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Workshop
title:
European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop on
“Signs of the European Welfare: Modern Lifestyles and Traditional Forms of
Consumption”
Name and
full coordinates of applicant:
New
Office 1/120
21,
Prof. Maria Nikolova Popova, Dc.S.
Director of
Office 1/120
21,
Tel.: +359 2 955 96 27; +359 88 605 497
Fax: +359 2 955 96 27
E-mail: mpopova@nbu.bg
Krasimir Petrov Angelkov
Secretary of
Office 1/120
21,
Tel.: +359 2 855 83 09; +359 87 697 386
Fax: +359 2 955 96 27
E-mail: kangelkov@nbu.bg
Dates and
location of the workshop:
04.09.2004 – 08.09.2004
“St. Kirik and
Julita” complex
Asenovgrad
Gorni Voden 4230
Tel.: +359 331 65292; +359 331 647 622
Fax: +359 331 69 007
Keywords
relating to the research topic:
Global market, local cultures, communicative
consumption, media and symbolic exchange.
Abstract
of the proposed research topic:
The idea of the workshop is to gather researchers and
representatives of different European cultures and states and to discuss the
cultural effects of the economic unification, the homogenization of the life
standards, and their interaction with the local, traditional ways of life. The
semiotic approach offers highly adequate analytical tools to explain the
problem with all its cultural, social and economic dimensions.
Summary of
the proposed research topic:
The workshop “Signs
of the European Welfare: Modern Lifestyles and Traditional forms of Consumption”
is intended to take place within the framework of the 10-th Early Fall School
in Semiotics – a permanent scientific event, concerned with theoretical issues
in culture, communication, media, etc. organized each year by the Southeast European Centre for Semiotic
Studies (SECSS) at New Bulgarian University. The event is provided with
regular edition of all materials, presented and discussed during the working
days.
In the last decade we gathered enough reputation and
experience to organize high quality conferences, seminars and workshops with
the most representative scholars in Semiotics, Cultural studies and other
humanities from all over
The choice to approach this general problem through
the notion of consumption and lifestyle is not an arbitrary decision, but the main element of innovation in
respect to the existing studies in this domain. The concrete practice of
consumption (in its material and symbolic forms) is indicator for the real
behavior of the people, often quite different and even contradictory to their
statements, political and civil positions. We shall be particularly interested
to have as many as possible materials, investigating the individual strategies
in different areas of people, benefiting by the large offer of standardized
consumer goods of multinational brands, who are in the same time strongly
related to their traditional ways of life and customs, and hostile to the
institutional infrastructural changes. It will be of considerable interest to
see how deeply is eradicated this obvious contradiction, whether it is a
strategy of the identity, always striving for opposition to something, or it is
lived as a real menace for the real values and quality of the everyday life. A
parallel with the American ways of life, generally dispensed from implications
with traditional values, will be necessary to underline the problem from
different perspective.
As already discussed in the European public space
topics, illustrating our argument, are those, concerning the conflicts between
the common European legislation and certain traditional consumption and leisure
practices as the Bullfight and other customs with animal mutilation in Spain,
the limitation of the cigarettes use in the Balkans, the reindeer hunting in
Finland and thousands of other cases where tradition and future are
irreconcilable.
To what extent such traditional practices are
constitutive to the quality of the European type of welfare, including also
high living standards and social guarantees? To what extent compromises in one
direction will flatten the ways of life, transforming them into standardized
modern lifestyles? And to what extent maintaining the authenticity, the quality
of the traditional ways of life will damage the economical parameters and the
prospects for efficient common politics? What is the role of culture and
education in humanities in this frame?
