Semiotics Summer School Tradition to Be Revived at Palmse Manor
From August 22 to 26, a number of the world's leading semioticians will be attending the Tartu Summer School of Semiotics at Palmse manor in the spirit of the tradition established by Juri Lotman.
The Summer School represents a revival of the tradition of holding world-class academic conferences on semiotics in Estonia. At the invitation of the Department of Semiotics at the University of Tartu, three generations of scholars will attend the Summer School in order to discuss the contemporary problems of semiotic modelling.
According to the head of the University of Tartu Department of Semiotics, professor Kalevi Kull, the Summer School continues the tradition of academic conferences on secondary modeling systems organized by Juri Lotman in Kääriku and Tartu in the 1960s and 1970s. „Some of the founders of the Tartu-Moscow school of semiotics who participated in those conferences will also be attending this year's Summer School, including professor emeritus at the Naples Oriental University and professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities, the world-renowned semiotician Boris Uspensky,“ said Kull.
The current leading figures in the field of semiotics will also participate in the event — among others, the President of the International Association for Semiotic Studies Eero Tarasti, heads of prominent centres of semiotics Frederik Stjernfelt and Göran Sonesson, editors-in-chief of leading publications Marcel Danesi and Paul Cobley, and many other renowned scholars.
A PhD School and a discussion on the teaching of semiotics, a field in which the University of Tartu has become one of the world's leading academic institutions, have also been organized to take place within the framework of the event.
Sigrid Maasen