THURSDAY, 26 OCTOBER, 200618.00
Official opening of conference (Conference Hall I)
18.15 – 19.00
Plenary Session (Conference Hall I)
Professor Eero Tarasti (President IASS - AIS ) – University of Helsinki, Finland
The existential approach to the study of signs - on the borderlines between philosophy and semiotics
19.30 – 21.30
Welcoming dinner
FRIDAY, 27 OCTOBER, 2006
7.30 – 8.45
Breakfast (Restaurant)
9.00 – 9.40
Plenary Session (Conference Hall I)
Professor José Maria Paz Gago (General Secretary IASS - AIS) - Université de Coruña, Espagne
Vers une néosémiotique créative
9.45 – 10.30
Plenary Session (Conference Hall I)
Academician Professor Solomon Marcus – Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
Existential semiotics – roots in natural and exact sciences
10.30 – 10.40
Coffee Break
10.40 – 13.00
SESSIONS
10.40 – 13.00
Session:
Semiotic (meta)language, a means
of inter-/ transdisciplinary knowledge
Conference Hall I
Chairperson: Senior Researcher Rodica Marian
Liviu Druguş – Univ. “George Bacovia” Bacău, Romania
The bioeconomics-bioethics-biopolitics continuum. An attempt to create a postmodernist, semiotic, transdisciplinary, teleologic, pragmatic and trialectic/tri(u)nitary space of knowledge
Emilia Guliciuc - Univ. “Ştefan cel Mare” Suceava, Romania
Unu şi Multiplu în cultura română
Rodica Marian – Romanian Academy, “Sextil Puşcariu” Institute of Linguistics and Literary History, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
O teorie a alterităţii între lingvistică integrală, personalitate multiplă şi filozofie brahmanică
Livia Durac – Univ. “Al.I.Cuza” Iaşi, Romania
Bariere interculturale în metacomunicare
Genoveva Muntianu – Univ. “Al.I.Cuza” Iaşi, Romania
Misterioasa flacără a reginei loana- Umberto Eco, narativitate şi semiotică
Adrian Vizitiu – Univ. “Ştefan cel Mare” Suceava, Romania
Simbolurile, echivalenţii stimulilor lingvistici şi geneza limbajului
Constantin Bunduc – Univ. “Al.I.Cuza” Iaşi, Romania
Basmul iniţiatic, un sistem de modelare/optimizare eficient
10.40 – 13.00
Session:
Semiotic methodology, from specific to general issuesConference Hall II
Chairperson: Associate Prof. Gheorghe-Ilie Fârte
Gheorghe-Ilie Fârte - Univ. “Al.I.Cuza” Iaşi, Romania
Comunicare, noncomunicare, anticomunicare
Victoria Fonari - Univ. de Stat din Moldova, Chişinău, Republica Moldova
Metodologia semiotică în textul artistic
Viorel Guliciuc – Univ. “Ştefan cel Mare” Suceava, Romania
Dincolo de post-modernism: universalitatea non-generică a culturii
Mircea Horubeţ – Univ. of Bacău, Romania
The limits of the linguistic sign. From word to book
Ioan-Alexandru Grădinaru – Univ. „Al.I.Cuza” Iaşi, Romania
Abducţia: calea către o posibilă transgresare a limitelor semioticii?
Amalia Andronic – Univ. of Bacău, Romania
Implicaţii ale metodologiei semiotice în analiza comunicării verbale
Gheorghe Vlasie – Univ. “Al.I.Cuza” Iaşi, Romania
Tipuri de semne sau dimensiuni ale semnului?
