[Bilimsel Haber] UPDATE: Structuralism(s) Today (4/30/07; 10/11/07-10/14/07)

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

(Please note the new deadline, April 30)

"In arriving at structuralism, literary studies simply join the general
tendency of contemporary thought. Throughout almost the entire realm of
contemporary scholarship the discovery of the dynamic relations which
pervade its material has proven to be an effective modus operandi, for
example, in the disciplines of the arts and in general aesthetics, in
psychology, sociology, linguistics, economics, and even in the natural
sciences" (J. Mukarovsky, 1934)


The Prague School project developed a functionalistic, semiotic approach
to linguistics and literature that expanded the legacy of late
Formalists such as R. Jakobson and J. Tynyanov. Despite significant
contributions by J. Mukarovsky, J. Veltrusky and J. Vodicka, among many
others, Prague semiotics is still unknown to many scholars today. The
international symposium "Structuralism(s) Today: Prague, Paris, Tartu,
and Beyond" aims not only to revaluate the Prague project, but to study
it in relation to French Structuralism/Post-Structuralism and Tartu
School. Graduate students and scholars worldwide are encouraged to join
the conferences to be held at the University of Toronto in October
11-14, 2007. Organizers are currently accepting proposals. Suggested
topics are:

- Structuralism: Poetics and/or Aesthetics? Idea of literariness,
poeticity, and theatricality in 21th Century.

- Defamiliarization: from deautomatization to Verfremdung-Effekt.

- Literary History: Vodicka's model of a history of reception; theories
of immanent change vs. theories of correlation of literary and
non-literary series.

- Semiotics of drama: drama vs. theatre; theatricality; drama, lyric,
and epic as sources for theatrical works.

- Literary genres: the role of parody in the evolution of forms;  genres
and polysystems.

- The problem of verse language: semantic gesture, from the verse line
to the whole poem; poem as a web of phonic, syntactic, and semantic strata.

- Culture as system: Tartu School and its expanded cultural studies;
Lotman's semiosphere; semiotic analyses of culture as text.

- Semiotics of Film and Visual Arts.

500-words abstracts must be submitted to structuralismtoday_at_gmail.com
by April 30. Accepted contributors will be contacted in May. Please keep
in mind that all participants are required to be fluent in English,
since both lectures and discussion will only be given in that language.

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