Semiotics symposium

Seminar

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 09:00 to 18:00

- Organized by The Centre for Language, Cognition and Mentality and The Department of International Culture and Communication Studies

The seminar concludes with Søren Brier’s inaugural lecture as Professor of the Semiotics of Information, Cognition and Communication

Science.

Semiotics: a highly needed transdisciplinary post-modern “science” in the knowledge society

Program

9.00-9.15

Welcome, Anette Villemoes (CBS)

9.15-10.00

Per Durst-Andersen (CBS)

Linguistics as Semiotics. Saussure and Bühler Revisited

10.00-10.45

Winfried Nöth (University of Kassel)

Signs and Sign Machines: Instruments of Thought?

10.45-11.15

Coffee break

11.15-12.00

Frederik Stjernfelt (Aarhus University)

Semiotics as a tool for transdisciplinary thinking uniting science and humanities

12.00-12.50

Lunch (the cafeteria is nearby)

12.50-13.00

Coffee

13.00-13.45

Jordan Zlatev (CBS/University of Lund)

Meaning, Consciousness and Language

13.45-14.30

John Deely (University of St. Thomas, Houston)

Semiotics and Academe: at the heart of the problem of knowledge

14.30-15.00

Coffee break

15.00-15.15

Introduction, Per Durst-Andersen (CBS)

15.15-16.15

Inaugural lecture, Søren Brier (CBS)

Cybersemiotics: Why information is not enough.

16.15

Reception hosted by the Department of International Culture and Communication Studies

Admission free (lunch not included). Registration: No later than April 21 to Merete Borch, mb.iadh@cbs.dk or +45 3815 3389.

Further information: Per Durst-Andersen, pd.ikk@cbs.dk or Søren Brier, sb.ikk@cbs.dk .

Abstracts and presentations of the speakers are available on the website of the LaCoMe-center

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