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Laboratory for Semiotics, Ethnosemiotics, Nonfictional Studies and Audiovisuality (SENSA Lab)

The Laboratory for Semiotics, Ethnosemiotics, Nonfictional Studies and Audiovisuality (SENSA Lab) intends to promote the comparative study of signification and communication across cultures and societies, through the analysis of social interaction, film, nonfictional media, and audiovisual texts, as produced in different domains of everyday life. The SENSA Lab aims at bringing together research on semiotics, nonfictional studies and ethnographic methods, producing innovative insights from the mutual dialogue and methodological interface between film and screen media studies, anthropology and the social sciences. In order to foster productive collaborations across disciplines, the Lab thus intends to gather researchers from these fields, both in Ireland and internationally. 

More specifically, some of the main research areas promoted by the Lab include visual anthropology, material semiotics and STS (Science and Technology Studies), linguistic anthropology, as well as experimental documentary and ethnographic and auto-ethnographic filmmaking.

As argued by Paul Ric艙ur in The Rule of Metaphor (1977), 鈥溾�榮ensa鈥� are, essentially, the ebb and flow of images allowed to be by the 别辫辞肠丑茅 of the referential relation鈥�, while 鈥渟ense鈥� designates in semiotics the phenomenological quality of meaning as linked to perception, movement and direction (Greimas 1990). Within the SENSA Lab, we wish therefore to emphasise our commitment to follow this 鈥渆bb and flow of images鈥�, as well as to study meaning as an 鈥渙riented process of actualisation鈥�: a movement across a research pathway characterised by constant perceptive engagement with the world around us 鈥� without losing a certain sense of direction and purpose in trying to make sense of it.

By opening the first laboratory for semiotics in Ireland, we intend to catalyse this expanding field of research, creating a leading institute and international nexus for current semiotic debates on cinema, nonfictional studies, ethnographic methods and social theory. Our objectives are: to foster international research networks inside and outside Europe; to bring together for the first time scholars working on semiotics, social interaction, film theory, audiovisual culture and anthropology in Ireland; to establish an innovative platform for interdisciplinary collaborations between visual, nonfictional and social studies; to encourage PhD students and early-career scholars to work on new avenues of inquiry, dealing with ethnosemiotics, film and media studies, and anthropological theory.

We understand the four domains associated with SENSA Lab as open fields of inquiry, described in the following way:

Semiotics, as the study of signification and communication strategies through the analysis of verbal and nonverbal languages, texts and discourses. Whether we follow Ferdinand de Saussure鈥檚 classical semiology, Charles S. Peirce鈥檚 triadic definition of semiosis, Paris School鈥檚 actantial and generative semiotics, Juri Lotman鈥檚 cultural semiotics 鈥� or one of the innumerable adaptations and further developments adopted in anthropology, film and media studies, visual culture, philosophy, narrative and social theory 鈥� we remain committed to the concrete analysis of how verbal and nonverbal signs, texts, languages and discourses operate as active forces which shape ourselves and the world around us;

Ethnosemiotics, understood as a vast area of inquiry connecting semiotics and anthropology, through the ethnographic analysis of social interaction. Once defined as 鈥渁 meeting place between anthropologists and semioticians鈥�, for the analysis of 鈥渟ocial languages鈥�, 鈥渆thno-taxonomies鈥�, 鈥渆thno-literary discourse鈥�, and 鈥渟ignifying behaviour鈥� like 鈥渞ituals and ceremonies鈥� (Greimas and Court茅s 1982), ethnosemiotics could be considered as the ethnographic study of the way human and nonhuman relational fields, courses of action, affective stances and subjectivities are shaped and negotiated using verbal and nonverbal interaction and modes of communication (including space, bodily postures, materiality, sound, media, etc.);

