Programm

MONDAY, AUGUST 17 09:00 Registration

10:00 Opening

10:30-12:00 PLENARY LECTURE Jordan Zlatev: "The Semiotic Hierarchy Revised: From Life to Language"

12:00-12:30 Registration continues

12:30-14:00 Lunch

PANEL A PANEL B PANEL C

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Perspectives from history of semiotics (Chair: Martin Švantner)

Interliguistic translation (Chair: Elin Sütiste, Peeter Torop) Cognitive development and education (Chair: Göran Sonesson)

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Martin Švantner

Possibilities and Paradoxes of Interpretations of History of Semiotics. The Case of Sophistry and Greek Rhetoric

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Elin Sütiste

Strategies in recreating semiotic coherence of fictional worlds in translation

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Gisela Bruche-Schulz

On the awareness of engaging the world

Martin Charvát

Gilles Deleuze and the Stoic theory of signs Eric Klaus Gateways of Meaning Making: Unpredictable Translations in the Texts of Yoko Tawada

Leyza Lucas, Erick Machado, Rosangela Silva, Waldmir Araujo-Neto

Explosion and (un-)predictability in classroom practices: gestures, tools and their cultural integration

Michal Karľa

Imposition and Semiosis in Roger Bacon`s De signis Neža Zajc

Juri Lotman and the Question of the Personal Poetics

Štěpán Pudlák

Mental Disorders as Semiotic Constructions

Ekaterina Velmezova

From “formal” to “semiotic” reconstructions in the light of the (un)predictability of their results

Rovena Troqe

Translation is a Delicate Dance: unpredictable trajectories in normative environments. Anticipative and Configurative Translational Practice for National Geographic

Kyra Landzelius

Habits and their Discontents: Autism and the Re-worlding of Empathy

16:00-16:30 Break

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Discovering semiotic unpredictability (Chair: Martin Švantner, Remo Gramigna)

Intersemiotic texts in culture (Chair: Elin Sütiste, Peeter Torop)

Culture and cognition (Chair: Morten Tønnessen)

Gen

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sem

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Taras Boyko

How Juri Lotman "met" Ilya Prigogine

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Dolores Chávez

Intersemiosis in a musical-painting systems: Mexican jazz fusion and visual art

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Sara Lenninger

When the other's responses are unpredictable; why do es the baby still pay attention to the interaction?

Laura Gherlone

Cultural “erosion” and creation between Bakhtin and Lotman

Henrique Rochelle Meneghini

Communicating Dance, Understanding Dance, Translating Dance

Göran Sonesson

Beyond Hobbes and Rousseau The Cognitive Semiotics of Cultural

Maja Gwóźdź

A Theoretical Model of the Meta-Semiosphere

Marco Sonzogni

Predictability, Unpredictability and Pluralism of Interpretation: Book Cover Design as Intersemiotic Translation and Crosscultural Communication

Aleksei Semenenko

Lotman’s Approach to the Problem of Human vs. Nonhuman Semiosis

Zdzisław Wąsik

Abstraction as a source of creativity: On the (un-)predictability of imaginative inventiveness from the perspective of semio- and techno-ethics

Tatjana Pilipoveca

Predictability of text interpretation: who is the Dragon?

Carlos Vidales

A semiotic multi-level approach for the study of conceptual systems in communication

TUESDAY, AUGUST 18 09:00 Buses leave to Leigo

10:00 Welcoming coffee, introduction to the place

10

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3 Perspectives from Tartu (Chair !Peter Grzybek)

Kalevi Kull Semiosis and time: logical conflict and habits

Anti Randviir Predictable dynamisn between the central and the periferal

Peeter Torop Cultural semiotics and (un)predictability

Mihhail Lotman Semiotics and ontology

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Unpredictability in Tartu semiotics

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:00 PLENARY LECTURE Ilya Utekhin: "How Humans Deal with their Future: Towards an anthroposemiotic Account"

15:00-15:30 Break

15

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4 Perspectives on (un)predictability

Six semiotic perspectives on (un-)predictability

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Do semiotic rules and laws exist?

18:00 Conference dinner, sauna

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 19

PANEL A PANEL B PANEL C 0

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Immanent habit (Chair: Myrdene Anderson, Donna E. West) Unpredictabilities in intercultural translation (Chair: E.

