Flap text of the book

My question: does the cinematic image have a grammar? My hypothesis: that which is rejected leaves an indelible mark on what is selected. In exploring what makes the cinematic image ‘irreal’ (critical to both, the question and the hypothesis) an analysis of the film Yuva shows how the image is constructed on the basis of an infinite oscillation between presence and absence because each is marked by a trace of the other. In the cinematic image the trace reconstructs the notion of spectral time as the link between real time and filmic time crucial to creating the illusion of visual narrative coherence. Further, through an analysis of the film Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. I explore another relationship – between consumers in an advanced capitalist society. This relationship is mediated by images. The image now becomes a heterotopic site par excellence in the interface between consumer and image. The image is the extended space that was once the domain of the commodity. As an extended space it has become a heterotopic site characterized by excessive functionality wherein the most important function is not for it to be put to use as much as it is to be possessed.

Short self-introduction

I am currently in the final year of my PhD. and my area of work is Semiotics, from within the discipline of Sociology. My topic is ‘A Sociological Investigation of the Film Studio: Images, Networks and the System of Production’.

Situated at the intersection of Semiotics and the Sociology of Science my work takes me into the editing studios of commercial Hindi cinema (Bollywood) to understand the construction of the object that is the cinematic image. My ethnography, situated on the inside, looks at the interaction between five key players – the Director, Editor, the raw footage, the script and the editing table. What I have is two human and three non-human actors, each with a voice of their own, in intense debate on what it is that is being constructed. My point of departure is the dismembered and fragmented form that enters the studio as raw material and from here on how the visual is actually made.

In my book ‘Grammar of the Cinematic Image: A Sociological Investigation of the Irreal’ in exploring what makes the cinematic image ‘irreal’, I look at how in the juxtaposition of different elements crucial to narrative sequencing there is a systematic break-down in the presumed mimetic relationship between cinema and reality. The notion of ‘presence’ has been looked at as critical to this break and the notion of absence is dealt with as vital to welding the camera image to the narrative.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Grammar-Cinematic-Image-Sociological-Investigation/dp/3639374061

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 Lexia n. 13: Semiotics of Protest: the Forms of Dissent

Lexia n. 13: Semiotica della protesta: le forme del dissenso

Lexia n. 13: Sémiotique de la protestation : les formes de la dissension

Lexia n. 13: Semiótica de la protesta: las formas del disenso

Lexia, the international, peer-reviewed journal of CIRCE, the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Communication of the University of Torino, Italy, invites contributions to be published in issue n. 13 of the new series.

Lexia, la rivista internazionale peer-reviewed di CIRCE, il Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerche sulla Comunicazione dell’Università di Torino, sollecita contributi da pubblicare nel n. 13 della nuova serie.

Lexia, le journal international peer-reviewed de CIRCE, le Centre Interdépartemental de Recherche sur la Communication de l’Université de Torino, Italie, invite des soumissions d’articles à publier dans le n. 13 de la nouvelle série.

Lexia, la revista internacional peer-reviewed de CIRCE, el Centro Interdepartamental de Búsqueda sobre la Comunicación de la Universidad de Torino, Italia, invita artículos a publicar en el n. 13 de la nueva serie.

The topic of the forthcoming issue is “Semiotics of Protest: the Forms of Dissent”.

L’argomento del prossimo numero è “Semiotica della protesta: le forme del dissenso”.

Le sujet du prochain numéro est «Sémiotique de la protestation : les formes de la dissension ».

El tópico del próximo número es el siguiente: “Semiótica de la protesta: las formas del disenso”.

The subject of protest will not be analyzed from the point of view of its historical and social causes and motivations, but from the point of view of its language: what meaning and communication phenomena do we designate by the term ‘protest’? What contextual conditions must arise so that a protest may take place? How are the languages, discourses, texts, and signs of protest articulated? Through what codes? Or else, contravening what codes? How is the meaning of a protest read and interpreted depending on its audience, and with what pragmatic effects? Moreover: do some ‘cultures of protest’ exist, changing according to the different historical periods and socio-cultural areas, and how do they interact with the evolution of communication media, and specifically with the rise and development of the digital ones? In particular, how can the communicative dynamics that characterize protests be described in their relations with social networks? More generally, within what theoretical framework can the relation between sense, consensus, and dissent be interpreted?

