Finnish Institute at Athens hosts an international 5-day event in the beginning of October. The program consists of lectures and concerts that will travel you deeper into the theme of the symposium. Additional concerts will take place at the Danish Institute at Athens and the residence of the Finnish Ambassador.
”The idea of Academy of Cultural Heritages has emerged in the context of an interdisciplinary and international research project entitled Semiotics of Cultural Heritages; it has since 2013 organized symposia –. Its goal is to investigate the preservation, renewal and animation of valuable cultural heritages by means of semiotics, a discipline which studies signs and communication. It now includes over 80 scholars from all over the world.” (ACU website.)
Programme
Wednesday 1.10.
at 2 p.m. Opening at the Finnish Institute (Zitrou 16)
Eero Tarasti: On the Theme of the Symposium
Greetings by Petra Pakkanen, Director of the Institute and
Leena Pylvänäinen, Ambassador of Finland
3–5 p.m. Lectures at the Finnish Institute
Alexandros Lagopoulos (Athens): The Missing Link in the Semiotic Theory of Culture
Karin Boklund-Lagopoulos (Athens): What Is Our Culture?
Athanasios Votsis (Twente): Foundations for the study of civilisations, the theory of semiotopes
Altti Kuusamo (Helsinki): Veritas filia temporis. From Iconography to Aesthetic Views
6–8 p.m. Concert at the Danish Institute (Herefondos 14)
Eila Tarasti, piano and Athens Quartet (Helsinki): Elias Nyman & Sebastian Silén, violin; Petrus Laitinmäki, alto; Lauri Rantamoijanen, cello; Eero Tarasti, piano and lecture: How Sibelius Became Sibelius
Thursday 2.10.
10–12 a.m. Lectures at the Finnish Institute
Mathieu Schneider (Strasbourg): Who is Lili Marleen? An essay on intertextual semiotics in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Lili Marleen (1980)
Roberto Mastroianni (Torino): The anthropologist as curator and the curator as anthropologist. Cultural heritage, contemporaneity, and relational art
Elzbieta Blotnicka-Masur (Lublin): University Museum as a Guardian of Cultural Heritage – Between Academic World and Society
Sebastian Silén (Helsinki): From Signs to Sound: Realizing Nordic Musical Elements in Sibelius’s Violin and Piano
12 a.m. – 2 p.m. Lunch
2–5 p.m. Lectures at the Finnish Institute
Mattia Thibault (Tampere): Semiospheric projections:the city and the museum as spaces of cultivation
Despina Gialatzi (Thessaloniki): Metamorphoses of the Mythical Tale of the Psyche
Mikko Metsälampi (Turku): Can We Step Outside Our Own Consciousness
– a Philosophical Inquiry
Dina Babushkina (Twente): Semiotics of the Absurd
6–8 p.m. Concert in the Residence of the Ambassador of Finland
(transportation from the Finnish Institute)
Athens Quartet, Eila Tarasti and Julian Hellaby, pianο
Friday 3.10.
10–12 a.m. Lectures at the Finnish Institute
Julian Hellaby (London): The Rivalry Between Maria Callas and Renata Tebaldi – an Existential Semiotic Approach
Silvia Barbotto (Torino): Art, Sound and Embodied Enunciation. [Improvisation as Counter-Current Process of Signification?]
Lorenzo L.D. Incardona and Giuseppe Laricchia (Bologna): Cultural Stereotypes in Artificially Generated Music. Experiments on Italian Pop
12 a.m. – 2 p.m. Lunch
2–7 p.m. Lectures at the Finnish Institute
Kristian Bankov (Sofia): B(ai)ldung – how Artificial Intelligence and Social Media Change the Structure of Education
Peter Salvucci (Istanbul): The Significance of Cultural Epistemes in the Semiosis of Turkish Makam Music
Panu Heimonen (Helsinki): Moral Philosophy in the 18th Century and its Impact on Music, Special Case of Mozart Concertos
7 p.m. Reception at the Finnish Ιnstitute
Saturday 4.10.
10–12 a.m. Lectures at the Finnish Institute
Aleksi Haukka (Helsinki): Transductions as Foundation of Cultural Communication: Examples from Finland of the 1800s
Santeri Skofelt (Turku): Interpreting Useless Suffering Through Levinas and Meister Eckhart
12 a.m. – 2 p.m. Lunch
2–5 p.m. Lectures at the Finnish Institute
Jean-Marie Jacono (Aix-Marseille): From Semiotics to Contexts in France and in Russia at De Gaulle Time: Nathalie by Gilbert Bécaud (1964) (Paper in French, powerpoint in English)
Kalliope Stiga (Athens): Mikis Theodorakis dans son contexte culturel
Sunday 5.10.
Future of the Academy of Cultural Heritages. Closure of the Symposium.