Nonfictional Studies, seen as the study of documentary cinema now expanded and modified by filmic work that increasingly pushes the boundaries of generic conventions and mainstream formats, that no longer identifies with the myth of documentary and scientific objectivity but acknowledges the situated, subjective, connoted position from which a film looks at the world. Nonfictional Studies then cover today the wide sphere of a cinema of research 鈥� exploratory, artistic, hybrid, essayistic, critical, collaborative, interactive, polyphonic, experimentally ethnographic and auto-ethnographic 颅颅颅鈥� that engages with the real and with form, signification, and communication always in a self-reflexive way;

Audiovisuality, as the post-filmic domain of audiovisual texts that overflow from cinema and TV screens to invade all other spaces and the recombinant technologies of today 鈥� from art galleries and exhibition sites to the internet and computers, from mobile screens to VR headsets. 

SENSA Lab interfaces with the Future Humanities Institute and its Arts Research & Practice Cluster, the MA Anthropology programme, UCC and with CARPE 鈥� Centre for Arts Research and Practice of the School of Film, Music & Theatre.

Please contact any of our co-directors to get involved:
Co-directors:  (Study of Religions),  (Film and Screen Media). 

Advisory Board:  (Music),  (Film and Screen Media),  (Study of Religions),  (Sociology),  (Philosophy),  (Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies).

The Semiotics, Anthropology and Social Theory Forum is a permanent forum and international network hosted by SENSA Lab, in which scholars from different disciplines periodically gather to discuss works from semiotics, social and linguistic anthropology, Science and Technology Studies, linguistics and media studies, trying to bridge the gap between different semiotic traditions and schools. For information, please contact the convenor Tatsuma Padoan.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Call for Papers, E/C Journal of Semiotics - Rivista dell'Associazione Italiana di Studi Semiotici:

In the Sign of Deleuze: For a Semiotics in Becoming, edited by Giuditta Bassano (LUMSA 深夜亚洲福利久久, Rome), Federico Montanari (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Modena and Reggio Emilia), and Tatsuma Padoan (深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork).

SENSA publications are available for our Publications Page.

EVENTS

Tuesday 24 March 2026, 4.00鈥�6.00 p.m., Film & Screen Media Auditorium, Kane Building B10B

Roundtable with director Chitrangada Choudhury (online), contemporary Irish artist Rachel Doolin, Susannah Chapman (Sociology), Lidia Guzy (MEWSC / Study of Religions), and Laura Rascaroli (SENSA Lab / Film and Screen Media) - chaired by Tatsuma Padoan (SENSA Lab / Study of Religions)

Film Screening and Roundtable of 'Seed Stories' (Chitrangada Choudhury, 2024, 42')

 

Tuesday 10 March 2026, 3.00鈥�5.00 p.m., Film & Screen Media Auditorium, Kane Building B10B

Prof. Mattijs van de Port (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Amsterdam)

Film Screening and Discussion of Where Can I Get Lost_ (Mattijs van de Port, 2024, 70')

 

Tuesday 1 April 2025, 4.00鈥�6.00 p.m., Film & Screen Media Auditorium, Kane Building B10B

Dr Romana Turina (Arts 深夜亚洲福利久久 Bournemouth)

Film Screening and Discussion of Three Sisters in a Sketchbook (Romana Turina, 2024, 45')

 

Tuesday 25 March 2025, 4.00鈥�6.00 p.m., Film & Screen Media Auditorium, Kane Building B10B

Dr Carlos Garrido Castellano (UCC)

鈥�Carnival Sonics and the Carnivalisation of Political Horizons鈥�

 

Friday 28 February 2025, 2.00鈥�6.00 p.m., UCC Centre for Executive Education (Old Savings Bank), 1 Lapp鈥檚 Quay, Cork, T12VF82

Ethnographic Film Screenings, Cork Anthropology Day

Short ethnographic films produced by students in Anthropology and Film&Screen Media at UCC

 

Wednesday 15 January 2025, 4.00颅鈥�7.30 p.m., Granary Theatre, UCC

Future Humanities Institute event: "Methodologies that Motivate"

Presentation of Seed-Funded Pilot Project , with Tatsuma Padoan (UCC), Griffith Rollefson (UCC), and Dan O'Connell (UCC).

Sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and the Future Humanities Institute

 

Wednesday 25 September 2024, 5.00颅鈥�7.00 p.m., West Wing, WW6

Dr Paolo Sorrentino (IULM 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Milan)

Rebrewing the Social - How Beer Brands Design Political Identities

 

Tuesday 11 June - Friday 14 June 2024, SENSA Lab, 深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork

International Workshop "Aesthetic Communication: The Role of Senses in Social Interaction, Across and Beyond the Human"

with Tatsuma Padoan (UCC), Laura Rascaroli (UCC), Nicholas Harkness (Harvard), Constantine Nakassis (Chicago), Griffith Rollefson (UCC), Jamin Pelkey (Toronto Metropolitan 深夜亚洲福利久久), Franciscu Sedda (Cagliari), John Leavitt (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Montr茅al), Steve Coleman (Maynooth 深夜亚洲福利久久), Di Wu (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Oxford), Alex Oehler (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Regina), Marilena Frisone (UCC), Dan O'Connell (UCC), Alvise Mattozzi (Polytechnic 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Turin), Federico Montanari (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Modena and Reggio Emilia), Lijing Peng (TCD)
Sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and the Future Humanities Institute
(Gr. CONF-938 project, P.I.: Dr Tatsuma Padoan)

Wenner-Gren Workshop at UCC SENSA Lab 11-14 June 2024

 

Friday 7 June 2024, 5.00鈥�7.00 p.m., online seminar

Discussion on "Voice, Music, and the Quality of Signs", based on selected readings - chaired by Nicholas Harkness (Harvard 深夜亚洲福利久久) and Steve Coleman (Maynooth 深夜亚洲福利久久), and hosted by the Semiotics, Anthropology and Social Theory Forum.

 

Friday 24 May 2024, 5.00鈥�7.00 p.m., online seminar

Discussion on "The Politics of Sensory Engagement in Film Semiotics", based on selected readings - chaired by Constantine Nakassis (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Chicago) and Laura Rascaroli (深夜亚洲福利久久 College Cork), and hosted by the Semiotics, Anthropology and Social Theory Forum.

 

Friday 12 April 2024, 5.00鈥�7.00 p.m., online seminar

Discussion on "Literature, Sensual Tropes, and Ritual Language", based on selected readings - chaired by John Leavitt (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Montr茅al) and Lijing Peng (Trinity College Dublin), and hosted by the Semiotics, Anthropology and Social Theory Forum.

 

Tuesday 9 April 2024, 2.00颅鈥�4.00 p.m., Western Gate Building, WGB 4.02

Dr Francesco Mangiapane (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Palermo)

鈥�A Semiotic Perspective on Cinema and Food鈥�&苍产蝉辫;

 

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 3.00鈥�4.30 p.m., West Wing, WW 09

Dr Minna Valjakka (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Helsinki)

鈥�Urban Encounters -- Renegotiating Memoryscapes in East and Southeast Asia

Respondent: Dr Tatsuma Padoan (UCC).
Sponsored by ARTFICTIONS (IRC project, P.I.: Dr Carlos Garrido Castellano)

 

Tuesday 5 March 2024, 2.00颅鈥�4.00 p.m., Western Gate Buiding, WGB 4.05

Prof Francesco Marsciani (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Bologna)

"Spaces of Interaction -- Gazes between Humans and Non-Humans

 

Friday 1 March 2024, 5.00鈥�7.00 p.m., online seminar

Discussion on "The Ecology of Body and Perception in Technology and More-than-Human Relations", based on selected readings - chaired by Alex Oehler (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Regina) and Alvise Mattozzi (Polytechnic 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Turin), and hosted by the Semiotics, Anthropology and Social Theory Forum.

 

Friday 2 February 2024, 5.00鈥�7.00 p.m., online seminar

Discussion on "Affect, Aesthesis, and the Semiotics of Passions", based on selected readings - chaired by Tatsuma Padoan (UCC) and Di Wu (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Oxford), and hosted by the Semiotics, Anthropology and Social Theory Forum.

