| Box 1 |
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Les tres riches heures: holograph; "Nono" |
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| 1 |
2 |
[Les tres riches heures]: holograph; ts., annotated; ts., cc., annotated; Packing envelope states: "TRH" [Tres riches heures]. |
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| 1 |
3 |
Holographs; tss., annotated; tss., cc., annotated; photocopies, annotated; related clippings; Packing envelope states: "TRH" [Tres Riches Heures]. |
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| 1 |
4 |
Le voyage a Tangier: photocopy, annotated; [publisher?]: 1 letter out Contains list of errata. |
1969; photocopy. |
| 1 |
5 |
Notes: holographs; tss., annotated; ts., cc.; related clipping; Packing envelope states: "Les Demoiselles. Notes incorporated into revision. |
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| 1 |
6 |
Audio cassettes (8): "Foucault seminar." |
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| 1 |
7 |
Audio reels (4): "Foucault seminar." |
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| Box 5 |
| 5 |
1 |
Notes de recherche sur l'utilisation du modele syntaxique |
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| 5 |
2 |
"Introduction" re: systems de description, de transcription.... |
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| 5 |
3 |
Notes de recherche...system de mesure...gestuelles |
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| 5 |
4 |
"Introduction" and notes and conclusion re: trois dialogues de l'exercise de jauter, et rolliger en Fair.... |
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| 5 |
5 |
"Problemes methodologiques de la description et de la transcription de compartmentsAcrobatiques |
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| 5 |
6 |
Notes and drafts re: Analyse semiologique et analyse litteraire |
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| 5 |
7 |
Notes and chapter corrections |
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| 5 |
8 |
Notes and drafts re: clown performances as meta-semiotic texts; and La grammaire semiotiques du clown |
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| 5 |
9 |
Drafts and notes re: Mytho-choreographic themes in Indian circus performances |
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| 5 |
10 |
Dance and Religion in Indian Circus Spectacles |
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| 5 |
11 |
Some remarks on Iconic Signs [notes, drafts] |
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| 5 |
12 |
"Discussant" remarks regarding M. Mathiot's "Towards a meaning-based theory of face to face interaction" |
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| 5 |
13 |
"Praxis and Semiosis: The Fabrication of History" "Remembrance of Things Past: A Semiotic Rapsody" |
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| Box 8 |
| 8 |
1 |
Binder of records |
1964-1965, containing: Copy of charter/By-laws/Minutes of Directors/Minutes of Shareholders |
| 8 |
2 |
Stock certificates and other records relating to shareholders |
1964-1965 |
| 8 |
3 |
Tax records |
1966-1968 |
| 8 |
4 |
Insurance records |
1965-1966 |
| 8 |
5 |
Correspondence |
1963-1966 |
| 8 |
6 |
Correspondence |
1964-1965 |
| 8 |
7 |
Employee records |
1964-1965 |
| 8 |
8 |
Financial records re performances |
1965 |
| 8 |
8A |
O/S Poster announcing circus |
[1965?] |
| 8 |
9 |
Notes and other records re performances, circus materials and other entertainments |
1964 |
| 8 |
10 |
Tickets and other printed material |
1965 |
| 8 |
11 |
Maps, professional publications and other records |
1964-1966 |
| 8 |
12 |
Newspaper clippings relating primarily to seized animals |
1965-1972 |
| 8 |
13 |
Maclean's issue containing article on circus |
June, 1965 O/S Poster announcing circus [1965?] |
| 8 |
14 |
Photo album of Girard Debord |
[ca. 1961] |
| 8 |
15 |
Photographs and publicity material |
[1965?] |
| 8 |
16 |
Photographs |
[1965?] |
| 8 |
17 |
Photographs of the Baglione Circus and other subjects |
[between 1955 and 1965] |
| 8 |
18 |