10.40 – 13.00
Session:
Resources of verbal languageConference Hall III
Chairperson: Associate Prof. Vasile Spiridon
Mihaela Buzatu – Univ. of Bacău, Romania
Simbolistica elementelor câmpului lexico-semantic al casei, în nuvela La ţigănci, de Mircea Eliade
Doina Cmeciu - Univ. of Bacău, Romania
Casa – semn cultural al spaţiului englezesc. O perspectivă diacronică
Ecaterina Creţu - Univ. of Bacău, Romania
Dicţionar ilustrat - Casa şi gospodăria tradiţională de pe Valea Trotuşului
George Bacovia “Şi toate din casă mi-s sfinte…”
Ioan Dănilă – Univ. of Bacău, Romania
Casa ca amprentă culturală
Luminiţa Drugă – Univ. of Bacău, Romania
Spaţii ale pe-trecerii în textul sadovenian
Adrian Jicu – Univ. of Bacău, Romania
Casa ca personaj în Great Expectations de Charles Dickens şi Cartea nunţii de George Călinescu
Violeta Popa & Alin Popa – Univ. of Bacău, Romania
Casa tradiţională din Moldova. Spaţii ale trecerii
Petronela Savin – Univ. of Bacău, Romania
‘Vatra’ – drumul unei imagini din terminologia locuinţei
Vasile Spiridon – Univ. of Bacău, Romania
Ambientul camilpetrescian
13.00 – 13.10
Coffee Break
13.10 – 13.30
Poster presentation
Traian Stănciulescu & Aritia D. Poenaru – Univ. “Al.I.Cuza” Iaşi, Romania
The clothing of light: healthy effects of the symbolical language
13.30 – 14.00
Book presentation and sale
14.00 – 15.00
Lunch (Restaurant)
15.00 – 15.40
Plenary Session (Conference Hall I)
Dr David Cornberg – Taipei, Taiwan
Freeze the body, force the mind: the ritualization of thanatophobia in everyday life
15.45 – 16.30
Plenary Session (Conference Hall I)
Professor Zdzisław Wąsik – University Adam Mickiewicz Poznań, Poland
Epistemological perspectives on sign-and-meaning-related concepts: bridging the realm of human nature and culture in semiotic studies
16.30 – 16.40
Coffee Break
16.40 – 18.00
SESSIONS
16.40 – 18.00
Session:
Essential dualities: nature vs culture, valences of nonverbal languageConference Hall I
Chairperson: Prof. Lionel Larré
Roxana-Ema Guliciuc – Univ. “Babeş-Bolyai” Cluj-Napoca, Romania
J.M.G. Le Clezio comme produit intercultural
Lionel Larré – Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3, France
Native Americans on the border of two semiotic spaces
Florinela Floria - Univ. of Bacău, Romania
Spre o semiotică a vecinătăţii
Ioana Nica – Univ. of Bacău, Romania
Culture and distance in Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children
Valeria-Alina Guliciuc - Univ. “Babeş-Bolyai” Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Cluj-Napoca ou l’éloge de la multiculturalité
Ana-Maria Stoica – Univ. of Piteşti, Romania
Limbaj şi mentalităţi în Ciocoii vechi şi noi de Nicolae Filimon
16.40 – 18.00
Session:
Non-standard semioticsConference Hall II
Chairperson: Associate Prof. Gabriel Mardare
Roxana Brânzei – Univ. “Al.I.Cuza” Iaşi, Romania
De la unificare la comuniune – Repere semiotice ale comunicării terapeutice
George Ceauşu – Univ. “Al.I.Cuza” Iaşi, Romania
Semiotics and catastrophe theory: continuity and discontinuity between concepts
Gabriel Mardare – Univ. of Bacău, Romania
My Fair Value. Propos pour une approche ethnosémiolinguistique du mental comptable dans ses rapports avec les paroles de la foi
Veronica Grecu – Univ. of Bacău, Romania
Le masque et les mots
Gheorghe Epuran – Univ. of Bacău, Romania
De l’esthétique à la sensibilité: une approche sémiotique des produits de luxe
16.40 – 18.00
Session:
Resources of verbal languageConference Hall III
Chairperson: Associate Prof. Ioan-Lucian Popa
Irina Condrea - Univ. de Stat din Moldova, Chişinău, Republica Moldova
Rolul paratextului în receptarea operei traduse
