Barthes’s Relevance Today
An International Symposium
University of Helsinki, December 13, 2007
Metsätalo building, lecture hall 4
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
Organized by the semiotics programme at the University of Helsinki