Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce the publication of two new books in the Semiotics, Communication and Cognition series. First, there is Volume 26 in the series, Situated, Historical, Embodied Semiosis by Paul Prior, Julie Hengst and Andrea Olinger. Second, comes The Semiotic Turn and Other Selected Essays, a collection of key texts by Paolo Fabbri edited by Gianfranco…
Bellentani, F. (2026). Faces and the city : an interdisciplinary approach to facial presence in urban space. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003464662 Faces and the City advances the understanding of the role of faces and face representations, their meanings and interpretations, in physical and digital urban space. This comprehensive study builds a typology of biological, represented and digital…
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…
The Last to Die: Semiotics of Hope between Religion and Ethics An international workshop exploring hope as a semiotic, ethical, and religious category in a time marked by fragility and uncertainty. Bringing together interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives, it examines how hope structures meaning, mediates temporal orientation, and informs collective imaginaries of the future. Download program…
Cher.e.s collègues, La prochaine séance du Séminaire International de Sémiotique à Paris « Entre automatisme et automatisation des pratiques langagières : pour une nouvelle sémiotique du stéréotype » aura lieu le 15 avril 2026 de 13h45 à 17h00 à la Maison Suger (FMSH) (16, rue Suger, Paris 75006) et en distanciel en suivant ce lien : https://tinyurl.com/seminaire2026. Juan Alonso Aldama…
Dear colleagues, We are pleased to invite you to participate in the second webinar, SIGHT, of the seminar series SENSES OF SENSIBLE PROCESSES, organized by the International Center for Semiotic Sciences Umberto Eco, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, under the auspices of the IASS, International Association for Semiotic Studies. The webinar will take place next Tuesday, April 14 at 5 PM (Rome…
Cher.e.s collègues, La prochaine séance du Séminaire International de Sémiotique à Paris « Entre automatisme et automatisation des pratiques langagières : pour une nouvelle sémiotique du stéréotype » aura lieu le 8 avril 2026 de 13h45 à 17h00 à la Maison Suger (FMSH) (16, rue Suger, Paris 75006) et en distanciel en suivant ce lien : https://tinyurl.com/seminaire2026. Juan Alonso Aldama…
The editor would like to present to the reader a unique volume, one born from a passion for knowledge, an attempt at understanding music in its deepest essence, and the question of whether this art can transmit meaning. This passion has led researchers to semiotics, structuralism, and trends in the global humanities that have uncovered…
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/
Dear colleague, We are pleased to announce the publication of a new issue of Punctum-International Journal of Semiotics 11 (2): 2025 dedicated to ”Generativity in language, cognition, and artificial intelligence: Theoretical convergences and emerging paradigms”, edited by Didier Tsala Effa & Rossana De Angelis (https://punctum.gr/)
