The second annual Lotman days
06/04/2010 - 15:00 - 15:00
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The second annual days dedicated to Yuri Lotman, a semiotician and
culturologist, will take place from June 4 to 6, 2010 in Tallinn
University. The programme of the event includes an international conference
“Chance and Unpredictability in Culture, Language and Literature” and
an evening of Polish culture, where readers have the opportunity to meet
Natalya Gorbanevskaya, a poet and a legendary freedom fighter during the
Soviet era.The Lotman days will be opened on Friday, June 4 at 10:30 by a
presentation of Yuri Lotman’s book “Kultuuri ettearvamatud
mehhanismid” (“The Unpredictable Mechanisms of Culture”). The book
presentation will be followed by a three-day international conference
“Chance and Predictability in Culture, Language and Literature”,
bringing visitors from Germany, Finland, Russia, Ukraine, Switzerland,
Poland and other countries to Tallinn. Among the 43 speakers at the
conference will be Prof Mikhail Lotman and Prof Rein Veidemann from Tallinn
University; Viktor Kantor, philosopher; Igor Pilchchikov, literary
scientist; and Fyodor Uspensky, son of Boris Uspensky, a semiotician of
history who worked closely with Jury Lotman.On Saturday, June 5, everyone
is welcome to participate in the evening of Polish culture, where readers
have the opportunity to meet Natalya Gorbanevskaya, a legendary poet. This
will be followed by a presentation of Bogusław Żyłko’s book
“Cultural Semiotics: the Tartu–Moscow Semiotics School” (in Polish),
and a presentation of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow by Ewelina
Pilarczuki, a Lotman scholar of Polish
descent.#RUS_p92e114ecd150f0bf11520f4d3a4df334.doc# The Lotman days are
organised by Tallinn University, TU Estonian Institute of Humanities and
the Estonian Semiotics Repository Foundation. The event is supported by the
Estonian Science Foundation (grant ETF JD 171), a state programme “The
Estonian Language and Cultural Memory” (EKKM 09-158), the Estonian
Institute of Humanities, the Estonian Ministry of Culture and the Embassy
of the Republic of Poland in Tallinn.More information: Tatyana Kuzovkina,
tkuzovkina@mail.ru
culturologist, will take place from June 4 to 6, 2010 in Tallinn
University. The programme of the event includes an international conference
“Chance and Unpredictability in Culture, Language and Literature” and
an evening of Polish culture, where readers have the opportunity to meet
Natalya Gorbanevskaya, a poet and a legendary freedom fighter during the
Soviet era.The Lotman days will be opened on Friday, June 4 at 10:30 by a
presentation of Yuri Lotman’s book “Kultuuri ettearvamatud
mehhanismid” (“The Unpredictable Mechanisms of Culture”). The book
presentation will be followed by a three-day international conference
“Chance and Predictability in Culture, Language and Literature”,
bringing visitors from Germany, Finland, Russia, Ukraine, Switzerland,
Poland and other countries to Tallinn. Among the 43 speakers at the
conference will be Prof Mikhail Lotman and Prof Rein Veidemann from Tallinn
University; Viktor Kantor, philosopher; Igor Pilchchikov, literary
scientist; and Fyodor Uspensky, son of Boris Uspensky, a semiotician of
history who worked closely with Jury Lotman.On Saturday, June 5, everyone
is welcome to participate in the evening of Polish culture, where readers
have the opportunity to meet Natalya Gorbanevskaya, a legendary poet. This
will be followed by a presentation of Bogusław Żyłko’s book
“Cultural Semiotics: the Tartu–Moscow Semiotics School” (in Polish),
and a presentation of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow by Ewelina
Pilarczuki, a Lotman scholar of Polish
descent.#RUS_p92e114ecd150f0bf11520f4d3a4df334.doc# The Lotman days are
organised by Tallinn University, TU Estonian Institute of Humanities and
the Estonian Semiotics Repository Foundation. The event is supported by the
Estonian Science Foundation (grant ETF JD 171), a state programme “The
Estonian Language and Cultural Memory” (EKKM 09-158), the Estonian
Institute of Humanities, the Estonian Ministry of Culture and the Embassy
of the Republic of Poland in Tallinn.More information: Tatyana Kuzovkina,
tkuzovkina@mail.ru