Sütiste, P Torop)

Biosemiotics and cognition (Chair: Morten Tønnessen)

Hab

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Donna E. West

The semiosis of Peirce’s dicisign in early habit-formation

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Evangelos Kourdis & Georgios Damaskinidis

(Un)predictability in verbal-visual interactions of English and French caricatures translated in the Greek press

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Tommi Vehkavaara

Common grounds for Peircean oriented biosemiotics and phenomenologically based cognitive semiotics

Dinda L. Gorlée

On habit: Peirce's story and history Tiina Põllu Translation and censorship of the French Nouvelle Vague movies

Andres Kurismaa

Towards the biosemiotics of cognition: criterial and categorical processes in brain dominants

Göran Sonesson

Thirdness as the observer observed: From habit to law by way of habitus

Stella Karamag-kiola

The idiosyncratic ‘‘behaviour’’ of an insular: when sociolinguistics meets semiotics of culture can psycholinguistics evolve insularity? Aporias and reflections of a linguistic research

Andreas Weber

The Fertile Wild. Towards a Poetics of Mutual Transformation

Elżbieta Magdalena Wąsik

(Un-)predictability in the significative and communicative activities of the linguistic self

Claudio Julio Rodríguez Higuera

In place of a placeholder: The role and future of predictions in biosemiotics

11:00-11:30 Break

11:30-12:30 PLENARY LECTURE Mihai Nadin: "Semiotics is about the meaning of interaction"

12:30-14:00 Lunch

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Contextual habit (Chair: Myrdene Anderson, Donna E. West) Institutionalising intersemiosis (Chair: E. Sütiste, P. Torop) Umwelt and agency (Chair: Göran Sonesson)

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Adam A. Ferguson

From Peirce’s habit to bourdieu’s habitus: reading masculinity in Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Armando González Salinas

A research project on linguistic and cultural predictability - unpredictability in ranslation of English and Spanish texts

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Katherine T. Peil

The evolution of emotion

Tyler Bennett The debatable necessity of unpredictability in Peirce's semiotic

Indrek Ibrus Audiovisual heritage metadata systems as ambivalent curators of cultural innovation

Morten Tønnessen

Agency in biosemiotics and enactivism

Benjamin P. Jackson

Habit, super-markedness, and transgression

Maarja Ojamaa

Unpredictable heritage: an autocommunicative aspect of transmediating archival materials

Luis Emilio Bruni

On the heterarchical processuality of semiotic freedom

Sergio Alejandro Rodríguez Jerez

The need for constitutive triad of language: a contribution to the development of edusemiotic.

Timo Maran Towards a critical Umwelt analysis: preliminary considerations

16:00-16:30 Break

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Habits in use (Chair: Myrdene Anderson, Donna E. West) Probability, predictability and their alternatives in semiotic analysis (Chair: Peter Grzybek)

Social action in urban space (Chair: Kati Lindström)

Gen

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Myrdene Anderson and Sara Cannizzaro

Conversations Between Agency and Patiency: Instinct, Habituescence, Addiction

Cre

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pro

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, (u

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)pre

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tab

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anal

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Peter Grzybek

Meteo-prognostic paremia: semiotics of weather omens

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Anna Grinfeld

Translation at the city limits: Paris and its banlieues

Jeoffrey Gaspard

Discourse regularities and predictability: making sense of discursive habits in Communication situations

Jonathan Griffin

Choice and the irreducible role of inclination

Maria Noel Do

New ways of social protest: unpredictable public performances

Kaie Kotov Change of Habits A Case of Upcycled by Reet Aus

Massimo Leone

Earthquakes Talk: Semiotic Reactions to Unpredictability

Mario Panico

The spatial unpredictability: Artistic and ideological practics about Soviet Army Monument in Sofia

Ignacio Ramos Beltran

Predictability and unpredictability in the understanding of prehispanic art: growth within tradition

18:30 NASS meeting

THURSDAY, AUGUST 20

PANEL A PANEL B PANEL C 0

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Antagonistic*relations*and*power*(Chair:*Andreas*Ventsel) Dialectic*cultural*dynamics*(Chair:*J.*Haidar,*E.*Chávez*Herrera) Playing*(unD)predictability*(Chair:*Olga*Bogdanova)

Political!se

miotics:!con

ceptualizing!

contingency

Andreas(

Ventsel Constructing!the!unpredictability!–!a!possible!mechanism!of!political!contra1discourse

The!dialectics!o

f!predictable/!u

npredictable!

in!cultural!sem

iotic!produ

ctions! Julieta(Haidar

Cultural!dynamics!among!gradual!and!explosive!processes

Playing!(un1)predictable

Vincenzo(

Idone(

Cassone

Culture!(at)!play.!Unpredictability!and!ruling!in!games!and!culture

Andrey(

Makarychev(

and(Alexandra(

Yatsyk

Borders!and!reproduction!of!the!political:!a!cultural!semiotic!perspective

Graciela(

Sánchez(

Guevara(and(

Irene(Sánchez(

Guevara

The!(Un)!predictability!of!the!University!Education!System!in!Mexico!