Photonegatives, slides, photographs, and printed material relating to Circus and Culture [before 1976] |
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| 8 |
19 |
Photographs relating to Circus and Culture [before 1976] |
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| 8 |
20 |
Photograph of P. Bouissac |
[1957 or 1958] |
| Box 1 (2008.10) |
| 1 |
1 |
List of the files numbered below compiled by Bouissac - contains information re the conferences, workshops, seminars and colloquia/ background re the papers he delivered |
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| 1 |
2 |
“La semiologie du cirque”, Departement de Linguistique, Universite de Geneve, Switzerland, 1973 |
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| 1 |
3 |
“Structures poetiques vs. structures narratives”, Ecole pratique des hautes etudes, Vleme section, A.J. Greimas’ seminar, Paris |
January, 1974 |
| 1 |
4 |
“La discursivite non linquistique”, Colloquium on Discourse Analysis, University of Toronto |
November, 1974 |
| 1 |
5 |
“Surrealism and Semiotics”, First Annual Conference of the Semiotic Society of America, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta |
September, 1976 |
| 1 |
6 |
“Why circus horses have feathers: The truth of natural objects”, International Workshop on the Cognitive Viewpoint, Ghent University, Belgium |
March, 1977 |
| 1 |
7 |
“Les modalities dans le discours visual”, Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences socials, Vleme section, A.J. Greimas’ seminar, Paris |
February, 1978 |
| 1 |
8 |
“Syntaxe et semantique du chaos: une entrée clownesque de Charlie Cairoli,” Conference on ‘Forme e Pratiche della Festa,” Montecatini Terme, Italy |
October, 1978 |
| 1 |
9 |
“Syntax and Semantics of chaos; A clown act by Charlie Cairoli”, Seminar in Semiotics, University of Western Ontario, Department of Anthropology |
March, 1979 |
| 1 |
10 |
“Circus dogs in the semiotic square”, Seminar in Semiotics, University of Western Ontario, Department of French |
March, 1979 |
| 1 |
11 |
“Resultats theoriques et terminologiques de l’analyse du spectacle,” Colloque sur la terminologie semiotique et son developpement theorique, Academie des Sciences de Hongrie, Budapest, June-July |
1979 |
| 1 |
12 |
“Semiotics and aesthetics”, Second Congress,” Second Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, Vienna |
July, 1979 |
| 1 |
13–14 |
“The surrealist image”, Second Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, Vienna |
July, 1979 |
| 1 |
15 |
“The semiotic account of sign processes in nature and culture”, International Workshop on the Systematics, History and Terminology of Semiotics, Berlin |
September, 1979 |
| 1 |
16 |
“The concept of semiotic operations”, Fourth Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Bloomington, Indiana |
October, 1979 |
| 1 |
17 |
“Le jeu avec le feu”, Conference on Il Linguaggio del Gioco, Montecatini, Terme, Italy |
October, 1979 |
| 1 |
18 |
“The concept of distance in surrealist poetry and poetics”, Space, sign, subject in literature, The Arts and the Social Science, University of California at Davis |
March, 1980 |
| 1 |
19 |
“Behaviour in context: In what sense is a circus animal performing?” The ‘Clever Hans’ phenomenon, Conference of the New York Academy of Sciences, New York |
May, 1980 |
| 1 |
20 |
“La semiotique du cirque: Signes, systems, representations”, Centro Internazionale di Semiotica e linguistic, Advanced Seminar, University of Urbino, Italy |
July, 1981 |
| 1 |
21 |
“Figurative vs. objective semiotics,” Annual meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Vanderbilt University, Nashville |
October, 1981 |
| Box 2 (2008.10) |
| 2 |
1 |
“Praxis vs. Semiosis: The fabrication of history,” Annual meeting of the German Semiotic Association, Hamburg, Germany |
October, 1981 |
| 2 |
2 |
“Meaningful gestures: The brain connection,” Annual meeting of the German Semiotic Association, Hamburg, Germany |
October, 1981 |
| 2 |
3 |
“Visages et voix masques des clowns”, International Colloquium Nel Senso Della Maschera, Montecatini Terme, Italy |
October, 1981 |
| 2 |
4 |
