The 11 th World Congress of Semiotics Call for Papers ( Revised Version of the Second Annuncement ) ▬▬ Global Semiotics: Bridging Different Civilizations ▬▬ Time: October 5 9, 2012 Location: Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
The 11th World Congress of Semiotics
Call for Papers
(Revised Version of the Second Annuncement)
▬▬ Global Semiotics: Bridging Different Civilizations
Time: October 5 – 9, 2012
Location: Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China
 | July 11, 2011The Preparatory Committee of “The 11th World Congress of Semiotics”Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China(The official website: www.semio2012.com)(Postal address: School of Foreign Languages & Cultures, Nanjing Normal University, No. 122, Ninghai Road, Nanjing 210097, Jiangsu Province, P. R. China) |
Dear international semiotics colleagues,
The spirit of the 11th IASS Congress will be exhibited along two directions: the retrospective to the scholarly achievements attained over the past 40 years and the prospect for the desirable global-semiotic developments in future. On the whole, the coming-up congress will present a topography of current theoretical problematics facing global human sciences today.
In this second announcement of the Preparatory Committee of the 11th IASS Congress we present three lists of program sessions:
1. The list of the plenary speeches and speakers in the Congress;
2. The list of the round tables and sessions and the related organizers in the Congress;
3. The list of the round tables and organizers in the 1st Chinese Symposium on Semiotics (in Chinese, given here just for information for international colleagues).
In List No. 2 we present all items in terms of temporarily made thematic categories which intend to be used only by interested participants as the reference for registrations. The final list of items (round tables and sessions) and schedules can only be given after the registration process is finished till June 2012. There could be two kinds of participants: those who intend to present a paper in the Congress (so an abstract of 200 words or so is requested to be sent to the congress contact in advance); and those who only wish to join the activities during the Congress period. But both kinds of participants are requested to pay the same registration fee according to the rules.
With respect to the subjects of papers, all topics related to the basic fields mentioned in the first Call for Papers are acceptable; meanwhile, we especially encourage participants to join the sessions and round tables listed in the following table. Despite the rule that each paper reading is limited within 30 minutes, all papers presented will be included afterwards into the online Proceedings in a systematic format. In addition, some of the papers will be separately selected into the printed Proceedings for publication too.
Regarding the procedure of registration and other practical matters with respect to the participation please refer to the separate notices announced at the Congress Website. The related schedules and practical matters could be probably readjusted later according to the changing situations; please pay attention to the updating of news at the website.
● For registration and abstract-presenting, please contact the vice secretary general of the Preparatory Committee:
Haihong Ji: semio2012@hotmail.com
● For presenting proposals for organizing new session activities, please contact the secretary general of the Preparatory Committee:
Yongxiang Wang: nshdyxwang@163.com
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The List and the Sequence of Plenary Speakers in
“The 11th World Congress of Semiotics” in 2012
