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Thursday Evening |
Welcome & Exec Board -- Reception
Session: Critical Perspectives on
Semiotics Today. Edward Banziger, John Deely, Gary
Shank and Brooke Williams. |
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Friday Morning A 8:30-11:00 |
Elliot Gaines – Power and
Proxy in Media Semiotics Kevin Cummings – Decorum and Power in Cyberspace Kaye Celeste Evans – Black Women Characters in
Selected Plays of John Paul McMahon – Discourse, Figure, Acconci Timothy J. Rogers and Michel P. Flaherty – Perspective
and Visual Architectures in the Sign Engine Theatre |
Luiz Carlos do Carmo Motta and Vera Lucia Moreira
dos Santos Nojima – Methodological Paradigm to the
Design Research Harris Dimitropoulos – Design
Instruction and Semiotics: Representational Strategies in Architecture Adelin Gasana – The F Word Reid Perkins-Buzo – Real
Film: Realist Film Theory, Semiotics and the Documentary Film Ganesh Trichur – Signs And
Designs Of |
Isaac E. Catt – The Struggle For 'Truth' In Everyday
Therapy: A Communicology Of Survival J. Raymond Zimmer – Category-based Diagrams of the
Jungian Model of the Mind Vincent Colapietro
– All That Jazz – and More William Pencak – Escape
from Charles Edonmi – A Semiotic
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Friday Morning B 11:00-12:30 |
W. John Coletta – The Pan(oply) of
Perception: Toward a Semiotics and Phenomenology of Fairy Gerard J. van den Broek
– The Sign of the Stick William Pencak – The Will
of |
Jennifer Diamond – Gender Significations in Things
Fall Apart Raffaele de Bennedictis – Towards a
Semiotization of Discursive Survival in Dante’s
Inferno Nurten Birlik – Adalet Agaoglu and the
Westernizing Project |
Heidi M. Altman
and Thomas N. Belt – Doctor, Doctor': Health
Choices for Contemporary Cherokees Frank J. Macke – The Dream and the Self: Consciousness, Identity, the Sign, and the
Image Byron Almén – A Liszkian Theory of Musical Narrative |
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Friday 12:30-2:30 Keynote Luncheon: James Liszka "The Value of Signs." |
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Friday Afternoon A 2:30-4:00 |
Mary Lee Jenswold
– Conversational Rejoinders in ASL by Pan troglodytes Julia Gallucci
– Evidence of Gestural Dialects in Captive and
Free-living Chimpanzees Karen A. Haworth -- The
Bubble Analogy: Thoughts on Cognitive Transformations in the Evolution of
Human Language |
Gregory Lanier – Code Shifting: Shakespeare Goes Manga Josephine M. Carubia – Metaphorical
Ink: Results Through Writing Inna Semetsky
– Decoding the Mentalese: A Semiotic Turn |
Ethnographies Through The Looking Glass (Myrdene Anderson, organizer and chair) Myrdene
Anderson and Devika Chawla
–Tensions Constituting The Relationships Among Ethnographers, Subjects, And
Subject Matters: Pursuing A Collaborative Mentor-Mentee
Project Susan Probasco
– A Haunting in the Delta: Revisiting Childhood Spaces and the Sacralization of Space |
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Friday Afternoon B 4:00-6:00 |
Charles P. Linscott – Congratulations! It’s a…Sign': Semiotics,
Science Studies, and Procreant Language Elvira Katić – Galatea
revisited: exploring conceptions of technology through interpretation of
cybernetic images Sugata Bhattacharya – Analogous Relations/Commonalities
Between Re-writing, Oil-paining and Computer Data-fitting Yumi Kinoshita – Case Study:
American Neo-Imperialism, Interdisciplinarity and
Identity |
Scott Simpkins -- The Writing Cure?: The Semiotics of
the Trauma Narrative in British Romantic Literature Helen Richards – Father Archetypes in Angela Carter's
Wise Children Katherine Romack – Women Preaching in a Not So Plain Style Mary Lowe-Evans – Dracula:
An Irish Landlord |
Ethnographies Through the Looking Glass (continued) Myrdene Anderson – Updating A Fifty-Year Itch: Two High
School Reunions Five Years Later Phyllis Passariello – Through
a glass, darkly: signs of Bali and Anthony Webster – A Land Filled With Sounds: Ideophony in |
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Friday Evening 7:00-8:30 |
William James McCurdy – The Periodic Chart Of Semeiotical Elements: Peirce’s Sign-Classification
Systems As Trilattices Christopher Wilson – Justified
True Belief or Dicent Indexical Sinsign? |
Deborah Smith-Shank – Hollis Sigler: Artist, Teacher,
and Activist Frank Nuessel – Language
Games – A Semiotic Analysis John Henning – Abduction in the Practice of Teaching:
The Intersection of Tacit and Explicit Knowing |
Max Sills – Semantic Density in Visual Signs Nataliya Symchenksa-Uhl – Speech
Act As An Act Of Magic: Semiosis Of Ukrainian Performative Sacral Texts Javier Clavere – The
Paradigm Shift Theory, the Sacred Sign and Worship Systems |
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Friday Evening 8:30-11:00 |
Open Guitar and Acoustic
Blues Session – Facilitated by Jonathan Means, Elliot Gaines, and Terry
Prewitt |
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Saturday Morning A 8:00-9:30 |
Yayoi Uno
Everett – The Narrative Implications of the Grotesque in György
Ligeti’s 'Le Grand Macabre' Juan Chattah – Musical
Narrativity in Electroacoustic
Music Matthew Shaftel
