by Eero Tarasti Nizami Ganjavi International Center organized in Baku the VI Global Baku Forum “Bridging Gaps to Create Inclusive Societies” event. It gathered about one hundred former and present Heads of States and ministers from diverse countries. Greetings from the Pope , Presidents of Italy, U.K. and several prime ministers as well as […]
Read more congress report: Azerbaidjan should be known by its cultureACADEMY OF CULTURAL HERITAGES / ACADÉMIE DES HERITAGES CULTURELS / Ακαδημία της Πολιτισμικής Κληρονομιάς/ KULTTUURIPERINTÖJEN AKATEMIA.
Cultural heritage
Cultural heritage is understood here both in its material and immaterial aspects, yet not only in the anthropological sense. Culture means here also the goal toward which man is aspiring, as in the Greek "Paideia". The term cultural heritage stems from this connection, but for the new Academy of Cultural Heritages, which has now been founded, it assumes a broader meaning. The purpose of the Academy is namely to foster particularly the roots of European culture starting from its beginning, the Greek ‘miracle’, i.e. the birth of philosophical culture around Plato and Aristotle, and, as its continuation, the heritage of Hellenism in Rome – without excluding non-European traditions, manifest f.ex. in the Persian and Arabic influence upon European culture. From this starting point the Academy tries to keep alive central canonic issues of European culture in philosophy, arts and culture in general.
Education
The Academy thus has two aspects: old and new. Its goal is remembering, restoring and maintaining cultural phenomena, behaviors, texts and values which are endangered by the globalized commercial market civilization expanded all over the world, or by other threats. Yet it is new in the way it realizes this goal by animating these traditions through an intellectual experience and new teaching methods in its seminars. It thus aims to become a more efficient form of education than what is often offered in more formalized institutional academic environments, particularly at a time when official policies are interested only in the direct utilization and economic profit to be made from science and art (“science must make money”).
The Academy will publish its findings i.e. proceedings from the seminars in the international series Acta semiotica fennica. Moreover it aims for giving some small grants per year to young scholars promoting its research programme.
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Apr, 25
report: German philosophy as cultural heritage
What is Historical Ontology? Report on a Symposium in the University of Heidelberg, Feb. 16-17, 2018. by Eero Tarasti Introductory notes Some years ago the Finnish philosopher and docent at Universities of Heidelberg and Helsinki Jan-Ivar Lindén has founded a Center for historical ontology which obviously has its emphasis in Germany. The idea is […]
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Apr, 25Apr, 25
Semiotic Theory of Learning – new book coming in May 2018
Semiotic Theory of Learning : New Perspectives in the Philosophy of Education By Andrew Stables, University of Roehampton, UK, Winfried Nöth, University of Kassel, Germany, Alin Olteanu, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania, Sébastien Pesce, Université de Tours, France and Eetu Pikkarainen, University of Oulu, Finland Semiotic Theory of Learning asks what learning is and what brings it about, challenging the […]
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Apr, 25
Semiotic Theory of Learning – new book coming in May 2018
Semiotic Theory of Learning : New Perspectives in the Philosophy of Education By Andrew Stables, University of Roehampton, UK, Winfried Nöth, University of Kassel, Germany, Alin Olteanu, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania, Sébastien Pesce, Université de Tours, France and Eetu Pikkarainen, University of Oulu, Finland Semiotic Theory of Learning asks what learning is and what […]
Read more Semiotic Theory of Learning – new book coming in May 2018Feb, 5Cooperation starts with The University of Western Macedonia
The University of Western Macedonia and the Academy of Cultural Heritages have signed an agreement of cooperation. The parties will develop academic cooperation in the fields of education, research and other areas of mutual interest. The cooperation will be realized on the basis of reciprocal exchange of faculty members, assistants and students, as well as through […]
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Jan, 22
article: Paolo Fabbri, Invention of tradition, on cultural heritages and tourism
A report by Eero Tarasti of Fabbri’s speech held at Séminaire international de sémiotique à Paris, Jan 11, 2018 That tradition can be something invented and not just herited, was the message of the Italian semiotician Paolo Fabbri. One often quoted source is the book about imagined nationalities by Benedict Anderson which has now, as […]
Read more article: Paolo Fabbri, Invention of tradition, on cultural heritages and tourismJan, 22article: A Truly Semiotic Understanding of Cultural „Heritage”
7-10th May 2015 Istanbul conference „Semiotics of Cultural Heritages from Authenticity to Informatics” by Vilmos Voigt (Budapest, Hungary) Voici ce que dit un auteur arabe du XVIe siècle: ”J’ai entendu Sidi Ali Al Kawwaç dire que l’audition de la musique avait une grande influence sur la perception des réalités mystiques. Dieu a donné à […]
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Jan, 21
article: CULTURAL HERITAGE: TRAPS AND DRAMATIC CHOICES
by Solomon Marcus Simion Stoilow Institute of Mathematics Romanian Academy A very stimulating challenge I find very stimulating the challenge addressed to us by Professor Eero Tarasti, related to the Semiotics of Cultural Heritage. The accent on selection involves a critical attitude towards the increasing amount of works of all kinds, which have to face […]
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