RAMADA INN AND DUQUSNE UNIV., PITTSBURGH, OCT. 28-31, 1999

Keynote speakers:
Robert Viscusi, Brooklyn College, Friday Lunch
Peter McLaren, UCLA, Saturday Lunch
Presidential Address: Floyd Merrell, Purdue University

Friday Evening Performances Saturday evening in memory of Roberta Kevelson, Naomi Cumming, and Thomas Puckett
 

THE SOCIETY THANKS FOR FINANCIAL SUPPORT:
DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY --- MICHAEL WEBER, Provost --- JAMES HENDERSON, Dean, School, of Education --- RICK McCOWN, Department of Foundations of Leadership
KENT STATE UNIVERSITY --- CAROL CARTWRIGHT, President --- JOANNE SCHWARTZ, Dean, Graduate School of Education
THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY --- A. G. ROEBER, Head, Department of History

AND FOR LOCAL ARRANGMENTS: SUSAN BAUX and CAROL EVANICK, Duquesne University.
LORI McELHATTEN, SUSAN BERCKMILLER, and TOM WALKINSHAW, Ramada Inn, Downtown Pittsburgh.

Conference Registration and Book Exhibit will be located in the Foyer and Allentown Room 5 p.m. on Thursday Oct. 28 until 8 or 9 p.m. and 8:30-12:00 and 2:00-5:00 Friday and Saturday.

OCT. 28 --
Thursday night -- reception, Ramada Inn at 7 p.m. Pittsburgh Room SSA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING from 5-7 p.m. in Erie Room.
 

FRIDAY, OCT. 29
8:00-9:00 -- CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST OUTSIDE MEETING ROOMS.

Session 1 -- 9:00 -10:30 -- no equipment required -- Lancaster Room
Internecine Subjectivities: A Semiotics of Boundary Transgression
Chair and Organizer: Terry Prewitt, Univ. of West Florida, Anthropology
Tenuous Borders: Latino Identity and Nationhood after Hidalgo -- Karen McGovern, SUNY Rockland
Sex, Sexuality, and Sex-Work on the US-Mexican Border -- Robert Philen, Cornell Univ., Anthropology
The Circle Is Not Round: A Structual Analysis -- Annie O'Leary, Univ. of West Florida
Discussants: Terry Prewitt; Jacqueline Martinez, Purdue Univ., Anthropology

Session 2-- 9:00-10:30 -- overhead and screen required -- Scranton Room
Semiotics in France and Russia
Chair -- George Enteen, Penn State, History
"I Don't Need This Man": Deixsis, Subjectivity, and Lacan's Four Discourses -- Phillip Chong Ho Shon, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago, Criminal Justice
L. S. Vygotsky and C. S. Peirce: Parallels and Meridians -- Igor E. Kluykanov, Penn State/Berks, Speech Communication
Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) from a Semiotic Perspective -- Donald Cunningham, Indiana Univ., Center for Applied Semiotics

Session 3 -- 9:00-10: 30 -- overhead and screen required --Philadelphia
Room Semiotics of Cyberspace
Chair: Gary Shank, Duquesne Univ., Foundations of Leadership
Internet and World-Wide Web -- Edmund Chattoe, Univ. of Surrey, Sociology
Cybersolidarity: The Establishment of Social Cohesion in Monoform Electronic Speech Communities -- A. J. Pollard and Delfryn Thomas, South Bank Univ., Computing, Information Systems, and Mathematics
I, Interpretant, On-Line Identity Maker -- Gary Shank, Duquesne Univ.

Session 4 -- 9-10;30 -- (continued as Session 10) -- requires slide projector and screen --Pittsburgh Room
Phenomenal Outlaws Organizer and
Chair: Laurence Rickels, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, German
La Malinche -- Nancy Barton, New York Univ.
Cultural Semiosis in Mexican Feminine Literature: The Chiapas Conflict in Guadelupe Loaeza's Short Narrative -- Maria Melgarejo, Purdue Univ., Foreign Languages and Literature
Reading the Police -- Klaus Mladek, Univ. of Cincinnati

Session 5 -- 9-10:30 -- requires slide projector and screen --Erie Room
Semiotic Perspectives on Italian-Americans
Chair and Organizer: Santa Casciani -- John Carroll Univ., The Jesuit Univ. in Cleveland
The Italian/American Writer: New Categories for a New Age -- Anthony Tamburri, Purdue Univ.
The Spatial Semiotics of Re-presenting Italain Ethnicity -- Jerome Krase, Brooklyn College
The Negotiation of Signs: Vico, Tresca, and Italian American Signs -- Santa Casciani

