34th Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Cincinnati OH, 2009:

34^th Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Cincinnati OH, 2009:

Tentative / Working Schedule: REVISED 9/30/09
Email Corrections/queries to jcoletta@uwsp.edu

Thursday 15 October 2009

13:00-14:00 Executive Meeting (Board of Directors)

14:00-15:30 Plenary address, Tom Bruneau, Emeritus Professor, Radford U (Regency B)

15:30-15:45 Coffee break

15:45-17:45 4-paper parallel sessions: Chair designated by an asterisk*

15:45-17:45 4-paper parallel session (Board of Directors room)

Semiotics of Time 1: Haworth, Karen (U of West Florida); Sister Paula

Jean Miller (U of St. Thomas); Brooke Williams Deely* (U St. Thomas, Houston)

15:45-17:45 4-paper parallel session (Board of Governors room)

Peirce 1: David Pfeifer (IUPUI); Linda L. Spier (Certified Cognitive

Behavioral Therapist); Veronica Lawlor (New School of Social Research);

J. Raymond Zimmer* (Roper St. Francis Medical Center)

15:45-17:45 4-paper parallel session (Mountaineer room)

Greimas and the Kaleidoscopic Vision of Time: Hong Wang

(Shippensburg U of Pennsylvania); Nataliya Semchynska (Purdue U); Terry J. Prewitt* (U of West Florida)

15:45-17:45 4-paper parallel session (Musketeer room)

Music and Semiotics 1: Tyler Roe (Florida State U);

Dave Easley* (Florida State U); Aaron Sharmer (U of Wisconsin-Stevens Point); Ian Gerg (U of Texas at Austin)

17:45-18:45 Reception with cash bar (Sungarden Lounge)

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Friday 16 October 2009

08:30-10:00 3-paper parallel sessions: Chair designated by an asterisk*

08:30-10:00 3-paper parallel session (Board of Directors room)

Music and Semiotics 2: Steven J. Cahn (U of Cincinnati); David Carson

Berry (U of Cincinnati); Javier Clavere* (U of Cincinnati)

08:30-10:00 3-paper parallel session (Keystone room)

Symposium 1: Recovering the Residues of Senses: Circulating Signs in

Rubbish Theory: Chair: Franco Lai* (Purdue U). Myrdene Anderson (Purdue U); Sugata Bhattacharya (Independent Scholar); Nina Corazzo (Valparaiso U)

08:30-10:00 3-paper parallel session (Mountaineer room)

Semiotics of Time 2: Chair: Pat Gott*: Nataliya Semchynska (Purdue U); Astrid Guillaume (University of Paris Sorbonne); Steven Skaggs (U of Louisville)

10:00-10:15 Coffee break

10:15-12:15 4-paper parallel sessions: Chair designated by an asterisk*

10:15-12:15 4-paper parallel session (Board of Directors room)

Biosemiotics: Eliseo Fernandez (Linda Hall Library of Science and

Technology); Mette Bøll* (Biosemiotic Group, Denmark), Steven J. Takacs (IUPUI); Stacy E. Ake (Drexel U)

10:15-12:15 4-paper parallel session (Keystone room)

Symposium 2: Recovering the Residues of Senses: Circulating Signs in

Rubbish Theory: Chair: Franco Lai* (Purdue U). Susan Nordstrom (U of Georgia); Pauline Spiegel (Indiana U); Myrdene Anderson (Purdue U) and Devika Chawla (Ohio U)

10:15-12:15 4-paper parallel session (Mountaineer room)

Literature and Semiotics 1: Paolo Desogus (U of Wisconsin-Madison);

Ferdi Memelli (Purdue U); Brooke Williams Deely* and Terry Hall (U of St. Thomas, Houston); Deborah Leiter (Purdue U);

10:15-12:15 4-paper parallel session (Musketeer room)

Identities: Gender / Sexuality / Ethnicity: Kevin Cummings* (Mercer U) and John Rief (Pittsburgh U); Daniel Breining (U of Wisconsin-Stevens Point); Yukihide Endo (Hamamatsu U School of Medicine, Japan); Nadia Siddiqui (Fatima Jinnah Women U, Rawalpindi, Pakistan)

12:30-14:00 Lunch and Plenary: Professor Vincent Colapietro, Subject: Temporality and Subjectivity, Pennsylvania State University (speaking from 12:45 – 13:30) (Regency A)

14:00-15:30 3-paper parallel sessions: Chair designated by an asterisk*

14:00-15:30 3-paper parallel session (Board of Directors room)

Agency in Music and Film: Robert Hatten* (Indiana U); Byron Almén (U of Texas); Timothy Best (Indiana U)

