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Don't shy away... and relish hearing about the mind and life, including bathtub adventures, of the one who brought together the Age of Relation. This event, commented by Marita Soto (International Association for Semiotic Studies) 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. *** Gary Shank is a retired Professor of Educational Research at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA, and the founder of the Center for Qualitative and Semiotic Inquiry. He has been active in semiotics since 1979, when he attened his first Semiotic Society of America meeting at his alma mater, Indiana University. He has been active in semiotics and educational research since then. He was a founding member and Past-President of the Semiotics in Education SIG at the American Educational Research Association. He has published in Semiotica and the American Journal of Semiotics. He has been plenary speaker for the Biosemiotics Convening, where he talked about the Semiotics of PS 101. He has also published extensively in qualitative research, where he has authored or co-authored three related books. In this Educational Semiotics book series titled "Signs and Symbols in Education," Dr. Shank is looking for visionary works on education and semiotics and how they can reinforce and build from each other. *** Marita Soto holds a PhD in Social Sciences, UBA - University of Buenos Aires. At the UNA - Argentinian National University of the Arts, she was dean of the campus of the Transdepartmental Area of Arts Criticism. Under her administration, a Bachelor's Degree in Arts Curatorship and one in the Art of Writing were launched, along with the postgraduate Specialization in the Production of Critical Texts and Media Dissemination of the Arts (distance learning) and the Master's Degree in the History of Modern and Contemporary Art, all of which designed from a well-defined semiotic perspective. She fostered the development of the UNA Institutional Archive and reinforced its publishing activities. Professor and researcher at different Argentinian universities (such as UBA, IDAES, UNSAM, UNLP, UNA), where she has trained teachers, researchers and younger semioticians, Soto has been in charge of specifically semiotic subjects such as Semiotics of Contemporary Genres and Semiotics of the Arts. She is both a partner and the director of Punctum, a studio specialized in research applied to the fields of consumption, aesthetics and gender issues. In 2001-2002 she was the head of the crisis laboratory (Moiguer & Associates) where the research activities revolved around the problems of audience segmentation to observe new habits and mores in periods of crisis. Among her books, Telenovela/telenovelas (coord.), El volver de las imágenes (with Oscar Steimberg and Oscar Traversa), La puesta en escena de todos los días and Habitar y narrar (2016) bring together the results of her research. Soto was awarded the prize for the best paper presented at the Esomar Conference, São Paulo 2002, which was published in Excellence in International Research, 2003 (with Fernando Moiguer, Jorge Karol and José Luis Petris). She was a member of the Organizing Committee of the 14th World Congress of Semiotics in Buenos Aires. She has been trained and has worked together with Oscar Traversa, Oscar Steimberg and Eliseo Verón. *** Homepage: https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/act/io2s Auditorium: https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/act/io2s/auditorium *** The cover image for the video was designed by Zahra Soltani. Technical support assured by Robert Junqueira.

La inclusión del estudio de la crítica artística en la formación universitaria responde a demandas surgidas de la necesidad de reflexión sobre los cambios en las artes contemporáneas, sobre sus cruces, sus contaminaciones, sus recomienzos y sobrevidas. Desde la creación de la carrera en la Universidad Nacional de las Artes, 1 año tras año un sostenido número de estudiantes inicia este ciclo con orientaciones en artes visuales, audiovisuales, dramáticas, del movimiento y musicales. Nos interesó conectar estas experiencias con las de la inclusión de la semiótica en tanto perspectiva que aporta a la descripción y tratamiento de los fenómenos artísticos. The inclusion of the study of artistic criticism in university education responds to demands arising from the need for reflection on the changes in contemporary arts, on their crossings, their contamination and reconnections and their survival. Since the creation of the arts major at the Universidad Nacional de las Artes, year after year a sustained number of students start this cycle with orientations in visual, audiovisual, dramatic, movement and musical arts. We were interested in connecting these experiences with those of the inclusion of semiotics as a perspective that contributes to the description and treatment of artistic phenomena.

Recordamos aquello que el mismo Oscar Traversa comentaba acerca de su formación cuando describía sus filiaciones provenientes de dos prácticas: la del dominio de las ciencias biológicas y la del interés cinematográfico. Fil: Steimbe, Osca. Universidad de Buenos Aires; Argentina.

En el artículo se propone un recorrido por las distintas formas de representación visual de la noción de semiosis social en la obra de Eliseo Verón. La semiosis del propio concepto transparenta la trayectoria que va desde un momento inicial en el que se enfatiza la condición de materialidad de la semiosis hasta uno en el que se manifiesta la imposibilidad de tener una metodología certera para trabajar sobre el desfase entre las instancias de producción y reconocimiento, ambas fases de la semiosis. Se trata entonces de encontrar aproximaciones en la construcción de las hipótesis sobre los efectos posibles de un proceso de significación. The goal of this article consists in to construct a path which join different forms of visual representation of the notion of social semiosis in the work of Eliseo Verón. The semiosis of the concept itself reveals the trajectory that goes from an initial moment in which the condition of materiality of the semiosis is emphasized to one in which the impossibility of having an accurate methodology to work on the gap between the phases of semiosis -- the production and recognition instances- is manifested. Then the proposal consists in approaches to construct hypotheses about the possible effects of a process of significance.

Fil: Soto, Marita. Universidad Nacional de las Artes. Área Transdepartamental de Crítica de Artes. Instituto de Investigación y Experimentación en Arte y Crítica; Argentina Fil: Soto, Marita. Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas; Argentina La atención a las producciones de sentido que nos interpelan desde cada insistir de lo cotidiano ha crecido, en las últimas décadas, tanto en los campos de la investigación social como en los de las búsquedas asociadas al diseño del entorno o a la indagación de los momentos y formas de la experiencia estética. Se trata de la atención a lo que en cada día se dispone, se ordena, se mira, se muestra, se oculta en distintos espacios y tiempos de la cotidianeidad; también, de la atención a los modos de contarlo, dibujarlo, filmarlo, actuarlo. En cada espacio destinado a los intercambios o las soledades del día, algo se dice o se implica acerca de un estar o de una acción. Por dentro y por fuera, toda vivienda –pero también todo espacio de trabajo o encuentro– narra algo, así sea prometiendo operatorias de acceso –desde la puerta o desde el frente– o sugiriendo usos que reabrirán secuencias de trabajo o descanso, de conversación o silencio.

Fil: Soto, Marita. Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas; Argentina. Fil: Soto, Marita. Universidad Nacional de las Artes. Área Transdepartamental de Crítica de Artes; Argentina Los individuos ponen en escena en el espacio de todos los días un conjunto de prácticas que no sólo se presentan fragmentadas y heterogéneas sino que provienen de series temporales diversas y a las que podemos llamar “estéticas”. Y que en la vida cotidiana, en la vida de todos los días los sujetos se transforman en operadores, diseñadores, pintores, artesanos modelando, coloreando, retocando esa cotidianeidad.

Fil: Soto, Marita. Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas; Argentina. Fil: Soto, Marita. Universidad Nacional de las Artes. Área Transdepartamental de Crítica de Artes; Argentina Podemos definir lo cotidiano apelando a la noción de entorno cercano, es decir la de un ambiente "no marcado" en un sentido doble: como espacio, lo cotidiano parece referirse al fondo, al escenario estable en el que los sujetos desenvuelven sus prácticas; como tiempo, indica la regularidad, el ritmo previsible, la cadencia del día a día, con su pausas y repeticiones. El carácter rutinario de la vida cotidiana, presente en las definiciones que se han dado de ella, se ha tornado de especial importancia para nuestros trabajos e investigaciones, ya que una buena parte de lo que sucede en esa cotidianeidad se origina en una fuerza orientada, en permanente tensión, a la modificación del escenario repetido de todos los días. La reiteración, la previsibilidad, y -podríamos agregar- el conjunto de pautas y regulaciones conforman un espacio de acciones y prácticas en el que parece estar garantizada su continuidad. Pero, al mismo tiempo, ese tejido, esa matriz que parece cambiar poco, que promete estabilidad, es el escenario de movimientos, conflictos, luchas, intercambios que tensionan el lugar del individuo y su relación con ese entorno.

Fil: Soto, Marita. Universidad Nacional de las Artes. Área Transdepartamental de Crítica de Artes; Argentina Fil: Soto, Marita. Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas; Argentina. En la vida cotidiana se entrecruzan los más diversos tipos de signos y sentidos, entre ellos, los artísticos: discursos del diseño y de la moda, de la gastronomía, la crítica de artes o de medios. Por otra parte, los espacios de la vida cotidiana dejan ver los resultados de un conjunto de prácticas, a las que corresponde denominar estéticas. Una de las cualidades que las distinguen de otras es la de poner en evidencia un exceso, un algo más, no relacionado con decisiones y elecciones funcionales ni explicado por la búsqueda de reparación de alguna carencia. Se manifiestan entonces como prácticas que dejan resultados en la cotidianeidad: elección, diseño y decoración de espacios, selección y disposición de objetos, formas, colores, texturas, trabajo y cuidado del cuerpo, maneras de ornamentación de la mesa, etc.

Fil: Steimberg, Oscar. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales; Argentina Fil: Steimberg, Oscar. Universidad Nacional de las Artes. Área Transdepartamental de Crítica de Artes; Argentina Fil: Soto, Marita. Universidad Nacional de las Artes. Área Transdepartamental de Crítica de Artes; Argentina Fil: Traversa, Oscar. Universidad Nacional de las Artes. Área Transdepartamental de Crítica de Artes; Argentina Fil: Traversa, Oscar. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales; Argentina Fil: Soto, Marita. Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas; Argentina Kant abre, a partir de sus escritos sobre el juicio, la posibilidad de reflexionar sobre las relaciones de gusto (agrado /desagrado) entre un sujeto y cualquier tipo de objeto; es decir que se trataría de una relación que se establece excediendo el hecho de que los objetos sean la naturaleza o la obra de arte. Algunas de sus relecturas contemporáneas -entre las que se cuentan las de Gérad Genette, Jean-Marie Schaeffer y antes, Nelson Goodman- habilitan la inclusión de ciertas prácticas llevadas a cabo en la vida cotidiana dentro del campo de las experiencias estéticas.

