Semiotic Space of Audiovisual Culture Research Group (CNPq - ECA - USP)
semiotics of
unpredictability
October 26, 27 and 28, 2022
Presential and Online Conference
International Seminar to Celebrate
Yuri Lotman´s Centennial (1922-2022)
call for papers
Since the processes that occur in human society can be characterized as irreversible, that happen in situations of intense imbalance, they are precisely the ones that interest the historian of culture in a particular way. (Lotman, 1998, p. 148)
Ю́рий Михайлович Лотман
(Petrogrado, 28/02/1922 - Tártu, 28/10/1993)
The Semiotic Space of Audiovisual Culture Research Group (ECA-USP) invites the academic community to participate in “Semiotics of Unpredictability. International Seminar to Celebrate Yuri Lotman´s Centennial (1922-2022)”. The event will be held presentially and digitally using the structure of the School of Communications and Arts of the University of São Paulo in October 2022.
Semiotics of unpredictability constitutes a study proposal in the field of Semiotics of culture that aims to examine the works of Yuri Lotman dedicated to understanding the mechanisms of culture in its dynamic processes of generating new meanings, new messages, new information. To continue reading, access here.
For the submission of communication proposals, we ask you to send an expanded abstract with up to 1.500 words, with key words and 7 titles of bibliographic references, on the application form until 01th of April 2022. It is expected that the proposal will focus on question of unpredictability by choosing at least one of the following biases:
∙ Critical Transformations of Lotman's Semiotic Thought
∙ Political context of Lotman's translation and reception in the West
∙ Lotman's concept of unpredictability in dialogue with schollars and other theoretical systems
∙ Unpredictability in the causal movement of the historical process
∙ Culture as a system of complexity
∙ Cultural meeting on spatiotemporal boundaries
∙ Cultural and artistic processes according to the logic of explosion
∙ Technological progress as an agent of destabilization
∙ Semiosis of fear and historical processes of irrationality
∙ Chaos and order at the limits of the semiosphere
∙ Unpredictability and explosion in technological-digital culture
∙ Memory of culture as an informational mechanism
∙ Confrontations of untranslatability in hybridisms of intermediality
∙ Indeterminism of communication in contexts of socio-cultural "otherness"
∙ Causality and irreversibility of explosive processes
The Seminar proposed here hopes to reap fruit from the seeds sown by the semiotic cunning of Yuri Lotman's thought.
news
This new publication in Portuguese is now available, a translation led by Dr. Irene Machado of the book Непредсказуемые механизмы культуры, by Iúri Lotman, entitled Unpredictable Mechanisms of Culture, preserving the fundamental concept of Lotman's semiotic thought of cultural dynamics, in which nothing exists or can be observed in isolation. «Mechanism» concentrates the thought of culture in transformative and unpredictable operation and movement. The translation work arose from research interests in the field of semiotics of culture of Russian extraction at the Brazilian university in dialogue with Latin American researchers and includes the translation of all prefaces and postfaces published in the Russian original and in the different Italian and English versions.
confirmed GUESTS
Aleksei Semenenko
Umeå University, Sweden
Ana Camblong
Universidad Nacional de Misiones, Argentina
Anna Maria Lorusso
Università di Bologna, Italy
Ariel Gómez Ponce
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
Brian Baer
Kent State University, United States
Daniela Oswald
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Eduardo Chávez Herrera
Escuela Nacional de Lenguas, Linguistica y Traducción, México
Ekaterina Americo
Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brasil
Elena Vássina
Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil
Elisabeth Brait
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil
Inna Merkoulova
State Academic University for the Humanities, Russia
Jacques Fontanille
University of Limoges, France
José Amálio Pinheiro
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil
Julieta Haidar
Escuela Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Mexico
Laura Gherlone
Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, Argentina
Lúcia Santaella
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil
Massimo Leone
University of Turin, Italy
Miguel Martín
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Mihhail Lotman
Tartu University, Estonia
Mônica Ferrari Nunes
Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing, Brazil
Paolo Demuru
Universidade Paulista, Brasil
Peeter Torop
Tartu University, Estonia
Regiane Nakagawa
Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia, Brazil
Remo Gramigna
University of Turin, Italy
Silvia Barei
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina
Winfried Nöth
Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil
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SCIENTIFIC COMMISSION
President: Irene de Araújo Machado – Universidade de São Paulo
Andreia Guimarães Moura – Universidade de São Paulo
Ariel Gómez Ponce – Universidad Nacional de Córdoba/Argentina
Daniel Felipe Fonseca – Universidade de São Paulo
Daniela Osvald Ramos – Universidade de São Paulo
Douglas Vinícius Galan – Universidade de São Paulo
Ekaterina Vólkovo Américo – Universidade Federal Fluminense
Elena Vássina – Universidade de São Paulo
Elizabeth Brait – Pontifícia Universidade de São Paulo
Fátima Aparecida dos Santos – Universidade de Brasília
Heloísa Duarte Valente – Universidade Paulista
Julieta Haidar – Escuela Nacional de Antropologia/México
Leandro Anderson de Loiola Nunes – Universidade de São Paulo
Livia Cristina Machado – Universidade de São Paulo
Monica Rebecca Nunes – Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing/São Paulo
Nísia Martins do Rosário – Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Olga Pampa Arán – Universidad Nacional de Córdoba/Argentina
Regiane Miranda Nakagawa – Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia
Sílvia Barei – Universidad de Rosario/Argentina
EXECUTIVE COMMISSION
Grupo de Pesquisa Espaço Semiótico da Cultura Audiovisual – CNPq/USP
Leader Irene de Araújo Machado
Vice leader Douglas Vinícius Galan
Researchers:
Andreia Guimarães Moura
Daniel Felipe Fonseca
Leandro Anderson de Loiola Nunes
Livia Cristina Machado
Students:
Arthur Simon Zanella
Gisele Frederico
Lorena Bicalho
Luísa Vasconcellos Rodrigues
Olivia Kari Nagayama Boarini
Valter Ribeiro Junior