Session 6 -- 9:00-10:30 -- no equipment required -- Harrisburg Room
ALSA Session One -- Teaching American Legal Studies I
Moderator: James Elkins, West Virginia School of Law; Editor, Legal Studies Forum
An Introduction to Law: A Teacher's Experience with BEFORE THE LAW -- Peter D'Errico, Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst, Legal Studies
Teaching Law and American Culture -- David Papke, Indiana School of Law
From Perry Mason to PRIMARY COLORS: Fiction as an Instructional Tool in Legal/Political Studies -- James L. McDowell, Indiana State Univ., Political Science

Session 7 -- 10:45-12:15 -- no equipment required --Lancaster Room
Textuality and the Limits of Language
Chair:John Deely, Univ. of St. Thomas, Philosophy
The Reach of Textuality -- John Deely, Univ. of St. Thomas, Philosophy
Mediated Intimacy -- Matthew Oles, Marburg, Germany
The Uncoded Word -- Vivian Darroch-Lozowski, Univ. of Toronto, Holistic and Aesthetic Education

Session 8 -- 10:45-12:15 -- overhead and screen required --Scranton Room
Semiotic Phenomenology and the Communicative Ethics of Lived Experience: Projects in Pedagogy and Applied Research
Chair and Organizer-- Jacqueline M. Martinez, Purdue Univ., Communication
Phenomenologies of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Study of Communication and Culture -- Jacqueline M. Martinez and Lisa M. Anderson, Purdue Univ. Communicative
Possibilities of Communication Technology: Responsiveness and Responsibility in Television Viewing -- Patricia Corey, Purdue Univ.
Revelatory Perceptions; A Phenomenological Interpretation of Personal Statements in Recognition of the Lived-Body as Finite -- Colette S. Jung, Purdue Univ.
Inner Experience and Multiple Subjectivities: A Semiotic and Phenomenological Study of Difference-Within-and Between -- Claire Alexander, Purdue Univ.

Session 9 -- 10:45-12:15 -- requires sound system to play tape and CD, VCR and monitor -- Philadelphia Room
ALSA Session 2 -- Teaching Legal Studies -- II.
Moderator: Peter D'Errico, Univ. of Massachusetts/Amherst, Legal Studies
Teaching Lawyers and Film, James R. Elkins, West Virginia Univ. College of Law
Technology and Just Alternatives: Rethinking the American Law School, Chris Lynn, Versailles, France
Legal Studies at West Point: Its Place in the Goals of the United States Military Academy Alain C. Balmanno -- US Military Academy

Session 10 (continuation of 4) -- 10:45-12:15 -- requires slide projector and screen -Pittsburgh Room
Phenomenal Outlaws (ctd.) -- Laurence Rickels, Chair and Organizer
Teen Golem -- Laurence A. Rickels, UC Santa Barbara, German
The Irresistible Charm of the Bad Guy -- Catherine Liu, Univ. of Minnesota
Unforgiven -- Peter Krapp, UC Santa Barbara

Session 11 -- 10:45-12:15 -- requires overhead and slide projectors, screen, blackboard, flip chart, flip chart stand, sound system (mike and speaker) -- Erie Room
22nd Annual Symposium of the Special Interest Group for Empirical Semiotics -- Symposium Theme: Advances in Empirical Semiotics
Session Organizer: Charls Pearson, Semiotics Research Institute, Atlanta, Georgia
The Semantic Dimension of the Universal Sign Structure: The Functions of Cognition -- Charls Pearson
The Structure of Symbols -- Thomas Daddesio, Slippery Rock, PA, Semiotic Consultant
The Operational Characteristics of Subduction -- Norman Markel, Univ. of Florida

Session 12 --10:45-12:15 -- no equipment required --Harrisburg Room
Semiotics of Law and Values
Chair -- John Rooney -- Cooley School of Law
The Finite Universe of the Law -- Denis Brion, Washington and Lee Law School
The Homology of Law and Value -- Howard Engelskirchen, Western State College of Law
The Rhetorical Syllogism (Enthymeme) in Judicial Argumentation -- Joao Mauricio Adeodato, Univ. of Recife, Brazil

12:15-2:15 -- LUNCH - DUQUESNE ROOM, DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY --
ROBERT VISCUSI, BROOKLYN COLLEGE, ENGLISH DEPT., AND NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER FOR HIS NOVEL "ASTORIA" WILL SPEAK ON "ENGLISH AS A DIALECT OF ITALIAN." ***IMPORTANT NOTICE: WE WILL START SERVING LUNCH AT 12:30. PLEASE TRY TO COME TO DUQUESNE IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE SESSIONS END AT 12:15 SO WE CAN KEEP ON SCHEDULE. THE TALK WILL START AT APPROXIMATELY 1:15. ***

