Journal Publication: Semiotica 264/2025

We are delighted to announce the publication of the latest issue of Semiotica. It features contributions by Volkhard Krech, Zoe Hurley, Kyriakos Demetriou, Gyeyeon Park, Sung Do Kim, Xi Wang, Zhixia Bo, Jiashuai Li, Jiangping Zhou, Charles H. Lineweaver, and Annick Farina. Spanning topics from religious metaphor and gendered significs to biosemiotics, translation studies, and visual semiotics in…

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Call for Contributions: 14th Conference Association for Visual Semiotics / Association Internationale de Sémiotique Visuelle

Next Conference of AISV/IAVS (February 2026) Dear colleagues,  We are delighted to announce, in collaboration with the board of the Association for Visual Semiotics / Association Internationale de Sémiotique Visuelle, that its 14th Conference will be held in São Paulo (Brazil), hosted by the Escola de Comunicação e Artes (ECA) of the University of São Paulo (USP). It will take…

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Book Publication: Wittgenstein & Semiotics

Gorlée, Dinda L. (Eds.). Wittgenstein & Semiotics. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004708723 Wittgenstein’s philosophy is directly related to the semiotic discipline to understand the signs, their processes, and signalling. Wittgenstein’s nervous system was a semiotic model of control and power to make choices. To examine this critical question, Wittgenstein & Semiotics discusses the cultural…

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Call for Papers: Carte Semiotiche

On behalf of the editorial board of Carte Semiotiche, we are pleased to share with you the open call for our upcoming monographic issue, dedicated to the concept of the “Theoretical Object” forty years after the publication of La macchina della pittura by Omar Calabrese. Download the Call for Papers

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Call for Contributions: CONGIST’26 – Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Crisis

CONGIST’26 – Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Crisis,  13–15 May 2026 at Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters Subject Fields: Journalism and Media Studies, Linguistics, Literature, Film and Film History, Disability Studies Venue: Istanbul University, Faculty of Letters, Istanbul, Turkey In the context of social sciences, crisis is broadly defined as a period of severe disruption or instability that challenges established structures, norms, or systems…

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