Il tema della protesta non verrà analizzato dal punto di vista delle sue cause e motivazioni storico-sociali, bensì dal punto di vista del suo linguaggio: quali fenomeni di senso e comunicazione designiamo con il termine “protesta”? Quali condizioni contestuali devono verificarsi perché una protesta abbia luogo? Come si articolano i linguaggi, i discorsi, i testi, e i segni della protesta? Attraverso quali codici? Oppure, contravvenendo a quali codici? Come viene letto e interpretato il senso di una protesta a seconda del suo pubblico, e con quali effetti pragmatici? E ancora: esistono delle “culture della protesta”, che cambiano a seconda dei periodi storici e delle aree socio-culturali, e come interagiscono con l’evolvere dei mezzi di comunicazione, e in particolare con la nascita e lo sviluppo dei media digitali? Nello specifico, come si possono descrivere le dinamiche comunicative che caratterizzano la protesta nel suo rapporto con i social networks? Più in generale, entro quale quadro teorico si può definire il rapporto fra senso, consenso, e dissenso?

Le sujet de la protestation ne sera pas analysé du point de vue de ses causes et motivations historico-sociales, mais du point de vue de son langage : quels phénomènes de sens et de communication indiquons-nous par le terme « protestation » ? Quelles conditions contextuelles doivent-elles se vérifier afin qu’une protestation ait lieu ? Comment s’articulent-ils les langages, les discours, les textes, et les signes de la protestation ? À travers quels codes ? Ou au contraire, en contrevenant à quels codes ? Comment lit-on et interprète-t-on le sens d’une protestation selon son public, et avec quels effets pragmatiques ? Et encore : peut-on parler de « cultures de la protestation », lesquelles changent selon les périodes historiques et les aires socio-culturelles, et comment interagissent-elles avec l’évolution des moyens de communication, et notamment avec la naissance et le développement des média digitaux ? Spécifiquement, comment peut-on décrire les dynamiques communicatives caractérisant la protestation dans son rapport avec les social networks ? Plus en général, dans quel cadre théorique peut-on définir le rapport entre sens, consensus, et dissension ?

El tópico de la protesta no será analizado desde el punto de vista de sus causas y motivaciones histórico-sociales, mas desde el punto de vista de su lenguaje: ¿Cuáles fenómenos de sentido y comunicación designamos con el término “protesta”? ¿Cuáles condiciones contextuales deben verificarse para que una protesta tenga lugar? ¿Cómo se articulan los lenguajes, los discursos, los textos, y los signos de la protesta? ¿Por medio de cuáles códigos? ¿O bien, contraviniendo a cuáles códigos? ¿Cómo se lee y interpreta el sentido de una protesta según su público, y con cuáles efectos pragmáticos? Y más: ¿existen unas “culturas de la protesta”, que cambian según los periodos históricos y las áreas socio-culturales, y cómo interaccionan con la evolución de los medios de comunicación, y en particular con la origen y el desarrollo de los medios digitales? En detalle, ¿cómo se pueden describir las dinámicas comunicativas que caracterizan la protesta en su relación con los social networks? Más en general: ¿dentro de cuál marco teórico se puede definir la relación entre sentido, consenso, y disenso?