(The Guest opening speech: 60 minutes;
all the other plenary speeches: 30 minutes for each)
Oct. 5
1. (Germany) Bernhard Waldenfels (as the guest opening speaker): Signs and Phenomena. Phenomenological-Semiotic Considerations
2. (France) Jacques Fontanille: The figures of the body and the semiotics of footprint
3. (China) Zhuanglin Hu: Semiotics from the Systemic-Functional Perspective
Oct. 6
4. (Finland) Eero Tarasti: Semiotics as the transcultural metalanguage
5. (Japan) Yoshihiko IKEGAMI: Subject-Object Contrast and Subject-Object Merger in “Thinking for Speaking” — A Typology of Cognitive Processing in Linguistic Encoding and Its Homologues in Pictorial Encoding
6. (Italy) Augusto Ponzio: Marxian Semiotics: a Historical and Theoretical Excursus in the European Sign Sciences
Oct. 7
7. (China) Zhang Jie: Reception and Modification of Russian Semiotics in China
8. (USA) John Deely: How zoosemiosis both permeates and is transcended by anthroposemiosis
9. (Korea) Kim Sungdo: The Writing, the Body, the Universe: a Semio-anthropology of Intermediality
Oct. 8
10 Canada) Marcel Danesi: Semiotics at a Crossroads: Directions for the Survival of Semiotics as an Autonomous Discipline
11 (Chinese-American) Youzheng Li: Humanist Ethics and future of semiotics
12 (Venezuela) José Enrique Finol: Semiotics of body: skin, fashion, and pornography
Oct. 9
13 (India) Seema Khanwalkar: Semiotics in India, the theoretical implications and it current status as a discipline of study
14 (Italy) Susan Petrilli: The Critique of Phonocentricism, European Signatures
15. (France) Anne Hénault: The theoretical problems to which the present state of research in visual semiotics gives rise
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Round Tables and Sessions in “The 11th World Congress of Semiotics”
| No. | Details of RT & Sessions | ||
| Part A: Epistemology | |||
| 1. | Country/District | Ireland | dermot.moran@ucd.ie |
| Organizer(s) | Dermot Moran (Dept. of Philosophy, University College Dublin） | ||
| RT topic | Husserl vs. Heidegger: an epistemological confrontation | ||
| 2. | Country/District | Finland | Eero.Tarasti@helsinki.fi |
| Organizer(s) | Eero Tarasti (Helsinki University) | ||
| RT topic | Existential Semiotics: Signs as Experience — from body and identity to social practices and values | ||
| 3. | Country/District | USA | Rwolin@gc.cuny.edu |
| Organizer(s) | Richard Wolin (Dept. of History, CUNY, New York) | ||
| RT topic | European Radical Ideology， philosophy and Semiotics: developments along German and French directions | ||
| 4. | Country/District | UK , Singapore | paullondonmet@aol.com ;uspfdf@nus.edu.sg / favareau@biosemiotics.org |
| Organizer(s) | Paul Cobley (Semiotics and Communications London Metropolitan University)Donald Favareau (National University of Singapore) | ||
| RT topic | Biosemiotics as global semiotics | ||
| 5. | Country/District | USA , Poland | rlanigan@siu.edu / rlanigan@mac.com;wasik@ifa.amu.edu.pl / zdzis.wasik@gmail.com |
| Organizer(s) | Richard Lanigan (International Communicology Institute; Southern Illinois University, USA)Zdzislaw Wasik (Department of Linguistic Semiotics and Communicology, Philological School of Higher Education, Wrocł;aw, Poland) | ||
| RT topic | Communicology and Semiotics: The Phenomenological Heritage in Cultural Discursive Patterns and Practices | ||
| 6. | Country/District | China,USA | liyouzheng@gmail.com |
| Organizer(s) | Youzheng Li (Center of World Civilizations, CASS) | ||
| RT topic | Semiotics and Reconstructing Human Sciences | ||
| Part B: Arts | |||
| 7. | Country/District | USA , China | billnichols99@gmail.com;shaoyis@gmail.com |
