Programme

We are pleased to announce the following plenary lectures

• Paul Bouissac (Victoria University Toronto): “The Endless Frontier of Semiotics”
• Lars Elleström (Linnaeus University, Sweden): “Representing the Anthropocene: Transmediation of Narratives and Truthfulness from Science to Feature Film”
• Susanne Hauser (Universität der Künste, Berlin): „References: On Semiotics and Cultural Studies“
• Christian Pentzold (Universität Leipzig): “Making the Future Visible: Infographics in Predictive Data Journalism”
• Susan Petrilli (Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro): “Imag(in)ing Cultural Transformation between Idols and Icons”
• Hartmut Stöckl (Universität Salzburg): “Transforming Pictorial Reference in the Age of Computer-Generated Imagery. A Multimodal View from Current Advertising”

All keynotes will be open to the public. Please write to dgs-keynotes@…, receive the access data.

Panels

• Cultural Studies(1): „Images as Agents of Cultural Transformation“
• Image (2): „Images as Agents of Cultural Transformation“
• Digital Humanities (3): „Digital Transformation of the Humanities? Theoretical and Methodological Provocations by the Digital Humanities“
• Literature & Youth and Subcultures (4): „Medial Transformations and/or Innovation of Narrative Formats: Appropriation, Literacy, Protest“
• Philosophy of Signs (5): „The End of Reference? Truth Claims in the ‘Postfactual Age’“
• Fashion (6): „Religion, Politics and Fashion - Circulation of Signs"
• Archaeology (7): „Representations and Interpretations of Dynamic Processes and Actions in Pre-Modern Societies“
• Body (8): „Digital Transformation and Virtualization of Body Signs“
• Media (9): „Medial and Semiotic Transformation Processes in Science Practice (Phenomena, Data, Contexts, Results)“
• Architecture (10): „Transformations in Architecture and Urbanism“
• Design (11): „Return of the Real. Design and Design Theory in Transition“
• Dance, Theater and Circus (12): „On the (Ir)relevance of Semiotics. Transformations in the Performative Arts“
• Environmental and carto/atlas semiotics (13): „From carto semiotics to atlas semiotics“
• Panel of the SFB Hybrid Societies (14): „Anthropomorphization from a semiotic and cognitive perspective. A contribution to social robotics“
• Panel (15) „Challenges and Potentials of Palimpsest Space Theory“