Here is the expected publication schedule of the volume:

Questo è il calendario previsto per la pubblicazione del volume:

Voici le calendrier prévu pour la publication du volume:

Éste es el calendario previsto para la publicación del volumen:

15 giugno 2012: deadline per i contributi

15 luglio 2012: deadline per i revisori

15 settembre 2012: deadline per le versioni rielaborate dei contributi

15 dicembre 2012: pubblicazione di Lexia n. 13

June 15, 2012: deadline for contributions

July 15, 2012: deadline for referees

September 15, 2012: deadline for revised versions of contributions

December 15, 2012: publication of Lexia n. 11

15 juin 2012: date limite pour les articles

15 juillet 2012: date limite pour les réviseurs

15 septembre 2012: date limite pour les versions révisées des contributions

15 décembre 2012: publication de Lexia n. 11

15 junio 2012: fecha límite para los artículos

15 julio 2012: fecha límite para los revisores

15 septiembre 2012: fecha límite para las revisiones de los artículos

15 diciembre 2012: publicación de Lexia n. 11

Contributions, 30,000 characters max, MLA stylesheet, with a 500 words max English abstract and 5 English key-words, should be sent to massimo.leone@unito.it

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Languages/lingue/langues/lenguas: English, Italiano, Français, Español [other languages if reviewers are available]

to be held in Imatra, Finland, June 8-12, 2012

We are pleased to announce the research seminars and International Summer School for Semiotic and Structural Studies.   The seminars will be organized by the International Semiotics Institute (ISI) at Imatra and open to any semiotician interested in the topics given below.  The director of the Summer School and ISI, is Professor Eero Tarasti.

Dates and Locations of the Seminars:
June 8-12, 2012, Hotel Valtionhotelli, an art nouveau castle in Imatra, Eastern Finland (near the border of Russia and well-known for its historical, natural, and cultural attractions)

Symposia:

1) The 31st Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of Finland (open also for international scholars), June 9-10; chair: Eero Tarasti (Helsinki);  Special themes:Performing Arts (chair: André Helbo, Bruxelles) ; Rituals of Consumption (chair: Kristian Bankov, Sofia)    

2) Nordic Semiotic Paradigms – NASS 25 Years: “Where  cognitive, bio- and existential semiotics meet?”, chair: Luis Emilio Bruni

3) Semiotics of Belonging: Existential, Axiological and Praxeological Aspects of Self-Identity at Home and Abroad; chairs: Elzbieta Wasik (Poznan), Josef Zaprucki (Jelenia Góra)  and Massimo Leone (Turin)

4) 8th International Imatra Symposium on Semiotics and Translation, June 11-12;

chairs: Pirjo Kukkonen and Ritva Hartama-Heinonen  (University of Helsinki)

5) Metamind Symposium: Modelling of Time and Space; chair: Daina Teters (Riga)

6) Places of Memory; chair: Patrizia Violi (Bologna) 

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Each seminar consists of papers presented by both invited lecturers and participants.  The aim of the summer school is to offer the participants both up-to-date research and an opportunity to discuss thoroughly their projects with leading specialists in the various fields.

Duration of papers:  30 min.  The working languages of the seminars and congresses are English, French, and German

Preliminary program:
June 8 | Registration and lodging

June 9 | 09.00-16.00 Seminar lectures and papers,
18.00 Opening celebration of the International Summer School of Semiotic  Studies,

June 10 – 12 | 09.00-18.00 Seminar lectures and Papers

Categories of Participation and Conditions of Admission:
There are two categories of participation:

1) Active:  the participant will present a paper.
2) Passive:  the participant will audit the summer school without presenting a paper.

An active participant must send a short curriculum vitae and a one-page abstract of his/her paper together with the registration form to the address given at the bottom of this letter.  These materials should reach the organizers no later than April 15, 2012.  The abstracts will be published as a booklet for the congresses, and should be sent both as a word-processing file (email attachment or saved to diskette).

A passive participant must send the registration form by April 30, 2011.

Participation Fee:  200 EUR (The fee covers lunch and two coffees a day from June 9-12 and an elegant evening reception and buffet on June 9th.)  Payment of fees must be made before April 30 by
bank transfer to the ISI bank account with Sampo Bank.  The international account number is IBAN FI8780001802071697 and the BIC/SWIFT code DABAFIHH; Sampo bank, Hiililaiturinkuja 2, P.O. Box 1561,  00075 Sampo pankki

Accommodation prices:

Imatran Valtionhotelli:
100 € / person/ day/ in a single room,  Spa hotel
111 € / person/ day in a single room, Castle hotel
143 €/ day in a double room, Castle hotel
132 € day in a double room, Spa hotel
22 € / dinner/ day in the hotel