 

Thursday 30 November 2023, 5.00鈥�7.00 p.m., online seminar

Discussion of selected chapters (Chapter 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8) from Valentine Daniel's Fluid Signs: Being a Person the Tamil Way (深夜亚洲福利久久 of California Press, 1984), hosted by the Semiotics, Anthropology and Social Theory Forum.

 

Friday 3 November 2023, 7.30鈥�9.30 p.m., online seminar

Discussion of selected chapters (Chapter 1, 2, and 3) from Valentine Daniel's Fluid Signs: Being a Person the Tamil Way (深夜亚洲福利久久 of California Press, 1984), hosted by the Semiotics, Anthropology and Social Theory Forum.

 

Monday 16 October - Friday 20 October 2023, The 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Cagliari, Sa Manifattura Building, room 4

Autumn School "Language, Culture, and Media: New Semiotic Approaches for the Study of Communication"

with Tatsuma Padoan (UCC), Anna Viola Sborgi (UCC), Franciscu Sedda (Cagliari), Constantine Nakassis (Chicago), Francesco Casetti (Yale), Eva Kimminich (Potsdam), Marie Schroer (Potsdam), Maria Giulia Dondero (Liege), Paolo Demuru (UPM, Sao Paulo)

Erasmus BIP Summer School Programme

 

Friday 6 October 2023, 7.30鈥�9.30 p.m., online event

Professor Frederik Stjernfelt (Aalborg 深夜亚洲福利久久 Copenhagen)

Discussion of selected readings with the author, hosted by the Semiotics, Anthropology and Social Theory Forum

 

Friday 2 June 2023, 3.00鈥�5.00 p.m., online seminar

Discussion on "Chiasmus, language and culture", based on selected readings - with Jamin Pelkey (Toronto Metropolitan 深夜亚洲福利久久), John Leavitt (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Montr茅al), Steve Coleman (Maynooth 深夜亚洲福利久久), Di Wu (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Oxford), Alex Oehler (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Regina), Yazan Doughan (LSE), Franciscu Sedda (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Cagliari), Fred Cummins (UCD), Alvise Mattozzi (Polytechnic 深夜亚洲福利久久 of Turin), Sally Ness (深夜亚洲福利久久 of California, Riverside), Federico Montanari (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Modena and Reggio Emilia), Lijing Peng (TCD), and Tatsuma Padoan (UCC), hosted by the Semiotics, Anthropology and Social Theory Forum.

 

Friday 5 May 2023, 3.00鈥�5.00 p.m., online seminar

Discussion of selected chapters (Chapter 7, 8, and Conclusion) from Boris Wiseman's L茅vi-Strauss, Anthropology and Aesthetics (Cambridge UP, 2007), hosted by the Semiotics, Anthropology and Social Theory Forum.

 

Monday 24 April 2023, 5.00鈥�7.00 p.m., Film & Screen Media Auditorium, Kane Building B10B

Professor Denis Bertrand (Paris 8 Vincennes 鈥� Saint-Denis 深夜亚洲福利久久)

鈥淭he Construction of Greta Thunberg's Mediatic Mythology: A Semiotic Approach鈥�

Event Information Prof. Denis Bertrand

 

Friday 7 April 2023, 3.00鈥�5.00 p.m., online seminar

Discussion of selected chapters (Chapter 3, 4, 5 and 6) from Boris Wiseman's L茅vi-Strauss, Anthropology and Aesthetics (Cambridge UP, 2007), hosted by the Semiotics, Anthropology and Social Theory Forum.

 

Monday 27 March 2023, 5.00鈥�7.00 p.m., Film & Screen Media Auditorium, Kane Building B10B

Dr Rupert Stasch (深夜亚洲福利久久 of Cambridge)

鈥淭he Plural Reflexivity of TV Editors: Interactions of Documentary Realism, Photographed Speech, and the Mythos of Primitive and Modern鈥