semiotics of
unpredictability

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.

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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.

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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:

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    ∙   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.

Aleksei Semenenko

Umeå University, Sweden

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Ana Camblong

Universidad Nacional de Misiones, Argentina

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Anna Maria Lorusso

Università di Bologna, Italy

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Ariel Ponce

Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina

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Brian Baer

Kent State University, United States

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Daniela Oswald

Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

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Eduardo Chávez Herrera

Escuela Nacional de Lenguas, Linguistica y Traducción, México

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Ekaterina Americo

Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brasil

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Elena Vássina

Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil

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Elisabeth Brait

Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil

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Inna Merkoulova

State Academic University for the Humanities, Russia

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Jacques Fontanille

University of Limoges, France

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José Amálio Pinheiro

Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil

Julieta Haidar

Escuela Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, Mexico

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Laura Gherlone

Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, Argentina

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Lúcia Santaella

Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil

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Massimo Leone

University of Turin, Italy

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Miguel Martín

Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

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Mihhail Lotman

Tartu University, Estonia

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Mônica Ferrari Nunes

Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing, Brazil

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Peeter Torop

Tartu University, Estonia

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Regiane Nakagawa

Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia, Brazil

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Remo Gramigna

University of Turin, Italy

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Silvia Barei

Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina

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Winfried Nöth

Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil

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