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Lecturer(s)
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Tabacchini Paolo, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Matlach Vladimír, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Faltýnek Dan, doc. Mgr. Ph.D.
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Vaculíková Petra, Mgr.
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Kořenský Jan, prof. PhDr. DrSc.
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Bennett Ľudmila, Mgr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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There will be five total sessions, starting from the first week of March. Specific schedule TBA
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic Lecture(Interpretation, Training), Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook)
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Learning outcomes
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The course follows the online lecture series Semiosalong, the afterhours international semiotic salon. The title of the Spring 2023 Semiosalong is "History and Practice". All presentations will address this theme, which is described below. For something to be a sign and for someone to recognize it as such, there needs to be a sedimentation of effectively executed practices: a local "history" of interactions that assure the preservation and transmission of knowledge. Theories of sign processes also often bring "history" as a primordial component of the sign systems behind them so that, for instance, a natural language is to be defined as a code "plus its history". Simultaneously, semiotics is also anti-historicist: the synchronic method of Saussure is commonly thought to exclude the temporal, and the Russian Formalists disregarded everything outside the 'text' - particularly personal biography and context - in rebellion against the prevailing historical and material determinism of their day. But even they were concerned with the genesis of the phenomena under study, precisely in order to explain how it is that something comes to stand for something else. History entails praxis where signification structures intersect communication acts, and the concatenation of practices weaves the 'proper' fabric of history. But whose history? We invite participants this semester to reflect on this personal question and its inevitably political answers
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Student performance
Semiosalong sessions take place every other Thursday at 18:00. They are held over Zoom, with in-person viewing events in Olomouc, at the International Semiotics Institute (KB-1.04). All presentations are in English. The only requirement for the student of this course is to attend every session and to view and comment on the videos after they are uploaded to the YouTube channel. Students will be regulary informed about the schedule.
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Recommended literature
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