Semiotic Circle of California
TWENTY-NINTH MEETING; JANUARY 25, 2014
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
SEABORG ROOM, FACULTY CLUB

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9:00 a.m. Michael James Lundell (UC San Diego): “A Source for Richard F. Burton’s Poetry in The 1001 Nights”

9:20 a.m. Ellen McCracken (UC Santa Barbara): “Paratexts as Intratexts: New Systems of Paratextuality in Enhanced E-Books”

9:40 a.m. José Sanjinés (Coastal Carolina Univ.): “‘Screens’: Communication Systems in the New Media”

10:00 a.m. Kate Carnell Watt (UC Riverside): “Monstrous Transgressors”

10:20 a.m. Eric Savoth (UC Berkeley): “Militarizing Empathy: Bertolt Brecht and the Salvation Army”

10:40 a.m. Winfried Kudszus (UC Berkeley): “Reflections from the Other Side”

11:00 a.m. Denise Warren (UC San Diego): “Strangers on a Train (1951): Hitchcock’s Strategies of Suspense”

11:20 a.m. William Watt (UC Irvine): “The Wolf Man”

1:20 p.m. Sang Seong (Seoul National Univ.): “The Relevance of Deixis in the Local and Anaphoric Expressions in Korean and German”

1:40 p.m. Mattie Scott: “Semiotic Aspects of Buddhist and Christian Contemplative Practices”

2:00 p.m. Enrique Mallen (Sam Houston State Univ.) and Elizabeth Trux (Uni.Düsseldorf): “Picasso’s Use of Color: Painting in Code”

2:20 p.m. Gilad Sharvit (Hebrew University, Jerusalem /UC Berkeley): “Schelling’s ‘das Unbewußt’ and the Possibility of Psychoanalytic Freedom”

2:40 p.m. Jeroen Dewulf (UC Berkeley): “The Cosmic Race: Friedrich Nietzsche’s Influence on José Vasconcelos’ Theory of Mestizaje”

3:00 p.m. Kirsten Paige (UC Berkeley): “The Nightingale, the Owl, and the Jew in the Thornbush: Reassessing Walther’s Trial Song in Die Meistersinger”

3:20 p.m. Irmengard Rauch (UC Berkeley): “Sound Semiotics: Human Body, Ambience, Computer”

3:40 p.m. Alain J.-J. Cohen (UC San Diego): “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Rival Versions of a 21st Century Woman Figure”