“The Semiotics of play and performance: Ethnological perspectives”, New York University, Department of Performance Studies |
December, 1981 |
| 2 |
5 |
“Tradition, speculation and cognition: A perspective investigation of semiotic terminology”, International Seminar: In Search of terminology, Central Insitute of Indian Languages, Mysore, India |
January, 1982 |
| 2 |
6 |
“The profanation of the sacred in circus clown performances”, International Symposium on Theater and Ritual, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, New York, New York, August-September |
1982 |
| 2 |
7 |
“Biological empiricism: The neurophysical pardadigm”, Session on Paradigms of Empirical Semiotics, Seventh Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Buffalo, New York |
October, 1982 |
| 2 |
8 |
“Literature and interpretation”, Commentary on papers presented at a session of the fortieth Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics, Banff, Alberta |
October, 1982 |
| 2 |
9 |
“Celebration du corps de gloire: Le Funambule de Jean Genet”, Sixth Columbia University Colloquium on poetics: La Poetique du corps, New York |
November, 1982 |
| Box 3 (2008.10) |
| 3 |
1 |
“The hidden face of metaphors”, Workshop on metaphor, University of Toronto, Scarborough College |
March, 1983 |
| 3 |
2 |
“Le double dans les spectacles de cirque”, Scene, sign, spectacle: An International Symposium on the Theory and Practise of performance, University of Western Ontario, London |
April, 1983 |
| 3 |
3 |
“Anthropology of the circus: A Semiotic approach”, Seminar taught at the Fourth International Summer Institute for the Semiotic and Structural Studies, Indiana Univeristy, Bloomington |
May, 1983 |
| 3 |
4 |
“What is a bad performance?” The Concept of Performance, an International Colloquuium, Indiana Univeristy, Bloomington |
June, 1983 |
| 3 |
5 |
“The semiotics of performance: Terminological and methodological issues”, Seminar taught at the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Semiotics and International Scholarship: An International Language of Theory, Estoril, Portugal |
September, 1983 |
| 3 |
6 |
“The predictive power of semiotic theories”, Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Snowbird, Utah |
October, 1983 |
| 3 |
7 |
“From information to meaning”, Symposium on Communication in the Post-industrial Era, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York |
April, 1984 |
| 3 |
8 |
“The cost of signs”, Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, Bloomington, Indiana |
October, 1984 |
| 3 |
9 |
“Circus animals as actors: A Semiotic viewpoint”, British Theatre institute, London, England |
October, 1984 |
| 3 |
10 |
“The epistemological status of semiotics: Perspective for the future”, Wayne State University, English Department lectures on textual politics, Detroit |
April, 1985 |
| 3 |
11 |
“Mytho-Choreographic themes in Indian circus performances”, Colloquium on Dance of India: Culture, philosophy, and performance, University of Toronto |
April, 1985 |
| 3 |
12 |
“The straight, the tight, and the loose: The game of the rules in modern clown performances,” Colloquium on the Science of Buffoonery: Theory and History of the Commedia dell’Arte, Toronto |
November, 1985 |
| 3 |
13 |
“The anatomy of signs: The contribution of Neuroethology to the understanding of iconicity”, Issues in Iconicity: An Interdisciplinary Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, February-March |
1986 |
| 3 |
14 |
“The limits of comedy: How far can a circus clown go?”, Annual Meeting of the Association for the Anthropological Study of Play, Tempe, Arizona |
March, 1986 |
| 3 |
15 |
“The marketing of performance,” First International Conference on marketing and Semiotics, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois |
July, 1986 |
| 3 |
16 |
“The Semiotics of performance”, Seminar taught at the Eighth International Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, June-July |
1986 |
| 3 |
17 |
“The cultural management of natural signs in the performing arts: Examples from the circus”, International Symposium: Die Natur der kultur, Ruhr-Universitat, Bochum, West Germany |
October, 1986 |
| 3 |
