Programme
Thursday,October 23
11 h
Registration
12.30-13 h
Introduction
1. Culture and Power
13-13.30 h
Albrecht Koschorke (Konstanz): On the Functioning of Cultural Peripheries
13.30-14 h
Michael C. Frank (Konstanz): Spheres, Borders and Contact Zones: Yuri Lotman’s Spatial Theory of Culture from the Perspective of Postcolonialism
14-14.30 h
Thomas Grob (Basel): Two Times Lotman. Yuri Lotman’s Conception of Cultural Historical Dynamics between Law and Coincidence
14.30-15 h
Coffee Break
15-15.30 h
Özkan Ezli (Konstanz/Tübingen): Amorphous Negotiations: German-Turkish Literature and Film at the Borderlines of the Semiosphere
15.30-16 h
Annette Werberger (Tübingen): The Borders of the Semiosphere I: “Border Tales“ in the Western Ukraine
16-16.30 h
Katharina Eisch-Angus (Regensburg): Border, Memory, and the Clock Figures of Prague: Semiotic Demarcations on Ethnographic Paths of Research
16.30-17 h
Andrea Hacker (Tübingen): Lotman’s Theory of the Semiosphere between Enlightenment and Globalization
17-17.30 h
Coffee Break
17.30-19 h
Michail Lotman (Tartu): Impossible Communication: the Structure of Hymn
20 h
Dinner
Friday, October 24
2. Discursive Asymmetry
9-9.30 h
Edna Andrews (Duke University): Lotman and the Cognitive Sciences. The Role of Autocommunication in the Language of Memory
9.30-10 h
Urmas Sutrop (Tartu): Language as a modelling communicative system
10-10.30 h
Neena Gupta-Biener (Konstanz): Critical reflection on the application of Lotman’s concept of communication processes in understanding discursive asymmetry in intercultural interactions. The case of intercultural communication between Germans and Indians
10.30-11 h
Coffee Break
11-11.30 h
Renata Makarska (Konstanz/Tübingen): Translation between Periphery and Center: Bronisława Wajs and Mariella Mehr
11.30-12 h
Soo-Hwan Kim (Seoul): From “Influence” to “Dialogue”: Yurij Lotman on intercultural communication
12-12.30 h
Valerij Gretchko (Tokio): Yuri Lotman’s Model of Communicative Asymmetry: Its Origins and Implications
12.30-14 h
Lunch (Level K7, above the commons)
3. “Explosion,” “Entropy,” etc.: the Metaphorics of Cultural Semiosis
14-14.30 h
Peter Selg (Tallinn)/Andreas Ventsel (Tartu): Towards a Semiotic Model of Hegemony
Abstracts
14.30-15 h
Sergej Zenkin (Moskau): Continual Models after Lotman
15-15.30 h
Peeter Torop (Tartu): Integration of Explosion and Methodology of Semiotics of Culture
15.30-16 h
Coffee Break
16-16.30 h
Daniele Monticelli (Tartu): Dialogue, periphery, explosion. Some political implications
16.30-17 h
Irina Wutsdorff (Tübingen): Yuri Lotman’s Cultural Semiotics between Russia and Europe
17-17.30 h
Coffee Break
17.30-19 h
Renate Lachmann (Konstanz): Reading Lotman’s Concepts for Literary Studies as Cultural Semiosis
20 h
Dinner
Saturday, October 25
4. The Poetics of Culture
8.30-9 h
Jelena Grigorjeva (Tartu): From formula to evidence – evolution of semiotic method by Yuri Lotman
9-9.30 h
Ülle Pärli (Tartu): Receptive Aesthetics and Lotman’s Analysis of an Artistic Text
9.30-10 h
Elize Bisanz (Lüneburg): Symbolic Forms and Cultural Intelligence. Interdisciplinary approaches to the cultural body by Charles S.Peirce, Ernst Cassirer und Jurij Lotman
10-10.30 h
Coffee Break
10.30-11 h
Schamma Schahadat (Tübingen): Cultural Semiotics, Poetics of Culture: Readings
11-11.30 h
Marlene Heidel (Lüneburg): The Unpredictability of Poetic Meaning
11.30-12 h
Dieter Mersch (Potsdam): Hybrid Semiosis: Yuri Lotman on the Question of Cultural Creativity
12-12.30 h
Lunch
12.30 h
Final Statement Karl Eimermacher (Bochum) / Final Discussion