| Organizer(s) | Bill Nichols (Department of Cinema, San Francisco State University)Shaoyi Sun (School of Film & TV, Shanghai University/NYU Shanghai) | ||
| RT topic | Film theory and semiotics: retrospective & prospect | ||
| 8. | Country/District | Spain , Belgium , Italy | jmpaz@udc.es;ahelbo@ulb.ac.be;marco.demarinis@unibo.it |
| Organizer(s) | José María Paz Gago (University of La Coruna, the Department of Spanish and Latin philology)André Helbo (Performing Arts, ULB Université Libre de Bruxelles)Marco de Marinis (Università di Bolonia) | ||
| RT topic | New Semiotics of Spectacle | ||
| 9. | Country/District | Finland | Eero.Tarasti@helsinki.fi |
| Organizer(s) | Eero Tarasti (Helsinki University) | ||
| RT topic | Music and semiotics | ||
| 10. | Country/District | India , China | seema.khanwalkar@gmail.com;hanwei1905@gmail.com |
| Organizer(s) | Seema Khanwalkar (Faculty of Arts and Humanities, CEPT University Ahmedabad, India)Hanwei Wang (School of Fine Arts, Nanjing Normal University) | ||
| RT topic | Visual Arts and Semiotics | ||
| Part C: Literature and Linguistics | |||
| 11. | Country/District | China , UK , Estonia | zhaoyiheng@gmail.com;paullondonmet@aol.com;marina.grisakova@ut.ee |
| Organizer(s) | Yiheng Zhao (Dept. of Media and Literature, Sichuan University)Paul Cobley (Semiotics and Communications London Metropolitan University)Marina Grisakova (University of Tartu) | ||
| RT topic | Narrative and Semiosis | ||
| 12. | Country/District | Spain , USA , the Netherlands | jmpaz@udc.es;gnavajas@uci.edu;G.Gullon@uva.nlsotelo@ub-edu |
| Organizer(s) | José María Paz Gago (University of La Coruna, the Department of Spanish and Latin philology)Gonzalo Navajas (Irvine University, USA)Germán Gullón (Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis)Adolfo Sotelo (Universidad de Barcelona. Spain) | ||
| RT topic | Literature and Digital Communication | ||
| 13. | Country/District | China | yyhzl@pku.edu.cnxinb5906@yahoo.com.cn;wangwenqin@njnu.edu.cn / wenqin01@yahoo.com |
| Organizer(s) | Zhuanglin Hu (Peking University)Bin Xin (School of Foreign Languages & Cultures, Nanjing Normal University)Wenqin Wang (School of Foreign Languages & Cultures, Nanjing Normal University) | ||
| RT topic | Language and Linguistics: from comparative perspective | ||
| Part D: Culture, Media, Comparative Studies | |||
| 14. | Country/District | China | wangning@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn; ersuding@ln.edu.hk |
| Organizer(s) | Ning Wang (Comparative Literature Center, Tsing-Hua Uni., China)Er-su Ding (Dept. of English, Lingnan University, Hong Kong); | ||
| RT topic | Semiotics and Cultural Studies | ||
| 15. | Country/District | Canada , China | marcel.danesi@utoronto.ca;zjdxxuliang@163.com / xshi@zju.edu.cn |
| Organizer(s) | Marcel Danesi (Semiotics and Linguistic Anthropology, the University of Toronto)Xu Shi (Center for Chinese Discourse Research, Zhejiang Uni) | ||
| RT topic | Media and Semiotics | ||
| 16. | Country/District | France | frederic.wang@neuf.fr |
| Organizer(s) | Lunyue Wang (Centre d’Etudes Chinoises, INALCO, Paris) | ||
| RT topic | Sinology and Semiotics: theoretical-orientation of the Chinese humanities | ||
| 17. | Country/District | China | charlesg@jlonline.com |
| Organizer(s) | Jiazu Gu (School of Foreign Languages & Cultures, Nanjing Normal University) | ||
| RT topic | Cross-cultural Semiotics | ||
| 18. | Country/District | Brazil ， China | primborges@gmail.com;jhhforever@hotmail.com |
| Organizer(s) | Priscila Borges (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil)Haihong Ji (School of Foreign Languages & Cultures, Nanjing Normal University) | ||
| RT topic | C. S. Peirce: chains of signs bridging cultures | ||
