Call for papers: Punctum-International Journal of Semiotics, 11(1), “The Semiotics of Humor” (Editors: Villy Tsakona & Jan Chovanec)

Dear colleagues, I am sending you attached for IASS News the new call for papers of Punctum-International Journal of Semiotics (https://punctum.gr/), Volume 11, issue 1, dedicated to ”The Semiotics of Humor” and edited  by Villy Tsakona (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) and Jan Chovanec (Masaryk University). Best wishesEvangelos Kourdis

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New book by Fernando Andacht “Signos del imaginario cotidiano. Guía para Interpretar Nuestra Vida Mediática (2024)”

In the book are analyzed different kinds of media products (films, series, novels, mediated political discourse, Netflix series) from the theoretical perspective of Peircean semiotic. For this approach is used the theory of the social imaginary developed by Greek-French thinker Cornelius Castoriadis.  The website of the Publisher, Grupo Planeta, where the eBook can be bought…

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Call for Participation EFSS XXVIII 9-12 September 2024 “The Cultural Explosion of AI”

Artificial intelligence has burst into the cultural space with the speed of an explosion. As with any powerful explosion, its initial impact is a spectacular blinding flash, followed by a shock wave with real effects. Perhaps we are still at the very beginning, but often the intensity of the blinding flash is proportional to the…

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Publication of the Selected Proceedings ”Signs of Europe: discourses, mythologies, politics of representation”

Dear colleagues, We are pleased to announce the publication, for IASS News, of the Selected Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Semiotics ”Signs of Europe: discourses, mythologies, politics of representation”, organized by the Hellenic Semiotic Society, the School of French Language and Literature, and the Laboratory of Semiotics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)…

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Séminaire International de Sémiotique à Paris: “Énonciation(s) et passions dans les territoires sémiotiques ouverts par l’Intelligence Artificielle” (15 mai)

Cher.e.s collègues, le Séminaire International de Sémiotique à Paris « Énonciation(s) et passions dans les territoires sémiotiques ouverts par l’Intelligence Artificielle » reprend mercredi 15 mai. La séance aura lieu de 13h45 à 17h00, à la Maison Suger (Paris 6e) et en distanciel (http://bit.ly/3QE2dSp). Juan Alonso et moi vous invitons à nous rejoindre pour écouter nos prochains invités : François…

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Journeé d’études: “L’image augmentée entre histoire de l’art et computer vision” (23 mai, 2024)

Cher.e.s collègues, J’ai le plaisir de vous transmettre en PJ le programme d’une journée d’études qui se tiendra à l’Université de Liège le 23 mai prochain et qui aura pour thème « L’image augmentée entre histoire de l’art et Computer Vision ». Cet événement s’inscrit dans le cadre de la Chaire Francqui au titre belge accordée à…

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Candidacy statement for the position of Secretary General by Clotilde Perez (first mandate as bureau member)

(Sigue el texto en español) CLOTILDE PEREZ Productivity Fellow of the National Council for Research and Development of the Federal Government (21-24). Full Professor of Semiotics at University of São Paulo –USP. PhD in Communication and Semiotics and Master’s in Administration from PUC SP. Post-doctorate in Communication from the University of Murcia, with a grant…

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Candidacy statement for the position of Vice President for the Americas by Claudio F. Guerri (first mandate as bureau member)

(Suit le texte en français) (Sigue el texto en español) Claudio F. Guerri is Consultant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Design, and Urbanism of the University of Buenos Aires (FADU-UBA). He has a PhD. in Architecture –Design Theory–, with a thesis “Aportes a una Teoría del Diseño: de la Teoría de la Delimitación al…

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Candidacy statement for the position of Vice Secretary General by Bruno Pompeu (first mandate as bureau member)

(follows in English) CV Coordinador y profesor de lenguaje publicitario, redacción publicitaria y semiótica del curso de Publicidad y Propaganda y del Programa de Posgrado en Ciencias de la Comunicación de la Universidad de São Paulo (ECA-USP y PPGCOM-USP). Doctor y maestría en Ciencias de la Comunicación por la Universidad de São Paulo (PPGCOM- USP)….

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