Here, all people destined to a semiotic profession can enjoy instruction. All these objects stand independently and they all interlink. Each object is before anything else meant to be taken as an inspiration. Take a deep breath.
The Institute for Philosophical Studies of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, the Lyceum Institute, the Deely Project, Saint Vincent College, the Iranian Society for Phenomenology at the Iranian Political Science Association, the International Association for Semiotics of Space and Time, the Institute for Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Semiotic Society of America, the American Maritain Association, the International Association for Semiotic Studies, the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies, the International Center for Semiotics and Intercultural Dialogue, Moscow State Academic University for the Humanities and the Mansarda Acesa are hereby delighted to welcome you to the official home page of the International Open Seminar on Semiotics: a Tribute to John Deely on the Fifth Anniversary of His Passing.
The occurrence of this seminar over the calendar year 2022 also marks the 80th anniversary of John's arrival. Although he would most certainly instruct us not to focus on celebrating his life, but instead on developing the Way of Signs, there seems to be no downside to accomplishing both of these tasks simultaneously. Hence, this seminar seeks to render homage to his genius and further develop his work. Professor Deely spent a lifetime studying semiotics and fostering a network of semioticians from around the planet. Hopefully, his mission is here dutifully echoed. We congregated a number of distinguished experts in the field of semiotics in a shared enterprise to provide a formative environment openly accessible to the general audience through a series of lectures on semiotics and its history, with particular care for Doctor Deely's historical perspective and the challenges presented to semiotics in the world today. Having done so, chances are that we matched Prof. John's aspiration for future generations to acknowledge the core significance of semiotics and its history for the evolution of human understanding.
Lectures are arranged into two modules. The first, comprising sessions on the legacy of semiotics, has been titled «Historical Module: From Early Latinity to the Last Postmodernity.» Here, including lectures on prominent figures in the history of the field, the emphasis is on the diachronic extension of semiotic development, meaning its historical path as a laboratory where the community of living inquirers is given the necessary instruments for casting eyes upon the future. The second, dealing with semiotics at cross‑thematic levels, has been titled «Systematic Module: De-Sign or Semiotics in Relation.» Now, involving issues such as space and time, cognition, ethnicity and digital education, attention is turned to the present, the synchronic scale of the issues challenging those not yet dead. Both strands constitute keystones for the refinement of human understanding and are, after all, inextricably connected. As Dr. Deely said,
| «... synchrony as a temporal reality is a one-way movement into a limited future, in contrast with diachrony which not only arises from within synchrony but also invades it from a past before the synchrony in question began in the first place, and extends beyond that synchrony into a future accessible only to those who «come after» into the «land of the living.» |
Semiotics Seen Synchronically: The View as of 2010
Chinese Semiotic Studies 4, no. 2 (2010), 15.
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This collaborative international open scientific initiative and celebration is jointly organized by the Institute for Philosophical Studies of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, the Lyceum Institute, the Deely Project, Saint Vincent College, the Iranian Society for Phenomenology at the Iranian Political Science Association, the International Association for Semiotics of Space and Time, the Institute for Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Semiotic Society of America, the American Maritain Association, the International Association for Semiotic Studies, the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies, the International Center for Semiotics and Intercultural Dialogue, Moscow State Academic University for the Humanities and the Mansarda Acesa with the support of the FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education of the Government of Portugal under the UID/FIL/00010/2020 project.