14:00-15:30 3-paper parallel session Room D (Keystone room)

Symposium 3: Recovering the Residues of Senses: Circulating Signs in

Rubbish Theory: Chair: Franco Lai* (Purdue U). Elzbieta Kazmierczak (U of Illinois); Gila Safran-Naveh (U of Cincinnati); Katja Pettinen (Purdue U)

14:00-15:30 3-paper parallel session (Mountaineer room)

Semiotics and Cognitive Studies 1: Temporal Semiosis – The Cognitive Construals of Time: Per Aage Brandt* (Case Western Reserve U); Ana Margarida Abrantes (U Católica de Lisboa)

14:00-15:30 3-paper parallel session (Musketeer room)

The Life of the Sign: Now and Then: Thomas Idinopulos (Miami U

[Ohio]); Setareh Kiumarsi (Tehran U); K. Dickson* (Purdue U)

15:30-15:45 Coffee break

15:45-17:45 4-paper parallel sessions: Chair designated by an asterisk*

15:45-17:45 4-paper parallel session (Board of Directors room)

Metaphor: Frank Nuessel* (U of Louisville); Donna E. West (SUNY Cortland); Timothy Ziegenhagen (Northland College); Richard Currie Smith (Kent State University)

15:45-17:45 4-paper parallel session (Keystone room)

Symposium 4 (Concluding Session): Recovering the Residues of Senses: Circulating Signs in Rubbish Theory. Chair: Myrdene Anderson.* Session to include one new paper, previous presenters, and the following discussants: Paper: Vernard Foley (Purdue U). Discussants: Jonathan Beever (Purdue U); Jorge Conesa-Sevilla (Northland College); Sean A. Day (Trident Technical College); Richard Doherty (U of Illinois, Urbana) ; Phyllis Passariello (Centre College); Anthony Webster (Southern Illinois University)

15:45-17:45 4-paper parallel session (Mountaineer room)

Semiotics and Narrative: Chair: Pat Gott*; Roberto Flores-Ortiz (Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia); Niculae V. Mihaita (The Bucharest U of Economics); Gilbert Chaitin (Indiana U); David FitzSimmons (Ashland U)

15:45-17:45 4-paper parallel session (Musketeer room)

Constructing Time and Temporality in Opera and Song: Andrew

Davis (U of Houston); Yayoi Uno Everett* (Emory U); Marianne Kielian-

Gilbert (Indiana U)

18:00-19:00 Presidential Reception (Regency A Foyer, with Cash Bar)

19:00 - 20:00 Plenary address by Professor Thomas Broden, President, SSA (Purdue U) (Regency A)

20:00-21:00 Banquet (Regency A)

Evening program 21:00- 22:30: AARON SHARMER, jazz piano; JAVIER & LINDSAY CLAVERE PIANO DUO (Regency EF)

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Saturday 17 October 2009

08:30-10:00 3-paper parallel sessions: Chair designated by an asterisk*

08:30-10:00 3-paper parallel session (Board of Directors room)

Visual Semiotics 1: Chair: Pat Gott*: Xóchitl ARIAS GONZALEZ (Monterrey Institut of Technology); J. P. McMahon (UCC, Ireland); Niculae V. Mihaita (The Bucharest U of Economics)

08:30-10:00 3-paper parallel session (Keystone room)

Archetype and Emblem in Music and Art: Joseph Kraus* (Florida State U); Emily Gertsch (Florida State U); Carol Salus (Kent State U)

08:30-10:00 3-paper parallel session (Mountaineer room)

The Semiotics of Advertising and Marketing: Ellen Osterhaus* (Purdue U); Manuel Libenson (U Argentina de la Empresa); Henrik Uggla (The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

08:30-10:00 3-paper parallel session Room D (Musketeer room)

Popular Culture and Semiotics 1: Kathryn E. Dobson (McDaniel College); Scott Simpkins* (U of North Texas); Antonio Savorelli (Communikitchen Media Research)

10:00-10:15 Coffee break

10:15-12:15 4-paper parallel sessions: Chair designated by an asterisk*

10:15-12:15 4-paper parallel session (Board of Directors room)

Semiotic and Phenomenological Studies of Time and Position in Precarity: Chair: Isaac Catt* (International Communicology Institute). Rolf Dieter Hepp (Freie U Berlin); Sabine Kergel (Freie U Berlin); W. Marc Porter (Independent Scholar); Deborah Eicher-Catt (Pennsylvania State U, York)

10:15-12:15 4-paper parallel session (Keystone room)

