Re-discovering semiotics for the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Workshop Schedule
Friday May 16
202 Jones Hall
9:00-9:30: Introductions
9:30-11:30: Panel 1
Anna Maria Lorusso,
“The Force of False and the Weakness of Truth”
(Commentator: Federico Marcon)
Federico Marcon,
“Semiotics and the Labor Theory of (Historical) Knowledge”
(Commentator: Anna Maria Lorusso)
11:30-1:00: Lunch
1:00-3:00: Panel 2
Valentina Pisanty,
“Who Edits the Average Encyclopedia? On Memory, Power, and Cultural Selection”
(Commentator: Andrea Capra)
Helge Jordheim,
“Toward a Semiotics of Times: Synchronization, Crisis, and War”
(Commentator: Jonathon Catlin)
3:00-3:30: Coffee Break
3:30-5:30: Panel 3
Stefanos Geroulanos,
“’The Wildest, Freest, Most Irresponsible, Most Unteachable of All Things’ Words and Myth in Conceptual History and Historical Epistemology”
(Commentator: Ed Baring)
Fabio Rambelli,
“I Dance the Body Cosmic: For a Metaphysics of Bugaku Performances”
(Commentator: Bryan Lowe)
Saturday May 17
202 Jones Hall
8:30-9:00: Breakfast
9:00-11:00: Panel 4
Florian Fuchs,
“Is There a Semiotics of Theory?”
(Commentator: Ohad Reiss Sorokin)
Elena Fratto,
“Where Semiosphere Meets Biosphere: The Emerging Field of Ecosemiotics”
(Commentator: Valentina Pisanty)
11:00-11:15: Coffee break
11:15-1:15: Panel 5
Serguei Oushakine,
“Thingly Signs, Wordy Things, and Other Points of Transfer”
(Commentator: Zihan Guo)
Ethan Kleinberg,
“The Real Real: Building Ontologies/Making Worlds”
(Commentator: Robin Franklin)
1:15: Lunch