Accommodation will be reserved from Valtionhotelli before 8.6.12 by name ISI Summer School
tel  + 358 5 625 2000 or email: valtionhotelli.rantasipi@restel.fi

Accommodation in Summer Hostel Mansikkala
Pilvikuja 2B, 55100, tel +358 44 797 5452

Prices will be informed later

Accommodation will be reserved in Summer Hostel Mansikkala before 15.6. by name ISI Summer School, email: hostel.mansikkala@topjopi.fi, www.hostelmansikkala.com

For further information and / or to register, please contact:
International Semiotics Institute, Virastokatu 1, 55100 Imatra, Finland
tel. +358-20 617 6639,  fax +358-20 617 6696
E-Mail: info@isisemiotics.fi
www.isisemiotics.fi

You are also encouraged to visit the ISI Internet website (address given above) for the most up-to-date information as it becomes available.

Tuesday 4 to Saturday 8, September 2012
venue: Faculty of Law,
University of Buenos Aires Figueroa Alcorta Av. 2263
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Theme of the congress: Contemporary dilemmas of visuality

Call for papers: http://www.aisv2012.org/docs/aisv2012-eng-call.pdf

300 to 500 words in English, Spanish or French

Theme of the congress:
Contemporary dilemmas of visuality /
Dilemas contemporáneos de lo visual / Dilemmes contemporains du visuel
A dilemma (from the Greek, dis = two, lemma = topic or premise) is a problem whose solution allows for two possibilities, but none of them is completely satisfactory, so that a difficult choice comes out, upon which ethical and moral issues oſten impact. When a dilemma appears it is not possible to choose from a correct or an incorrect issue, but between two options that may be correct at the same time, but contrary to each other in a certain sense; between two equally appreciated values which, however, come into a conflict. In the field of visuality the dilemmas appear frequently, and seem to have multiplied themselves in the contemporary world, where images and their implications have acquired new strength in the infinite web of global connectivity.

It is perhaps in the field of photography –and particularly in press photography, traditionally linked to the greater effects of reality– where the most dilemmatic situations arise today: to make visible –or not– the oſten terrifying image of the present conflictive scenario, with its wars, attacks, famine, forced migrations, that put us “regarding the pain of others”, as Susan Sontag pointed out, and that may elicit undecidable political dilemmas that involve power factors in a worldwide level. In this extreme visibility, which expands the limits of the knowable, where the many forms of art also are displayed, images seem to recover the symbolic power that worried the ancient people, putting them at the risk of new idolatries. Visibility is assumed as a condition of democracy, as an imaginary of transparency, but also as an erasure of the uncertain threshold between public and private domains, another of the dilemmatic zones.

The dilemmatic visual situations are not limited, however, to moral or cultural questions; they appear equally in the more primary context of visual perception. In this sense, visual ambiguities, paradoxes and antinomies have also a place in the theme we are concerned with. The identification of the referents may suffer from the hesitations coming both from the perceptual organism and from the organization of the object. Even images that are generated and used in the context of scientific practices (diagnosis, experimentation, demonstration, explanation, etc.), which are oſten endorsed with a pretension of objectivity and unambiguity, do not escape from these situations.

Thus, visual contemporary dilemmas concern both ethics and aesthetics, politics, human and social sciences in general, as well as natural sciences, perhaps with special emphasis on biology. Since all knowledge relies on signs, the semiotic perspective allows precisely for an interdisciplinary and integrating view. Is in this vast territory that we want to pose the semiotic reflection on the dilemmas of visuality, calling to questioning, thinking and criticis

Important dates
29 February 2012: Submission of abstracts of oral papers and posters
30 March 2012: Acceptance of abstracts
1 April to 30 May 2012: Registration (necessary to publish in the Proceedings)
30 May 2012: Submission of full papers for the Proceedings

Call for Papers

▬▬ Global Semiotics: Bridging Different Civilizations ▬▬

Time: October 5 – 9, 2012

Location: Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

July 11, 2011

The Preparatory Committee of “The 11^th World Congress of Semiotics”

Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China

(The official website: www.semio2012.com)

(Postal address: School of Foreign Languages & Cultures, Nanjing Normal University, No. 122, Ninghai Road, Nanjing 210097, Jiangsu Province, P. R. China)

Dear international semiotics colleagues,

The spirit of the 11^th IASS Congress will be exhibited along two directions: the retrospective to the scholarly achievements attained over the past 40 years and the prospect for the desirable global-semiotic developments in future. On the whole, the coming-up congress will present a topography of current theoretical problematics facing global human sciences today.