Semiotics and Cognitive Studies 2: Semiotics, Cognition, and Cognitive Semiotics – a New Paradigm? Per Aage Brandt (Case Western Reserve U)*; Ana Margarida Abrantes (U Católica de Lisboa); Jes Vang (U of Aarhus); Tim Adamson (Iowa Wesleyan College)

10:15-12:15 4-paper parallel session (Mountaineer room)

Semiotics and Logic: Len Olsen* (Philander Smith College); A.J. Kreider (Miami Dade Community College); Jeremy Morris (Ohio U); Charls Pearson (American Semiotics Research Institute)

10:15-12:15 4-paper parallel session (Musketeer room)

Education and Knowledge Representation: Martin Thellefsen (Royal School of Library and Information Science, Denmark); Prisca Augustyn* (Florida Atlantic U); Nadya Tanova (Ohio State U); Elvira K. Katić (Ramapo College of New Jersey)

12:15-13:15 Lunch (Regency A)

13:15-15:15 Visual Semiotics Plenary Session: Chair: Tom Broden (Purdue U). Panelists: Anne Beyaert-Geslin (Limoges U); Maria Giulia Dondero (U de Liège); Pierluigi Basso Fossali (Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione); Anne Hénault (Sorbonne, France) (Regency A)

15:15-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-17:30 4-paper parallel sessions: Chair designated by an asterisk*

15:30-17:30 4-paper parallel session (Board of Directors room)

Visual Semiotics 2: Anne Hénault* (Sorbonne, France); Stefania Caliandro (UERJ, Rio de Janeiro); Isabel Marcos (New U of Lisbon); Maria Giulia Dondero (U de Liège)

15:30-17:30 4-paper parallel session (Keystone room) Communication Theory and Semiotics: Bryan Lueck (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville); Elliot Gaines* (Wright State University); Tyler J. Thornton (U of Oklahoma); Frank Macke and Kevin Cummings (Mercer University)

15:30-17:30 4-paper parallel session (Mountaineer room)

Literature and Semiotics 2: Rosemary Huisman (The University of Sydney); Amir Biglari (Limoges U); Nicasio Urbina (U of Cincinnati); Irene Portis-Winner* (Professor of Anthropology, Massachusetts College of Art (Retired); Harvard Institute for Learning)

15:30-17:30 4-paper parallel session (Musketeer room)

Peirce 2: Gui-Young Hong (Medical U of South Carolina); Scott Cunningham (Texas Tech U); Judy King (North Central Michigan College); Barry Stampfl* (San Diego State U)

18:00-19:00 Plenary Address by Dr. David Tamres, Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, “How Time Became Elastic” (Findlay’s)

19:00-20:00 Banquet (Findlay’s)

21:00- 22:30 Evening Program: a performance (and mini-lecture on “time” and “change” as those concepts relate to traditional music and instruments) by the band SILVER ARM: Their CDs, The Beech Tree and Never Despair and Links feature lively Irish dance music, beautiful ballads and Swedish, French and Romanian selections along with Irish music. They have appeared with the Cincinnati Symphony, Pops and Ballet Tech and are featured on a new animation DVD by Jen Delyth Beyond the Ninth Wave as well as on the Cincinnati Pops recording "Celtic Spectacular." (Sungarden with Cash Bar)

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Sunday 18 October 2009

08:30-10:00 Plenary Roundtable: “The Semiosis of Time”: Chair: W. John Coletta (U Wisconsin-Stevens Point). Panelists: Per Aage Brandt, Case Western Reserve U, Tom Bruneau, Radford University; Brooke Williams Deely (U St. Thomas, Houston); Roberto Flores-Ortiz (Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia); Karen Haworth (U of West Florida); Stéphanie Walsh Matthews (Ryerson U); Sister Paula Jean Miller (U of St. Thomas); Nataliya Semchynska (Purdue U); Steven Skaggs (U of Louisville) (Regency A)

10:00-10:15 Coffee break

10:15-11:45 3-paper parallel sessions: Chair designated by an asterisk*

10:15-11:45 3-paper parallel session (Board of Directors room)

Ecosemiotics: Jorge Conesa-Sevilla* (Northland College); Jonathan Beever (Purdue U); Richard J. Doherty (U of Illinois)

10:15-11:45 3-paper parallel session (Keystone room)

Popular Culture and Semiotics 2: Wendy Morgan* (U of West Florida); Andrew Burt (U Wisconsin-Stevens Point); Jay Black (Georgia State University)

10:15-11:45 3-paper parallel session (Mountaineer room)

The Sign/Theory: Gary Shank* (Duquesne U); Joe Balay (Pennsylvania

State U); Christopher S. Morrissey (Redeemer Pacific College)

11:45-close: Business meeting (Regency A)