DGS Kongress 2027: Terminfenster und Call. Unser internationaler Kongress im nächsten Jahr in Schwäbisch Gmünd wirft seine Schatten voraus. Mit „Signs in Motion: Semiotic Perspectives on Migration“ steht der Titel fest und mit dem Beirat wurde der übergeordnete Call erarbeitet. Aus diesem Call erarbeitendie Mitglieder des Beirats nun Calls für Sektionen. D.h. als Mitglied kann…
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…
Thursday 7 – Friday 8 May 2026 — Reggio Emilia, Palazzo Baroni In recent years, the development of image-generation technologies using Text-to-Image (TTI) systems, such as DALLE or Stable Diffusion, has radically transformed the processes of image production, circulation and interpretation. The exponential spread of ‘syntographs’ – synthetic images often indistinguishable from photographs – raises…
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…