In this second announcement of the Preparatory Committee of the 11^th IASS Congress we present three lists of program sessions:

1. The list of the plenary speeches and speakers in the Congress;

2. The list of the round tables and sessions and the related organizers in the Congress;

3. The list of the round tables and organizers in the 1st Chinese Symposium on Semiotics (in Chinese, given here just for information for international colleagues).

In List No. 2 we present all items in terms of temporarily made thematic categories which intend to be used only by interested participants as the reference for registrations. The final list of items (round tables and sessions) and schedules can only be given after the registration process is finished till June 2012. There could be two kinds of participants: those who intend to present a paper in the Congress (so an abstract of 200 words or so is requested to be sent to the congress contact in advance); and those who only wish to join the activities during the Congress period. But both kinds of participants are requested to pay the same registration fee according to the rules.

With respect to the subjects of papers, all topics related to the basic fields mentioned in the first Call for Papers are acceptable; meanwhile, we especially encourage participants to join the sessions and round tables listed in the following table. Despite the rule that each paper reading is limited within 30 minutes, all papers presented will be included afterwards into the online Proceedings in a systematic format. In addition, some of the papers will be separately selected into the printed Proceedings for publication too.

Regarding the procedure of registration and other practical matters with respect to the participation please refer to the separate notices announced at the Congress Website. The related schedules and practical matters could be probably readjusted later according to the changing situations; please pay attention to the updating of news at the website.

●    For registration and abstract-presenting, please contact the vice secretary general of the Preparatory Committee:

Haihong Ji: semio2012@hotmail.com

●    For presenting proposals for organizing new session activities, please contact the secretary general of the Preparatory Committee:

Yongxiang Wang: nshdyxwang@163.com

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The List and the Sequence of Plenary Speakers in

“The 11^th World Congress of Semiotics” in 2012

(The Guest opening speech: 60 minutes;

all the other plenary speeches: 30 minutes for each)

Oct. 5

1.     (Germany) Bernhard Waldenfels (as the guest opening speaker): Signs and Phenomena. Phenomenological-Semiotic Considerations

2.     (France) Jacques Fontanille: The figures of the body and the semiotics of footprint

3.     (China) Zhuanglin Hu: Semiotics from the Systemic-Functional Perspective

Oct. 6

4.     (Finland) Eero Tarasti: Semiotics as the transcultural metalanguage

5.   (Japan) Yoshihiko IKEGAMI: Subject-Object Contrast and Subject-Object Merger in “Thinking for Speaking” — A Typology of Cognitive Processing in Linguistic Encoding and Its Homologues in Pictorial Encoding

6.     (Italy) Augusto Ponzio: Marxian Semiotics: a Historical and Theoretical Excursus in the European Sign Sciences

Oct. 7

7.     (China) Zhang Jie: Reception and Modification of Russian Semiotics in China

8.     (USA) John Deely: How zoosemiosis both permeates and is transcended by anthroposemiosis

9.     (Korea) Kim Sungdo: The writing, the body, the universe: semio-anthropological foundations of an extended grammatology

Oct. 8

10.   (Canada) Marcel Danesi: Semiotics at a Crossroads: Directions for the Survival of Semiotics as an Autonomous Discipline

11.   (Chinese-American) Youzheng Li:  Humanist Ethics and future of semiotics

12.   (Venezuela) José Enrique Finol: Semiotics of  body: skin, fashion, and pornography

Oct. 9

13.   (India) Seema Khanwalkar: Semiotics in India, the theoretical implications and it current status as a discipline of study

14.   (Italy) Susan Petrilli: The Critique of Phonocentricism, European Signatures

15.   (France) Anne Hénault: The theoretical problems to which the present state of research in visual semiotics gives rise

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Our officers are:

President:                    Charls Pearson, USA

Vice-President:            Gu Jia-zu, PRC

Secretary:                    Søren Brier, Denmark

Director:                      Abraham Solomonick, Israel

Director:                      Gören Sonesson, Sweden

They will serve until the election of new officers at WATS-2.

