Program

DAY ZERO - WEDNESDAY - 22 MAY

14:00 - 17:00
Designing Your Unique Operating Philosophy With Vijay Parthasarathy

DAY1 - THURSDAY - 23MAY

09:00 - 09:30
REGISTRATION

09:30 - 09:45
WELCOME

09:45 - 10:40
KEYNOTE - 25 De Abril: The Carnation Revolution And Liminality With Raquel Varela

10:40 - 11:00
How To Be A Country Among The Rest: The Experiences Of Liminal Diplomacy In Kosovo With Juan Manuel Montoro

11:00 - 11:20
Liminality of Autistic Self-Discovery Through the Ritual of Adult ‘Diagnosis’ With Dominika Noworolska

11:20 - 11:40
COFFEE BREAK

11:40 - 12:00
Sea Skin: Liminal Spaces, Frontiers And Enunciation With Myriam Bouabid

12:00 - 12:20
Liminality And Cultural Innovation In The Semiotics Of Juri Lotman And The Tartu Moscow School With Rahul Murdeshwar

12:20 - 12:40
Is There A Limit To The Liminal? With Thierry Mortier

12:40 - 13:00
Liminal Thinking Of The Chinese: Manifestation Of The Eight Diagrams (Yin/yang System) With William Liu

13:00 - 14:40
LUNCH - Casa da Música

15:00 - 15:20
Liminality In Fantasy Narratives With Joshua Glenn

15:20 - 15:40
Journeying Liminalities: From Stuckness To Transformation With Maitreyee Patki and Jayanth Narasimha

15:40 - 16:00
COFFEE BREAK

16:00 - 16:20
Postpartum Liminality: Decoding The Cacophony Of New Motherhood With Victoria Gerstman

16:20 - 16:40
Rituals Design For Transition With Malex Salamanques Amiel and Julius Colwyn

16:40 - 16:50
SEMIOFEST BOARD UPDATE

16:50 - 17:10
CLOSING REMARKS

DAY2 - FRIDAY - 24 MAY

09:00 - 09:20
WELCOME BACK

09:20 - 10:20
KEYNOTE - The Dark Side Of Being Betwixt And Between With Alexandra Schüssler

10:20 - 10:40
The Museum Of The Portuguese Language: Liminality, Transitional Challenges And Re-adaptations With Mariane Cara

10:40 - 11:00
Effective Hybridization & Semiospheric Borders: What Can Liminality Add? With Hamsini Shivakumar

11:00 - 11:20
Day Of The Dead-ish With Alfredo Troncoso and Adelina Vaca

11:20 - 11:40
COFFEE BREAK

11:40 - 12:00
Communication For Cultural Change Towards Energy Transition With Ximena Tobi

12:00 - 12:20
New Formations: Creating Value In Crisis With Rudra Cariappa

12:20 - 12:40
Tribute to Osmar Gonçalves

12:40 - 14:50
LUNCH - offsite

14:50 - 15:10
AI And The State Of Utopia With Christopher Ryles

15:10 - 15:30
On The Edge Of Meaning: How Can Semioticians Navigate The Black Hole Of AI-generated ‘Anti-content’? With Gianlluca Simi

15:30 - 15:50
Developing And Exploring Critical Thinking With Maps: Towards A Critical Cartosemiotic Pedagogy With Shibboleth Shechter

15:50 - 16:10
COFFEE BREAK

16:10 - 16:30
Is The Future Rubbish? With Cecilia Garside and Pete Thomas

16:30 - 17:15
Presentation & Panel - Biosemiotics: Methodologically Evolving Applied Semiotics To Account For More Experiences, Deepen Relationships, And Transform Systems With Noel Theodosiou, Yogi Hendlin, Natasha Delliston and Malcolm Evans

17:15 - 17:30
CLOSING REMARKS

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