Session 13 -- 2:30-4:00 -- no equipment required--Lancaster Room
Productions of Legal Meaning -- joint session of American Legal Studies Association and the Semiotic Society of America
Chair and Organizer -- Vivian Curran-- Univ. of Pittsburgh, Law School
Law as a Way of Worldmaking: Creation, Responsibility, Flight -- Douglas E. Litowitz, Kent College of Law, Chicago
The Modernist Devolution of Authority -- Lisa Nelson, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs
Popular Acceptance of the Rule of Law in 19th Century America -- Richard Cole, Western New England Law School

Session 14 -- 2:30 -4:00 -- requires overhead and screen --Scranton Room
Semiotics and History, Part I
Chair and Organizer: William Pencak, Penn State
The Mercies of Early Savannah -- James O'Neil Spady -- College of William and Mary, American Studies
From Colonial Courts to Provincial Courts: the Legislative Restructuring of Pennsylvania's Court System, 1700-1730 -- Christopher N. Fritsch, Univ. of Oxford, History
Implications of the Civic Sphere: Considering Space in 19th Century Leipzig -- Margaret Eleanor Menninger, Penn State /History

Session 15 -- 2:30-4:00 -- requires overhead, screen, and slide projector --Philadelphia Room
Semiotics of the Fetish and Social Identity
Chair: Rebecca Dalvesco, Arizona State Univ., College of Architecture
Fetish-Signs and the Skin Ego: A Psychopragmatic Critique -- Angela Moorjani, Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County
The "La Femnme Automobile" as a Fetish Object: A Semiosic and Psychoanalytic Inquiry -- Rebecca Dalvesco, Arizona State Univ., College of Architecture

Session 16 -- 2:30-4:00 -- requires TV/VCR and slide projector --Pittsburgh Room
Imaging the Other
Chair and Organizer: Elliot Gaines, Ashland Univ., Communications
Imaging the Other: An American Interpreting Signs of India -- Elliot Gaines
Portait of a Woman: Two Perspectives -- Elzbieta Kazmierczak, SUNY Buffalo, and Beth Raps, Florida State Univ.

Session 17 -- 2:30-4:00 -- requires overhead projector, slide projector, screen, blackboard, flip chart, flip chart stand, sound system (mike and speakers)-- Erie Room
The Semiotics of Theology and Religion -- I --
Organized in two sessions by SIG/STAR (Special Interest Group for the Semiotics of Theology and Religion) Chair -- Eugen Baer -- Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Philosophy
The Semiotics of Charles S. Peirce's Theology -- Charls Pearson, Semiotics Research Institute, Atlanta
The Semotics of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's Theology -- Willette Brown, Semiotics Research Institute, Atlanta
The Semiotics of Paul Tillich's Theology -- Henry M. Lee, Semiotics Research Institute, Atlanta

Session 18 -- 2:30-4:00 -- no equipment required -- Harrisburg Room
ALSA Session 3 -- Law Literature and Science Fiction
Moderator: Jeffrey Nesteruk, Franklin and Marshall, Legal Studies/Business Administration
Law and Suspended Disbelief in C. S. Lewis's Space Trilogy: Making Connections, Deborah Luyster, J.D., Ph.D. candidate Kalamazoo College, English
Building a New World in Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy, Garry Wamser, Susquehannah Legal Services
The Laws of Uplift in David Brin's Uplift Trilogies, Bruce L. Rockwood, Bloomsburg Univ.

Session 19 --4:15-5:45-- no equipment required --Lancaster Room
Legal Language and Fictions
Chair -- John Rooney -- Cooley College of Law
Legal Fictions Revisited -- Bill Scott, Glasgow Caledonian Univ., Communications
Microsoft Gobbled Up IBM, of the Language of Legal Fiction -- Gila Safran-Naveh, Univ. of Cincinnati, Jewish Studies
Linguistics, Language, and the Law -- Frank Nuessel, Univ. of Louisville

Session 20 -- 4:15-5:45 -- needs overhead projector and screen--Scranton Room
Semiotics and Poetry
Chair: Brian Dietrich, Newman Univ., English
The Po(e)stmodern Pallas: Edgar Allan Poe's Poetry of Sublime Ruin --Bryan Dietrich
A Cosmology of Differance: Poe's Theory of Everything in "Eureka" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" -- Curtis Shoemaker, Iowa State Univ. Apartness as Universal Trope in the Poems of Albert Goldbarth -- Roger Jackson, Wichita, KS

