The Semiotic Society of America 39th Annual Meeting October 2–5, 2014 Seattle, Washington www.semioticsocietyofamerica.org DEADLINE for Abstract and Proposal Submissions: May 16, 2014 PDF version of CFP: http://semioticsocietyofamerica.org/images/stories/2014_SSA_Call_for_Papers.pdf Paradoxes of Life* Challenge – Determination – Resilience Ever since the paradoxes of Zeno (on the impossibility of motion) and Heraclitus (on the possibility of ever-present…
Villa Lante Symposium: Semiotics of Cultural Heritages
Villa Lante Symposium: Semiotics of Cultural Heritages International Research Project Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, Passeggiata di Gianicolo, 10, Roma Monday April 7, 2014 10-12 Opening by the Chair: Eero Tarasti Invited guest lecture: Stefania Guerra Lisi & Gino Stefani (Rome): Roma barocca – semiotica di una tradizione Theory Altti Kuusamo (Turku, Finland): I primi angeli custodi…
Fellowship programme conceived by the University of Torino (UNITO)
The Departament of Philosophy has opportunities for researches in Semiotics. http://www.train2move.unito.it/login.html
Southern Semiotic Review Issue 3 and Call for Papers
SOUTHERN SEMIOTIC REVIEW – Issue 3 (2014) now available at www.southernsemioticreview.net This journal welcomes papers with general semiotic methodology and subject matter, as well as ones with special themes. Current themes include media and video, religion, memory and performance and visual arts. As well as peer-reviewed papers, less formal reviews, commentaries and work in progress are…
New book: Brand Equity Planning with Structuralist Rhetorical Semiotics, George Rossolatos
Brand Equity Planning with Structuralist Rhetorical Semiotics ISBN: 978-3-86219-706-4 (print) 978-3-86219-707-1 (e-book) Author: George Rossolatos Release date: February 2014 Pages: 895 Publisher: Kassel University Press Available for preview and purchase @ http://www.uni-kassel.de/hrz/db4/extern/dbupress/publik/abstract.php?978-3-86219-706-4 Publication objectives Brand Equity Planning with Structuralist Rhetorical Semiotics furnishes an innovative conceptual model and methodology for brand equity planning, with view to…
Journal: Signs and Society – Representing Transcendence: The Semiosis of Real Presence
Signs and Society Vol. 2, No. S1 (Supplement 2014) Representing Transcendence: The Semiosis of Real Presence Massimo Leone (Università di Torino) and Richard J. Parmentier (Brandeis University) TABLE OF CONTENTS Articles Representing Transcendence: The Semiosis of Real Presence (pp. S1-S22) Massimo Leone and Richard J. Parmentier DOI: 10.1086/674529 Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/674529 Cherubim: (Re)presenting Transcendence (pp. S23-S48) Ugo…
CFP: Peirce and His Students – Tallinn, Estonia
Call for Papers: “Peirce and His Students“Tallinn, Estonia, 21 April 2014 Workshop in the 2nd Applying Peirce Conference (Tallinn-Helsinki, 20-23 April 2014)http://www.nordprag.org/ap2.html It has sometimes been claimed that, unlike many other classical philosophers, Charles Peirce had few or even no intellectual heirs at all. This event intends to establish the extent of relationships between Peirce…
CFP: Ocula.it – Commemorating Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914): interpretive semiotics and mass media
Ocula.it is the oldest Italian online academic review in semiotics. It was founded in 2000 by a group of semioticians from Bologna University, all of them Umberto Eco’s disciples. Some of the group now hold positions in Italian Universities. The review has published its articles mostly in Italian, but it has recently adopted a double…
12th World congress of IASS/IAS – Few days left for early registration discount
Few days left for the 20 Euro early registration discount for the next IASS world congress in Sofia, 16-20 September, 2014 (http://semio2014.org). The discount expires on 28 February. 12th World congress of IASS/IAS “New Semiotics: between Tradition and Innovation” Sofia, 16-20 September 2014, New Bulgarian University www.semio2014.org The registration form for the congress is now available. This is…