Do your best... and you will rise to the occasion of this new beginning revolving around signs and human cognition. This event, commented on by Cristina Greco (Jeddah University of Business and Technology) and John Hittinger (Saint John Paul II Institute) and co-chaired by Elma Berisha (Lyceum Institute) and Yulia Nikitenko (Institute for Philosophical Studies), 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. *** A lecture followed by the closing ceremony of the IO2S Deely, featuring a line-up of very distinguished guests, to wit: Brian Kemple (Lyceum Institute), Bujar Hoxha (South East European University), Donald Favareau (National University of Singapore), Inna Merkulova (International Center for Semiotics and Intercultural Dialogue), Joseph DeChicchis (Deely Project), Kalevi Kull (International Society for Biosemiotic Studies), Mário Santiago de Carvalho (Coimbra Institute for Philosophical Studies), Myrdene Anderson (Purdue University), Br. Norman Hipps, O.S.B. (Saint Vincent College), Olga Lavrenova (International Association for Semiotics of Space and Time), Paul Cobley (International Association for Semiotic Studies), William Passarini (Coimbra Institute for Philosophical Studies), Zdzisław Wąsik (Philological School of Higher Education in Wrocław). *** Find the bionotes in our Homepage: https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/io2s Visit our Auditorium: https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/io2s/auditorium *** Technical support assured by Robert Junqueira. The cover image for the video was designed by Zahra Soltani.

Follow the leads... and you will turn back in awe at the semiotic itinerary involved in the process of becoming. This event, commented on by Susannah Ticciati (King’s College London) and chaired by Yulia Nikitenko (Institute for Philosophical Studies), 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. *** Mahmoud Reza Moghaddam Shad (PhD in Political Theory, the University of Tehran) is the Co-founder and a member of the Executive Board of the ISP - Iranian Society for Phenomenology, the Specialized Secretary of the IYP - Iranian Yearbook of Phenomenology, and a former member of the Intellectual Trends Group of the Center of Middle East Strategic Studies. His research interests are phenomenology of everyday life and politics, ressentiment, identity politics, minority politics, democracy theory, sociology of knowledge, and sociology of novel. His recent publishing are "Becoming Minority as a Revolutionary Act: An Introduction to the Idea of Minoritarian Democracy" (Quarterly Journal of Politics, 48 (3), 753-770, 2018), "The Image of Government in Iranian Fiction" (Quarterly Journal of Politics, Forthcoming), "Empathy and Deviation in Value-Perception: The Phenomenology of the Man of Ressentiment," (IYP, 1st volume, forthcoming), “Phenomenology of Everyday Life and Redefinition of The Political” (IYP, 2nd volume, forthcoming), "Ressentiment and the Promise of ISIL's Revenge: A Case Study of European Warriors," (in Modern Barbarism, ed. by Mahdokht Zakeri Qalam Research Institute, pp. 29-34, 2016). *** Susannah Ticciati is Professor of Christian Theology at King’s College London. She is author of Reading Augustine: On Signs, Christ, Truth and the Interpretation of Scripture (London and New York: T&T Clark, 2022), A New Apophaticism: Augustine and the Redemption of Signs (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013), and Job and the Disruption of Identity: Reading Beyond Barth (London and New York: T&T Clark, 2005). *** Homepage: https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/io2s Auditorium: https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/io2s/auditorium *** Technical support assured by Robert Junqueira. The cover image for the video was designed by Zahra Soltani.

Be aware... and you will be mindful of a notable ambiguity in semiotics as well as of those who have masterfully strived to transcend it. This event, commented on by Elize Bisanz (Texas Tech University) and chaired by William Passarini (Institute for Philosophical Studies), 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. *** Ionut Untea is currently a fellow-in-residence at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, in Stuttgart, where he is researching on the semioethic and aesthetic coordinates of the “social compact” and intercorporeal relationships. In 2021, he has taught a course entitled “Intercultural Philosophy: Semiotic Approaches and Aesthetic Themes” as a Visiting Professor at Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro. Since 2016, he has been teaching History of Western Philosophy and Semiotics at Southeast University, Nanjing. He previously taught at the University of La Rochelle, and was a postdoctoral fellow of the Foundation for Interreligious and Intercultural Research and Dialogue (FIIRD) at the University of Geneva. He obtained his doctorate in 2013 at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE), in Paris. He holds Romanian citizenship, having obtained his first degrees in philosophy and theology at the University of Bucharest. His focus is on the modern and contemporary intersections between semiotic, moral, political and religious thought. He has published recently “Peircean and Confucian Interpretations of Self-Development: Semiotic, Normative and Aesthetic Aspects,” Philosophy East and West 72.1: January 2022: 188–209. His recent work has appeared in academic journals such as The American Journal of Semiotics (2021), Semiotica (2021), Ethical Perspectives (2021, 2019), Philosophical Forum (2019), Journal of Aesthetic Education (2020), Politics and Religion (2019), The Monist (2018). *** Dr. Bisanz's education includes an MA (Philosophy) from the University of Lüneburg in Germany; Graduate Studies in Jacques Derrida's philosophy Seminars at l'École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris; a Ph.D. (History of Communication Sciences) from the Technische University of Berlin; and a post-doc Habilitation Degree (Image Studies), from the University of Lüneburg. Bisanz has published several interdisciplinary books reflecting her educational background; these include a major European edition of Peirce's writings The Logic of Interdisciplinarity: Charles S. Peirce, The Monist Series (Akademie-Verlag, Berlin, 2009), which was realized with the aid of research and publication grants from State and private endowments; Prolegomena to a Science of Reasoning: Phaneroscopy, Semeiotic, Logic, which is a collection of manuscripts by Peirce on reasoning (Peter Lang Publishers, Berlin, 2016); Overcoming the Iconic Turn: Cultural Concepts of Images [in German: Die Überwindung des Ikonischen: Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven der Bildwissenschaft] (transcript Verlag, Hamburg, 2010). Bisanz is a member of the advising board of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Semiotik and chair of the society's subdivision for Cultural Studies. Since her Fulbright scholarship in 2006 at Texas Tech University, Bisanz has been an active member of the Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism. She has organized several international congresses dedicated to Peirce and interdisciplinary research. *** Homepage: https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/io2s Auditorium: https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/io2s/auditorium *** Technical support assured by Robert Junqueira. The cover image for the video was designed by Zahra Soltani.

Listen closely... and you will never lose track of the name of the founding mother of significs. This event, commented on by Clara Chapdelaine-Feliciati (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University) and Zoe Hurley (Zayed University) and chaired by Yulia Nikitenko (Institute for Philosophical Studies), 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. *** Susan Petrilli is Professor of Philosophy and Theory of Languages, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy, Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide, SA and 7th Thomas Sebeok Fellow of the Semiotic Society of America. Her main research areas include philosophy of language, semiotics and translation theory. With Augusto Ponzio she has introduced Semioethics as an orientation in semiotics. Her books include: Sign Studies and Semioethics (2014); Victoria Welby and the Science of Signs (2015); The Global World and Its Manifold Faces (2016); Challenges to Living Together (2017), Signs, Language and Listening (2019); Significare, interpretare e intendere (2019); Senza ripari. Segni, differenze, estraneità (2021). Through her work as author, editor, and translator she has contributed to the dissemination of works, among others, by Victoria Welby, Charles C. Peirce, Mikhail M. Bakhtin, Charles Morris, Gérard Deledalle, Emmanuel Levinas, Adam Schaff, Thomas A. Sebeok, Roland Barthes, Julia Kristeva, Ferruccio Rossi-Landi, Giorgio Fano, Umberto Eco and Augusto Ponzio. Her numerous essays are published both as book chapters and in journals. These include: Semiotica; Traduction, Terminologie, Rédaction; Signata; Chinese Semiotic Studies; Language and Semiotic Studies; Signs & Media; International Journal for the Semiotics of Law; International Journal of Legal Discourse; Calumet; Signs and Society; and The American Journal of Semiotics. Most recently she has translated a collection of writings into Italian by Victoria Welby, Senso, significato, significatività 1879–1911 (2021), and edited Maestri di segni e costruttori di pace (2021), Brian Medlin: The Level-Headed Revolutionary. Essays, Stories and Poems (in collab.) (2021), Exploring the Translatability of Emotions: Cross-Cultural and Transdisciplinary Encounters (with Meng Ji) (2022), and Intersemiotic Perspectives on Emotions Translating across Signs, Bodies and Values (in collab.) (2023). *** Dr. Clara Chapdelaine-Feliciati is Associate Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, and a licensed Lawyer (Barrister and Solicitor) with the Law Society of Upper Canada. She holds a Ph.D. in International Law from Oxford University, where she applied Victoria Welby’s significs theory and Susan Petrilli’s and Augusto Ponzio’s ‘semioethics’ theory. She also holds a Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of Civil Law from McGill University, and a Master of Laws from King’s College London. She conducts research on legal semiotics and legal significs in English and French and decodes the content of international human rights treaties. Her forthcoming book The Status of the Girl Child under International Law: A Semioethic Analysis will be published by Cambridge University Press. She contributed to the Semiotica Centennial Special Issue for Victoria Welby (2013). *** Zoe Hurley (PhD) is a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and an assistant professor in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies, at Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Her work focuses on semiotics, intersectional feminism(s), power and visual communication. She is the President of the Gulf Association for Semiotic Studies, which is an associate member of the International Association for Semiotic Studies. She has published articles in leading academic journals including New Media & Society; Feminist Media Studies; Social Media + Society; Information Communication & Society; Postdigital Science and Education; and Visual Communication, in addition to several chapters, commentaries and blogs on semiotics. Her upcoming monograph - Social Media Influencing in the City of Likes: Dubai and the Postdigital Condition - expands a semiotic critique of social media and its role in the global visual economy. *** Homepage: https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/io2s Auditorium: https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/io2s/auditorium *** Technical support assured by Robert Junqueira. The cover image for the video was designed by Zahra Soltani.