To be able to obtain relevant answers and hypothesis
on those issues we shall need an explicit interdisciplinary
discourse. This is reflected in the scientific excellence of our proposed
participants. Semioticians and philosophers will provide the theoretic
background of the project as well as the main parameters of research. Scholars
in Cultural studies, Sociosemiotics and Media will present material of concrete
researches on consumer practices, uses and gratification of media, politics and
public opinion from various parts of
The case
for an exploratory workshop:
Of course, this is a central issue for the whole
“Common Europe” project and many institutions are directly involved with its
improvement. But we think that an important theoretical contribution, involving
representatives of 13 different universities from all over
Preliminary
workshop program:
The workshop will be divided in three modules:
Module I: Theoretical framework
Module II: Applied researches
Module III: Interdisciplinary contributions
2004
04.09.
– Arrival
20.00 – dinner
05.09.
09.00 - 12.00 – Module I:
12.30 – Lunch
14.00 – 17.00 – Module I: discussions with all
participants
19.00 – dinner
06.09.
09.00 - 12.00 – Module II:
Maria Popova, Patrizia Calefato, Paul Cobley, Georgios
Kapsomenos, Sara Rubinelli, Krasimir Angelkov
12.30 – Lunch
14.00 – 17.00 – Module II: discussions with all
participants
19.00 – dinner
07.09.
09.00 - 12.00 – Module III:
12.30 – Lunch
14.00 – 17.00 – Module III: discussions with all
participants
19.00 – dinner
08.09.
09.00 – 12.00 – Final session of the workshop: round
table with all participants
12.30 – lunch
Afternoon – departure
List of
proposed participants:
A distinguished professor in theoretical semiotics,
philosophy, musicology. He is the person-institution of the Finish semiotics
and one of the most important representatives of the International Association
for Semiotic Studies
http://e-semiotics.msh-paris.fr/opales/colloques/colconv/entretien/cv.asp?idcol=37
Although quite young he is a Senior lecturer in
Semiotics and Communication, author and editor of numerous books and other
publications concerning Social semiotics, Communication theory, Genre theory,
etc.
http://www.authorbiography.net/61586_paulcobleypaulcopley.html
An emergent young scholar with various interests and
international experience.
http://www.ut.ee/SOSE/arandviir/
A Ph.D. researcher interested in general semiotics.
Young scholar of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
One of the most important representatives of the
http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/pcalefato/
A Ph.D. researcher in the field of music and social
semiotics, one of the young scholars of the
Literature and culture, cultural codes and literature. Modern Greek
cultural model. Traditional and modern lifestyles.
http://www.uoi.gr/schools/human/philology/philology2.html
Serge Santi – Université de
Franche-comté, France
Experimental phonetics and Intonology
http://granvelle.univ-fcomte.fr/santi.htm
Social Semiotics
She’s a part of research team, which studies
contemporary situation in the Turkish café, with its current status, the
state of the participants of the rituals in the café, and the meaning of
mentioned rituals and their inner signs.
Social Psychology.
The most important figure in the American semiotics
today, close friend and continuator of the theoretical and institutional deed
of the great Thomas Sebeok (1920 – 2001). His main contributions are in
Theoretical semiotics and philosophy.
http://www.formalontology.it/john_deely.htm
Semiology and Psychoanalysis
http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/Kristeva.html
Semiotics of the Text. One of the leading researchers
in the field of mentioned domain. Ancient
Semiotics, Culture, Communication. As a director of
Southeast European Center for semiotic studies she’s one of the best
researchers of culture and communication.
http://www.nbu.bg/semiotic/star/M_Popova2.htm
Full time lecturer and Ph. D. in semiotics and
Philosophy of language with huge international experience. His main interests
are in the temporal structure of human identity and the social dimension of the
individual life projects.
http://www.nbu.bg/semprog/kristian/kristian.htm
Semiotics of Gender Studies
MA Krasimir Angelkov is involved in the research of
Semiotics of Urban Space and its influence upon people.
