Call for Papers: 5th Annual Lotman Days
The 5th Annual Lotman Days conference entitled "Text and Audience" will be
held in Tallinn University from 31 May to 2 June 2013. The conference is
dedicated to Yuri Lotman, a semiotician and culturologist.This year’s
conference is inspired by Lotman’s seminal paper, "The Text and the
Structure of Its Audience". The intention is to revive Lotman’s ideas
about text as a generator of meanings, to discuss the communicative and
pragmatic aspects of text, and new methods of text analysis.The agenda
includes the following issues: - Pragmatic and socio-cultural criteria of
differentiation between "text" and "non-text";- Text as a fundamentally
heterogeneous, multilingual and poly-semantic object;- Text and its
readers; the reader’s active role in the disclosure of the text’s
semantic potential; text in the communication process, problems of
interpretation; - Text as a dynamic object (a "self-augmenting Logos"): a
triad "text – culture – semiosphere".The conference will include panels
in Russian and English. Each speaker is allotted thirty minutes (20 minutes
for delivery and 10 minutes for discussion).The Call for Papers is open for
academic paper presentations.The proposals should include the following
information:- The title of the paper and an abstract (the abstract should
not exceed 2000 characters, including spaces)- A brief CV (name, surname,
affiliation, degree, scholarly interests — up to 1000 characters,
including spaces).Deadline for the submission of proposals is 11 March
2013.Proposals in Russian should be sent to Mikhail Trunin:
mikhailtrunin@gmail.comProposals in English should be sent to Piret Peiker:
piretpeiker@hotmail.comThe Organizing Committee will select the proposals
based on their merit and suitability for the conference. The applicants
will be informed of the results by 2 April 2013. There is no conference fee
and all conference events are also free of charge. Travel expenses, however
remain the responsibility of the individual participants. The
Organizing Committee of the 5th Annual Lotman Days conference at Tallinn
University consists of: Rein Raud (Chair), Tatjana Kuzovkina, Mihhail
Lotman, Piret Peiker, Igor Pilshchikov, Mikhail Trunin (Secretary).For
further information please contact:Piret PeikerTallinn University Estonian
Institute of HumanitiesE-mail: piretpeiker@hotmail.com
held in Tallinn University from 31 May to 2 June 2013. The conference is
dedicated to Yuri Lotman, a semiotician and culturologist.This year’s
conference is inspired by Lotman’s seminal paper, "The Text and the
Structure of Its Audience". The intention is to revive Lotman’s ideas
about text as a generator of meanings, to discuss the communicative and
pragmatic aspects of text, and new methods of text analysis.The agenda
includes the following issues: - Pragmatic and socio-cultural criteria of
differentiation between "text" and "non-text";- Text as a fundamentally
heterogeneous, multilingual and poly-semantic object;- Text and its
readers; the reader’s active role in the disclosure of the text’s
semantic potential; text in the communication process, problems of
interpretation; - Text as a dynamic object (a "self-augmenting Logos"): a
triad "text – culture – semiosphere".The conference will include panels
in Russian and English. Each speaker is allotted thirty minutes (20 minutes
for delivery and 10 minutes for discussion).The Call for Papers is open for
academic paper presentations.The proposals should include the following
information:- The title of the paper and an abstract (the abstract should
not exceed 2000 characters, including spaces)- A brief CV (name, surname,
affiliation, degree, scholarly interests — up to 1000 characters,
including spaces).Deadline for the submission of proposals is 11 March
2013.Proposals in Russian should be sent to Mikhail Trunin:
mikhailtrunin@gmail.comProposals in English should be sent to Piret Peiker:
piretpeiker@hotmail.comThe Organizing Committee will select the proposals
based on their merit and suitability for the conference. The applicants
will be informed of the results by 2 April 2013. There is no conference fee
and all conference events are also free of charge. Travel expenses, however
remain the responsibility of the individual participants. The
Organizing Committee of the 5th Annual Lotman Days conference at Tallinn
University consists of: Rein Raud (Chair), Tatjana Kuzovkina, Mihhail
Lotman, Piret Peiker, Igor Pilshchikov, Mikhail Trunin (Secretary).For
further information please contact:Piret PeikerTallinn University Estonian
Institute of HumanitiesE-mail: piretpeiker@hotmail.com