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IO2S DEELY connects personalities and organizations working in unison towards the advancements and propagation of semiotic studies. Presentations are arranged into two modules. The first, comprising sessions on the diachronic extension of semiotics, has been titled «Historical Module: From Early Latinity to the Last Postmodernity.» The second, musing on the synchronic scale of the cross-thematic issues challenging those not yet dead, has been titled «Systematic Module: „De-Sign“ or Semiotics in Relation.»
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⚘ John Deely, an Interview from 2001
⚘ Imaginary Dialogue with John Deely: Playing with Boundaries Across Space and Time
☼ IO2S DEELY ☼
International Open Seminar on Semiotics: a Tribute to John Deely on the Fifth Anniversary of His Passing
⥁ Schedule
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1. The only way for you to take part in the seminars in which we will be able to share meaningful insights, dire straits and conclusions regarding the lectures is to attend them live.
2. Some lectures will be pre-recorded, and in these instances no seminar will be held, but we encourage all interested to arrange to meet with peers to learn together in a dialogue about the lectures.
3. Some lectures will not be streamed on open signal, meaning that it will only be possible to attend such lectures if one is actually in the meeting room. Under circumstances of this sort, a seminar immediately following the lectures will be taking place, according to plan, and you are most welcome to join us.
⚘ John Deely's Contributions to Biosemiotics
⚘ Semiotics and Education: Action-Theoretical Point of View
⚘ Intuition in Peirce and Maritain
⚘ Peirce on proper names
⚘ The contested relation to reality of "the creative treatment of actuality”: a triadic semiotic critique
⚘ Lessons learned from John Deely
⚘ Reality's Windows
⚘ Time and the Sensible
⚘ Philosophy as a Habit of Cenoscopic Inquiry: or How to Ask After the General that Transpires Through the Particular
⚘ Meanings we live in: Husserl's theory of meaning and the surrounding world
⚘ 15th World Congress of Semiotics
⚘ Applying Peircean Semiotics for Creating Artificial Cognitive Systems
⚘ Deely on the Semiotics of Couto
⚘ The Semiosis of Boethius's Prosimetric Style in „De consolatione philosophiae“
⚘ Semiotics and Dark Web Memes
⚘ Logic as a Liberal Art
⚘ Song Birds of the Primate Umwelt: A zoosemiotic analysis of vocalizations of the family Hylobatidae
⚘ 2nd IEF International Colloquium ROADS TO CARE
⚘ A semiotic analysis of philosophy as expressed in urban space: The case of ancient Greece
⚘ Anthroposemiosis, Augustine, Poinsot, Peirce and Deely and the Production of Human Knowledge and Experience
⚘ Signs of The Literary Imagination: A Taxonomy
⚘ Poinsot: The Essence of the Sign
⚘ The Semiotics of Religion in the Digital Era
⚘ “A global enterprise”: Deely, Sebeok and the “sop to Cerberus” in semiotics
⚘ A Semiotic Perspective of Cognition: John Deely on the Role of Signs in Human Knowing
⚫ Recordings
All IO2S DEELY recordings are openly accessible and can be played or downloaded for free
The artwork for the videos was designed by Zahra Soltani.