Kick off the year right... and you will find yourself capable of recognizing the depth and breadth of John's genius. This event, commented on by Bujar Hoxha (South-East European University) chaired by Elma Berisha (Lyceum Institute), 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. *** Eero Tarasti, professor of musicology at the University of Helsinki (chair) in 1984-2016. He was President of the IASS/AIS - International Association for Semiotic Studies, 2004-2014 and is now its Honorary President. In 2016 he has founded the Academy of Cultural Heritages. He studied music in Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, and then in Vienna, Paris, Rio de Janeiro and Bloomington. He got his PhD from the University of Helsinki (1978) after studies in Paris with Claude Lévi-Strauss and A. J. Greimas. He is one of the founders and the director of the international research group Musical Signification since 1984.Tarasti has become Honorary Doctor at Estonian Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, New Bulgarian University (Sofia), Indiana University (Bloomington), University of Aix-Marseille, and Gheorghe Dima National Music Academy in Cluj-Napoca, Rumania. He has published about 400 articles, edited 50 anthologies, and written 30 monographs; among them one finds: Myth and Music (1979), A Theory of Musical Semiotics (1994), Heitor Villa-Lobos (1996), Existential Semiotics (2000), Signs of Music (2003), Fondéments de la sémiotique existentielle (2009), Fondamenti di semiotica esistenziale (2010), Semiotics of Classical Music (2012, in French 2016), Sein und Schein, Explorations in Existential Semiotics (2015), and Transcending Signs: Essays in Existential Semiotics (2023); two novels: Le secret du professeur Amfortas (2002) and Retour à la Villa Nevski (2014, in Italian L’heredità di Villa Nevski 2014, in Finnish Eurooppa/Ehkä 2016). He has supervised 150 PhDs in Finland and abroad. *** 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. *** Homepage: https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/io2s Auditorium: https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/io2s/auditorium *** Technical support assured by Robert Junqueira. The cover image for the video was designed by Zahra Soltani.

Feel welcome... and you will become wide awake once you notice how deep the insights gained from the interplay between two semiotic animals can grow. This event, commented by Myrdene Anderson (Purdue University) and co-chaired by William Passarini and Robert Junqueira (Institute for Philosophical Studies, both), 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. *** Winfried Nöth, Professor of Linguistics and Semiotics and Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Cultural Studies of the University of Kassel until 2009, Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin (1985-86) and Humboldt University Berlin (2014-15), has been Professor of Cognitive Semiotics at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo since 2010. He is an Honorary Member of the International Association for Visual Semiotics and the Institute for Edusemiotic Studies. His research is on topics of general and applied semiotics, cognitive semiotics, and Charles S. Peirce. Among his book publications are Handbook of Semiotics (1990, in German 2000), Mediale Selbstreferenz (2008) and Semiotic Theory of Learning (2018, with A. Stables, et al.). Nöth has edited Origins of Semiosis (1994), Semiotics of the Media (1997), and Crisis of Representation (2003), amongst others. Together with Lucia Santaella, he is the author of Imagem: Comunicação, semiótica e mídia (4th ed. 2005), Comunicação e semiótica (2004), Estratégias semióticas da publicidade (2010), and Introdução à semiótica (2017). *** Myrdene Anderson received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 1978 and joined the faculty at Purdue University in 1977. Dr. Anderson has engaged in ethnographic research in a variety of settings, ranging from community garden associations in the U.S.A. to the international and interdisciplinary movement of artificial life in biology, but she is best known for her fieldwork among Saami reindeer-breeders in Norwegian Lapland, which research commenced in 1971 and continues to date. She has published over 150 articles and chapters in a variety of venues on a plethora of topics, and has edited a number of volumes on human-alloanimal ethology, on ethnicity and identity, on semiotic modeling, on the cultural construction of trash, on mathematics education, and on violence. Since 1983, more than 50 international and transdisciplinary symposia have been organized by Anderson. She has also been active on editorial boards of publications and on executive boards of professional societies. She served as president of the Central States Anthropological Society in 1993, and as president of the Semiotic Society of America in 1996. In 2003, Anderson was on a Fulbright in Estonia, where she both engaged in research and instructed in semiotics; as a courtesy, she also offered a semiotics course at the University of Helsinki. She has taught anthropology, linguistics, and semiotics and is responsible for one undergraduate core course (ANTH 414/LING 498—Language and Culture) and two graduate core courses (ANTH 514/LING 598—Anthropological Linguistics, and ANTH 605/LING 689—Ethnographic Analysis). *** 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 official graphic designer of the IO2S DEELY is Zahra Soltani Tehrani.

Make the most of it... and you will be reminded of how the brightest minds have always had the nerve to devise ways of arriving at common ground. This event, commented by Sara Cannizzaro (University of Warwick) and chaired by Yulia Nikitenko (Institute for Philosophical Studies), 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. *** Paul Cobley is Professor in Language and Media and Deputy Dean (Research and Knowledge Exchange) in the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries at Middlesex University. His research interests include semiotics (including biosemiotics, zoosemiotics and cybersemiotics), the works of Thomas A. Sebeok and John Deely, communication theory, narrative, subjectivity, popular genres (especially the thriller). He is the author of a number of books, most recently Cultural Implications of Semiotics (2016) and Narrative 2nd edn (2014). He is co-series editor (with Kalevi Kull) of Semiotics, Communication and Cognition (de Gruyter Mouton), co-editor (with Peter J. Schulz) of the multi-volume Handbooks of Communication Sciences (de Gruyter), co-edits the journal Social Semiotics, and is associate editor of Cybernetics and Human Knowing. Among his edited volumes are The Routledge Companion to Semiotics (2009), Theories and Models of Communication (2013, with Peter Schulz), Semiotics and Its Masters Vol. 1 (2017, with Kristian Bankov), Realism for the 21st Century: A John Deely Reader (2009) and The Communication Theory Reader (1996). He is the 9th Thomas A. Sebeok Fellow of the Semiotic Society of America, President of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (elected in 2014) and is secretary (since 2012) of the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies. *** Sara Cannizzaro is a post-doc researcher on EUMEPLAT - European media platforms: assessing positive and negative externalities for European culture at Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM (Italy). She is also Research Fellow for TechEthos - Ethics of new and emerging technologies with high socio-economic impact at De Montfort University (UK), as well as Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick (UK). There she has worked on PETRAS Cyber Security of the Internet of Things (Privacy, Ethics, Trust, Reliability, Adoption, Security of the IoT), on FAIR-SPACE (Future Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Space Hub) and on i-Trace (IoT Transport Assured for Critical Environments). Prior to this, Sara taught media and communications, digital media and research methods courses at several British universities. Her research interests include analysis of media and digital media systems, biosemiotics and systems thinking, adoption of the internet of things, ethics of emerging technologies. Selected publications include "The End of Sebeok’s Century Meets 21st Century Pandemic: Modeling through and beyond Sebeok’s systems, semiotics, science", Chinese Semiotics Studies (2021); "Trust in the Smart Home: findings from a nationally representative survey in the UK", PLoS One (2020); "The Devil is Not in the Detail: Representational Absence and Stereotyping in the ‘Trojan Horse’ News Story", Race Ethnicity and Education (2018). *** 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 official graphic designer of the IO2S DEELY is Zahra Soltani Tehrani.

Hands on... and join forces to augment the methodological spectrum of interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities. This event, commented by Paul Cobley (International Association for Semiotic Studies) and chaired by Elma Berisha (Lyceum Institute), 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. *** Sara Cannizzaro is a post-doc researcher on EUMEPLAT - European media platforms: assessing positive and negative externalities for European culture at Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM (Italy). She is also Research Fellow for TechEthos - Ethics of new and emerging technologies with high socio-economic impact at De Montfort University (UK), as well as Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Warwick (UK). There she has worked on PETRAS Cyber Security of the Internet of Things (Privacy, Ethics, Trust, Reliability, Adoption, Security of the IoT), on FAIR-SPACE (Future Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Space Hub) and on i-Trace (IoT Transport Assured for Critical Environments). Prior to this, Sara taught media and communications, digital media and research methods courses at several British universities. Her research interests include analysis of media and digital media systems, biosemiotics and systems thinking, adoption of the internet of things, ethics of emerging technologies. Selected publications include "The End of Sebeok’s Century Meets 21st Century Pandemic: Modeling through and beyond Sebeok’s systems, semiotics, science", Chinese Semiotics Studies (2021); "Trust in the Smart Home: findings from a nationally representative survey in the UK", PLoS One (2020); "The Devil is Not in the Detail: Representational Absence and Stereotyping in the ‘Trojan Horse’ News Story", Race Ethnicity and Education (2018). *** Paul Cobley is Professor in Language and Media and Deputy Dean (Research and Knowledge Exchange) in the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries at Middlesex University. His research interests include semiotics (including biosemiotics, zoosemiotics and cybersemiotics), the works of Thomas A. Sebeok and John Deely, communication theory, narrative, subjectivity, popular genres (especially the thriller). He is the author of a number of books, most recently Cultural Implications of Semiotics (2016) and Narrative 2nd edn (2014). He is co-series editor (with Kalevi Kull) of Semiotics, Communication and Cognition (de Gruyter Mouton), co-editor (with Peter J. Schulz) of the multi-volume Handbooks of Communication Sciences (de Gruyter), co-edits the journal Social Semiotics, and is associate editor of Cybernetics and Human Knowing. Among his edited volumes are The Routledge Companion to Semiotics (2009), Theories and Models of Communication (2013, with Peter Schulz), Semiotics and Its Masters Vol. 1 (2017, with Kristian Bankov), Realism for the 21st Century: A John Deely Reader (2009) and The Communication Theory Reader (1996). He is the 9th Thomas A. Sebeok Fellow of the Semiotic Society of America, President of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (elected in 2014) and is secretary (since 2012) of the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies. *** 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 official graphic designer of the IO2S DEELY is Zahra Soltani Tehrani.

