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Tentative programme of the Opening Seminar
Syros/Athens, Greece Oct 2- 9, 2017
Director: Professor Eero Tarasti (Helsinki), eero.tarasti@helsinki.fi
Assistants: Lazaros Papoutzis (Florina) sfinas3@gmail.com; Paul Forsell (Helsinki), paul.forsell@helsinki.fi
Monday Oct 2nd: arrival by ferry boat at Syros from Piraeus, leaving at 7 p.m. arriving around 10.30 p.m.
Tuesday Oct 3rd, Seminar, participants’ papers, Ritsos Hall, Municipality of Ermoupolis
9 a.m. – 12 a.m.
Welcoming and Opening words by the Director of the Academy, Prof. EeroTarasti (Helsinki)
General discussion on the topics and programme of the seminar, working methodology and orientation
Eero Tarasti: The Greek philosophical sources in existential semiotics
12 a.m. – 2 p.m. lunch
Afternoon (2. p.m.- 5 p.m.):
Delegation from the University of Helsinki:
Mikko Metsälampi: The ship of Theseus and the ontology of an artwork
David Forsman: Music and Meditation
Aleksi Haukka: The Spanish composer Fernando Sor – an existential-semiotic analysis
Kim Keskiivari: The Structures of the Transcendental Acts in Existential Semiotics and the Ethical Implications for Cultural Heritage
Delegation from the University of Western Macedonia:
Dr. Ifigeneia Vamvakidou: Teaching cultural heritage through postgraduate lessons
Lazaros Papoutzis: Semiotics of the Olympic Spirit
Evangelia Svirou: Elias Vyzantis (1910-1980), his contribution in local cultural history
Tatiana Altini: Vlassis Kaniaris’ installations during the Greek post-dictatorship period
5 p.m. Musical Event at Apollo Theater
Conference-recital by Eila Tarasti according to her just appeared book on the Finnish woman composer Helvi Leiviskä (1902–1982),
Clarinet solo by Daniel Rohe
Guitar compositions by Fernando Sor and Heitor Villa-Lobos, played by Aleksi Haukka
Brazilian music, the notion of ‘saudade’, speech by Son Melo, and pieces by Ernest Nazareth and Heitor Villa-Lobos, at the piano Eero Tarasti
8 p.m. Dinner
Wednesday Oct 4, Excursion to the Delos island [Depending on weather conditions]
alternatively:
10 a.m. Participants’ papers:
Dimash Suleimin (Almaty): On the epistemic foundations of Kazak culture;
Daniel Rohe (Brasilia): Psychoanalysis and existential semiotics; others to be announced
Visits to sights in Hermoupolis: City hall, Miaouli Square, Tarsanas, Carnagio, Industrial Museum of Syros, Municipality library, St. Nicholas Church, Teloniou Square and others.
Thursday Oct 5
morning: continuing the seminar (place to be announced)
4 p.m. return to Piraeus by ferry boat leaving Syros
taking hotels in Athens
Friday Oct 6: “The Greek Miracle”, lectures by specialists
Finnish Institute, Athens, Zitrou 16, tel. +30 21 0922 1152
9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Greeting by the Embassador of Finland, Mr. Juha Pyykkö
Prof. Alexandros Lagopoulos (Athens): Ancient Greek Semiotic System
Dr. Nikolaos-Ion Terzoglou (Athens): The Idea of the Monument in the Age of the Enlightenment: Towards a Conceptual Genealogy of Cultural Heritage
Prof. Altti Kuusamo (Turku, Finland): The Powerful Continuity of Images: Tykhe (Fortuna) and Nike (Victoria) in the European Visual Scene – From the Ancient Greece to the Present Day
Prof. Demetre Yannou (Athens): Music in Ancient Greece
Dr. Samuli Salmi (Helsinki): The Medicine of Antiquity
1 p.m. – 3 p.m. lunch
3 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Prof. Karin Boklund-Lagopoulos (Athens): The Ancient Greek Cultural Heritage in European Literature”
Prof. Pirjo Kukkonen (Helsinki): Göran Schildt (1917–2009) and his Odyssey with Daphne in the Mediterranean
Dr. Ivo Velinov (Sofia): Reading Plato’s Republic, shaping cultural heritage in parallel worlds
Drs. Svetlana and Markku Toivakka (Helsinki): Renovation of Helsinki’s church village Parsonage
Dr. Kalliope Stiga (Athens): Mikis Theodorakis
8 p.m. dinner at a restaurant close to the Finnish Institute (place to be announced later)
Saturday Oct 7, Finnish Institute: Participants Papers and projects
9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Prof. Jean-Claude Mbarga (Yaoundee, Cameroun): Conspectus of the coordination of projects on cultural heritages in the continent of Africa
Prof. Zeynep Onur (Alanya Univ. Turkey): Semiotics of the Greek Miracle in Alanya
Prof. Rahilya Geybullaeva (Baku Slavic Univ. Azerbaidjan, and her colleagues): Ancient Mythological Thought in Azeri Culture and its Greek Origins
Prof. Bella Musaeva (Baku): The Incarnation of Plots of Ancient Greek Tragedies on the Azerbaijan Scene
Rahila Kuliyeva Huseyn (Baku): Modification of Greek Myth in Stories “Haron, charitable Haron” and “Choice of Paris” by Kamal Abdulla
Prof. Kristian Bankov (Sofia): Aristotle on money. The Greek mind and the invention of the coin
Tuukka Brunila (Helsinki): Socratic Irony as Education
Dr. Deniz Özden (Istanbul): A bronze statuette playing a trumpet – an ethnomusicological analysis
Zoi Konna (Greece): The Meteora: views on cultural heritage of UNESCO.
Sunday, Oct 8, Visits to the Antiquities and Museums in Athens
Monday Oct 9 Home return