A Tribute to John Deely on the Fifth Anniversary of His Passing
Announcing the 2022 International Open Seminar on Semiotics (IO2S) to all friends of the Lyceum Institute!
The occurrence of this seminar over the calendar year 2022 also marks the 80th anniversary of Deely’s arrival. Although Deely would most certainly instruct us not to focus on celebrating his life, but instead on developing the Way of Signs, there seems to be no downside to accomplishing both of these tasks simultaneously. Hence, this seminar seeks to render homage to his genius and further develop his work. Deely spent a lifetime studying semiotics and fostering a network of semioticians from around the planet. Hopefully, his mission is here dutifully echoed, as we attempt to congregate a number of distinguished experts in the field of semiotics in a shared enterprise to provide a formative environment openly accessible to the general audience through a series of presentations on semiotics and its history, with particular care for Deely’s historical perspective and the challenges presented to semiotics in the world today. In doing so, chances are that we match Deely’s aspiration for future generations to acknowledge the core significance of semiotics and its history for the evolution of human understanding.
On 13 October 2021, at 9:30am ET, a live interview will be held with Dr. Brian Kemple, Executive Director of the Lyceum Institute, discussing the legacy and influence of Dr. John Deely, the preeminent philosophical mind of his lifetime (1942-2017) and the thinker most responsible for developing semiotics into the 21st century. You can watch the interview here.
The 2022 International Open Seminar on Semiotics is presented 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 and the Mansarda Acesa.
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This collaborative international open scientific initiative and celebration is jointly 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 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.