The readings were dedicated to the name of Yuri Lotman.
The two-day Readings opened on December 3, organized by the Meletinsky Institute of Higher Research in Humanities. This year’s topic was semiotics of behavior and literary strategies. Attending the conference were researchers from Moscow, St.-Petersburg, Ufa, Voronezh, Tyumen, Kiev, Tartu, New York, who presented over 30 papers.