We are happy to present the preliminary programme of Tartu Summer School of Semiotics 2023 "Coming Soon" (PDF)
(Updated 22.05.2023)
DAY 1 – Thursday, August 24
9:00–10:30 Registration
10:00–10:30 Opening
10:30-12:00 Plenary talk – JAAK TOMBERG
12:00–12:30 Break
12:30-14:00 Session 1
Rahul Murdeshwar - Developing a ‘spectral chronotope’ for analysing hauntological utopias
Mie Mortensen - City of the Sun, city of the world to come
Naira Baghdasayan – ‘Love of my life’ with (out) Freddie Mercury: unravelling new meanings through translation
14:00-15:30 Lunch break
15:30-17:00 Session 2
Alexandra Milyakina – Learning without a plan: multimodal pedagogy for designing the futures
Nina Kozachynska – Not knowing by heart what to expect: the present of the future and folk songs listeners
Ott Puumeister – Dance without organs: the time-image of Memoria
18:00-20:00 Reception
DAY 2 – Friday, August 25
9:00-10:30 Session 3
Reet Hiiemäe – What future prospects are more relevant, the end of the world or a successful marriage?
Mari-Liis Madisson, Tatjana Menise – Global warming hoax as a part of the Great Reset Plan: conspiracy theories in Latvia and Estonia
Sebastian Moreno Barreneche – The future as a textual construction. Examples from literature, audiovisual fiction, politics and everyday life
10:30–11:00 Break
11:00–12:30 Plenary talk – GEMMA JONES – Emergent possibility; semiotics and speculative design as a critical futuring approach
12:30–14:00 Lunch break
14:00–16:00 Session 4
Alec Richard Kozicki – Why the world needs semiotic consulting
Marguerite Grandjean – Weaving past, present and future into action: learnings from a practitioner in foresight consulting
Lyudmyla Zaporozhtseva – Culture anomaly as a sign: trend hunting as a future forecasting tool
Ülle Pärl, Triin Padonik – Developing a communication model to analyze and improve the operation of management information systems: a case study approach
16:00-16:30 Break
16:30-18:00 Session 5
Israel Chavéz Barreto – Notes for a diachronic semiotics: on some aspects of the mechanisms for change in sign systems
Ekaterina Velmezova – On the future of language in the categories of (bio)semiotics: Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay
Kalevi Kull – One moment in time: prospects for general semiotics
DAY 3 – Saturday, August 26
9:00–11:00 Session 6
Thierry Mortier – Our semiotic future past: a diagrammatic investigation into the visual depiction of a sign to uncover hidden keys to future models
Tiit Remm – Interventions into semiotic spaces
Maria Vittoria Mussio – Beyond human. How can we rethink human practices through ecosemiotics and permaculture?
Stefano Carlini – Umwelt and cities: explanatory utility and pragmatic guidelines
11:00-11:30 Break
11:30–13:00 Plenary talk – REET AUS – Changing the world with design
13:00–14:30 Lunch break
14:30–16:30 Workshops
– On the future of teaching semiotics
– Semiospheric analysis of cultural innovations
– Umwelt change scenarios in urban planning
DAY 4 – Sunday, August 27
09:00–10:30 Session 7
Mark Mets – Computational cultural semiotics: semiosphere, text embeddings and ousiometrics
Anna Dobrosovestnova – Peircian semiotics as an inspiration for different imaginaries of human-robot futures
James Augustus Bacigalupi IV – Sentient technics: from a cybernetic to a biosemiotic mode of growth
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00–12:30 Plenary talk and workshop – MATTIA THIBAULT – Speculative semiotics
12:30–14:00 Lunch break
14:00–16:00 Session 8
Andrey Gavrilin – The “no-future” regime of historicity: how presentism affects the representation of major historic events
Natalie Jancosek – I-positions captured in the absolute of time: photographs as future carriers of the past selves
Oscar Miyamoto – Habits of the future: episodic memory as virtual memory
Silver Rattasepp – The endless same of accelerationist futurology
16:00-… Intro to the future
