Southeast European Center for Semiotic Studies

SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN CENTER FOR SEMIOTIC STUDIES
AT NEW BULGARIAN UNIVERSITY
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM OF THE 13TH EARLY FALL SCHOOL IN SEMIOTICS
“SOCIOSEMIOTICS”
GRANTED ERASMUS INTENSIVE PROGRAMME
EFSS’ 2007, 8-18 SEPTEMBER 2007, SOZOPOL, BULGARIA

Friday 07/09
Arrival; 14:30 Departure from Sofia to Sozopol, meeting at Hotel Pliska

Saturday 08/09 Morning session:
1) Prof. Harri Veivo: Literary semiosis: the general and the particular, the social and the individual
2) Prof. Harri Veivo: Literature as criticism of stereotypic representations: the case of posturban literature
3-4) Prof. Joergen Johansen: Literature and Intersubjectivity

Afternoon session:
Opening of 13th EFSS Sociosemiotics
Presentation of the last edition of the series
EFSS’ 2006 vol XII Semiotics, image and narration by Veronika Azarova

20:00 Reception for all participants
Sunday 09/09 Morning session:
1) Dr. Vangelis Courdis: to be specified
2) Dr. Natasha Christodoulou: to be specified
3) Prof. Harri Veivo: Shopping malls as semiotic constructions
4) Prof. Harri Veivo: National territories as semiotic spaces

Afternoon session:
Open round table on Semiotics of literature: chair Harri Veivo
Joergen Johansen: Why Literature?
Harri Veivo: Three approaches to the question of the author
Antoaneta Doncheva: The problem of identity in Kafka: semiotics of grotesque
Elisebha Fabienne: Semiotics, literature and cities in Italo Calvino

Open round table: Eros and philosophy: chair Vladimir Gradev
Vladimir Gradev: to be specified
Lidia Denkova: to be specified
Kristian Bankov: Eros and Consumption

20:00 Cultural event
Monday 10/09 Morning session
1-2) Prof. Joergen Johansen: Theory of Fiction
3-4) Prof. Vladimir Gradev: The Sacred Art Today

Afternoon session:
Workshop on The Semiotic Study of Brands: chair Kristian Bankov
Moni Almalech: Manipulation strategies on collective unconscious
Stefan Serezliev: to be specified
Vladimir Ignatov: to be specified
Georgi Iliev: to be specified
Evgenia Hristova: to be specified

20:00 Cultural event
Tuesday 11/09 Morning session:
1-2) Prof. Kalevi Kull: New trends in the Tartu school of semiotics
3-4) Prof. Ivan Mladenov, Assoc. Prof. Kristian Bankov : Thinking in semiotic perspective


Afternoon session:
Open round table on The city and it's inhabitants: a sociosemiotic approach – chair Michail Nedelchev
Moni Almalech: Рейс 111 на границата между града и селото
Georg Kraev: "Пазарът" (като граница между града и селото)
Ivan Kasabov: Курортът
Borislav Gueorguiev: to be specified
Boyka Batchvarova: Купуването на кола при соца

20:00 Cultural event
Wednesday 12/09 Morning session:
1-2) Prof. Guido Ipsen: Semiotic consulting - Signs in professional communication
3-4) Prof. Dario Martinelli: Introduction to zoosemiotics

Afternoon session:
Open round table on Construction and deconstruction of social taboos: chair Dr. Veronika Azarova
Anita Kasabova: The structure of social acts (speech acts) : from J.L. Austin back to A. Reinach and K. Buehler
Rumen Daskalov: to be specified
Iren Vladikin: Цветовия език в разказа Следата от твоята кръв по снега от Г. Маркес
Thursday 13/09 Visit to Nessebar
Friday 14/09 Morning session:
1-2) Dr. Elisebha Fabienne: Connecting signs. "Le citta' invisibili" of Italo Calvino
3) Prof. Massimo Leone: Visual semiotics
4) Prof. Massimo Leone: Semiotics of mass media

Afternoon session:
Plenary lecture:
Ivan Mladenov: Conceptualizing Metaphors: The Iceberg and the Crystal Mind
Open round table on the Semiotic achievements of Tom Sebeok, chair Prof. Maria Popova
Participants: Kalevi Kull, Ivan Mladenov, Dario Martinelli
Presentation of the activities of Umweb group

20:00 MILONGA – Tango argentino
Saturday 15/09 Morning session:
1-2) Prof. Ugo Volli: Semiotics as theory of interpretation
3-4) Prof. Massimo Leone: Cultural and etno semiotics

Afternoon session:
THEATER: performance and round table
Sunday 16/09 Morning session:
1-4) Prof. Kalevi Kull: to be specified
3) Prof. Ugo Volli: Language and experience
4) Prof. Ugo Volli: Communication and dialogue

Afternoon session:
Workshop on Human – animal communication

20:00 Cultural event
Monday 17/09 Morning session:
1) Prof. Dario Martinelli: Zoomusicology and semiotics
2) Prof. Dario Martinelli: Antrozoosemiotics and some ethical issues
3-4) Prof. Guido Ipsen: The importance of social consensus in pragmatist semiotics

Afternoon session:
Open seminar with the PhD students of the Southeast European Center for Semiotic Studies
Plamen Velev: Eliseo Veron
Ivo Velinov: Bulgarian Sacred Places Revisited: Pilgrim or Cultural Tourist?
Maria Meskin: to be specified

TANGO NIGHT
Tuesday 18/09 Morning session:
1-2) Assoc. Prof. Borislav Gueorguiev: to be specified
3) Prof. Maria Popova: to be specified
4) Prof. Ivan Kasabov: to be specified

Afternoon session:
EXAMINATION
Written test for all students participants of the IP

Departure from Sozopol


Wednesday 19/09
Departures from Sofia

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