - Resemblance in culture: communication as self-communication
10.30-11.00 Elena Grigorjeva (Estonia) - Mimesis as a regular law of semiocoine
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.00 Merja Polvinen (Finland) - Resemblance and Difference in Cross- Disciplinary Metaphors
12.00-12.30 Plamen Velev (Bulgaria) - Mastering the art of mimicry. An inquiry on the coagulation of habits, or the external redundancies as signs defining social identity

12.30-14.00 Lunch

Chair: Merja Polvinen
14.00-14.30 Aili Aarelaid-Tart (Estonia) - Mimicry of the rites of passage
14.30-15.00 Ester Võsu, Silvi Salupere (Estonia). Mimicry on the menu: A strategy for staging modern national haute cuisine
15.00-15.30 Coffee break
15.30-16.00 Rauno-Thomas Moss (Estonia) – Theoretical principles and functions of copying from the viewpoint of 19. c. academic art education
16.00-16.30 Katre Pärn (Estonia) - Iconicity, mediation and interpretation in cinema

17.00-18.00 Round table discussion (Chair: Kaie Kotov, Estonia)



Chair: Timo Maran
10.00-10.30 Dario Martinelli (Finland). Art in human beings and other animals: a semiotic continuity
10.30-11.00 Silver Rattasepp (Estonia). How (not) to compare humans and animals
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.00 Farouk Y. Seif (USA). Mutual mimesis of nature and culture: A representational perspective for eco-cultural metamorphosis
12.00-12.30 Liina Unt (Finland) - How "close" is "too close"? Notes on the limitations of scenography in using resemblance

12.30-14.00 Lunch

Chair: Plamen Velev
14.00-14.30 Timo Maran (Estonia). How to model mimicry systems? A semiotic approach
14.30-15.00 Kadri Tüür (Estonia). Audial iconicity: The example of bird sounds.
15.00-15.30 Coffee break
15.30-16.00 Karel Kleisner (Czech Republic). Resemblance and re-evolution: internalistic explanations of the parallel emergence of biological similarities in phenotypic evolution
16.00-16.30 Riin Magnus (Estonia). A stroll through the archetypes of animals and men

17.00-18.00 Round table discussion (Chair: Sabine Brauckmann, Estonia)

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