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\n\tTartu Summer School of Semiotics\u00a0
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\n\t13\u201316 August 2021, Sammuli, Estonia\n<\/p>\n

\n\tSemiotic horizons: time, memory and future(s)
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\n\tWhat is the link between the past, the present and the future? This ubiquitous question is not new to semiotics, but still has the potential to make us rethink its development as a discipline born \u2018ahead\u2019 of its own epoch. What is more, it makes us envision a semiotics-driven anthropocene where sciences and humanities could ethically go hand in hand. In the words of John Deely, \u201cwe need to have an awareness of the trajectory of semiotic development [\u2026] against the backdrop of philosophical modernity\u201d (2010: 75).\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0In this spirit, the Tartu Summer School of Semiotics aims to resume the dialogue between different branches of semiotics, and with other disciplines, as a community that studies change in a diversity of ways. Namely, through James\u2019 specious present; Peirce\u2019s temporal causation; Saussure\u2019s\u00a0 synchrony and diachrony; Uexk\u00fcll\u2019s perceptual and developmental times; Wittgenstein\u2019s memory-time and information-time; Bakhtin\u2019s chronotopes; Lotman\u2019s unpredictability; Grusin\u2019s premediation, or Fraser\u2019s biotemporality.\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0In tune with the tradition of K\u00e4\u00e4riku Summer Schools of Semiotics \u2014 originally held by the Tartu-Moscow School of Semiotics \u2014 we believe it is essential to continue finding inspiration in the above by means of \u2018retrospective transformation\u2019 as Juri Lotman would put it: \u201cconsciousness appears to be carried backwards to the moment which preceded the moment of explosion, retrospectively interpreting all that has occurred\u201d (2009[1992]: 16).\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\n\t\u00a0 \u00a0 The Summer School inquires into various ways humans and other animals make sense of the passage of time, by organising round-tables and workshops, and welcoming presentations to answer the following suggested questions:\n<\/p>\n

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  1. \n\t\tWhat is the complementarity between different ways of modelling time (e.g. as a linear continuum or as a cycle)?\n\t<\/li>\n
  2. \n\t\tWhere does the relation between individual and collective types of memory and prospection lie? What is the complementarity between remembering and foretelling?\n\t<\/li>\n
  3. \n\t\tIn what ways can semiotics drive the future(s) (e.g. in education, research, culture-nature changes, and public policies)?\n\t<\/li>\n
  4. \n\t\tTo what extent do semiotic theories, models and tools have a predictive capacity?\n\t<\/li>\n
  5. \n\t\tWhat might be the possible future directions of semiotics and the humanities?\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \n\tThe perspectives or topics for answering these questions include, but are not limited to:\u00a0\n<\/p>\n