By Hongbing Yu Dr. Hongwei Jia, a linguist-turned Chinese semiotician and translator, died on May 24 in Harbin, China. He was 44 and lived in Beijing. The cause of his passing was complications from severe pneumonia due to overfatigue, according to his brother Hongtao Jia. At his death, Dr. Jia was Associate Professor of Linguistics…
The American Journal of Semiotics (TAJS), the scholarly journal of the Semiotic Society of America (SSA), welcomes applications for Book Review Editor. This position will support the editorial work of The American Journal of Semiotics in the following ways: assisting the TAJS editorial team in identifying books worth reviewing, soliciting publishers for a copy (print or…
Dear all, I hope that this mail finds you well and resisting the covid 19 with good spirit. Next Thursday we will present “MEDIATIZATION (s). THEORETICAL CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN EUROPE AND LATIN AMERICA”, a book that we edited with Carlos Scolari and Mon Rodríguez-Amat in order to @IntellectBooks . You can read the INTRODUCTION in: https://buff.ly/3o4ldt6. In…
On behalf of the School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, the Philosophy Department, and Br. Norman Hipps of the Deely Project, Saint Vincent College, we invite you to use the link provided below to view a recording of the April 29, Farouk Seif lecture, entitled “Who is John Deely?” https://saintvincentcollege-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/g/personal/mike_hustava_stvincent_edu/EekLbIQx8ARIomtLo4ZrYQcBZatWp2hDG-fKcLLgzKgknw?e=LytUjF
Nous avons le plaisir de vous annoncer la parution du livre de Georges Roque (CRAL-EHESS), La cochenille, de la teinture à la peinture. Une histoire matérielle de la couleur, qui vient de paraître aux Éditions Gallimard, collection « Art et Artistes ». Le livre porte une certaine attention à la sémiotique visuelle et se positionne dans…
2022 marks the centenary of the birth of Juri Lotman (28 February 1922), renowned Russian-Estonian semiotician, literary scholar and cultural historian. To celebrate this anniversary and commemorate his distinguished contribution to humanities and beyond, the University of Tartu, Tallinn University, Juri Lotman’s Semiotics Repository and the Estonian Association of Semiotics will be hosting an International Congress “Juri Lotman’s Semiosphere”. Confirmed plenary speakers are Aleida Assmann (University…
The Laboratory of Semiotics of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in collaboration with and the Association of Ancient Greek Philosophy ‘syn Athena’ is organizing the 4th Conference on Epistemology ‘Epistemology & Semiotics’ dedicated on Information and Sign, which will take place virtually in 3-5 December 2021. After the 1st conference…
Serie Intersecciones Coordinación: Teresa Velázquez García-Talavera (LAPREC/MIM-UAB) teresa.velazquez@uab.catRicardo Carniel Bugs (LAPREC/MIM-UAB) ricardo.carniel@uab.cat Con la colaboración de: Eliseo Colón Zayas (UPR) eliseo.colon@upr.edu Fecha límite de recepción de artículos: 31 de diciembre de 2021 Ver condiciones de presentación de los artículos en http://www.designisfels.net/ Un número dedicado a las intersecciones simbólicas entre el Mediterráneo y América Latina se…
Stemming from ERC Project FACETS (Face Aesthetics in Contemporary E-Technological Societies), led by CYAS 2020/21 Senior Fellow Massimo LEONE, the symposium revolves on the intersection between the face and the fake, with particular attention to new digital technologies of communication and artificial intelligence.