– Form, Sign, and Singing: Integrating Sign Systems in an Interdisciplinary
Approach to Opera |
Jean Grow -- Thank You Don Imus: Nike Advertises Social Justice Glenn D. Jackson – Opacity in Propaganda: The NRA's
Freedom in Peril Gareth Barkin
– Broadcast Borders and Moral Bottlenecks: |
Ecology Through A Looking-Glass Myrdene Anderson – Bateson's
Symmetrical And Complementary Relations Vis-A-Vis Salthe's
Evolutionary And Developmental Trajectories Jonathan Beever
– The 'As Is' Through the 'As If': Baudrillard and Simulated Ecology Peter Harries-Jones – Ecosemiotics And The Collapse Of Ecosystems |
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Saturday Morning B 9:30-11:00 |
Victoria Ademenko
– The Survival of the Religious and its Meaning in Late Soviet Music,
1960-1990 Justin Lavacek – The Dual Nature of Musical Signification in
Handel's Alexander's Feast Timothy Best – Signifying
the Heroic: Thematic Transvaluation in Beethoven's Eroica Variations, Op. 35 |
Keith Dickson -- At the
Fingertips: A Pulse from Praxagoras to Korotkoff Prisca Augustyn – Terminology and
Translation in Uexküll's Biosemiotics Sean A. Day – Synesthesia and the 'hard question' of consciousness |
Brett Bogart – When Naples’s Mayor Said 'Guapperia': A Case Of 'Cultural Intimacy' Paola Ricaurte-Quijano – Memories
for Survival: the Case of the Latino Immigrants in the Robert Philen
– Difficulty in Ethnographic Writing |
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Saturday Morning C 11:00-12:30 |
Abby Shupe – A Study of the
Relationship between Text and Music in William Walton's 'Anon in Love.' Aisha Ahmad-Post – Overcoming Rhymes 'Solely For the
Sake of Rhyming:' Marked Oppositional Settings in Così
Fan Tutte Andrew Wilson – From 'A Mirror on Which to Dwell,'
Elliot Carter's 'View of the Capitol' and 'O Breath:' building a musical
narrative across two distinct poems |
Benjamin A. Smith – Object and Affordance Thomas F. Broden – Paul Ricoeur's Critiques of Greimasian
Semiotics and the Role of Science in Semiotics Yesterday and Today Tom Viaene
– Signs, Values and Critical Evaluation: Charles Morris’ Semiotics Revisited
in the Light of Today’s Urge for a Global and Unbounded Semiotics |
Judy Young – C.S.I. Detectives or PSI Detectives? The Paranormal in CSI: Judy Kay King – Self-portrait in the Pharaoh’s
Mirror: a Reflection of Ancient Egyptian Knowledge in Teilhard
de Chardin’s Evolutionary Biophysics Deborah Eichter-Catt
– Edward Sapir’s Contributions To Cultural Semiotics: Surviving Intellectual
Neglect |
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Presidential Luncheon 12:30-2:30 Presidential Address by Prof. Nathan Houser |
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Saturday Afternoon A 2:30-4:00 |
Kuang-Jung Chen – Taoist 'Nothingness' as 'Pre-Firstness': Looking into the interrelatedness between
Taoism and Peirce’s Semiotics Chris Arning – Into the
realm of zeroness: Charles Peirce’s categories and Vipassana meditation |
Signifying the Body Politic: Civic,
Racial, and National Bodies (Marina Peterson, Chair) Alessandra
Raengo – The Assimilationist
Imagination: Jackie Robinson and the Cracking Façade of Color Blindness Sarah
Schrank – Health Cults and Frolicking Nudists: Marina
Peterson – Sound – Body – Nation: Experimental Improvised Music as Cultural
Exchange |
Biosemiotics
(Donald Favareau, Chair) Eliseo Fernandez – Biosemeiotics
and Survival Jesper Hoffmeyer Semethic Interaction Kalevi Kull – Biosemiotics After
2001 |
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Saturday Afternoon B 4:00-6:00 |
James Jacobs – Theological
Sources for Augustine’s Theory of Signs Kirk G. Kanzelberger – Construing
the moral universe: Aquinas’s bonum honestum Kyle Grady – Signs of
Genius: Symbolic Presentation in Kant’s Critique of Judgment |
Art of Survival: Transformation, Healing, and
Self-Knowledge (Elka Kazmierczak,
Chair/Discussant) Inna Semetsky
– The Healing Art of Tarot Symbolism: A Case Study Richard Carp – Everyday Art:
Self, Environment, Performance Gila Safran
Naveh – Writing and Healing: Women’s Narratives
About Their Experience in the Holocaust Elka Kazmierczak – Session
Discussion/Summary: Art Of Survival: Transformation, Healing, And
Self-Knowledge |
Natural Constructivism: Biosemiotics
and Conversation Analysis (Donald Favareau, Chair) Donald Favareau
– Natural Constructivism: Biosemiotics and
Conversation Analysis Stefan Frazier – Interaction,
Semiotics, and the Writing Classroom Scott Phillabaum
– Learning to 'See' as a Photographer: The Role of Tool Use in the
Photography Studio Stacey E. Ake – Between the
Stimulus and the Response Falls the Shadow |
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Saturday Evening 7:00-10:30 |
Performance Workshop Session: Working
dance presentation of Robert Hatten’s ballet, Eadaoin, by Pensacola-based modern dance company,
SWERVE, Lavonne French, Elizabeth Bradford, Michael Dennis, Melody Gill,
Rachel Prewitt, Jessica Wade-Abston. Critical discussion by Victoria Adamenko, Robert Hatten, and
the SWERVE Choreographers Lavonne French and Elizabeth Bradford. |
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Sunday Morning |
BUSINESS MEETING OF THE SSA |
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