Be our guest... and take notes on how the most ardent disciple of the Angelic Doctor worked out the meaning of the general object of semiotics. This event, chaired by William Passarini (Institute for Philosophical Studies), 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. *** Brian Kemple holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of St. Thomas, in Houston TX, where he wrote his dissertation under the inimitable John Deely. He is the Founder and Executive Director of the Lyceum Institute. Philosophical interests and areas of study include: Thomas Aquinas, John Poinsot, Charles Peirce, Martin Heidegger, the history and importance of semiotics, scholasticism, phenomenology; as well as ancillary interests in the liberal arts, technology, and education as a moral habit. He has published two scholarly books—Ens Primum Cognitum in Thomas Aquinas and the Tradition (Brill: 2017) and The Intersections of Semiotics and Phenomenology: Peirce and Heidegger in Dialogue (De Gruyter: 2019), as well as a number of scholarly articles, popular articles, and his own Introduction to Philosophical Principles: Logic, Physics, and the Human Person (2019) and the forthcoming Linguistic Signification: A Classical Course in Grammar and Composition (2021). In addition to being the Executive Director of the Lyceum Institute, he is the Executive Editor of Reality: a Journal for Philosophical Discourse. *** 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 official graphic designer of the IO2S DEELY is Zahra Soltani Tehrani.

Leverage your erudition... and you will be well versed in precious findings on the ways of philosophizing among the ancients in the tongue of Homer. This event, commented by Olga Lavrenova (International Association for Semiotics of Space and Time) and chaired by William Passarini (Institute for Philosophical Studies), 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. *** Alexandros Lagopoulos is Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and Corresponding Member of the Academy of Athens. He holds a postgraduate diploma from the Centre de Recherche d’Urbanisme, Paris. He has a doctorate in Engineering and a post-doctoral academic title (Habilitation) in Urban and Regional Planning from the National Technical University of Athens, a doctorate in Social Anthropology from the Sorbonne and an honorary doctorate in Semiotics from the New Bulgarian University of Sofia. He has been vice-president of the International Association for Semiotic Studies and is honorary president of the Hellenic Semiotic Society and the International Association for the Semiotics of Space+Time. He is the author of many books and articles in Greek, English, and French, as well as some in German, Russian, and Bulgarian. *** Olga Lavrenova (1969), Russian geographer, philosopher, historian. DSc (Philosophy), PhD (Geography). She is a leading researcher of the Institute for Scientific Information on Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INION RAN, in Russian), professor at the National University of Science and Technology (MISiS) and at the GITR Film and Television School. She is also Deputy Director for Science at the Nicholas Roerich Museum of the International Centre of the Roerichs, President of the International Association for Semiotics of Space and Time (IASSp+T, Switzerland), and Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts. Fulbright grantee (2021) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Texas at Austin. Author of over 180 publications, including the monograph: Spaces and Meanings: Semantics of the Cultural Landscape (Springer, 2019). She is the author of the long-term interdisciplinary scientific project “The Geography of Art” (since 1992, 10 collections were published and 7 conferences were held). The project considers the territorial problems of culture and art, reflected in the art of the geographical space, the role of regional factors in the formation of art schools and artworks. Particular attention is given to topics such as artistic perception of the cultural landscape, the place of art in shaping the cultural landscape and the image of the territory, as well as the concepts of space in works of art. She is also the author of the long-term interdisciplinary scientific project “Russia and the East: the interaction in art” (since 2018, 2 conferences were held and 1 collection was published). *** 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 official graphic designer of the IO2S DEELY is Zahra Soltani Tehrani.

Amelia Lewis' commentary on "Songbirds of the Primate Umwelt: A Zoosemiotic Analysis of Nomascus Gibbons" a lecture offered by Baranna Baker and Sofia Bernstein, also commented on by Susan Mancino, as 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. *** Baranna Baker is an independent scholar who explores semiotics through the lenses of quantum physics and literature. She studied philosophy under the acclaimed semiotician, John Deely, at the University of St. Thomas, Houston. In her current work, she applies semiotic principles to literature, especially as concerns the acts of writing and reading fiction. She also plays with the way the quantum world affects our perceived reality and how that reality can be explained by the interplay of semiotics and quantum physics, via the action of signs. She has been published in Semiotica, Chinese Semiotic Studies, The American Journal of Semiotics, and Semiotics, the yearbook of the Semiotic Society of America. She is the associate editor of the latter two works and has in addition edited numerous papers, articles, and books relating to the field of semiotics, including proofreading John Deely's book "On the Path of the Sign: Medieval Philosophy Redefined as the Latin Age" (read her review). She is available for freelance editing work of all kinds, with a specialty in ESL editing (English-as-a-Second-Language). *** After receiving the M.Sc. degree in Primate Behavior and Ecology from Central Washington University in 2012, Sofia Bernstein pursued her doctorate in the Departments of Ecology and Social Behavior and Cognition and Learning at the PRI - Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University, Japan. While at the PRI, Bernstein was also a member of the Leading Graduate Program in PWS - Primatology and Wildlife Science, a highly selective program for graduate students at Kyoto University, funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. As a PWS student, Sofia received additional training in animal husbandry, genetic analyses, science communication, and field work opportunities across Japan’s most famous primatological field sites. While at the PRI, Bernstein honed her science communication skills as a host and co-producer of Kyoto University’s podcast, the PrimateCast, where researchers within the field of primatology and beyond were interviewed. Sofia’s dissertation, which was supervised by Drs. Michael Huffman and Hiroki Koda, was entitled “The Vocal Repertoire of Tibetan Macaques in Mt. Huangshan, China: A Quantitative Analysis, Congeneric Comparisons, and Species-Specific Derived Calls”. Her research was the first to investigate vocalizations in this species, and Bernstein is considered one of the world’s leading experts in Tibetan macaque vocal communication. She completed her degree early in August 2016 to prepare for a position as a lecturer, and began teaching at Central Washington University as part of a dual appointment in the departments of Biological Sciences and Anthropology and Museum Studies. Bernstein has taught a wide array of courses including biostatistics, introductory courses in biology and anthropology, research methods and research design for anthropology students, and primatology specific courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. In 2017 Sofia was awarded a special appointment position that enabled her to supervise graduate students. To date, Sofia Bernstein has studied a diverse number of primate taxa, from small-bodied apes, to New and Old World monkeys. Bernstein’s field work has taken her to field sites with wild and semi-wild primates in South America and Asia, and captive care facilities throughout the United States, Japan, and Ecuador, though she mostly focus on Asian primates. Sofia’s main research interests include the evolution of acoustic signals, vocal diversity, and communicative complexity, by focusing on our closest living relatives from a comparative and multidisciplinary perspective. Investigating the evolutionary mechanisms that underpin variation in primate communication can aid in our understanding of one of the most complex puzzles in science, the origin and evolution of communication in our own species. Bernstein’s work integrates bioacoustics, behavioral ecology, and cognitive ethology, and she mostly focus on the Macaca genus. She is particularly interested in the comparison of macaque vocal repertoires by employing the same analytical techniques to shed light on the contrasting selection pressures generating variability in the genus. Sofia participates in an ongoing collaboration with Anhui University and Central Washington University at the Valley of the Wild Monkeys, China, where longitudinal data is being collected on a free-ranging troop of Tibetan macaques. Sofia Bernstein is also a participant of an ongoing collaboration with the EPRC - Endangered Primate Research Center of Vietnam, where acoustic monitoring methods are being implemented to track rehabilitated primates pre- and post-release and infer animal welfare. *** Susan Mancino is Assistant Professor at Saint Mary’s College, United States. Dr. Mancino received both her MA and PhD from Duquesne University. Her areas of expertise are Philosophy of Communication, Communication Ethics, and Semiotics. Apart from having published under premium labels such as Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies, Communication Research Trends, and the International Journal of Listening, she is a co-editor of An Encyclopedia of Communication Ethics: Goods in Contention (Peter Lang 2018) and Communication and Learning in an Age of Digital Transformation (Routledge 2020). *** Amelia holds a BSc (Hons) in zoology from The University of Sheffield, a master’s degree in clinical animal behaviour from the University of Lincoln, and a master’s degree in animal behaviour and welfare from The Queen’s University of Belfast (with distinction). Her research interests are in cognitive ethology and zoosemiotics, specifically animal social behaviour, communication and sensory perception. Amelia has a particular interest in domestic companion animal behaviour and human-animal interaction, and takes a biosemiotic perspective. Her publications include articles on sensory perception and communication, animal group behaviour and human-animal interaction. She has also presented at international academic conferences, including Gatherings in Biosemiotics and NASS Vilnius 2021. Previously, she has held a post as Intern Associate Editor for the journal Biosemiotics, and is a member of the Royal Society of Biology, the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies, and the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. *** IO2S DEELY - International Open Seminar on Semiotics: a Tribute to John Deely on the Fifth Anniversary of His Passing Homepage: https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/io2s Auditorium: https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/io2s/auditorium, {"references":["Favaro, L., Gamba, M., Cresta, E., Fumagalli, E., Bandoli, F., Pilenga, C., ... & Reby, D. (2020). Do penguins' vocal sequences conform to linguistic laws?. Biology letters, 16(2), 20190589.","Kunc, H. P., Amrhein, V., & Naguib, M. (2008). 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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. *** 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. *** 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. *** 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 official graphic designer of the IO2S DEELY is Zahra Soltani Tehrani.