Mariana-Alexandra Dinulescu – Univ. of Bacău, Romania
Translation as negotiation
Gabriela Andrioai – Univ. of Bacău, Romania
A semiotic approach to texts belonging to the scientific discourse
Dumitru Radu – Bacău County Hospital, Romania
Reprezentări diagramatice în discursul ştiinţific al unor discipline fundamentale şi de graniţă
Ioan-Lucian Popa – Univ. of Bacău, Romania
Semiotics and translation theory
18.00 - 18.15
18.15 – 19.15
Coffee Break
General Assembly of ROASS members
19.30
20.30 – 21.30
Dinner (Restaurant)
Poetry, music and theatre
SATURDAY, 28 OCTOBER, 20067.30 – 8.45
Breakfast (Restaurant)
9.00 – 9.40
Plenary Session (Conference Hall I)
Professeur Alexandru Boboc – membre de l’ Académie Roumaine, Roumanie
Sémantique et magique dans la structure du langage de communication
9.45 – 10.30
Plenary Session (Conference Hall I)
Professeur Maria Carpov – Université “Al.I.Cuza” Iaşi, Roumanie
Nature vs culture. Nouvelles approaches
10.30 – 10.40
Coffee Break
10.40 – 13.00
SESSIONS
10.40 – 13.00
Session:
Valences of nonverbal language (plastic, kinetic, musical, other nonverbal semiotics)
Conference Hall I
Chairperson: Dr. Giuseppe Mele
Giuseppe Mele – Univ. of Bari, Italy
Form and symbol in a Medieval church: S.Maria Di Gallana (Oria, Italy). On the symbolism of religious architecture
Giuseppe Dalfino – Univ. of Bari, Italy
Form and symbol in a Medieval church: S.Maria Di Gallana (Oria, Italy). On the symbolism of the religious frescoes
Traian Stănciulescu, George D. Stănciulescu – Univ. “Al.I.Cuza” Iaşi, Romania
Luxonics: the science of light and sound symbolical language
Aritia D. Poenaru – Institutul Naţional de Inventică, Iaşi, Romania
The architecture of light: a semiotic approach
Roxana-Iuliana Popescu – Univ. of Bacău, Romania
Nonverbal communication in the religious discourse
Doina Mihaela Sava (Popa) – Univ. “Petre Andrei” Iaşi, Romania
Semiotica corporală şi literatura: lacrimile şi tăcerea – câteva aspecte
Mariana Tîrnăuceanu – Univ. of Bacău, Romania
On icono-texts: a modern outlook
10.40 – 13.00
Session:
Resources of verbal language
Conference Hall II
Chairperson: Prof. Doina Cmeciu
Elena Ciobanu – Univ. of Bacău, Romania
Reading Sylvia Plath – a semiotic perspective
Doina Cmeciu - Univ. of Bacău, Romania
‘Nice’ signs: the literary character from metonymy to metaphor
Tamara Cristei - Univ. de Stat din Moldova, Republica Moldova
Le discours éminescien dans la perspective sémiotique
Mihaela Culea – Univ. of Bacău, Romania
The exploitation of narrative possibilities in Laurence Sterne’s The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
Andreia Viţăluş – Univ. of Bacău, Romania
Malcolm Bradbury’s necessity of inventing a new type of language or Why Come to Slaka? and Find the Best Rates of Exchange
10.40 – 13.00
Session:
Science and spirituality, paradigms of millenium III
Conference Hall III
Chairperson: Prof. Nicolae Râmbu
Nicolae Râmbu – Univ. “Al. I . Cuza” Iaşi, Romania
Considerations on the symbolic form of art at Hegel
Mirela Arsith – Univ. of Bacău, Romania
Semnele umanului şi semnele divinului
Elena Bulai – Univ. of Bacău, Romania
Métamorphose du signe: du religieux au laïque, de l’abstrait au concret
Cristina Cîrtiţă Buzoianu - Univ. of Bacău, Romania
Rousseau şi semnele libertăţii
Şerban Fotea – Univ. “Al.I.Cuza” Iaşi, Romania
Quantum semiotics of archetypal language
Christian Tămaş – IBC Cambridge, UK & Univ. “Al.I.Cuza” Iaşi, Romania
Coranul – Miracolul semnului, miracolul tăcerii
13.00 – 14.00
Lunch (Restaurant)
14.00 – 14.40
Plenary Session (Conference Hall I)
Professor Mariana Neţ – Romanian Academy, Institute of Linguistics, Bucharest, Romania