Session 21 -- 4:15-6:15 -- no equipment needed -- Philadelphia Room
ALSA Session 4 -- Law and Literature: Fiction and Non-Fiction Narratives
Moderator: Bruce Rockwood, Bloomsburg Univ., Business
Law Orpheus Revisited: Rushdie, the Sandman, and Postmodern Monteverdi -- William Pencak, Penn State, History
Kenneth Starr Should Have (Re)-Read MEASURE FOR MEASURE -- Bob Batey, Stetson College of Law: Discussant: Ervene Gulley, Bloomsburg Univ., English
"Truth" and "Justice" in Three Novels About Colonial India -- Richard C. Sterne, Simmons College, English
Victims' Voices -- Ruth Knight Bailey J.D., Johnson City, TN

Session 22 - 4:15-6:15 -- needs slide projector and screen --Pittsburgh Room
Semiotics of the Body
Chair: Tom Craig, Brock Univ., St. Catherine's, Ontario
Re-Construction of Saint Sebastian: From Pierced Body to Friendly Piercer of Bodies -- Nina Corazzo -- Valparaiso Univ.
What Does the Dancer "Dance"?: Self-Reflexivity in "The Red Shoes" -- Melissa Anne Coburn, Purdue Univ., Languages and Literature
Pedagogy and Semiotic Choreology -- Tom Craig and Maureen Connolly, Brock Univ.
"In Our Bodies": The Body and Peircean Semiotics -- Geoffrey Sykes, Univ. of Wollongong, Australia

Session 23 -- 4:15-6:15 -- needs overhead projector, slide projector, screen, blackboard, flip chart, flip chart stand, sound system (mike and speaker) --Erie Room
Semiotics of Theology and Religion --II --
Organized in two sessions by SIG/STAR -- Special Interest Group for Semiotics of Theology and Religion Chair and Organizer: Charls Pearson, Semiotics Research Institute, Atlanta, Georgia
Hermeneutics of Stained Glass Windows -- Claire M. Pearson, Semiotics Research Institute
Semiotic Analysis of the Father of Semiotics -- Eugen Baer, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Sacred Folds and Sacred Intervals: A Unified Field Theory for Religious Semiotics -- Robert Corrington, Drew Univ. School of Theology

Session 24 -- 4:15-5:45 -- no equipment required --Harrisburg Room
Western and East Asian Images of Each Other as "Other"
Chair: Claire Hirshfield, Penn State Abington College, History
From "Elf Land" to "Yellow Peril": Japan as Metaphor in the Victorian World -- Claire Hirshfield
Picturing Obei: Images of Europe and North America in 19th and 20th Century Japan -- Gregory Smits, Penn State/History
Fighting for Semiotic Space: A Semiotic Approach to TV Drama-- Hong Wang, Southern Illinois Univ., Communications

6-8 --- APPROXIMATELY, DINNER ON YOUR OWN **PLEASE TRY TO BE AT THE BALLROOM BY 8 IF YOU WISH TO HEAR THE TALK AND SEE THE PERFORMANCE. WE WILL START BETWEEN 8 AND 8:15.

** 8:00 -- BALLROOM -- DUQUESNE UNIV. -- needs Video, TV Monitor, Overhead, Screen, podium, mike, space for drummers and dancers. LIVING SEMIOSIS: PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS/MULTI-MEDIA PERFORMANCE: FLOYD MERRELL, PURDUE UNIV., LANGUAGES AND LITERATURE Firstness flows with Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, unruly Secondness stutters and stammers by way of Mexican comedian Cantinflas, and Thirdness is highlighted in polyrythmic consonant, dissonant, and resonant cultural processes that fluctuate through the mind of EZLN spokesperson -- that mad faxer Subcommandante Marcos. Dancers, drummers, and visual media will be moderated with a little narrative to give a feel (I hope) for semiosis, alive and flowing.

SATURDAY OCTOBER 30

8:00-9:00 -- Continental Breakfast Outside Meeting Rooms.