Our next meeting, WATS-2, will be a symposium on theoretical semiotics at IASS-2012 in Nanjing.  This blog can serve as a CfPs.  Abstracts of 1,000 words or less may be e-mailed to me in either .Doc or .Docx (preferred) format.  My e-mail is dr.charls@avillager.org.  I will be glad to accept your abstracts for the WATS-2 symposium or pass on to the membership any relevant messages interested scholars may have.

Membership is open to any serious scholar who expresses an interest in the improvement of existing semiotic theory or the development of new semiotic theory.  The only requirement on theory is that it be rigorously grounded in the data.  You can apply for membership by sending me your name, email address, nationality, and a very brief statement of your interest in semiotic theory.

Our application to the IASS for affiliation as an interest group is progressing very well.

http://www.youtube.com/user/universityofhelsinki#grid/user/3331D87FB229972D

Moreover, the roundtable about his  theory of existential semiotics in Paris, Institut finlandais, in the autumn of 2010 as well  (in French),  can be looked at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFw_KkByXDw

 Department of Historical-Archaeological, Socio-Anthropological and Geographical Heritage

Tourist Spaces

Between Practices and Theories 

International Conference

University of Palermo, July 7-8-9, 2011

Viale delle Scienze, Palermo

Thursday & Wednesday: Polo Didattico, Aula 6

Saturday: Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, Aula Seminari

JULY 7, THURSDAY

 9:30 Opening
Mario Gandolfo GIACOMARRA (Dean of the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy)
Girolamo CUSIMANO (Head of the Department of Heritage)

9:45 Conference presentation
Stefano MONTES (University of Palermo)

Chair: Licia TAVERNA

10:00
Girolamo CUSIMANO, Maurizio GIANNONE (Università di Palermo)
− I nuovi spazi del turismo culturale a Palermo

10:30
Gloria Bosch Roig, Francisca Roca (Universitat de les Illes Balears)
− The Bay of Palma as a Locus Horribilis or Non Place

11:00 Coffee break

11:30
Alessandro Lutri (Università di Catania)
− Nuove forme della patrimonializzazione turistica nel “Val di Noto”: dallo spettacolo dei luoghi del Barocco al barocco come spazio per altri tipi di spettacoli

12:00
Maria Luiza Souca, Codrin Chiru (“Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania; The Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania)
− Traditional Heritage in Maramures region, Romania, a Tourism Enhancer from a forgotten time

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break

Chair: Gaetano SABATO

14:00
Stefano CARLUCCI Università di Bari)
− Presunzioni interpretative

14:30
Lorena Bătăgan (Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania)
− Smart city in a smart planet

15:00
Maria Paola ALTESE (Università di Palermo)
− “In oblivionem patriae”: distanze mitiche e itinerari postmoderni da Joyce a Carrigan

15:30 Coffee break

15:45
Paola Bortolin, Richard W. Hallett (Northeastern Illinois University)
− ‘History in its place’: A linguistic investigation of tourist spaces on the official tourism website for Buenos Aires

16:15
− Donruetai Kovathanakul (Khon Kaen University, Thailand)
Chiang Khan Tourists’ Spaces: Municipal Legal Instrument, Is This the Value for the Community?