18 |
“A Semiotic typology of gags”, Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, San Francisco |
October, 1986 |
| 3 |
19 |
“Concepts of the sign as qualitative models”, Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America, San Francisco |
October, 1986 |
| 3 |
20 |
“Tradition and modernity in contemporary Indian performances”, Graduate Center for South Asian studies. Monthly Seminar Program, University of Toronto |
November, 1986 |
| Box 4 (2008.10) |
| 4 |
1 |
“Une cavalcade de signes: syntaxe et rhetorique de la parade. Conference on Petrarch’s “Triumphs” : Alloegory and spectacle, University of Toronto |
May, 1987 |
| 4 |
2 |
“Erotic iconicity in poetry Andre Breton and Jean Genet”, International Colloquium on The Semitics of Eroticism, University of Toronto, Victoria College |
June, 1987 |
| 4 |
3 |
“La semiotique au Canada: un paysage accidente”, Secundo Congresso Internacional Latinoamericano de Semiotica. Universidad Nacionel de Rosario, Argentina |
October, 1987 |
| 4 |
4 |
“Incidents, accidents, failures: The concept of negative experience in public entertainment”, Second Indo-Canadian Symposium on Institution, Communicatoin and Social Interaction: The Legacy of Erving Goffman, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, India |
December, 1987 |
| 4 |
5 |
“Systematic transformations of the human face: A cross cultural study of clowns’ make-up”, Third European Symposium on Facial Exprression – Measurement and Meaning, Max Planck Institute, Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee, Federal Republic of Germany |
March, 1988 |
| 4 |
6 |
“Le masque du bouffon: sur un texte de Georges Bataille”, Association des Professeurs de Francais des Universites et Colleges Canadiens, Congres des Societes Savantes du Canada, University of Windsor |
May, 1988 |
| 4 |
7 |
“L’institution de la semiotique: strategies et tactiques epistemoloques”, Association Canadienne de Semiotique, Congres des SocietesSavantes du Canada, University of Windsor, May-June |
1988 |
| 4 |
8 |
“The staging of risk: Prototypes of survival in circus performances”, Symposium on Culture and Evolution, Villa Vigon Loverno di Menaggio Como, Italy |
September, 1988 |
| 4 |
9 |
“Symbols in politics: The role of the circus in international relations”, Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii, Manoa, Hawaii |
April, 1989 |
| 4 |
10 |
“Iconicite linguistique et modeles connexionnistes”, Colloque Signification et Perception, 57eme Congres de l’Association Canadienne-Francaise pour l’Avancement des Sciences. Universite du Quebec a montreal |
May, 1989 |
| 4 |
11 |
“Dans quell sens peut-on dire que le cirque est un langage?” Association Canadienne de Semiologie des Societes Savantes du Canada. Universite Laval, Quebec |
June, 1989 |
| 4 |
12 |
“The symbolic appropriation of technological objects by the circus”, Colloquium on “Kultur-Evolution”. Akademie fur Politische Bildung. Tutzing, Federal Republic of Germany |
September, 1989 |
| 4 |
13 |
“Circus animals: Ecological and evolutionary perspectives”, Centre for Research of Human Resources and the Environment. Department of Education and Culture. University of Indonesia |
January, 1990 |
| 4 |
14 |
“Syntactic iconicity and connexionist models of language and cognition”, Meeting of the Japanese Association for Semiotic Studies, Aoyama Gakuin University, Sogo Kenkyusho {Research Centre} Tokyo, Japan |
January, 1990 |
| 4 |
15 |
“Semiotics in Canada”. Canadian Studies Center, University of Groningen |
December, 1990 |
| 4 |
16 |
“Semiotic modeling and normalization of common sense knowledge”. Conference on Expert Systems, Culture and Semiotics. University of Groningen, The Netherlands |
December, 1990 |
| 4 |
17 |
“The Lion’s anger: The performance of emotions in circus dramaturgy”. Annual Meeting of the Association for the Study of Play. Charleston, South Carolina |
March, 1991 |
| 4 |
18 |
“Lecture de l’image erotique: hteorie d’une pratique”, Colloquium “Lectures de l’image”. Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland |
April, 1991 |
| 4 |
19 |