Session 25 -- 9-10:30 --no equipment required -- Lancaster Room.
Semiotics of Music -- I
Chair: David Lidov, York Univ., Music
The Phenomenon of Sound in Music -- David Lidov
Toward a Semiotic Approach of the Process of Creating/Constructing Musical Meaning -- Jay CJ Charito Mazzarella -- Univ. of Hamburg, Music
Music as Action: Techno and the Perception of Agency -- Mark Butler, Indiana Univ., Music

Session 26 -- 9-10:30 -- overhead and screen required --Scranton Room
Semiotics, Politics, and Language
Chair: Rodney Hopson, Duquesne Univ., Dept. of Education and Psychology
The Phenomenon of Official Language in the United States: A Sign of Things to Come -- Rodney Hopson
Semiosic Processes in Interethnic Communication: The Transduction of Semantic Content -- Francesca Trusso -- Univ. of Rome "La Sapienza", English Studies
The Geo-Socio Linguistics of Haitian Creole: The Diaspora -- Benjamin Hebblethwaite -- Indiana Univ., Languages and Literature

Session 27 --9:00-10:30 -- overhead projector and screen --Philadelphia Room
Semiotics and Psychology
Chair: Natalie Isser -- Penn State Abington College, History
Abortion and Semiotics -- Natalie Isser and Lita L. Schwartz, Penn State Abington, Psychology
The Feminist and Contemplative Traditions -- Brooke Williams, Houston, TX
Peirce and Freud on the Unconsious Mind and Self -- Joseph Brent, Univ. of the District of Columbia
Psychosemiosis: Part of the "Phenomenon" -- Howard A. Smith, Queen's Univ., Kingston, Ontario

Session 28 -- 9:00-10:30 -- slide projector, overhead, screen -- Pittsburgh Room
Trickster Session -- I --
Chair and Organizer: Bill Spinks, Trinity Univ., English
Narrative Tricks and Wordsworth's Cottage: Scott Simpkins, Univ. of North Texas, English
"Le Trickster, C'est moi": Frank Kersnowski, Trinity Univ. English
The Adventures of a Postmodern Fool -- Inna Semetsky, Teachers College, Columbia Univ.

Session 29 -- 9:00-10: 30 -- needs slide projector and screen -- Erie Room
ALSA Session 5 -- Law and Culture in Global Context
Moderator: Wythe Holt, Univ. of Alabama, Law
Legalities of Love: Poetry, Prejudice and Sexuality in Law -- Sandra Petersson, Victoria Univ., Wellington NZ
Ritual and Folk Law: The Turkish Community in Holland -- Wibo M. van Rossum, Univ. of Amsterdam, Sociology and Anthropology of Law
Literature and the Four Schools of Islamic Law -- M. A. R. Habib, Rutgers Univ., Camden, English

Session 30 --9:00 -10:30 -- no equipment -- Harrisburg Room.
The Re-Writing of America: Rhetoric and Semiotics in Symbiosis
Organizer -- Marisa Olson, UC Berkeley, Rhetoric
Chair and Respondent: Richard Doyle, Penn State,English
The Scientific and Religious Rhetoric of the Trinity Rest -- David J. Tietge, Long Island Univ.
Digital Story-Telling and the Preservation of Pathos -- Marisa S. Olson
Semiotics: A Window to the Rhetoricity of Museum "Texts"-- Billie S. Jones, Pennsylvania College of Technology, English

Session 31 -- 10:45-12:15 -- no equipment required --Lancaster Room
Symbolic Representations of the Law
Chair and Organizer: Vivian Curran, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Law
Roberta Kevelson, Bernard Jackson, and Peircean Legal Semiotic -- Geoffrey Sykes, Univ. of Wollongong, Australia
Law Makers at Work: The Written Representation of Verbal Interaction in Costa Rican Congressional Committee Hearings -- Susan Berk-Seligson and Jorge Porcel -- Univ. of Pittsburgh, Hispanic Languages and Literatures
The West Digest Systen and the Limits of Interpretation -- Lisa Nelson, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs

Session 32 -- 10:45-12: 15 -- overhead and screen required -- Scranton Room
The Semiotics of Scholarship.
Chair: Richard Lanigan, Speech Communications, Southern Illinois Univ.
Applied Creatvitiy in PR and R&D: Peirce on Synechism and Gordon on Synectics -- Richard Lanigan
The Signifying Tale: SSA in Words and Numbers -- Norma Procopiow -- Univ. of Maryland, English
Semiotic Analysis of Conference-Going Behavior -- Kuk Lee, Indiana Univ.

Session 33 -- 10: 45-12: 15 -- needs flat tables 6 feet by 2-1/2 feet, two people per table; carousel projectors; slide projector and screen; video monitor; stereo RCA a/v jacks for 8 mm. camera/player. -- Philadelphia Room
Semiotics of Visual Languages.
Chair: Steven Skaggs, Univ. of Louisville, Art and Design
Jazzwriting: Improvisational Painting of Language -- Steven Skaggs
The Idea of Festival: Dead Trees and the Manufacture of Meaning -- Sid Hetzler, Atlanta, Georgia
A Participation-Lecture-Demonstration: How to Design a Private Visual Language -- Edward Stanton, Stanford Univ.