Mattia(

Thibault Games!and!unpredictability:!from!playing!cards!to!procedural!generation

Dimitry((

Okropiridze

Necessity!!of!!Antagonism,!!Contingency!!of!!Content!!(Un1)Predictability!!Explained!!Through!!Post1Foundational!!Semiotics

Heidi(Piña(

Gasca Human!Thresholds:!Meanings!of!re1routing!towards!2050

Michael(

Grinfeld(and(

A.(Pittock The!cognitive!task!of!a!cryptic!crossword!clue

Peeter(Selg Political!semiotics!and1as!relational!political!analysis

Mary(J.(

Eberhardinger Singaporean!slogans:!The!demand!to!be!taken!seriously Silja(Nikula

Pictures!in!crossword!puzzles!–!a!game!of!cultural!language

11:00-11:30 Break

11:30-12:30 PLENARY LECTURE Stuart(Kauffman:("On(enablement(and(unprestatability(of(living"

12:30-14:00 Lunch

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Contingency*in*discourses*(Chair:*Andreas*Ventsel) Explosive*moments*in*society**(Chair:*Julieta*Haidar) Knowledge*and*environment*in*move**(Chair:*Kati*Lindström)

Political!se

miotics:!con

ceptualizing!contingency Ernesto(de(los(

Santos(

Domínguez(and(

Lariza(Elvira(

Aguilera(Ramírez

Mexico’s!president!in!the!presence!of!unpredictability

The!dialectics!o

f!predictable/!u

npredictable!in!

cultu

ral!sem

iotic!produ

ctions!

María(Eugenia(

Flores(Trevino,(

Olga(Nelly(

Estrada

(Un1)predictability,!disorder!and!intersemiotics!relationship:!The!mayor!of!the!city!delivers!the!keys!to!Christ!

Actio

n!in!enviro

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Morten((

Tønnessen The!future!Umwelten!of!wolves,!sheep!and!people!in!Scandinavia

Inesa(

Sahakyan

Unpredictability!of!political!discourse!of!political!discourse:!when!words!come!to!mean!what!they!didn’t!when!uttered

Eduardo(

Chávez(

Herrera

Popular!discontent!as!a!catalyst!device!for!unpredictability.!Ayotzinapa:!“the!Mexican!moment”

Riin(Magnus,(

Kadri(Tüür,(

Eva(Väljaots

Unpredictability!in!the!Estonian!narratives!of!marine!itineraries

Jaakko(

Turunen Contingency,!Translation!and!Parliamentary!Talk

Griselda(

Zárate(and(

Homero(

Zambrano

Financial!Discourse!of!200712008!Crisis:!From!unpredictability!and!Explosion!to!Predictability

Muzayin(

Nazaruddin Natural!Hazard!and!Semiotic!Changes!on!the!Slope!of!Mt.!Merapi,!Indonesia

Alberto(Iudica New!media!and!politics:!are!social!networks!a!useful!tool!for!politicians?

NicolaeYSorin(

Drăgan

Politicians!in!the!mirror:!a!semio1functional!approach!of!televised!debates!for!the!presidential!elections!in!romania,!from!november!2014

Kati(

Lindström Materialization!of!imagined!yet!unpredictable!catastrophes!in!landscapes

16:00-16:30 Break

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SESS

ION

7

Constructing*subjects*and*their*histories*(Chair:*Andreas*Ventsel)

Narration*between*predictable*and*unpredictable**(Chair:*Julieta*Haidar)

Monumental*predictability**(Chair:*Kati*Lindström)

Political!se

miotics:!con

ceptualizing!

contingency

Kristin(Vaik Unpredictabilties!in!the!process!of!constructing!new!literary!history!in!Estonian!Soviet!Socialist!Republic!!!

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!dialectics!o

f!predictable/!

unpred

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semiotic!produ

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Lyudmyla(

Zaporozhtseva Love!is...,!or!Contemporary!myth!on!love!within!mass1cultural!discourse

Actio

n!in!enviro

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Federico(

Bellentani The!official!planning!of!monuments!and!the!popular!interpretations!on!monumental!space

Ott(Puumeister Production!of!unpredictability!in!biopower Yulia(Aprosina The!categories!of!predictability!and!unpredictability!in!Hitchcock’s!cinematic!narration

Kevin(

Raaphorst

The!Politics!of!Landscape!Design!Communication:!power/knowledge!and!signifying!practices!in!landscape!architecture

Pietro(Restaneo The!unpredictable!language:!The!debate!over!language!policy!and!language!unpredictability!in!A.!Gramsci:!a!case!study

Małgorzata(

Zadka Picture!translated!into!a!message!in!Greek!Myths Lise(Schrøder

Cultural!heritage!as!a!meaning1making!mechanism!and!a!resource!for!collaboration!in!spatial!planning!processes

Yuliya(

Martinavichene

The!rhetoric!of!contingency:!poststructuralist!perspective!on!necessity!and!chance!in!politics

María(Eugenia(

Flores(Trevino,(

José(María(

Infante(Bonfiglio

(Un1)predictability,!explosion!and!disorder!in!Mexican!politics.!An!intersemiotic!study!of!the!film!"La!ley!de!Herodes"