Look after other species... and hark to the insightful chant of nature as you magnify the focus of human perception. This event, commented by Susan Mancino (Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN), to be commented on further by Amelia Lewis (Royal Society of Biology), 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. Near the end of this session we also had the distinct privilege of featuring a special, non-formal contribution from André De Tienne, the Director of the Peirce Edition Project. *** Baranna Baker is an independent scholar who explores semiotics through the lenses of quantum physics and literature. She studied philosophy under the acclaimed semiotician, John Deely, at the University of St. Thomas, Houston. In her current work, she applies semiotic principles to literature, especially as concerns the acts of writing and reading fiction. She also plays with the way the quantum world affects our perceived reality and how that reality can be explained by the interplay of semiotics and quantum physics, via the action of signs. She has been published in Semiotica, Chinese Semiotic Studies, The American Journal of Semiotics, and Semiotics, the yearbook of the Semiotic Society of America. She is the associate editor of the latter two works and has in addition edited numerous papers, articles, and books relating to the field of semiotics, including proofreading John Deely's book "On the Path of the Sign: Medieval Philosophy Redefined as the Latin Age" (read her review). She is available for freelance editing work of all kinds, with a specialty in ESL editing (English-as-a-Second-Language). *** After receiving the M.Sc. degree in Primate Behavior and Ecology from Central Washington University in 2012, Sofia Bernstein pursued her doctorate in the Departments of Ecology and Social Behavior and Cognition and Learning at the PRI - Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University, Japan. While at the PRI, Bernstein was also a member of the Leading Graduate Program in PWS - Primatology and Wildlife Science, a highly selective program for graduate students at Kyoto University, funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. As a PWS student, Sofia received additional training in animal husbandry, genetic analyses, science communication, and field work opportunities across Japan’s most famous primatological field sites. While at the PRI, Bernstein honed her science communication skills as a host and co-producer of Kyoto University’s podcast, the PrimateCast, where researchers within the field of primatology and beyond were interviewed. Sofia’s dissertation, which was supervised by Drs. Michael Huffman and Hiroki Koda, was entitled “The Vocal Repertoire of Tibetan Macaques in Mt. Huangshan, China: A Quantitative Analysis, Congeneric Comparisons, and Species-Specific Derived Calls”. Her research was the first to investigate vocalizations in this species, and Bernstein is considered one of the world’s leading experts in Tibetan macaque vocal communication. She completed her degree early in August 2016 to prepare for a position as a lecturer, and began teaching at Central Washington University as part of a dual appointment in the departments of Biological Sciences and Anthropology and Museum Studies. Bernstein has taught a wide array of courses including biostatistics, introductory courses in biology and anthropology, research methods and research design for anthropology students, and primatology specific courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. In 2017 Sofia was awarded a special appointment position that enabled her to supervise graduate students. To date, Sofia Bernstein has studied a diverse number of primate taxa, from small-bodied apes, to New and Old World monkeys. Bernstein’s field work has taken her to field sites with wild and semi-wild primates in South America and Asia, and captive care facilities throughout the United States, Japan, and Ecuador, though she mostly focus on Asian primates. Sofia’s main research interests include the evolution of acoustic signals, vocal diversity, and communicative complexity, by focusing on our closest living relatives from a comparative and multidisciplinary perspective. Investigating the evolutionary mechanisms that underpin variation in primate communication can aid in our understanding of one of the most complex puzzles in science, the origin and evolution of communication in our own species. Bernstein’s work integrates bioacoustics, behavioral ecology, and cognitive ethology, and she mostly focus on the Macaca genus. She is particularly interested in the comparison of macaque vocal repertoires by employing the same analytical techniques to shed light on the contrasting selection pressures generating variability in the genus. Sofia participates in an ongoing collaboration with Anhui University and Central Washington University at the Valley of the Wild Monkeys, China, where longitudinal data is being collected on a free-ranging troop of Tibetan macaques. Sofia Bernstein is also a participant of an ongoing collaboration with the EPRC - Endangered Primate Research Center of Vietnam, where acoustic monitoring methods are being implemented to track rehabilitated primates pre- and post-release and infer animal welfare. *** Susan Mancino is Assistant Professor at Saint Mary’s College, United States. Dr. Mancino received both her MA and PhD from Duquesne University. Her areas of expertise are Philosophy of Communication, Communication Ethics, and Semiotics. Apart from having published under premium labels such as Études Ricoeuriennes / Ricoeur Studies, Communication Research Trends, and the International Journal of Listening, she is a co-editor of An Encyclopedia of Communication Ethics: Goods in Contention (Peter Lang 2018) and Communication and Learning in an Age of Digital Transformation (Routledge 2020). *** Amelia holds a BSc (Hons) in zoology from The University of Sheffield, a master’s degree in clinical animal behaviour from the University of Lincoln, and a master’s degree in animal behaviour and welfare from The Queen’s University of Belfast (with distinction). Her research interests are in cognitive ethology and zoosemiotics, specifically animal social behaviour, communication and sensory perception. Amelia has a particular interest in domestic companion animal behaviour and human-animal interaction, and takes a biosemiotic perspective. Her publications include articles on sensory perception and communication, animal group behaviour and human-animal interaction. She has also presented at international academic conferences, including Gatherings in Biosemiotics and NASS Vilnius 2021. Previously, she has held a post as Intern Associate Editor for the journal Biosemiotics, and is a member of the Royal Society of Biology, the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies, and the Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. *** 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 official graphic designer of the IO2S DEELY is Zahra Soltani Tehrani.

Dream of the future... and you will experience the metamorphoses at the borders of what is real and what is other than real. This event 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. *** Kermit Snelson is a software architect and computer scientist. His early work on commercial applications of semantic networks in spatial databases, classical music metadata and digital identity led him to discover John F. Sowa’s work on the existential graphs of Charles Sanders Peirce, an interest which has since evolved into a general research program focused on an emerging programming paradigm called subject-orientation. This in turn has led him to the study of foundational issues in the science of logic and therefore to the study of related work by Gotthard Günther, Stéphane Lupasco, George Spencer-Brown, William Stephenson, Jaakko Hintikka, Raymond Ruyer, Raymond Abellio and Alexander Zinoviev, along with currently emerging fields such as universal logic and oppositional geometry. This technical research has recently taken a historical turn, developing the hypothesis that the logical conception of the subject is the key to understanding semiotics as “a matrix for all the sciences” (Deely) and consequently as a descendant of earlier cosmological schemes such as Goethe’s morphology. In a recently published journal article, he demonstrated the affinity between Peirce’s evolutionary cosmology and contemporary “organic memory” theories prevalent within the organized Monist movement which published much of Peirce’s late work. Snelson holds a degree in Economics from the University of Chicago and studied closely with that institution’s John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought. *** Homepage: https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/act/io2s Auditorium: https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/act/io2s/auditorium *** The official graphic designer of the IO2S DEELY is Zahra Soltani Tehrani.

Hone your spirit... and come a step closer to the truth by breathing a sound intellectual order into all your knowing and doing. This event, chaired by Yulia Nikitenko (Institute for Philosophical Studies), 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. *** C. S. Morrissey studied Ancient Greek and Latin at the University of British Columbia and has also taught classical mythology, ancient history, and ancient languages at Simon Fraser University, where he wrote his Ph.D. dissertation on hominization and the mimetic theory of René Girard: “Mirror of Princes: René Girard, Aristotle, and the Rebirth of Tragedy”. At the University of British Columbia, the M.A. thesis “Studies in Aristotle’s Physics” inaugurated a series of subsequent philosophical inquiries into the philosophy of nature. Other teaching has included Greek and Latin language courses for the Faculty of Philosophy at the Seminary of Christ the King located at the Benedictine monastery of Westminster Abbey in Mission, British Columbia. Major publications include the books Hesiod: Theogony / Works and Days (Talonbooks, 2012) and The Way of Logic (Nanjing Normal University Press, 2018). *** 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.

Break forth... and jump into the interplay of triadic links found in the notable work bequeathed to us all by the progenitor of the Latin Aristotle. This event, 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. *** Wesley Chihyung Yu is Associate Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College. His interdisciplinary research on medieval poetics concentrates on literature’s relationship to the medieval language arts. Yu has focused in particular on rhetoric and logic, through which he considers medieval poetry’s place within the scope of intellectual history. He has written on early treatments of allegory and on literary uses of argumentation in the Middle Ages. Aside from teaching regular courses on medieval literary genres and authors, he writes and teaches on medieval perception and epistemology, poetic traditions, and reasoning in Old and Middle English literature. *** 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.

Step in... and you will walk through the transdisciplinary paths drawn from the fields of information, cognition, and communication. This event, commented by Carlos Vidales (University of Guadalajara) and chaired by Elma Berisha (Lyceum Institute), 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. *** Claudia Jacques de Moraes Cardoso (PhD, MFA) is a Brazilian-American interdisciplinary technoetic artist, designer, educator and researcher, based in New York. Her art and research focus is on Information in Human-Computer Interactions through the lens of Cybersemiotics. She teaches art and design, is a principal at Knowledge Art Studios, and serves as an academic editor for Technoetic Arts Journal and as art/web editor for Cybernetics & Human Knowing Journal. *** Carlos Vidales is a Faculty Member of the Department of Social Communication Studies at the University of Guadalajara in Mexico. He is the author of several books, articles, and book chapters all related to semiotics and communication theory. He is a scholar of the International Communicology Institute, and the general coordinator of the undergraduate program in Public Communication at the University of Guadalajara. He is a member of the National Research System of the Mexican Council of Science and Technology. Managing Editor of the Journal Cybernetics and Human Knowing. *** 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.

Take a look back... and rewind the present state of the art of virtual semiotics all the way until the Iberian atmosphere of late Scholasticism. This event, commented by Hélène Leblanc (Catholic University of Louvain) and chaired by Yulia Nikitenko (Institute for Philosophical Studies), 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. *** Mário Santiago de Carvalho is Full Professor at the FLUC - Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, Scientific Coordinator of the Research & Development Unit IEF - Institute for Philosophical Studies, and author of more than 200 philosophy titles (among articles and monographs), published in Portuguese, English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Romanian and Mandarin; see: Scholarly Bibliography (https://coimbra.academia.edu/M%C3%A1rioSantiagodeCarvalho/Scholarly-Bibliography).He has already taught at several universities (in Porto, Lisbon, Azores, Salamanca, Luxembourg, Sun Yat-sen and České Budějovice), and, besides Portugal, he has been summoned to PhD examinations in Salamanca, Paris, Leuven and Macerata. In his teaching and research activity, Mário S. de Carvalho privileges the history of philosophy, metaphysics, and the philosophy of music. He is the director of the international online series Conimbricenses.org, as well as the coordinator of the bilingual edition of the “Jesuit Coimbra Course,” currently being edited by the Coimbra University Press. *** Hélène Leblanc is a historian of philosophy and of semiotics, working mostly on the Late Scholasticism of the 16th and 17th centuries, and on the Austro-German tradition, involving authors such as B. Bolzano, F. Brentano, E. Husserl, A. Marty, A. Meinong, and L. Wittgenstein. She has strong interests in philosophy of language and mind. In 2015, she earned her PhD on semiotic theories in Early Modern Philosophy, under the supervision of Philippe Hamou (Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense) and Giulia Belgioioso (Università del Salento - Lecce). Her major scientific achievement is her monograph on semiotic theories in the seventeenth century, titled Théories sémiotiques à l’âge classique (Vrin, 2021). She has also written several articles especially 1) on Scholastic and Early Modern philosophy and 2) on the Austro-German tradition. She collaborates with the ARC Schol’Art at the GEMCA, UCLouvain. This project, at the crossroad of History of art, French literature, and Neo-Latin literature, aims at highlighting the scholastic background of these fields. She is also a founding member of Inbegriff – Geneva Seminar for Austro-German Philosophy and she is a Co-editor of Studia Philosophica, Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Philosophie, (with Janette Friedrich and Michael Festl). *** Homepage: https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/act/io2s Auditorium: https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/act/io2s/auditorium *** The official graphic designer of the IO2S DEELY is Zahra Soltani Tehrani. Technical support assured by Robert Junqueira.

