I’m coordinator of Semiofest’s series of informal online “sessions.” These events are intended not only to share best practices among, but to nurture collegiality and friendship within the global semio community.
Coming up on January 31st (at 3 pm UK time)…
Please note that although our sessions usually start at 2 pm UK time, this one starts at 3 pm — one hour later.
MEDICAL SEMIOTICS
The art of medical diagnosis (known in Greek antiquity as techne semeiotike) shares a long history with semiotics. Today, medical professionals increasingly recognize that the molecules, enzymes, and alkaloids with which we come in contact initiate sequences of semiotic transformations in our bodies at macro-, meso-, and micro-scales. Also, medicine is more than chemistry: How a society regards medicine, health, and disease is itself influenced by semiotic codes. Yogi Hendlin has invited Ramona Lyons and John Tredinnick-Rowe to discuss the current state — and future — of medical semiotics.
Get tickets (suggested donations only) at the link above.
Our sessionists:
- RAMONA LYONS, Ph.D., is a cultural insights specialist, applied semiotician, and strategist who frequently explores the nexus of contemporary medicine and culture. She’s contributed to strategy and communications development for prescription and OTC medications, and fitness, health, and wellness brands.
- JOHN TREDINNICK-ROWE has worked as a researcher in a Health Faculty in an English medical school for the last nine years. He is a mixed methods academic interested in semiotics, healthcare education and Knowledge Exchange. He also runs a software/consultancy business that helps universities track the impact of their commercial activity.
Session host: YOGI HALE HENDLIN is a professor of environmental philosophy and public health, Principal of Feral Ecologies Lab, and Advisor at Luminous in life sciences semiotics consulting. Yogi edits the journal Biosemiotics, and has edited two books: Food and Medicine: A Biosemiotic Perspective, and Being Algae: Transformations in Water, Plants.
SEMIOFEST SESSIONS: R/D/E | BINARIES | SEMIOTICS & UX | BODY SEMIOTICS | AI & SEMIOTICS | SEMIOTICS & CINEMA | FICTIONAL DECODERS | ON COLOUR | & more.
Also see these international semio series: COVID CODES | SEMIO OBJECTS | MAKING SENSE | COLOR CODEX | DECODER | CASE FILE