16:45 Discussion

JULY 8, FRIDAY

Chair: Girolamo CUSIMANO

 9:30
Gianfranco Marrone (Università di Palermo)
− L’osceno del villaggio: autoriflessività indotta e marasma corporeo

10:00
Leonardo Mercatanti (Università di Palermo)
− Il turismo dei Centri Commerciali in Sicilia

10:30
Tătar Corina, Ilieş Dorina Camelia, Herman GRIGORE, Baias ȘTEFAN (University of Oradea, Romania)
− The Moți and Their Place Identity as a Tool for Tourist Promotion and Alternative to Mining Activity in the Apuseni Mountains

11:00 Coffee break

11:30
Alice Giannitrapani (Università di Palermo)
− Istruzioni per l’uso degli spazi del viaggio. Il caso di Valencia nelle guide turistiche

12:00
Andreea Teletin (Centre de Linguistique de Porto)
− Regards croisés sur l’espace dans les publicités touristiques au Portugal et au Brésil : marques énonciatives et représentations culturelles

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break

Chair: Gianfranco MARRONE

14:00
Dario Mangano (Università di Palermo)
− Modello Mondello

14:30
Gaceu Ovidiu, Ilieş Dorina Camelia, Josan Ioana, Ilieş Alexandru (Université d’Oradea, Roumanie)
− Le potentiel climato-touristique de la station balnéo-climatique Stana de Vale (Monts Apuseni, Roumanie). Une alternative viable pour le développement du tourisme dans une aire défavorisée des ouvrages minières

15:00
Zina Ouaglal (Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense)
− Tourisme des racines en Kabylie

15:30 Coffee break

15:45
Mariangela Albano, Gaia Vanella (Università degli studi di Palermo)
− Spazio, interazione e testualità: il caso del centro storico di Palermo

16:15
Licia Taverna, Stefano Montes (Université de Tallinn ; Université de Palerme)
− Camus et Sartre à New York

16:45 Discussion

JULY 9, SATURDAY

Chair: Stefano MONTES

 9:30
Gaetano Sabato (University of Palermo)
− Cruise tourism spaces between experience and representation

10:00
Elena Di Liberto (Università di Palermo)
− Etica del turismo e spazi artistici

10:30
Damir Demonja, Vesna Meštrić (Institute for International Relations, IMO, University of Zagreb; Museum of Contemporary Art, MSU, Zagreb)
− The “Richter Collection” in Zagreb (Croatia): an example of cultural and tourism revitalization of the city

11:00 Coffee break

11:30
Stephanie Carretero, Jorge Garcés, Mireia Ferri (Polibienestar Reserch Center, University of Valencia)
− Accessible social tourism in tourist spaces

12:00
Arindam Saha (The University of Illinois at Chicago)
− Tourist Spaces and Technology: Modernity, Neo-liberalism and Beyond

12:30 Closing remarks

Languages of the conference:
Italian, English and French.

For further information, please contact: Stefano Montes (montes.stefano@tiscalinet.it)

Dear colleagues,

We are glad to announce the publication of issues 7-8 of Lexia, the Semiotic Journal of CIRCE, the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Communication at the University of Torino.

Please find a presentation of the volume in attachment: Massimo Leone 2011 – Presentazione _Lexia_ 7-8

Chers collègues, 

Nous sommes heureux d’annoncer la publication des numéros 7-8 de Lexia, la Revue de Sémiotique de CIRCE, le Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur la Communication de l’Université de Torino.

Veuillez trouver une présentation du volume en pièce jointe: Massimo Leone 2011 – Presentazione _Lexia_ 7-8

Estimados colegas, 

Somos felices de anunciarles la publicación de los números 7 y 8 de Lexia, la Revista de Semiótica de CIRCE, el Centro de Investigación Interdisciplinaria sobre la Comunicación de la Universidad de Torino.

En el archivo adjunto, una presentación del volumen: Massimo Leone 2011 – Presentazione _Lexia_ 7-8

Cari colleghi,

Siamo felici di annunciare la pubblicazione dei numeri 7 e 8 di Lexia, la Rivista di Semiotica di CIRCE, il Centro di Ricerca Interdisciplinare sulla Comunicazione.

In allegato, una presentazione del volume: Massimo Leone 2011 – Presentazione _Lexia_ 7-8

Best regards, bien cordialement, cordiales saludos, cordialmente,