Hang on... and you will rejoice as you are taught how semiotics is being applied to reflect on some of the most groundbreaking technologies out there. This event, commented by Sachi Arafat (King Abdulaziz University) and chaired by Elma Berisha (Lyceum Institute), 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. *** KATO Takafumi is a full-time lecturer at Osaka Seikei University in Japan. He received his Ph.D. from Kyoto University in 2018. He is the author of “A Peircean Revision of the Theory of Extended Mind” (Cognitio: Revista de Filosofia, v.16, n.1, 2015) etc. and has so far translated into Japanese important works on pragmatism such as The Pragmatic Maxim (by C. Hookway, OUP, 2011), Perspectives on Pragmatism (by R. Brandom, HUP, 2011), and The American Pragmatists (by C. Misak, OUP, 2013). His research interests lie in Charles Sanders Peirce’s semiotics and its contemporary applications. Nowadays, Peircean semiotics receives enthusiastic attention from various kinds of scholars such as cultural anthropologists and frontier robotics researchers. His present research project overviews such interdisciplinary discussions as a philosopher and supplements them with an appropriate philosophical context, aiming to increase philosophers’ commitment to them and reveal a contemporary significance of pragmatist thoughts. *** Dr. Sachi Arafat is an Assistant Professor of Data Science at KAU - King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia. His research lay at the intersection of data science and philosophy of science & technology. He previously worked on quantum theory inspired models for characterizing socio-technical behaviour while a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow at the School of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow (UK). His monograph Search Foundations (co-authored with E. Ashoori) with MIT Press (2019), was nominated for best book in information science (in 2020) by the Association for Information Science and Technology. Therein was proposed a new kind of science—inspired by the work on Heidegger and the classical philosophical tradition—for re-basing data and information science on rigorous philosophical foundations in order to create an explicitly explanatory science of AI from the ground-up for understanding technology-mediated experience. *** Homepage: https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/act/io2s Auditorium: https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/act/io2s/auditorium *** The official graphic designer of the IO2S DEELY is Zahra Soltani Tehrani. Technical support assured by Robert Junqueira.

Take action... and express fully the significance of life and its vicinities in line with the founder of modern phenomenology. This event, commented by Mohammad Shafiei (Shahid Behesti University) 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. *** Hamid Malekzadeh (PhD in Political Theory, University of Tehran) is the Executive Manager of the Iranian Society for Phenomenology (ISP) as well as the co-editor-in-chief of the Iranian Yearbook of Phenomenology (IYP). Some of his publishing are I Am A Not-Others: An Inquiry in Concreteness of the Political Subject (Pajvak, Tehran: 2014) and Embodiment and The Transcendental Basis of Politics: An Essay in Political Ontology (Gam-e-Nou [New Step]: Forthcoming). He is also the translator of Toward a Phenomenology of Sexual Difference: Husserl, Merleau Ponty, Beauvoir by Sara Heinämaa (Gam-e-Nou [New Step]: 2021). Malekzadeh began his study of politics with a focus on the concept of recognition in Hegel's system of thought and sought the explanation of Edmund Husserl's phenomenology in search of an explanation for the relationship between the individual Ego and collectivities. In recent years, the discussion of the ontology of politics from a phenomenological point of view with a focus on the body and embodiment, intentionality, and Husserl's Egology have been the most important topics that he has focused on. *** Mohammad Shafiei obtained his Ph.D. in philosophy from Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University, in 2017. Currently, he works in the philosophy department of Shahid Behesti University. His doctoral thesis has been published under the title Meaning and Intentionality. a Dialogical Approach. Besides publishing articles under labels such as the Revista de Humanidades de Valparaíso, the South American Journal of Logic, Synthese, and Análisis Filosófico, Shafiei has also co-edited, with prof. Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen, Peirce and Husserl: Mutual Insights on Logic, Mathematics and Cognition. His areas of interest include phenomenology, philosophical logic, semiotics and Metaphysics. He is co-editor of two forthcoming volumes, one with prof. Pietarinen on further links between phenomenology and phaneroscopy, and the other with Dr. Iulian Apostolesco on possible synergies between Husserlian phenomenology and Leibniz’ monadological metaphysics. *** Homepage: https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/act/io2s Auditorium: https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/act/io2s/auditorium *** The official graphic designer of the IO2S DEELY is Zahra Soltani Tehrani. Technical support assured by Robert Junqueira.

Roll in... and become an active partner in the business of thinking about reality and understanding the bits and the whole of what is and what is not. This event, commented by Brian Kemple (Lyceum Institute) 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. *** Luigi Russi holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Exeter (UK) and currently works as Co-convenor of the Research-in-Action Community, in which capacity he accompanies researcher-practitioners, as they take up a practice of inquiry in the midst of everyday circumstances. Luigi is also a member of the Lyceum Institute, through which he has discovered the work and legacy of John Deely. As part of IO2S, he shares his ongoing exploration into how the semiotic realism of John Deely can provide ways of "taking experience seriously" without "losing the forest for the trees". Luigi's recent scholarly contributions have appeared in Human Arenas, Cultural Praxis, and the Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour. *** Brian Kemple holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of St. Thomas, in Houston TX, where he wrote his dissertation under the inimitable John Deely. He is the Founder and Executive Director of the Lyceum Institute. Philosophical interests and areas of study include: Thomas Aquinas, John Poinsot, Charles Peirce, Martin Heidegger, the history and importance of semiotics, scholasticism, phenomenology; as well as ancillary interests in the liberal arts, technology, and education as a moral habit. He has published two scholarly books—Ens Primum Cognitum in Thomas Aquinas and the Tradition (Brill: 2017) and The Intersections of Semiotics and Phenomenology: Peirce and Heidegger in Dialogue (De Gruyter: 2019), as well as a number of scholarly articles, popular articles, and his own Introduction to Philosophical Principles: Logic, Physics, and the Human Person (2019) and the forthcoming Linguistic Signification: A Classical Course in Grammar and Composition (2021). In addition to being the Executive Director of the Lyceum Institute, he is the Executive Editor of Reality: a Journal for Philosophical Discourse. *** Homepage: https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/act/io2s Auditorium: https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/act/io2s/auditorium *** The cover image for the video was designed by Zahra Soltani. Technical support assured by Robert Junqueira.

Carry on wondering... and you will be guided sensibly along the road uniting those no longer living, those not yet dead, and those still to be born. This event, commented by Mário Santiago de Carvalho (Institute for Philosophical Studies) 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. *** Júlio Pinto has a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1985), where he served as Teaching Assistant (1980-1985) of Portuguese and Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Romance Languages (1985-1986). He did postdoctoral work at the Catholic University of Portugal (Lisbon, 1992). He acted as Chair of the Doctoral Program in Comparative Literature at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Chair of the Graduate Program in Communication at the same University, and later as Chair of the Graduate Program in Communication at the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. He was President of Compós (the Brazilian Association of Graduate Programs in Communication) 2011-2013, and was previously its Vice-President (2009-2013). He authored many books, the first of which was The Reading of Time (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1989), book chapters, and articles published in Brazilian and foreign journals. In his CV, the most current terms relating to his scientific and cultural activities are: Semiotics, Language, Communication, Philosophy of Language, Theory of the Image, Cinema and Television, Art, Electronic Media, and Intersemiotic translation. He is currently a member of Kairós, an international organization of university presidents and notable scholars dedicated to the enhancement of higher education and research. *** Mário Santiago de Carvalho is Full Professor at the FLUC - Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra, Scientific Coordinator of the Research & Development Unit IEF - Institute for Philosophical Studies, and author of more than 200 philosophy titles (among articles and monographs), published in Portuguese, English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Romanian and Mandarin; see: Scholarly Bibliography (https://coimbra.academia.edu/M%C3%A1rioSantiagodeCarvalho/Scholarly-Bibliography). He has already taught at several universities (in Porto, Lisbon, Azores, Salamanca, Luxembourg, Sun Yat-sen and České Budějovice), and, besides Portugal, he has been summoned to PhD examinations in Salamanca, Paris, Leuven and Macerata. In his teaching and research activity, Mário S. de Carvalho privileges the history of philosophy, metaphysics, and the philosophy of music. He is the director of the international online series Conimbricenses.org, as well as the coordinator of the bilingual edition of the “Jesuit Coimbra Course,” currently being edited by the Coimbra University Press. *** Homepage: https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/act/io2s Auditorium: https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/act/io2s/auditorium *** The cover image for the video was designed by Zahra Soltani. Technical support assured by Robert Junqueira.

