Social semiotics and interdisciplinarity: New approaches to research across humanities and the social sciences: a series of lectures by Bob Hodge

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Bob Hodge, a prominent international scholar, visits HSE in October.

Bob Hodge is one of the founding fathers of social semiotics and critical discourse analysis, a scholar working to integrate social semiotics with complexity theory. For the past 20 years he has been developing a new interdisciplinary meta-theory for humanities and social science disciplines. This theory uses complexity theories from physical and biological sciences within a social semiotic framework to address some otherwise intractable problems from a modern global world in crisis. His special interest is to use social semiotics as a catalyst for the disciplines that make up HSE, to enhance connections across them all and to unify theoretical issues with practical problems and better, more diverse methods of analysis, qualitative and quantitative.

Here in HSE Bob Hodge gives a series of lectures developing these ideas: “Social semiotics and interdisciplinarity: New approaches to research across humanities and the social sciences”.

Schedule:

	When, where	Topic
1	Monday, October 7 18.10 – 21.00 Myasnitskaya 11, room 330	Multimodal linguistics and social research This talk will show how all disciplines (including sociology, politics, linguistics, communications and law) need to recognize the different semiotic modes in and through which all political and social processes are mediated and shaped. Multimodal analysis systematically enhances all data used in all social and political analysis, and alone is sufficient to improve the adequacy and effectiveness in practice across all fields.
2	Wednesday, October 9 15.10 – 18.00 Myasnitskaya 20, room 102	Social sciences in the new paradigm (working critically with recent social science research projects) This talk will introduce the concept of Mode 2 Knowledge (open, dynamic transdisciplinary engaged research, global in scope) and connect it specifically with social science/sociological research.
3	Monday, October 14 18.10– 21.00, Myasnitskaya 11, room 330	Centre-periphery models and the global contexts for interdisciplinary research This talk will draw on political and spatial models from an intersection between semiotics, geography and politics to review problems and possibilities for research from peripheral locations like Russia and Australia.
4	Friday, October 18, 18.10 – 21.00 Myasnitskaya 20, room 228	Power resistance and dysfunction in a Neo-liberal world This talk will use Foucault's theories of disciplinary regimes and strategies for resistance as the basis for a critique of the dominant model of business organization in the global world, as studied by Administration studies, within a flawed model of economic life associated with Neo-Liberalism.
5	Monday, October 21, 18.10– 21.00, Myasnitskaya 11, room 330	Breakthroughs in Biology as game-changers for research in Humanities and the Social Sciences: the epigenetic paradigm This will look particularly at recent work on epigenetics and Evolutionary Developmental biology, and apply it to issues of language and thought, politics and society). This talk will introduce the outlines of the new metaparadigm, of relevance to all HSE faculties, but with special relevance to Psychology.

Bob Hodge will also participate in an international conference “Evolution of human capacities to know and to act. How to convert knowledge into power?”:

a guest lecture “Knowledge, power and complexity”
Where: Monday, October 28, 18.10 – 19.30. When: Myasnitskaya 20, room 440
a keynote presentation “Multimodality and a new typology of signs for the information revolution”
Where: Wednesday, October 30, 10.00 – 11.00. When: Myasnitskaya 11, room 421.

Free access for HSE staff and students. People who need passes to enter HSE, please contact: olebedeva@hse.ru or esleptsova@hse.ru.

Date

October 07, 2019

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Faculty of Social Sciences, School of Political Science