Between 3 and 5 September 2026, the 39th edition of the annual congress of the Italian Association for Political Science (SISP) will take place in Trento, Italy. More information about the event can be found here: https://www.sisp.it/en/conference-2026 One of the panels, now accepting proposals for presentations, is called “Identity and culture: semiotics and memory in social…
The 2027 issue of Semiotika will be devoted to reflecting on the relationship between sociocriticism (the sociology of text) and sociosemiotics. Sociocriticism proposes looking for sociality not beyond the text but within the text itself and considers semiotic text analysis one of the main tools for reconstructing sociality. This field of research considers context, primarily…
An international conference titled “Media Text, Semiotics, and AI: In Search of New Meaning” will be held on October 15–17, initiated by the Faculty of Journalism of Yerevan State University and the Armenian Association for Semiotic Studies. This conference aims to discuss the modern relationship among media texts, semiotics, and artificial intelligence (AI) in the…
Dear colleague, We are pleased to announce the launch of a new Call for Papers for Punctum – International Journal of Semiotics, issue 12:2 (2026), dedicated to ‘Interdisciplinary approaches to medical semiotics‘. Guest editors: Georgios Damaskinidis (University of Western Macedonia) & Ludmilla Bennett (Charles University in Prague). More information at https://punctum.gr/
CALL FOR PAPERS The 50th Conference of the Semiotic Society of America Pittsburgh, 14–18 October 2026 Semiotic Communities and Collective Inquiry This Year’s Theme: Semiotic Communities and Collective Inquiry Relationally conceived, the Collective is a form of continuity of semiosic relations that makes reasoning and reasonableness open to experimentation, critique, and correction. Collective reasoning emerges when interpretations are rendered accountable to others,…
Call for presentation proposals: gathering of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (KWG) Berlin, 16-19 September 2026 Criticism & Culture. Perspectives from Cultural Studies and Cultural History & Theory We face times of heightened crisis rhetoric, during which the concept of culture is once again being put to the test. Laden with connotations of belonging and homogeneity, ‘culture’ has…
Between Selves: Human and AI Subjectivity in Semiotic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives XXX EFSS, 4-7 September 2026, Sozopol, Bulgaria Recent developments in generative artificial intelligence have reopened a fundamental question for semiotics and the humanities: what does it mean to be a subject in a world where machines produce discourse, images, and narratives? In his recent…
Dear colleagues The French Association for Semiotics (AFS) is pleased to share the call for papers for its upcoming congress: Determination, Indetermination: Semiotics between Predictability and Unpredictability Université Paris Cité, Site 45, rue des Saints-Pères, 75006 Paris, June 17–20, 2025 After dedicating its two most recent editions (2022 and 2024) to the crucial issues of…
Call for PhD Candidates and Early-Career Researchers Would you like to explore a more reflexive and critical form of academic writing? PhD candidates and early-career researchers are invited to submit an analytical book review of a volume published in one of the following series: Reviews may be written in English or French and should offer…
📢 Call for Papers | IRSL 2026 – Lille (France) 🧵 Textiles of Truth: Law, Language, and the Semiotics of Environmental Style The 26th International Roundtable for the Semiotics of Law (IRSL) invites scholars and practitioners to explore how law, language, images, and style shape contemporary debates on environmental justice, sustainability, consumer culture, and animal protection. 📍 Lille University, Faculty…