Session 34 --10: 45-12: 15 -- needs VCR, slide projector, overhead. Pittsburgh Room.
Trickster II --
Chair and Organizer: Bill Spinks, Trinity Univ.
The President's Word: Tricksterism and the Semiotic of "Iran Contra" -- Alan Harris, California State Univ., Northridge, Communications
Ireland as Trickster: A Key to Understanding Borders in Memory -- Alice Hughes Kersnowski -- St. Mary's Univ., English
Discussant: Myrdene Anderson -- Purdue Univ., Anthropology, Y2K as Trickster

Session 35 -- 10:45-12: 15 -- needs two slide projectors, two screens (or one large screen). Erie Room
Semiotics History II
Chair and Organizer: Ric Caric, Morehead State Univ., Government and History
Challenging Gender Symbols: Appearance and the Creation of Masculinity and Feminity -- Gayle Fischer, Salem State College, History
Oath-Taking and Political Rights of Catholics in the Eighteenth-Cetury British Empire -- Geoffrey Plank, Univ. of Cincinnati, History
From Ordered Buckets to Honored Felons: Fire Companies and Cultural Transformation in Philadelphia, 1785-1850 -- Ric Caric

Session 36 -- 10: 45-12: 15 -- Harrisburg Room.
ALSA Session 6 -- Computers, Language, and Legalisms
Moderator: Gene Bailey, E. Tennessee State Univ. Computer Science Dept.
The Language of Y2K on the Internet --Karen Taylor, Temple Univ., Rhetoric of Science and Technology
T he Response of Computer Science Students to Legislation, Litigation, Legalisms -- Gene Bailey

SSA-- LUNCH 12: 15-2:15-- Duquesne Room, Duquesne Univ.

KEYNOTE ADDRESS -- PETER MCLAREN -- DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY, UCLA. Epistemologies and Politics of Whiteness. ** PLEASE COME TO DUQUESNE PROMPTLY AFTER THE 12: 15 SESSIONS AS LUNCH WILL BE SERVED AT 12:30 AND THE TALK WILL BEGIN AT APPROXIMATELY 1:15.

ALSA -- LUNCH 12: 15-2: 15 -- please pick up lunch in Duquesne Room and then take elevator to luncheon room 613. Coffee and water will be available in 613.
Assault on the New Deal Moderator: Bruce Rockwood -- Bloomsburg Univ., Business Law Decisions on federalism, takings, the scope of the commerce clause, and the American Trucking v. EPA Appeals Court decision resurrecting the Non-Delegation Doctrine shows a decidedly right-wing trend that threatens the welfare of most reisdents of the United States. Faced with the possibility of a Republican President reinforcing this trend with several new appointments after 2000, are we ushering in a new millennium in jurisprudence, or resurrecting obsolete 19th-century doctrines in the interests of the wealthy and powerful? How can these cases be limited, distinguised, or opposed? This will be a brainstorming sessions for a possible future symposium in the Legal Studies Forum.

Session 37 -- 2:30-4:00 -- no equipment needed. Lancaster Room
Semiotics at the University of Tver, Russia.
Semiotics Flat-Bottomed, Flat-landed, Flattish: Semiotics Multi-dimensional -- Prof. G. Bogin
Semiotic Trends in Education and Psychotherapy : The Results of Bibliotherapy by Classical Fiction Texts -- Alexander Bouchev.

Session 38 -- 2:30-4:00 -- overhead and screen required. Scranton Room
Semiotics of Literature
Chair: James J. Liszka, Univ. of Alasaka, Anchorage
The Phenomena of Semiotics and Phenomenon of Semiotics: What Happened in Literary Theory -- Willis Salomon, Trinity Univ., English
Visible and Invisible: Perception and Introspecton in The ISLAND OF THE DAY BEFORE-- Cristina Farronato, Univ. of California, San Diego, Comparative Literature
A Palette Theory of Narrative: -- James J. Liszka

Session 39 -- 2:30-4:00 -- needs half inch video machine, tv, monitor, overhead projector and screen Philadelphia Room
Film I
Chair: Alain J. J. Cohen, Univ. of California, San Diego, Comparative Literature
Conceiving a Film Biograpny of C. S. Peirce -- Joseph Brent, Univ. of the District of Columbia
Peirce and Metz on the Phenomenon of Cinema -- Alain J. J. Cohen
Legends in Our Own Time: How Consumers Use Motion Pictures and Televisions Shows to Fulfill the Functions of Myth -- Elizabeth Hirschmann, Rutgers Univ.