Museums and simulacra in a European city
14.40 – 15.30
Plenary Session (Conference Hall I)
Professor Traian Stănciulescu – University “Al.I.Cuza” of Iaşi, Romania
In the beginning was the symbol: on the harmonizing power of semiotics
15.30 – 15.40
Coffee Break
15.40 – 18.00
Session:
Resources of verbal languageConference Hall I
Chairperson: Associate Prof. Elena Bonta
Cătălina Bălinişteanu – Univ. of Bacău, Romania
The tavern as a semiotic sign
Livia Durac – Univ. “Al.I.Cuza” Iaşi, Romania
Limbajul verbal, fundament al dezvoltării ontologice umane
Elena Bonta – Univ. of Bacău, Romania
Semiotic practices within the framework of social semiotics
Raluca Bonta – Univ. of Bacău, Romania
Verbal and paraverbal signs in hostage negotiation
Diana Corban – Univ. of Bacău, Romania
A semiotics of space: the island in John Fowles’s fiction
15.40 – 18.00
Session:
Valences of nonverbal language (plastic, kinetic, musical, other nonverbal semiotics)
Conference Hall II
Chairperson: Prof. Aurel Codoban
Aurel Codoban – Univ. “Babes-Bolyai” Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Corpul de limbaj şi corpul ca limbaj. Problemele constitutive ale unei semiotici gestuale
Camelia Cmeciu – Univ. of Bacău, Romania
The iconic faces of ‘corruption’ in political discourse
Nadia Nicoleta Morăraşu – Univ. of Bacău, Romania
Dickensian fictional names in verbal and non-verbal signifying systems
Sebastian Năstuţă – Univ. “Petre Andrei” Iaşi, Romania
Semiotica identităţii vizuale: comunicarea vizuală şi cucerirea consumatorului
Brînduşa-Mariana Amălăncei – Univ. of Bacău, Romania
Proximitatea, gestualitatea şi mimica în comunicarea publicitară
15.40 – 18.00
Session:
Resources of verbal languageConference Hall III
Chairperson: Associate Prof. Adriana Romedea
Stephen Morrison – Université de Poitiers, France
Le Prologue Général des Contes de Canterbury: le problème du narrateur
Adriana-Gertruda Romedea - Univ. of Bacău, Romania
Approche polyphonique dans l’analyse du discourse
Adrian Păduraru - President of ArtEd, Romania
The semiotics of theatre – a way to happiness
Ioan Sava – Univ. of Bacău, Romania
Discontinuities, thresholds and limits of literature as discursive practice
18.00 – 19.00
Semiotics and comunicology: round tableChairperson : Prof. Traian Stănciulescu
On-Line Coordinator: Prof. Viorel Guliciuc
Richard L. Lanigan – Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, USA
The human science of communicology (semiotic phenomenology)
Jean-Claude Mbarga – Université de Yaoundé, Cameroun
Sociosémiotique de la diversité à l'ère de la Globalisation
Randall E. Auxier - Southern Illinois University , Carbondale, USA
The trouble with simplicity: four unpoetic forms of historically emergent human consciousness
Maureen Connolly - Brock University, USA
Tango as borderland: a semiotic choreology of the politics of limits and sensation
Thomas D. Craig - International Communicology Institute, USA
Zechariah as biblical 'apocalypso': a communicology of the borderland between thought and sensation
Ersu Ding – Lingnan University, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong, Pr China
The return of the subject
Geo Goidaci – University of Munchen, Germany
From nature to culture: on the symbolical language of plastic arts
Øyvind Lyngseth – Aalborg University, Denmark
Dynamic sign structures in visual art and music. Music as symbolic form.
Jörg Zeller – Aalborg University, Denmark
Dynamic sign structures in visual art and music. Visual Art.
Susan Petrilli & Augusto Ponzio – University of Bari, Italy
Semiotics unbounded
19.00 – 19.30
Closing festivities
20.00 – 22.30
Farewell dinner
