⚘ Performing Arts in a Process of Semiosis ☀ Bujar Hoxha
Creators: name: Hoxha, Bujar
name: O'Halloran, Kay
name: Passarini, William
Publisher: name: Instituto de Estudos Filosóficos
Year: 2022
Subjects: Algirdas Julius Greimas
Artworks
Eero Tarasti
John Deely
Methodology
Performing arts
Semiology
Semiosis
Semiotics
William Shakespeare

description: Walk into the maze... and you will overcome the boundaries between arts and sciences as you assume a careful perspective on the action of signs.


This event, commented by Kay O'Halloran (University of Liverpool) and chaired by William Passarini (Mansarda Acesa), is part of the activities of the 2022 International Open Seminar on Semiotics: a Tribute to John Deely on the Fifth Anniversary of His Passing, cooperatively 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.


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Dr. Bujar Hoxha is a full professor of Communication Sciences at the South-East European University in Tetovo and Skopje, North Macedonia. His teaching courses include communication theory, introduction to communication sciences, and Semiotics of Mass Communication. His main scientific interests are structural semiotics, semiotics of passions, semiotics of disabilities, and existential semiotics. He gained his PhD from the University of Skopje in 2008 on the semiotics of Umberto Eco. Out of his creative and intellectual work, one can number two published novels, a book, as well as several scientific articles published in prestigious scientific journals, such as: “Semiotics of Precision and Imprecision” (2016) and “Multilingualism and Sameness vs Otherness in a Semiotic Context”, (2018) both in de Gruyter Mouton's Semiotica, Berlin and Boston, as well as “On the Applicability of the Semiotics of Passions” (2018) and “The Signs’ Behavior in Autistic Children: Semiosis of an Unspoken Language” (2021), both in the Humanities Bulletin, issued by London Academic Publishing, London, United Kingdom. Recently, Dr. Hoxha has published a monograph entitled: Umberto Eco’s Semiotics: Theory, Methodology and Poetics, issued by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in January 2022, New Castle upon Tyne, UK.


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Kay O'Halloran is Chair Professor and Head of Department of Communication and Media at University of Liverpool. Kay’s research area is multimodal analysis. Her early work involved multimodal approaches to mathematics and in her later research she focused on developing new digital tools and techniques for analysing text, images and videos. More recently, she has been developing mixed methods approaches for analysis of large multimodal data sets.


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Technical support assured by Robert Junqueira.


The official graphic designer of the IO2S DEELY is Zahra Soltani Tehrani.