[Commlist] Sebeok's millennium - seminar series

The International Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS-AIS) is proud 
to present ‘Sebeok’s millennium’ – a webinar series celebrating the work 
of Thomas A. Sebeok 20 years after his death and 101 years after his birth.

In 1999, John Deely telephoned Tom Sebeok at his Bloomington home to 
announce that the following year’s meeting of the Semiotic Society of 
America would be dedicated to and entitled ‘Sebeok’s Century’. To this, 
Tom replied with characteristic wit, “Why not Sebeok’s millennium?”

Why not, indeed? Sebeok regularly thought forwards, even as much as 
10,000 years into the future. He saw the role of the international 
semiotics community as integral to the future of humanity and, in so 
doing, transformed semiotics, the academy and how humans at large see 
the world. This webinar series will celebrate that thinking with 
discussions featuring Sebeok scholars and colleagues.

The five webinars, each loosely focusing on areas where Tom Sebeok was 
particularly influential and revered, will be as follows:

SEBEOK AND FINNO-UGRIC SEMIOTICS organised by Anti Randviir 
(anti.randviir /at/ ut.ee) <mailto:(anti.randviir /at/ ut.ee)>

SEBEOK AND THE AMERICAS organised by Román Esqueda 
(roman_esqueda /at/ yahoo.com.mx) <mailto:(roman_esqueda /at/ yahoo.com.mx)>

SEBEOK AND BIOSEMIOTICS organised by Sara Cannizzaro and Timo Maran 
(timo.maran /at/ ut.ee) <mailto:(timo.maran /at/ ut.ee)>

SEBEOK, LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION organised by Susan Petrilli 
(susan.petrilli /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(susan.petrilli /at/ gmail.com)>

SEBEOK AND EAST ASIA organised by Hongbing Yu (hongbing /at/ ryerson.ca) 
<mailto:(hongbing /at/ ryerson.ca)>

In more detail (where available), the seminars will be as follows:

24 November 2021

SEBEOK AND FINNO-UGRIC SEMIOTICS

(commences 15.00 Helsinki/Tartu; 14.00 Wroclaw; 13.00 London; 08.00 New 
York; 10.00 Buenos Aires; 21.00 Nanjing)

15.00-15.15: Paul Cobley, ‘Opening speech’

15.15-15.45: Kalevi Kull, Anti Randviir, ‘Sebeok and the Estonian 
connection’

15.45-16.15: Vilmos Voigt, ‘Th. A. Sebeok the Hungarian.  The road to 
semiotics’

16.15-16.45: Eero Tarasti, ‘A Life for Semiotics’

16.45-17.15: Zdzisłav Wasik, ‘Tom Sebeok’s way to the avant-garde: from 
project-designer to paradigm-creator’.

17.15-17.45: Questions and comments.

Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 956 4022 8754
Passcode: 770442

25 November 2021

SEBEOK AND THE AMERICAS

(commences 09.00 Mexico City; 15.00 London; 10.00 New York; 12.00 Buenos 
Aires; 23.00 Nanjing; 17.00 Tartu; 16.00 Bari)

15.00-1530: Alfredo Cid,‘The influence of Thomas Sebeok in Latin 
American semiotics: a landscape vision’

15.30-1600: Román Esqueda, ‘Sebeok and the silent growth of semiosis 
outside academia’

16.00-1630: Questions and comments.

Zoom link to follow.

1 December 2021 (time t.b.c.)

SEBEOK AND BIOSEMIOTICS

Timo Maran, title to be confirmed

Sara Cannizzaro, title to be confirmed

Questions and comments.

Join Zoom Meeting

https://ut-ee.zoom.us/j/95899273013?pwd=K2pCWUlPTDU2QUM4SzhscWtSRzcrdz09 
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Meeting ID: 958 9927 3013

Passcode: 641877

7 December 2021 (time t.b.c.)

SEBEOK, LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION

Susan Petrilli, title to be confirmed

Augusto Ponzio, title to be confirmed

Dario Dellino, title to be confirmed

Questions and comments.



15 December 2021 (time t.b.c.)

SEBEOK AND EAST ASIA

Hongbing Yu, title to be confirmed

Speaker to be announced, title to be confirmed

Questions and comments.



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