4th ANNUAL YURI LOTMAN DAYS AT TALLINN UNIVERSITY

[evgenii bershtein]

4th ANNUAL YURI LOTMAN DAYS AT TALLINN UNIVERSITY
(Tallinn, 8–10 June 2012)

Do Texts Tell Lies?
Or: How to deal with unreliable sources

Call for papers

Dear colleagues,

The Estonian Semiotics Repository Foundation at Tallinn University is 
announcing a call for papers for the annual conference, the 4th Yuri 
Lotman Days to be held at Tallinn University, 8–10 June 2012.
The topics of our conferences are always linked to the rich scholarly 
legacy of Yuri Lotman. This year’s conference is inspired by Lotman’s 
seminal paper, “On the problem of dealing with unreliable sources”. We 
are going to discuss both the problem which is posed in this paper (must 
the researcher desist from attempts to interpret patently unreliable 
sources?), and a wider range of questions, which are connected with the 
fundamental issue in the humanities that “between” the fact and the 
researcher there is always a text. Thus, we intend to discuss the 
following issues:
— the problems of selection and evaluation of sources in the humanities 
and social sciences;
— the possibilities and methods of studying apocryphal and counterfeit 
sources;
— the situations of “textual ambiguity” in establishing the definitive 
text (in literature, cinema, music, and other arts);
— the problems of textological, philological, historical and 
culturological interpretation of discrepancies between the sources.

The conference will include Russian-language and English-language 
panels. Each speaker is allotted thirty minutes (20 minutes for delivery 
and 10 minutes discussion).
Those wishing to attend the conference and present papers are requested 
to apply, providing  the following information:
— the title of their paper and an abstract (the abstract should not 
exceed 2000 characters, spaces included);
— a brief CV (name, surname, affiliation, degree, scholarly interests — 
up to 1000 characters, spaces included).
The applications should be sent to the organizing committee by 11 April 
2012.

The applications in Russian should be sent to Mikhail Trunin: 
mikhailtrunin at gmail.com
The applications in English should be sent to Piret Peiker: 
piretpeiker at hotmail.com

The participant abstracts will be selected by the organising committee 
based on their merit and suitability for the conference. The applicants 
will be informed about the results by 25 April 2012. All conference 
events are free of charge, and there is no conference fee. The 
participants are expected to travel on their own expense and responsibility.

The Organising Committee of the 4th Annual Yuri Lotman Days at Tallinn 
University:
Rein Raud (Chair),
Tatjana Kuzovkina, Mihhail Lotman, Piret Peiker, Igor Pilshchikov, 
Mikhail Trunin (Secretary).

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