Reminder: 17th World Congress of Semiotics: Call for Panels and Papers

Dear colleagues, we are pleased to announce the Call for Papers and Panels for the 17th World Congress of Semiotics. Territorios semióticos: Saberes y caminos en la creación” (Semiotic Territories: Knowledge and Paths in Creation) is the title of the 17th World Congress of Semiotics. This IASS-AIS congress will be held in Cali, Colombia, from…

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Call for Abstracts: Signs of (Mis)Trust: Dialogues across culture, media and technology

Call for AbstractsFirst Semiotic Symposium of Students (SemioSyS 2026) December 11, 2026 Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, HU SIGNS OF (MIS)TRUST: DIALOGUES ACROSS CULTURE, MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY This symposium invites students to explore the signs, texts, and practices through which trust is performed, granted, contested, or eroded. Two fundamental questions emerge: What are the semiotic…

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Call for Papers: Interfaces Numériques – Enseigner, étudier, vivre les Lettres à l’heure de l’intelligence artificielle

La revue Interfaces Numériques invite à réfléchir au thème : Enseigner, étudier, vivre les Lettres à l’heure de l’intelligence artificielle (IA). L’appel à contribution est interdisciplinaire et s’adresse aux chercheurs, aux professionnels de l’enseignement, aux étudiants. Il s’agit d’ouvrir le débat autour de deux questionnements : 1) L’humain, les lettres et l’automate : écueils et défis du faire…

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Call for Papers: De Ethica Special Issue “Crisis & Recovery: Ethics in InterdisciplinaryDialogue”

The journal De Ethica invites submissions for a 2027 special issue, “Crisis & Recovery: Ethics in Interdisciplinary Dialogue.” The issue particularly welcomes work at the intersection of semiotics and ethics, alongside contributions on crisis and recovery; memory, trauma and commemoration; hope and resilience; political ethics; democracy and peace; forgiveness and reconciliation; environmental ethics; and related themes. The special…

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Journée d’Étude: La fabrique du style : de l’histoire de l’art aux intelligences artificielles

C’est avec plaisir que nous vous partageons l’argumentaire et le programme de la journée d’étude organisée par Maria Giulia Dondero, Jeanne Marlot, Flavia Politi et Aluminé Rosso avec la collaboration de Ralph Dekoninck et Thomas Franck, intitulée « La fabrique du style : de l’histoire de l’art aux intelligences artificielles », qui se tiendra le 30 septembre 2026…

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Journal Publication: Signata 17 – Sémiotique de l’IA générative / Semiotics of GenAI

Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer la parution du numéro 17 de la revue Signata Annales des sémiotiques / Annals of Semiotics dont le dossier, intitulé “Sémiotique de l’intelligence artificielle générative : transductions, styles et énonciations / Semiotics of Generative Artificial Intelligence: transductions, styles and enunciations”, a été dirigé par Maria Giulia Dondero et Massimo Leone.  Le numéro est…

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New Research Center: SERTO (Semiotic Research in Torino) 

We are pleased to inform you of the establishment of a new centre for semiotics at the University of Turin. In June 2026, SERTO (Semiotic Research in Torino) was established as the University of Turin’s new research centre entirely devoted to semiotics. The term “serto” refers to a garland, a wreath of foliage, a commemorative collection of poetry or,…

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Book Publication: Machine-Readable Faces : Pixels, Proxies, Praxes

Voto, Cristina. 2027. Machine-Readable Faces : Pixels, Proxies, Praxes. London: Routledge. Machine-Readable Faces: Pixels, Proxies, Praxes investigates how facial images have been operationalised, reshaping the conditions under which identity becomes intelligible and computable. Moving across visual semiotics, digital humanities, and computational studies, the book traces the emergence of facial data—from early digitisation experiments to dataset-driven…

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