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⚘ Opening Ceremony
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Brooke Williams Deely
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5832152
⏳ Historical Module
From Early Latinity to the Last Postmodernity
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⚘ Interview with Brian Kemple
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5573900
⚘ Augustine: Instituting the Given Sign ☀ Brian Kemple
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5860566
⚘ Duns Scotus on Signs: Common Nature, Haecceity, and Signification ☀ Paniel Reyes Cárdenas
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5860674
⚘ On the genesis of semiotics according to Algirdas J. Greimas. The book „On imperfection“ as a dialogue with the philosopher Lev Karsavin ☀ Inna Gennadievna Merkulova
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5894671
⚘ No mere 'flyover country': Some Historical Notes Regarding the „Schola Thomae“ as an Integral Context of the Thought of Dr. John Deely ☀ Matthew Minerd
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⚘ Peirce on History, Science, and Realism ☀ Tullio Viola
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5965967
⚘ Mind and Cognition at play in the Semiotics of Peirce ☀ Lucia Santaella
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6062103
⚘A Holistic Approach to Semiotics: Juri Lotman ☀ Marek Tamm
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6350833
⚘The Supra-Subjective Nature of Relation: John Deely’s „Semiotic“ Response to the Modern Impasse ☀ Banzelão Teixeira
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6371702
⚘Fonseca on signs („ID“ I, 8-11) ☀ António Manuel Martins
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6394752
⚘ Aquinas: The (Meta)Physics behind Semiosis ☀ Brian Kemple
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6467988
⚘ Cognitive and Evolutionary Perspectives on John Deely's Definition of Human Being ☀ Jamin Pelkey
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6499105
⚘ Signs and being: the role of semiotics in Heidegger's thought ☀ Rocco Gangle
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6510298
⚘ Albert the Great's Cenoscopic Understanding of Reality ☀ Mercedes Rubio
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6530141
⚘ Umberto Eco and the semiotic quest for truth ☀ Anna Maria Lorusso
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6550611
⚘ „Ens intentionale“ and „ens ut verum“: Traveling with John Deely Beyond Non-Being ☀ Matthew Minerd
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⚘ The Role of the Cenoscopic/Idioscopic Distinction in Peirce and Deely ☀ Scott Randall Paine
Paine - 2021 - On the Cenoscopic and the Idioscopic
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6591829
⚘ Illusory signs as frustrated expectations: Descartes’ overblown response ☀ Marc Champagne
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⚘ The Semiotics of John of St. Thomas ☀ Anabela Gradim
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⚘ Formal sign in Coimbra ☀ Hélène Leblanc
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⚘ John Deely's Contributions to Biosemiotics ☀ Donald Favareau, Paul Cobley, and Kalevi Kull
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♾ Systematic Module
De-Sign or Semiotics in Relation
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⚘ Interview with Farouk Y. Seif
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5750412
⚘ The Enchantment of „De-Sign“: Navigation Toward Meaning-Making ☀ Farouk Y. Seif
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5847468
⚘ Daydreams and Dark Magic: Semiotics and the Meaning of Evil ☀ Kirk Kanzelberger
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⚘ What is Cognitive Semiotics? ☀ Göran Sonesson
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⚘ Semiotics and Architecture: The Dialogical Hope (Past and Future) ☀ Josep Muntañola Thornberg
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⚘ Reading and teaching literature digitally: a cultural semiotic perspective ☀ Alexandra Milyakina
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6335453
⚘ „De-Sign“: The Mutual Fulfillment of God's Will and Human Desire (John Deely/Jacques Maritain Lecture Series) ☀ Farouk Y. Seif
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⚘ Marginal spaces of the city: structures and images ☀ Olga Lavrenova
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⚘ Hypnotherapy, Epistemology and Semiotics ☀ Maurício Neubern
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⚘ Life sciences and the humanities ☀ Anton Markoš
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⚘ Ethnosemiotics: An Outline ☀ Francesco Marsciani
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⚘ Meaning as the structure of information flows through the world ☀ Daniel Polani
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⚘ The singularity of relation and the threads of communication ☀ Paul Bains
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⚘ Minimum as a Sign in Contemporary Architecture ☀ Dragana Vasilski
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This collaborative international open scientific initiative and celebration is jointly organized by the Institute for Philosophical Studies of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, the Lyceum Institute, the Deely Project, Saint Vincent College, the Iranian Society for Phenomenology at the Iranian Political Science Association, the International Association for Semiotics of Space and Time, the Institute for Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Semiotic Society of America, the American Maritain Association, the International Association for Semiotic Studies, the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies, the International Center for Semiotics and Intercultural Dialogue, Moscow State Academic University for the Humanities and the Mansarda Acesa with the support of the FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology, I.P., of the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education of the Government of Portugal under the UID/FIL/00010/2020 project.