⚘ Ethnosemiotics: An Outline ☀ Francesco Marsciani

Take the plunge... and rediscover everyday life as an experiment of sheer novelty. This event, commented by Vytautas Tumėnas (Lithuanian Institute of History) 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. *** Associate Professor in the Department of the Arts at the University of Bologna, Francesco Marsciani studied with U. Eco and A.J. Greimas. In the late '80s, he has collaborated in the workings of the Semio-Linguistic Research Group (Groupe de recherches sémio-linguistiques) of the French CNRS, which was headed by Greimas. Marsciani is active in theoretical semiotics and text analysis, as well as in the development and ripening of the ethnosemiotic perspective. In 2009 he founded the CUBE - Centro Universitario Bolognese di Etnosemiotica at the Department of the Arts of the University of Bologna. *** Dr. Vytautas Tumėnas graduated in art theory, history and criticism at Vilnius Academy of Arts (Lithuania). He has a PhD in ethnology and works obtained as a researcher at the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Lithuanian Institute of History. He authored 2 monographs and more than 60 scientific articles. His monograph in Lithuanian Lietuvių tradicinių rinktinių juostų ornamentas: tipologija ir semantika, Vilnius, 2002 [The Ornamentation of Lithuanina traditional pick-uo woven sashes: typology and semantics] analyses the symbolism and semantics of textiles and its geometric patterns in customs, believes, and mythic-poethical world outlook. Areas of his academic interests: ethnology, semiotics, art history, mythology, interdisciplinary comparative studies. A various semiotical and ethnomathematical aspects of textile is one of the main topics of his investigations. The tradition of visual and folkloric symbols in culture; problems of the development of contemporary folk art and crafts; classificational aspects of the region concept and regional identity; the concept of folk culture and intangible heritage in cultural policy are his research topics as well. His articles with diachronic and intercultural perspective on semiotics of visual culture, cultural and religious identity symbolism are published in such journals as Sign System Studies, Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry; Logos; Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies; Lituanus. Recently he finished his work in the national associate research project of the Lithuanian Council for Culture Determination of qualitative indicators of monitoring, analysis and modeling system for cultural and artistic projects and processes. The field of folk culture (Vilnius, 2020). He was a vice president of the Lithuanian Folck Culture Guardianship Council of the Parliament of the Republic of Lithuania for two terms. He has worked as a member of the National Heritage Products Council. He is now chairman of the National J. Basanavičius Prize Commission of the Republic of Lithuania. *** Homepage: https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/act/io2s Auditorium: https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/act/io2s/auditorium *** Technical support assured by Robert Junqueira. The cover image for the video was designed by Zahra Soltani