Sessions 40, 46, and 47 -- 2:30-6:00 -- needs TV, VCR, slide projector and screen -- Pittsburgh Room
Tricskter Sessions 3, 4, 5 will run together. see Session 46 and 47 for other papers
Chair and Organizer: Bill Spinks, Trinity Univ.
Bound in Time -- Terry Stocker, Pensacola, FL.
The Trickster and Time -- Linda Rogers, Kent State Univ., Educational Foundations
Semiotrix -- Richard Carp, Appalachian State Univ., Art.

Session 41 -- 2:30-4:00 -- slide projector and screen needed. -- Erie Room
ALSA Session 7 -- Law and Technology.
Moderator: Timothy Hoff, Univ. of Alabama, Law School
Coming to our Senses: Describing Law Through Technology, Bernard Hibbitts, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Law School
Copyright Issues on Multimedia Content for Online Distance Education -- Hasina Haque and Wye-Keen Khong, Univ. Multimedia Telecom, Cyberjaya, Malaysia, Cyberlaw Center

Session 42 -- 2:30-4:00-- overhead projector and screen needed Harrisburg Room
Semiotics and Linguistics
Chair: Jackson G. Barry, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, English
Syntax as Sign: A Phenomenology of Syntactic Experience -- Jackson G. Barry
Rediscovering Wilfrid Sellars' Dot Quotes: Substitutivity, Allophonic Equivalence, and the Normativity of 'Ph' being a *P* -- Reese M. Heitner, City Univ. of NY, Philosophy
Basi Nobel -- Milan Randic -- Univ. of Minnesota/Duluth, Center for Water and the Environment

Session 43 -- 4:15-5: 45 -- needs overhead and screen -- Lancaster Room
Charles Sanders Peirce.
Chair -- Vincent Colapietro, Penn State, Philosophy
Phenomenon vs. Sign, Appearance vs. Representation -- Andre de Tienne, Peirce Papers Project
To the Signs Themsleves: Semiosis, Community, Agency -- Vincent Colapietro
Peirce's New Rhetoric -- James J. Liszka -- Univ. of Alaska, Anchorage

Session 44 -- 4:15-5: 45 -- needs overhead and screen -- Scranton Room
Semiotics in Modern History
Chair: George Enteen, History, Penn State
Dehumanizing "Others": Soviet Images of of Possible Allies and Enemies -- Alexander Krivonosov, Penn State/History
Privacy, Obscenity, and the Social History of the Telephone -- David K.B. Zeeman, The Crefeld School
The Role of the Advertising Image in the Darwinian Economy of the Sign -- Marisa Olson, UC Berkeley, Rhetoric

Session 45 --4:15-5:45 needs overhead, VCR, monitor, screen -- Philadelphia Room Film II Chair: Alain J. J. Cohen, Univ. of California, San Diego, Comparative Literature Earthscore, Deleuze, and Peirce -- Paul Ryan, New School for Social Research, Media Studies Cinematic Representations of the Scotch-Irish -- Elizabeth Hirschmann, Rutgers Univ. Kurtz's Face: A Passing Signifier in APOCALYPSE NOW -- Douglas Bennett, Penn State, History Discussion of Film Sessions I and II: If time -- Alain J. J. Cohen, moderator

Sessions 46 and 47 -- 3:45 -6:00 -- needs overhead, VCR, slide projector, screen --Pittsburgh Room
Trickster 4 and 5
Chair and Organizer: Bill Spinks, Trinity Univ., English
Semi-Reflection on Types of Synesthesia -- Sean Day, Univ. of Taiwan, English
Plane Talk: The Pilot as Trickster -- Nancy Stockall, Univ. of Arkansas, Curriculum and Instruction
The Female Trickster -- called Trickstar -- in Folk Narratives -- Marilyn Jurich, Suffolk Univ., English
Female Trouble -- Christina Olson Spiesel, New Haven, CT
Discussion of Trickster Sessions: Terry Prewitt, Univ. of West Florida, Anthropology; Elzbieta Kazmierczak, SUNY Buffalo, Art

Session 48 -- 4:15-5:45 -- needs overhead, screen, and slide projector -- Erie Room
Semiotics and Education.
Chair -- Patricia Burdell, Kent State Univ., Education
Geographies of Resentment and Redemption: White Preservice Teachers in Black Spaces -- Patricia Burdell, Kent State Univ. and Gregory Martin, UCLA
Using Semiotics to Survive: Climate Change and Design Education -- Jean Gardner -- Parsons School of Design, Architecture
The Evolution of a Sign: What a Study on Textual Processing Suggests -- John Henning, Kent State Univ.