"John Deely might have better appreciated the semiotic application of qualitative mathematics if only ... After reviewing the academic context of the SSA's 1975 formation, DeChicchis reconsiders Deely's 2001 comment about the SSA's first president in light of Deely's purchase of two books about structuralism and model theory." This event, commented by John Reid Perkins-Buzo (Southern Illinois University) 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. *** Joseph DeChicchis, Ph.D., Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, is the president of Historic Elizabeth, a Pennsylvania charity whose mission includes the verification of information about the Monongahela and Youghiogheny river areas. Outside of Pennsylvania, he has produced a nationally syndicated (USA) radio program, studied various minority indigenous languages (e.g., Qʼeqchiꞌ, Ainu), been a professor of linguistics, and served as a language policy consultant. He is the director of the Deely Project. *** John Reid Perkins-Buzo is Associate Professor in Media arts and Studies at Southern Illinois University. His scholarly work concerns the semiotics of João Poinsot especially as explored in the works of John Deely. He studied semiotics at St. Louis University under Professor Fr. Ralph Powell O.P. (John Deely’s mentor and doctoral advisor), and the renowned medievalist, Professor John Doyle. He has published articles in Semiotica, Punctum, iDMAa: The Journal of Digital Media Arts and Practice, and other scholarly journals. His artwork has appeared in several publications and major international events such as SIGGRAPH and the San Francisco International Film Festival. He is currently at work on a book about virtual production (forthcoming from Routledge, 2023), and a volume on the semiotics of digital media. He has a continuing interest in Deely’s doctrine of a realist semiotics, particularly its parallel in realist film theory stemming from Andre Bazin in the 1950s and more recently explored by film scholar Ian Aitken. *** 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.

Hold on expectantly... and you will behold what remains out of sight from a threefold angle bringing together the arts and the humanities. This event, commented by Luis de Miranda (Uppsala University) 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. *** Fernando Andacht (1954) holds a Doctor in Philosophy (Dr. Phil.) from the UiB - University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway; and a PhD in Communication and Information from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil. He is full professor at the Department of Theory of Communication, Faculty of Information and Communication, University of the Republic, Montevideo, Uruguay. Researcher of the National System of Research (SNI-ANII, Level II). He was a Fulbright scholar at the Research Center for Language & Semiotic Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, and a grantee of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, at the Arbeitsstelle für Semiotik, Technische Universität, Berlin. Since 2006, he is Guest Professor of the Graduate Program in Communication and Languages, Universidade Tuiuti do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil, and at the PhD Program in Semiotics of the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. He published 10 books and over 100 articles and chapters in his field of expertise, the Peircean semiotic analysis of the media, with emphasis on the representation of mediated reality (documentary, reality television, propaganda). *** Luis de Miranda lives near Stockholm, Sweden. He is a philosophical practitioner, trained in applied continental philosophy, the history of ideas, and psychoanalysis, who came to academia after a career as an independent author and publisher in Paris. He is a researcher at Uppsala University, where he currently works on the theory and practice of philosophical health at the Center for Medical Humanities. His PhD (University of Edinburgh) is a modern genealogy of the concept of esprit de corps (France, UK, USA) and was the groundwork for his book Ensemblance (Edinburgh University Press). In his research strategies, he tends to combine historical, empirical and speculative approaches, such as in his essay Being and Neonness (MIT Press). *** 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.

Embrace this challenge... and you will realize how possible it is to impart information out of something short of a predicate. This event, commented by Vincent Colapietro (Pennsylvania State University) 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. *** Francesco Bellucci holds a PhD in Semiotics (Università di Siena, 2012) and is currently Associate Professor at the Department of the Arts of the University of Bologna in Italy. He has worked at the Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia (2013–2017) and was visiting researcher at the Peirce Edition Project, IUPUI, Indianapolis (2016). His research interests focus on Peirce's logic, the theory and the history of semiotics, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of notation. He is the author of Peirce's Speculative Grammar (Routledge, 2017). *** Vincent Colapietro is Liberal Arts Research Professor Emeritus at the Pennsylvania State University. He is presently at the Center for the Humanities (University of Rhode Island). One of his main areas of research is pragmatism, with emphasis on Peirce. Though devoted to developing a semiotic perspective rooted in Peirce’s seminal work, Colapietro draws upon a number of other authors and perspectives (including Bakhtin, Jakobson, and Bourdieu as well as such movements as phenomenology, hermeneutics, and deconstruction). He is the author of Peirce’s Approach to the Self (1989), A Glossary of Semiotics (1993), Fateful Shapes of Human Freedom (2003), and Acción, sociabilidad y drama: Un retrato pragmatista del animal humano (2020) as well as numerous essays. He has written on a wide range of topics, from music (especially jazz) and cinema to psychoanalysis and deconstruction, from art and literature to ontology and phenomenology. He has served as President of the Charles S. Peirce Society, the Metaphysical Society of America, and the Semiotic Society of America. *** 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.

Seek to learn... and you will bring about changes in your skills that will facilitate a better course of action in the future. This event 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. *** Eetu Pikkarainen works as a university lecturer at the Faculty of Education in the University of Oulu (Finland). His main research area is theory, philosophy, and semiotics of education. He is a founding member and the web coordinator in the International Network of Semiotics and Education (https://wwwedu.oulu.fi/semed/). Lately, he has turned his attention to research combining semiotics with perceptual control theory. *** 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.

Be amongst the best... and you will be sure to notice that meaning lies in the environment beyond human words. This event, commented by Anton Markoš (International Society for Biosemiotic Studies) and chaired by Tim Troutman (Lyceum Institute), 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. *** Donald Favareau is an Associate Professor in theUniversity Scholars Programme(USP) at theNational University of Singapore(NUS). He received his degrees in Philosophy and Applied Linguistics, with a particular interests in Philosophy of Mind and the Neurobiology of Language, from theUniversity of California Los Angeles(UCLA). He became involved with the interdisciplinary research project of Biosemiotics in 2001 and has been an active researcher and organiser of the field ever since. Favareau holds joint appointments as a tenured research professor in both USP and theDepartment of Communications and New Mediaat theFaculty of Arts and Social Sciencesin NUS. He also has served as Vice-President of theInternational Society for Biosemiotic Studiessince its founding in 2005. Besides collating and authoring theEssential Readings in Biosemiotics: Anthology and Commentary(2010) and co-editing with Paul Cobley and Kalevi KullA More Developed Sign: Interpreting the Work of Jesper Hoffmeyer(2012), Favareau has been publishing in leading scholarly journals likeSEED,Semiotica,Journal of Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, andBiosemiotics. *** Paul Cobley is Professor in Language and Media and Deputy Dean (Research and Knowledge Exchange) in the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries at Middlesex University. His research interests include semiotics (including biosemiotics, zoosemiotics and cybersemiotics), the works of Thomas A. Sebeok and John Deely, communication theory, narrative, subjectivity, popular genres (especially the thriller). He is the author of a number of books, most recently Cultural Implications of Semiotics (2016) and Narrative 2nd edn (2014). He is co-series editor (with Kalevi Kull) of Semiotics, Communication and Cognition (de Gruyter Mouton), co-editor (with Peter J. Schulz) of the multi-volume Handbooks of Communication Sciences (de Gruyter), co-edits the journal Social Semiotics, and is associate editor of Cybernetics and Human Knowing. Among his edited volumes are The Routledge Companion to Semiotics (2009), Theories and Models of Communication (2013, with Peter Schulz), Semiotics and Its Masters Vol. 1 (2017, with Kristian Bankov), Realism for the 21st Century: A John Deely Reader (2009) and The Communication Theory Reader (1996). He is the 9th Thomas A. Sebeok Fellow of the Semiotic Society of America, President of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (elected in 2014) and is secretary (since 2012) of the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies. *** Kalevi Kull is Professor of Biosemiotics in the University of Tartu, Estonia. His research focuses on intersections of biology and semiotics. He studied biology and worked in theoretical biology and field ecology, while in last decades in semiotics. His mission is to foster an ecological culture. His work includes: Jakob von Uexküll: A Paradigm for Biology and Semiotics (2001), Towards a Semiotic Biology: Life is the action of Signs (2011), as well as On Theoretical Biology: Life Science between Mathematics and Semiotics (2019, in Estonian). *** Anton Markoš is a theoretical biologist and associate professor at the Department of Philosophy and History of Science of the Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague. In his writings, he focuses on cell and evolutionary biology and biosemiotics from the hermeneutical, historical and philosophical point of view. Among his many scientific and popular books and articles are Epigenetic Processes and the Evolution of Life (w/ Jana Švorcová; CRC Press 2019), Readers of the Book of Life (Oxford University Press 2002), or Life as its own Designer: Darwin´s Origin and Western Thought (w/ Filip Grygar, László Hajnal, Karel Kleisner, Zdenek Kratochvíl, Zdenek Neubauer; Springer 2009). *** 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.

Aim ahead... and you will cast light on the very foundations of the intricate patterns that permeate the environment. This event, chaired by Elma Berisha (Lyceum Institute) and to be commented on by Irene Portela (Cávado and Ave Polytechnic Institute), 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. *** Daniel Polani is a professor of Artificial Intelligence and Director of the Centre for Computer Science and Informatics Research (CCSIR), and Head of the AS - Adaptive Systems Research Group, and leader of the SEPIA - Sensor Evolution, Processing, Information and Actuation Lab (part of the AS) at the University of Hertfordshire. Professor Polani is best known for his work in artificial intelligence, cognitive science and robotics, applying the tools of information theory to cognitive modelling and analysing intelligent agent behaviour and decision making in complex adaptive systems and sensor evolution. For the past decades he has published continuously and, since 2020, has contributed to a number of distinct journals, among them Physical Review E, Kybernetika, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Entropy, Constructivist Foundations and, most recently, Frontiers in Robotics and AI. *** Dr. Irene Portela is the Chair of the Department of Law at IPCA - Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, in Portugal, where she is a Coordinating Professor. At IPCA, she teaches both Constitutional Law and Human Rights (School of Management), while also teaching Ethics in the Applied Artificial Intelligence master's program (School of Technology). Portela is also the Chair of IPCA's Commission for the Prevention of Corruption. She was IPCA's first Student Ombudswoman, a position she held for 10 years. Her interests revolve around the production of judicial evidence and data collection or the preservation of its integrity in cyberspace. *** 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.

