Fwd: Semiotic Circle of California Program for January 23-4, 1999

[Marisa S. Olson]

FYI....
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SEMIOTIC CIRCLE OF CALIFORNIA * FOURTEENTH MEETING
SATURDAY/SUNDAY, JANUARY 23-24, 1999 * FACULTY CLUB
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

registration 8:15 am ( coffee/tea breaks, Sat.luncheon, Sun.
wine/cheese:
students $30; others $45)


SATURDAY January 23: Morning Session   Winfried Kudszus (UC Berkeley),
Chair

  8:30 am  Mattie Scott (Berkeley): "Retrieving the Stolen Soul:
Semiotic
and Neurological Aspects of Shamanistic Practices"

  8:55 am  Scott Simpkins (Univ. of North Texas): "The work of Art in
the
Age of Television Vérité: On DeLillo's Underworld

  9:20 am  Denis J. Brion (Washington & Lee Univ. School of Law): "The
Narrativity of the O.J.Simpson and the Louise Woodward Verdicts"

  9:45 am  Denise Warren (San Diego): "Hitchcock's Psycho: The Spatial
Dynamics of Psychosis"

10:10 am  William Pencak (Penn State Univ.): "Adorno Against Himself:
Music
Signs in the Twentieth Century"

10:35 am Mary A. Akatiff (UC Berkeley): "Translating a Life:
Translating
Fleisser's Short Story Die Ziege  (1926)"

11:00 am  Dominique Sipière (Amiens, Univ. de Picardie): On the
Pragmatic
Function of Film Incipits"

luncheon


Afternoon Session  Alain J.-J. Cohen (UC San Diego), Chair

1:30 pm    Norbert Wiley (Univ. of Illinois): "Impulse Buying as an
Elective Affinity Between Self and Commodity"

1:55 pm    Gayle A. Henrotte (Mt. San Antonio College): "Sight and
Sound:
Alphabetic Misreadings"

2:20 pm    Gilles Menegaldo (Univ. of Poitiers): "The Semiotics of
'infinite regress' in Robert Wise'sThe Haunting"

2:45 pm   Ellen McCracken (UC Santa Barbara): "Plata quemada as
Cinematic
Pre-Text: Narrative Desire and the Semiotic Order"

3:10 pm   Robert G. Hoeing (SUNY Buffalo): "Signifying Nothing"

3:35 pm   Heike Wiese (Brandeis Univ.): "Negotiating 'Plurality': The
Contribution of Syntax and Semantics"

4:00 pm   Reynold Humphries (Univ. de Lille), "The Semiotics of Horror:
The
Case of Dracula's Daughter"


SUNDAY January 24: Gerald F. Carr (California State Univ. Sacramento),
Chair

  8:30 am  Marisa S. Olson (UC Berkeley): "The Semiotics of German
Advertising in the Darwinian Economy of the Sign"

  8:55 am  Melvyn Stokes (Univ. College London): "The Endless Re-birth
of
The Birth of a Nation?"

  9:20 am  M. Susan Ashbourne (GTU Berkeley): "Subtle Symbols: The
Intentional Being of the Cheshire Cat"

  9:45 am  Winfried Kudszus (UC Berkeley): TBA

10:10 am   Paul Listen (Univ. of San Francisco): "A Way with Words: The
Semiotics of (Im)polite Address in Bidermann's Cenodoxus"

10:35 am  Brunella Antomarini (Rome): "A Theory of Poetry as Organic
Cognitive Response"

11:00 am  Alain J.-J. Cohen (UC San Diego): "Piero della Francesca: The
Painter as Filmmaker"


wine/cheese