Session 49 -- 4:15-5:00 -- Harrisburg Room
ALSA Section 8 -- A Demonstration of JURIST: A Legal-Education Web-Site by its Creator, Bernard Hibbits , Univ. of Pittsburgh, Law School

Session 50 -- 5: 15-6:00 -- no needs. Harrisburg Room
ALSA Section 9 --The Law, South Africans, and African Americans
Moderator: M. A. R. Habib, Rutgers Univ./Camden, English
Bigger Thomas and O.J. Simpson: The Race Card in American Law and Literature -- Steven A.Agbaw, Bloomsburg Univ., English
Affirming Standards of Subjugating the Self: Reading Law and Identities in South Africa -- Sunday Oladokun Ogunronbi, Vista Univ., South Africa

6-8: DINNER ON YOUR OWN. **PLEASE RETURN FROM DINNER AND BE AT DUQUESNE BY 8:00. THE MEMORIAL PERFORMANCE SHOULD START AT ABOUT THAT TIME.

*8 8:00 Semiotics Society Memorial Performance in Honor of Roberta Kevelson, Tom Puckett, and Naomi Cumming -- Ballroom, Duquesne University needs piano
Introduction: William Pencak, Penn State/History
"When Lilacs Last in the Doorway Bloomed" (Walt Whitman) -- Alexandra and Roger Pierce, Univ. of Redlands, Music
"Triptych," Composition by David Lidov, York Univ., Music
"Lament" William Dougherty, Drake Univ., Music 8:00

ALSA discussion -- meet in vicinity of conference rooms in Ramada Hotel -- location TBA.

SUNDAY -- OCTOBER 31

7:30 --9:00 Business Meeting, Semiotic Society of America Pittsburgh Room

Continental Breakfast 8-9.

Session 51-- 9:00-10:30 -- -- no equipment. -- Lancaster Room
Music II -- Discussion of Performances from Saturday night.
Moderator -- David Lidov, York Univ.,Music

Session 52 -- 9:00 -10:30 -- no equipment Scranton Room
Semiotics of Friendship I
Chair and Organizer: Linda Rogers, Kent State Univ., Education
The Semiotics of Friendship, Marcel Danesi, Univ. of Toronto
The Adams-Jefferson Friendship and the Survival of the American Republic -- William Pencak, Penn State/History
Friendship=Agreements in Vagueness: Thoughts on Semiotics and Martinis Linda Rogers, Kent State Univ

Session 53 -- 9:00 -10:30 -- no equipment -- Philadelphia Room
Semiotics of Morality and Philosophy
Chair: Donald Cunningham, Indiana Univ., Center for Applied Semiotics
G. E. Moore's Reply to Collingwood -- Anthony Russell (deceased), Loras College, read by John Deely, Univ. of St. Thomas
Semiotics as an Imaginary Guide to the Making of the Moral Self -- Julie Rea and Donald Cunningham, Indiana Univ., Center for Applied Semiotics Neo-Pragmatism and Liberalism: The Politics of Post-Peircean Revisionism -- Horace Fairlamb, Univ. of Houston-Victoria, Arts and Sciences

Session 54 -- 10:45-12: 15 -- Lancaster Room
Music III
Chair and Organizer: David Lidov, York Univ., Music
The Power that Transports: Settings of Mignon's Requiem -- William P. Doughtery, Drake Univ.
Using the Pastorale Toward a Feminist Reading of LE NOZZE DI FIGARO -- Rebecca Cordes, Drake Univ.
Toward a Field Theory of Music Semiosis -- Victor A. Grauer, Pittsburgh, PA

Session 55 -- 10:45-12:15 --no equipment -- Scranton Room
Friendship II
Chair and Organizer: Linda Rogers, Kent State Univ., Educational Psychology
Side by Side of Facing one Another? Sustaining Friendships and the Professional Identity of New Teachers, Patricia Burdell, Kent State Univ.
Mentoring as Friendship: Co-operative Communication as Support -- Francois Victor Tochon, Univ. of Sherbrooke, Montreal
Adolescents and Friendship -- John Rausch, Univ. of Oklahoma

Session 56 -- 10: 45-12: 15 -- no equipment -- Philadelphia Room
Semiotics and Science
Chair and Organizer -- Stanley Salthe, SUNY Binghamton
Semiosis Across Levels of Scale -- Stanley Salthe
Abduction, Models and Scientific Explanations -- Horace Fairlamb, Univ. of Houston -- Victoria
The Natural Semiotic World -- Edwina Taborsky , Univ. of Toronto
Science and the European Commission: Semiosis of Genetics as "The Only Valid Model", Paul Gerome, Paris, France
Discussant: Myrdene Anderson, Purdue Univ., Anthropology .