Outgrow excess... and you will develop a semiotic sensitivity to what is strictly necessary. This event, chaired by Yulia Nikitenko (Institute for Philosophical Studies), 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. *** Dragana Vasilski is Full-time Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning of the University Union Nikola Tesla in Belgrade, Serbia. Her work includes writings and research, architectural design, and teaching the application of new methodologies and the pursuit of investigations within an interdisciplinary approach. Current fields of interest: interdisciplinary intersections between architecture and philosophy, architectural theory and history, arts and sciences, architectural design process, design studies, culture studies, humanistic and natural sciences. Her scientific competence and success are reflected in more than one hundred scientific papers. The peculiar field of her interest, within topics related to contemporary architecture, is Minimalism in architecture, as in architecture that changes people's lives. She uses semiotics as a research method to define, understand, and explain this contemporary aesthetic theme in architecture. Since 2018 she is a member of the Executive Board of the IASSp+T - International Association for Semiotics of Space and Time, where she holds the position of Secretary General. Original artistic achievements should also be mentioned. *** 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.

Broaden your horizons... and you will be a party to reflecting upon the cadacualtic sophistication of all beings. This event 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. *** Paul Bains is an independent researcher. He is a published author and translator (French to English) who has translated works by Felix Guattari (Chaosmosis: An Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm) and Isabelle Stengers (Power and Invention: Situating Science). His Ph.D. thesis was published as 'The primacy of semiosis: an ontology of relations' (University of Toronto Press, 2006). *** Homepage: https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/act/io2s Auditorium: https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/act/io2s/auditorium

Keep your ear to the ground... and you will grant access to state-of-the-art info about that which fuels, pervades, and oversteps the outer senses. This event, commented by Maria da Conceição Camps (Centre of Philosophy) and chaired by Yulia Nikitenko (Institute for Philosophical Studies), 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. *** Hélène Leblanc is a historian of philosophy and of semiotics, working mostly on the Late Scholasticism of the 16th and 17th centuries, and on the Austro-German tradition, involving authors such as B. Bolzano, F. Brentano, E. Husserl, A. Marty, A. Meinong, and L. Wittgenstein. She has strong interests in philosophy of language and mind. In 2015, she earned her PhD on semiotic theories in Early Modern Philosophy, under the supervision of Philippe Hamou (Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense) and Giulia Belgioioso (Università del Salento - Lecce). Her major scientific achievement is her monograph on semiotic theories in the seventeenth century, titled Théories sémiotiques à l’âge classique (Vrin, 2021). She has also written several articles especially 1) on Scholastic and Early Modern philosophy and 2) on the Austro-German tradition. She collaborates with the ARC Schol’Art at the GEMCA, UCLouvain. This project, at the crossroad of History of art, French literature, and Neo-Latin literature, aims at highlighting the scholastic background of these fields. She is also a founding member of Inbegriff – Geneva Seminar for Austro-German Philosophy and she is a Co-editor of Studia Philosophica, Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Philosophie, (with Janette Friedrich and Michael Festl). *** Maria da Conceição Camps (born in Lisbon); ⚘ holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Porto (2012), thesis entitled «From the visible to the invisible - The theory of vision in the Commentary on the three books on the soul of the Coimbra Jesuit Course (1598)»; ⚘ a Master's in Medieval Philosophy from the University of Porto (2000), thesis entitled «The influence of João de Salisbury's Policraticus in the Chronicle of D. João I by Fernão Lopes, legal-political perspective»; ⚘ a degree in Humanities from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Catholic University of Portugal (1997); ⚘ a degree in Law from the Faculty of Law of Lisbon (1982). She is a researcher at the Centre of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon (CFUL); at the Institute for Philosophical Studies of the University of Coimbra (IEF); and in the Open University's Chair of Global Studies (CEG-UAb); ⚘ mainly dedicated to the study and translation of philosophical texts from the so-called late scholasticism, having published several articles and books on the subject; a translator from latin to portuguese of the Coimbra Jesuit Course. See bibliography and full Curriculum in CienciaVitae, Science ID 8E18-F7EA-C593. *** 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.

Brian Kemple's commentary on "The Semiotics of John of St. Thomas", a lecture offered by Anabela Gradim aspart of the activities of the2022 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. *** Brian Kemple holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of St. Thomas, in Houston TX, where he wrote his dissertation under the inimitable John Deely. He is the Founder and Executive Director of the Lyceum Institute. Philosophical interests and areas of study include: Thomas Aquinas, John Poinsot, Charles Peirce, Martin Heidegger, the history and importance of semiotics, scholasticism, phenomenology; as well as ancillary interests in the liberal arts, technology, and education as a moral habit. He has published two scholarly books—Ens Primum Cognitum in Thomas Aquinas and the Tradition (Brill: 2017) and The Intersections of Semiotics and Phenomenology: Peirce and Heidegger in Dialogue (De Gruyter: 2019), as well as a number of scholarly articles, popular articles, and his own Introduction to Philosophical Principles: Logic, Physics, and the Human Person (2019) and the forthcoming Linguistic Signification: A Classical Course in Grammar and Composition (2021). In addition to being the Executive Director of the Lyceum Institute, he is the Executive Editor of Reality: a Journal for Philosophical Discourse. *** Anabela Gradim graduated in Philosophy at the University of Porto. She holds a Masters Degree, a PhD and a DsC (Título de Agregação, in Portuguese) in Communication Sciences from the University of Beira Interior (UBI). Her PhD was obtained in 2004 with the dissertation "The communicational dimension of Peirce's semiotics" (A dimensão comunicacional da semiótica de Peirce). She teaches Journalism, Communication and Methodology at the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the UBI. She is the scientific Coordinator of the Research & Development Unit Labcom - Communication and Arts, and Director of the PhD Program in Communication Sciences at UBI. Her research interests revolve around Journalism, Science Communication, Semiotics, Rhetoric and the interface between these disciplines and the digital media plus Cyberculture. She has coordinated and been involved as a researcher in ten research projects, has authored numerous books, book chapters and scientific papers in the fields of journalism, semiotics and science communication. *** IO2S DEELY -International Open Seminar on Semiotics: a Tribute to John Deely on the Fifth Anniversary of His Passing Homepage: https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/io2s Auditorium: https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/io2s/auditorium

Power up your intellect... and you will be fit to assimilate the nectar streaming from the Profound Doctor. This event, chaired by William Passarini (Mansarda Acesa) and to be commented on by Brian Kemple (Lyceum Institute), 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. *** Anabela Gradim graduated in Philosophy at the University of Porto. She holds a Masters Degree, a PhD and a DsC (Título de Agregação, in Portuguese) in Communication Sciences from the University of Beira Interior (UBI). Her PhD was obtained in 2004 with the dissertation "The communicational dimension of Peirce's semiotics" (A dimensão comunicacional da semiótica de Peirce). She teaches Journalism, Communication and Methodology at the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the UBI. She is the scientific Coordinator of the Research & Development Unit Labcom - Communication and Arts, and Director of the PhD Program in Communication Sciences at UBI. Her research interests revolve around Journalism, Science Communication, Semiotics, Rhetoric and the interface between these disciplines and the digital media plus Cyberculture. She has coordinated and been involved as a researcher in ten research projects, has authored numerous books, book chapters and scientific papers in the fields of journalism, semiotics and science communication. *** Brian Kemple holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of St. Thomas, in Houston TX, where he wrote his dissertation under the inimitable John Deely. He is the Founder and Executive Director of the Lyceum Institute. Philosophical interests and areas of study include: Thomas Aquinas, John Poinsot, Charles Peirce, Martin Heidegger, the history and importance of semiotics, scholasticism, phenomenology; as well as ancillary interests in the liberal arts, technology, and education as a moral habit. He has published two scholarly books—Ens Primum Cognitum in Thomas Aquinas and the Tradition (Brill: 2017) and The Intersections of Semiotics and Phenomenology: Peirce and Heidegger in Dialogue (De Gruyter: 2019), as well as a number of scholarly articles, popular articles, and his own Introduction to Philosophical Principles: Logic, Physics, and the Human Person (2019) and the forthcoming Linguistic Signification: A Classical Course in Grammar and Composition (2021). In addition to being the Executive Director of the Lyceum Institute, he is the Executive Editor of Reality: a Journal for Philosophical Discourse. *** 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.

Cherish wisdom... and you will treasure all bridges between the instrumental and doctrinal prolongations of human environmental awareness. This event, commented by Seema Kumari Ladsaria (Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology) & Tony Jappy (University of Perpignan Via Domitia) 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. *** Fr. Scott Randall Paine is a priest of the Archdiocese of Brasilia, Brazil, and professor of medieval philosophy and Eastern thought at the University of Brasília. Since 1974, he has lived, studied, and taught in Europe, Asia and South America, taking his doctorate in philosophy in Rome in 1988. His recent works include an edition of the essays of Bernard Kelly, A Catholic Mind Awake (2017); a study of the thought of G.K. Chesterton, The Universe and Mr. Chesterton (2nd ed., 2019); and, most recently, The Other World We Live In (2021). Paine has published widely in Portuguese and English, and his current writing and podcasts can be followed on the website: 3wisdoms.com. *** Seema Kumari Ladsaria is an Associate Professor at the KIIT School of Humanities (Deemed to be a University), India. She has finished her Ph.D. from IIT (ISM) Dhanbad. She is keenly interested in looking at texts and con(texts) in areas including Medicine and Literature, graphic fiction, and SemioticStudies. She has published in many journals of international repute and has been awarded Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. *** Tony Jappy is professeur honoraire at the University of Perpignan Via Domitia, France. He has participated in numerous semiotics and visual semiotics colloquia and congresses. He has published many articles on problems relating to linguistics, semiotics and visual semiotics, and has authored or co-authored books on Peircean semiotics, including Introduction to Peircean Visual Semiotics in 2013 and Peirce’s Twenty-Eight Classes of Signs and the Philosophy of Representation in 2017. He is also the general editor of the Bloomsbury Companion to Contemporary Peircean Semiotics (2020). His current research is devoted primarily to C. S. Peirce’s post-1904 six-correlate system of semiotics and the concept of semiosis. *** Homepage: https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/act/io2s Auditorium: https://www.uc.pt/fluc/uidief/act/io2s/auditorium Backup text: https://realitydiscourse.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/2021-05-paine-idioscopycenoscopy.pdf *** Technical support assured by Robert Junqueira. The cover image for the video was designed by Zahra Soltani.

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.