Barthes's Relevance Today
An International Symposium University of Helsinki,
December 13, 2007
Metsätalo building,
lecture hall 4
Organized by the semiotics programme at the University of Helsinki
9.15 Opening of the Symposium
9.30-10.30 Patrizia Calefato (University of Bari): On myths and fashion: Barthes and cultural studies
10.30-11.00 Coffee
11.00-12.30 Anne Sivuoja-Gunaratnam (Sibelius Academy): Voicing ”Le Neutre” Sirkka Knuuttila (University of Helsinki): “L'effet de réel” revisited. Affectivity of image and mimesis in reference to the late Barthes Chair: Heta Pyrhönen
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 Heta Pyrhönen (University of Helsinki): “From Women to Barthes with Love” Harri Veivo (University of Helsinki): Barthes's positive theory of the author Chair: Anne Sivuoja-Gunaratnam
15.00-15.30 Coffee
15.30-16.30 Michael Sheringham (Oxford University): Writing the Present: notation, denotation and connotation in Barthes's Collège de France lectures
16.30-16.45 Closing statements