“Prehistoric pictographs: The semiotic hypothesis”. Second Congress of the Australian Rock Art Research Association, Cairns, Australia, August-September |
1992 |
| Box 5 (2008.10) |
| 5 |
1 |
“Why do we need semiotics?” Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts. New Delhi, India |
September, 1992 |
| 5 |
2 |
“New epistemological perspectives for the archeology of writing”. World Archeological Congress III, New Delhi, India |
December, 1994 |
| 5 |
3 |
“Future directions in the semiotics of the media: Epidemiological models of semiosis. Implications for a Semiotic theory of the media. An International Conference. University of Kassel, Germany |
March, 1995 |
| 5 |
4 |
“Why do we need semiotics? And “The notion of semiotic literacy”. University of Suzhou, China |
May, 1995 |
| 5 |
5 |
“Space as memory: Some semiotic implications.” International Conference on “Culture, Signs, Space”. Joint Meeting of the Dutch and German Semiotic Associations, Amsterdam |
August, 1996 |
| 5 |
6 |
“Can semiotics progress?” Thomas A. Sebeok Fellowship Lecture. Semiotic Society of America 21st Annual Meeting, Santa Barbara, California |
October, 1996 |
| 5 |
7 |
“Semiotics for literary scholars and beyond”. Centre for Comparative Literature and Culture, Peking University, Beijing, P.R. China |
April, 1997 |
| 5 |
8 |
“The Punakawans in the Wayang Orang of central Java”. Faculty of Human Sciences, Anthropological seminar, Keio, University Tokyo |
May, 1997 |
| 5 |
9 |
“Ontologies of signs”. Department of Philosophy, Nihon University, Tokyo |
May, 1997 |
| 5 |
10 |
“Space as memory and emotion”. Interfaculty Seminar, Keio University, Tokyo |
May, 1997 |
| 5 |
11 |
“Semiotics in the Post-academic age”. Keynote address, Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association for Semiotic Studies, University of Tokyo |
May, 1997 |
| 5 |
12 |
“Archaeology of performance”. University of Waterloo |
October, 1997 |
| 5 |
13 |
“Becoming a mask: Facial make-up and the transformation of identities”, Mind, Man and Mask: An International Seminar. Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, India |
February, 1998 |
| 5 |
14 |
“Memes and Serendipity”, Keio University, Tokyo |
June, 1998 |
| 5 |
15 |
“Cocteau refondateur de mythes”. International Conference on Le siècle Cocteau/Cocteau’s Century. University of Toronto |
October, 1998 |
| 5 |
16–17 |
“Information, imitation, communication: An evolutionary perspective on the semiotics of gestures”. Conference on Gestures: Meaning and Use; Universidale Fernando Pessoa. Porto, Portugal |
April, 2000 |
| 5 |
18–19 |
“The meaning of hand signs in rock art research”. Third Congress of the Australian Rock Art Research Association. Alice Springs, Australia |
July, 2000 |
| Box 6 (2008.10) |
| 6 |
1–2 |
“Data, dates and narratives: Epistemological issues in the interpretation of prehistoric signs”. Colloquium on Paths to Prehistoric Ideational Culture. Sedish Research Institute in Istanbul |
December, 2000 |
| 6 |
3 |
“The sociological and epistemological status of semiotics: An assessment and a program” (Keynote paper). Fifth Congress of the Chinese National Linguistic and Semiotic Association, P.R. China |
May, 2002 |
| 6 |
4 |
“Bounded semiotics: From utopian to evolutionary models of communication” (Keynote paper). Fifth Workshop on Organizational Semiotics and Seventh International Workshop of the Language-Action Perspective on Communication Modeling. Delft, Holland |
June, 2002 |
| 6 |
5 |
“Semiotics as enlightenment: East and West – A critical approach”. Semiotics and the Global Meaning of east Asian Cultures. Third Seminar of the East Asian Semiotic Association. Hubei University, Wuhan, P.R. China |
2002 |
| 6 |
6 |
“Forme et sens du pont dans le projet urbain”. International Association for the Semiotics of Space, Lyon, France |
July, 2004 |
| 6 |
7 |
“Static images as agencies: Performative, algorithmic and normative functions”. Ontogeny and Phylogeny of the Picture Sign. Eighth Congress of the International Association of Semiotic Studies, Lyon |
France, 2004 |
| 6 |
8 |
Papers by various authors/research material/notes |
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