| 19. | Country/District | Estonia | maarja.lohmus@ut.ee |
| Organizer(s) | Maarja Löhmus ( Tartu university) | ||
| RT topic | Semiotics and journalism: The role of journalism in changing interpretation of the world | ||
| 20. | Country/District | USA | marshallwillman@hotmail.com |
| Organizer(s) | Marshall Willman (International Society of Chinese and Western Philosophy, ISCWP) | ||
| RT topic | Comparative Chinese-Western Philosophy and Semiotics | ||
| 21. | Country/District | China | cathykc@126.com;nshdyxwang@163.com;davidli7412@hotmail.com / lishuguangnjnu@126.com |
| Organizer(s) | Cheng Kang (School of Foreign Languages & Cultures, Nanjing Normal University)Yongxiang Wang (School of Foreign Languages & Cultures, Nanjing Normal University)Shugang Li (School of Foreign Languages & Cultures, Nanjing Normal University) | ||
| RT topic | Soviet-Russian Semiotics Tradition and its Influence on Chinese Semiotics | ||
| Part E: Society, History and Religion | |||
| 22. | Country/District | China | shdtchxj@163.com;xuanku03@yahoo.com.cn |
| Organizer(s) | Zhenjiang Ning (Institute of Ancient History Shanghai Uni)Rui Wu (Institute of History, CASS) | ||
| RT topic | Ancient History, archaeology, textual criticism, semiotics | ||
| 23. | Country/District | USA， China | jlisz001@plattsburgh.edudepinglu@sina.co;jhhforever@hotmail.com |
| Organizer(s) | James Liszka (SUNY at Plattsburge)Deping Lu (Tianjin Foreign Studies University)Haihong Ji (School of Foreign Languages & Cultures, Nanjing Normal University) | ||
| RT topic | Social Semiotics | ||
| 24. | Country/District | USA, China | tsheehan@stanford.eduhyshen86@yahoo.com.cn |
| Organizer(s) | Thomas Sheehan(Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University)Haiyan Shen (Dept. of Philosophy, Shanghai University) | ||
| RT topic | Semiotics and Religion: interaction between faith and reason | ||
| Part F: Sciences, Semiotic Practice | |||
| 25. | Country/District | France, Romania, Belgium/Italy, Finland | petitot@poly.polytechnique.frmariagiulia.dondero@ulg.ac.betimo.tossavainen@uef.fiosmo.pekonen@jyu.fi |
| Organizer(s) | Jean Petitot (Ecole Polytechnique Paris；EHESS)Solomon Marcus (Uni of Bucharest, retired; possible)Maria Giulia Dondero (Uni of Liège/Italy)Timo Tossavainen (Aalto University) Osmo Pekonen（University of Jyväskylä） | ||
| RT topic | Semiotics and mathematics | ||
| 26. | Country/District | Germany, Canada | roland.posner@mailbox.tu-berlin.depaul.bouissac@utoronto.ca |
| Organizer(s) | Posner: Handbook of Semiotics (de Gruyter);Sebeok-Danesi: Encyclopedic Dictionary (de Gruyter);Bouissac: Encyclopedia of Semiotics (Oxford University Press);Noeth: Handbook of Semiotics (Indiana University Press) | ||
| RT topic | Retrospective to the Tools of semiotic analysis | ||
| 27. | Country/District | China | njnufor@sina.com;zhangshuono3@163.com |
| Organizer(s) | Zhijun Yan (School of Foreign Languages & Cultures, Nanjing Normal University)Zhiting Zhang (College of Foreign Languages, Nankai University) | ||
| RT topic | Semiotics and translation | ||
| Part G: Areas | |||
| 28. | Country/District | France , China | jacques.fontanille@unilim.fr; zhangshuono3@163.com |
| Organizer(s) | Jacques Fontanille (University of Limoges, France)Zhiting Zhang (College of Foreign Languages, Nankai University) | ||
| RT topic | French Semiotics and its consequences in Asia | ||
| 29. | Country/District | USA | jndeely@stthom.edu;rlanigan@siu.edu / rlanigan@mac.com |
| Organizer(s) | John Deely (Center for Thomistic Studies of the Uni of St. Thomas Houston)Richard Lanigan (International Communicology Institute; Southern Illinois University, USA) | ||