Estimated
Budget:
|
Status |
Travel costs |
Meal |
Accommodation |
Foreign
guests
|
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|
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1. |
380 |
4x15=60 |
4x80=320 |
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2.Paul Cobley – UK |
250 |
4x15=60 |
4x50=200 |
|
3.Sara Rubelli – Switzerland |
400 |
4x15=60 |
4x50=200 |
|
4. |
490 |
4x15=60 |
4x50=200 |
|
5. |
90 |
4x15=60 |
4x50=200 |
|
6.Patrizia Calefato – |
420 |
4x15=60 |
4x50=200 |
|
7.Rosa - Stela Kasoti – |
420 |
4x15=60 |
4x50=200 |
|
8.Georgios Kapsomenos – |
100 |
4x15=60 |
4x50=200 |
|
9.Serge Santi – France |
340 |
4x15=60 |
4x50=200 |
|
10.Fatma Erkman – |
220 |
4x15=60 |
4x50=200 |
|
11.Siril Serpil – |
220 |
4x15=60 |
4x50=200 |
|
12.Gordana Yovanovich – |
100 |
4x15=60 |
4x50=200 |
|
13. |
- |
4x15=60 |
4x80=320 |
|
14.Julia Kristeva – |
340 |
4x15=60 |
4x80=320 |
|
Total |
3770 |
840 |
3160 |
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|
Bulgarian
Participants
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|
|
|
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Prof.
Bogdan Bogdanov |
|
4x15=60 |
4x40=160 |
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Prof.
Maria Popova |
|
4x15=60 |
4x30=120 |
|
Dr.
Kristian Bankov |
|
4x15=60 |
4x20=80 |
|
Dr.
Veronika Azarova |
|
4x15=60 |
4x20=80 |
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Krasimir
Angelkov |
|
4x15=60 |
4x20=80 |
|
Total |
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300 |
520 |
STAFF
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Elena
Alexieva – Secretarial assistance |
|
4õ15= 60 |
4x20=80 |
|
Lora
Shumkova - Secretarial assistance |
|
4õ15= 60 |
4x20=80 |
|
Total |
|
120 |
160 |
TOTAL
|
3770 |
1260 |
3840 |
|
|
|
|
8870 |
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Fuel – 400
Bus from
Conference
hall – 4x50 - 200
Photocopying
- 100
Total: 1 300
TOTAL: 10170
Southeast
European center for semiotic studies at
Brief CV of
principal applicant:
Personal data:
Name:
Prof. Maria Nikolova Popova, Dc.S.
Date of
Birth: November 20th, 1938
Marital
status: Married
Address:
41a, Evlogi Georgiev blvd.
Sofia 1000
Bulgaria
Phone: +359 2
66 90 55
E-mail: mpopova@nbu.bg
Education:
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Doctor of technical sciences
- Professor
- MA, Master thesis of Radio-electronics, VMEI “V.
I. Lenin”
Current place of work: New
Bulgarian University
Scientific interests: Culture,
semiotics and communication
Experience:
Lecturer at State University of Sofia, Southwest
University of Blagoevgrad
Publications:
Books:
The
Precise Methods and Relationship “Creation – Audience”,
Sofia, 1984
Psychological
and cultural aspects of speech communication, Sofia,
1989
Sonographische
Untersuchungen der Greisenstimme, VEB – Thieme Verlag,
Leipzig, 1976
Papers:
Hierarchy
in semiotics, Semiotishe Berichte, 4, Vienna, 1989;
The
Political Symbolism of the communist Party and the Oppositinal coalition in
Bulgaria, IASS – Semiotica, N.Y., 1992;
Model of
the Interpersonal Communicative Process in Methodology of Mathematical Modeling,
Sofia, 1992;
The
Meaning of Cultural Symbolism in the Psychological Paradigm,
Semiotika 97 – 314, 1993, 3;
Homo
Balkanicus – The Semiotic approach in comparative analysis,
NBU,
Membership:
Bulgarian Semiotic Society
IASS – International Association of semiotic
researches
BASS – Balkan Association of Semiotic Societies
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