Preliminary Programme

Wednesday, September 27
The naturalization of representation and the concept of metarepresentation
12:00 Lunch (warming up)
13:00 Opening by the dean of the faculty: Prof. John Bateman
13:30 –14:30 Wolfgang Wildgen (Bremen) Metarepresentation as an effect of selforganization (emergence)
14:30 –15:30 Barend van Heusden (Groningen) Metarepresentation in artistic semiosis: a systematic and evolutionary approach
15:30 –16:30 Bernhard Ridderbos (Groningen) Art history and semiotic evolution
16:30 Discussion
20:00 Dinner
 

Thursday, September 28
Semiotic evolution and culture (art)
10:00 –11:00 Michael Leyton (New York) The structure of paintings
11:00 –12:00 Peter Plath (Bremen) Selforganization – a link between theories?
12:00 –13:00 Boris Schapiro (Berlin) Science, art, and theology as metarepresentation: the concept of paradigm
13:00 –14:00 Lunch
14:00 –15:00 Marcel Bax (Groningen) Talking of ritual. ... meta-discourse, meta-representation, and codes of conduct
15:00 –16:00 Rik Peters (Groningen) Torturing the torturer, interpretation of evidence as metarepresentation
16:00 –16:30 Coffee break
16:30 –17:30 Todd Oakley (Cleveland) Metarepresentation, mind reading, and fictive interaction: A curator's conceit
17:30 Discussion
20:00 Dinner
 

Friday, September 29
Metarepresentation and cognition
10:00 –11:00 Ole Kühl (Aarhus) The gesture as primary signification in music
11:00 –11:30 Sven Ostergaard (Aarhus) Levels of representation: from motor schemes to metareflections
11:30 –12:30 Discussion
12:30 –14:00 Lunch break
14:00 –15:00 John Bateman (Bremen) Film as (meta)-representation?
15:00 –16:00 Cui Peiling (Bremen) Metarepresentation in language jokes
16:00 –16:30 Coffee break
16:30 –17:30 Ulf Harendarski (Oldenburg) Finding the Self between Shall and Should
17:30 –18:30 Discussion: Is metarepresentation a valid concept? How should one conceive levels of emergence/evolution/elaboration of semiotic systems?
18:30 End of the conference