| RT topic | American (USA) Semiotics: Current Trends | ||
| 30. | Country/District | Japan | Yoshioka.Hiroshi@bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp |
| Organizer(s) | Hiroshi Yoshioka (Kyoto University) | ||
| RT topic | Semiotics in Japan | ||
| 31. | Country/District | Cameroon | jmbarga2004@yahoo.fr |
| Organizer(s) | Jean-Claude MBARGA (Université de Yaoundé I, Cameroon) | ||
| RT topic | Semiotics in Africa: the present state of affairs and Prospect | ||
| 32. | Country/District | Germany | roland.posner@mailbox.tu-berlin.de;ljungberg@es.uzh.ch;Gloria.Withalm@gmx.at |
| Organizer(s) | Roland Posner (TU University, Berlin)Christina Ljungberg (Dept. of English, University of Zurich)Gloria Withalm (University of Applied Arts, Vienna) | ||
| RT topic | Semiotic research in the German-speaking countries: Architecture, music, gesture, picture, media, style | ||
| 33. | Country/District | Italy | susan.petrilli@gmail.com; augustoponzio@libero.it |
| Organizer(s) | Susan Petrilli (Dipartimento di Pratiche linguistiche e analisi di testi Università di Bari)Augusto Ponzio (Dipartimento di Pratiche linguistiche e analisi di testi Università di Bari) | ||
| RT topic | European Semiotics, Old and New Trends | ||
| 34. | Country/District | China | tsaihc@ntu.edu.tw / tsaihc@ntu.edu.cn |
| Organizer(s) | Hsiu-chih Tsai (Dept. of foreign languages, University of Taiwan) | ||
| RT topic | Semiotics in Taiwan: cross-cultural literature and arts | ||
| 35. | Country/District | China | bywenxu@yahoo.com.cn |
| Organizer(s) | Xu Wen (College of Foreign Languages, Southwest University） | ||
| RT topic | Semiotics in Chongqing: Culture and Cognition | ||
| Part H: Supplements | |||
| 36. | Country/District | Denmark | semfelt@hum.au.dk |
| Organizer(s) | Frederik Stjernfelt (Center for Semiotics in Aarhus) | ||
| RT topic | Cognitive Semiotics | ||
| 37. | Country/District | Finland | dario.martinelli@helsinki.fi |
| Organizer(s) | Dario Martinelli (Dept. Musicology, Uni of Helsinki) | ||
| RT topic | Zoosemiotics: Bridging different species: Animals, representation and discourse | ||
| 38. | Country/District | Brazil | primborges@gmail.com |
| Organizer(s) | Priscila Borges (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, Brazil) | ||
| RT topic | Internet and Semiotics | ||
| 39. | Country/District | Finland | ahti-veikko.pietarinen@helsinki.fi |
| Organizer(s) | Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen (Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies, University of Helsinki) | ||
| RT topic | Peirce’s Semiotics | ||
| 40. | Country/District | Venezuela | roccomangieri642@hotmail.com |
| Organizer(s) | Rocco Mangieri (Laboratory of semiotics and socioanthropology, Los Andes University. ULA.) | ||
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| 41. | Country/District | USA | dr.charls@avillager.org |
| Organizer(s) | Charls Pearson (American Semiotics Research Institute; Atlanta)Participants:Gu Jia-zu (Nanjing Normal University; Nanjing, China)Elizeo Fernandez (Linda Hall Library of Science and Technology, Kansas City, USA)Richard Lanigan (International Communicology Institute; USA)Goran Sonesson (Lund University; Lund, Sweden) | ||
| RT topic | The Status of Theoretical Semiotics | ||
| 42. | Country/District | Israel（以色列） | semiosol@netvision.net.il |
| Organizer(s) | Abraham Solomonick (Ministry of Education, Israel) | ||
| RT topic | Reciprocal Interactions between Semiotics and some other Leading Sciences | ||
| 43. | Country/District | Finland | pirjo.kukkonen@helsinki.fi |
| Organizer(s) | Pirjo Kukkonen（Univ of Helsinki） | ||
| RT topic | Translation semiotics | ||
| 44. | Country/District | France, Spain, USA | lescuderochauvel@gmail.comTeresa.Velazquez@uab.esecolon@caribe.net |
| Organizer(s) | Lucrecia Escudero Chauvel (Université de Lile. France)Teresa Velázquez (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Spain)Eliseo Colón (Universidad de Puerto Rico. USA | ||
| RT topic | New Cultural Identities and Digitals Mediations | ||
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Round Tables and Sessions in
“The 1st Chinese Symposium on Semiotics”
(Oct. 4, 2012, hosted by School of Foreign Languages & Cultures, Nanjing Normal University)
(speaking in Chinese)
| RT Topics | Organizers | |
| 1. Logic, cognitive sciences, and semiotics | Huaxin Huang: School of Humanities, Zhejiang UniversityZongming Chen: Department of Philosophy, Zhejiang School of AdministrationChongli Zou: Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) | rw211@ch.zju.edu.cnsaiyingma@sina.com.cnchlizou@263.net |
| 2. Arts of movie and television, film theory, and semiotics | Chunjing Qu: School of Film and TV Arts & Technology, Shanghai UniversityLongren Qi: Department of Radio, Television and Film, Shih Hsin UniversityJingbo Zhou: Communication University of China | quchunjing@163.comlzchi@cc.shu.edu.twzhoujingbo@cuc.edu.cn |
| 3. Fine arts and semiotics | Hanwei Wang: School of Fine Arts, Nanjing Normal University | hanwei1905@gmail.com |
| 4. Linguistics and semiotics | Bin Xin: School of Foreign Languages & Cultures, Nanjing Normal University | xinb5906@yahoo.com.cn |
| 5. Theories of literature and art and semiotics | Xianzhang Zhao: Research Institute of Aesthetics, Nanjing UniversityGuohua Zhu: Department of Chinese Language and Literature, School of Humanities and Social Science, East China Normal University | zhao837@msn.comghzhu@zhwx.ecnu.edu.cn |
| 6. Chinese literature and semiotics | Liang Xu: Department of Chinese Language and Literature, School of Humanities, Zhejiang UniversityXiaolin Tang: College of Literature and Journalism, Sichuan University | zjdxxuliang@163.comtangxl6523cd@yahoo.com.cn |
| 7. Culturology, media studies, and semiotics | Yiheng Zhao: College of Literature and Journalism, Sichuan UniversityYan Li: Department of Journalism and Communication Studies, College of Media and International Culture, Zhejiang University | zhaoyiheng@gmail.com; |
| 8. East European and Soviet-Russian literature and semiotics | Mingyu Wang: Tianjin Foreign Studies UniversityCheng Kang: School of Foreign Languages & Cultures, Nanjing Normal University | mywang2@163.com;cathykc@126.com |
| 9. History of the ideas of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism, and semiotics | Pengcheng Gong: Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking UniversityLunyue Wang (Centre d’Etudes Chinoises, INALCO, Paris)Haiyan Shen (Dept. philosophy, Shanghai University) | gungpc@gmail.comfrederic.wang@neuf.frhyshen86@yahoo.com.cn |
| 10. Ancient history, archaeology, textual criticism, and semiotics | Rui Wu (Institute of History, CASS)Zhenjiang Ning (Institute of Ancient History, Shanghai University) | xuanku03@yahoo.com.cn; shdtchxj@163.com |
| 11. Semiotics, teaching of semiotics, and translation | Zhiting Zhang (College of Foreign Languages, Nankai University)Yuping Li: Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Nankai University | zhangshuono3@163.com;catheadli@yeah.net |
| 12. Semiotic studies in Taiwan | Hsiu-chih Tsai (Dept. of foreign languages, University of Taiwan) | tsaihc@ntu.edu.tw / tsaihc@ntu.edu.cn |
| 13. Social semiotics | Deping Lu (Tianjin Foreign Studies University) | depinglu@sina.com |
| 14. Semiotics in Chongqing: Culture and Cognition | Xu Wen (College of Foreign Languages, Southwest University) | bywenxu@yahoo.com.cn |