It is with great pleasure that DeSignis, the journal of the Latin American Federation of Semiotics (FELS), announces the online publication of its 32nd volume. With the title ‘Volver a la Moda… en la Web’ [Come back to Fashion in Internet Age], the issue has been edited by José María Paz Gago, with the collaboration…
Paolo Fabbri (17 April 1939 – 2 June 2020)
Paolo Fabbri was very much a man of the word: in every sense of the term. He studied languages, speeches, images, media, and with them everything that human societies use to communicate and to give meaning to the world, to themselves and to others: gestures, clothes, tattoos, clothes, food, buildings, entire cities. So, he was…
Roland Posner (1942-2020)
Roland Posner, President of the IASS from 1994 to 2004, died on 26 May 2020. Born on 30 June 1942, Posner studied philosophy, comparative literature, linguistics and communication theory at the universities of Bonn, Munich and Berlin. In 1972 he graduated summa cum laude in the subjects of General Linguistics, German language and Philosophy at the…
2nd and final call for chapters for the collective volume on “Trauma and Consumption”
2nd and final call for chapters for the collective volume on Trauma and Consumption (DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.20568.24324) that will be published by a major publishing house in 2021 This volume aims at opening new theoretical vistas in conceptualizing how the notion of trauma may be fruitfully applied to consumption studies, as well as offering fresh perspectives…
Call for papers: Revista DeSignis, “Mediatización. Teorías y prácticas”
DeSignis retoma el debate iniciado con el numero Semiosis Social. La Semiotica de Eliseo Veron o sobre las condiciones de la mediatización, fenómeno societal ligado estrechamente a las sociedades de hiperproduccion e hiperconsumo mediático y las intersecciones que se producen con otros campos disciplinarios y afines a la semiótica. Desde hace al menos tres décadas…
Call for papers: Revista DeSignis, “Semiosis y feminismos. Teorías feministas y del discurso: ensamblajes e intersecciones”
DeSignis retoma un debate iniciado hace diez años con el n°12 Traducción/Género/Poscolonialismo (2008) al que siguió el n°16 Cuerpo(s). Sexos, sentidos, semiosis (2010) a cargo de María Eugenia Olavarria, y el pionero n°19 Queers Studies. Semióticas y políticas de género (2012). DeSignis continúa la serie ‘Intersecciones’ estudiando los procesos de producción de conocimiento y de…
Deadline extension: 4th International Conference on Semiotics and Visual Communication (13-15 november, 2020)
Due to the disruption caused by the existing situation of the pandemic, we are extending the deadline for the submission of abstracts to May 4, 2020. We would also like to thank everyone who has already sent us a proposal, all abstracts received will be forwarded to our reviewers. Stay home and be safe, together…
Postponement: 45th Annual Conference of the Semiotic Society of America
Dear Colleagues and Friends This email hopes to find all of you well and safe. Our thoughts and concern are with all of you as we navigate this worldwide crisis. Your health and well-being are of the utmost importance to us, and for that reason, in consultation with the program committee, we have decided to…
DEADLINE POSTPONED TO 1 JUNE XXV EFSS’ 2020
SEMIOTICS OF THE DIGITAL FACE 6-10 September 2020, Sozopol, BULGARIA – New deadline for the proposals: June 1 2020 REGISTRATION FORM For more information: efss_xx@nbu.bg Keynote speakers: Prof. Anne Beyaert-Geslin – Bordeaux Montaigne University, France Visual semiotics (portrait, sensoriality, immersive image) Prof. Stef Aupers – University of Leuven, Belgium Digital game culture and social networks…
3rd. World Congress of Transdisciplinarity (Mexico City, october 26-30, 2020)
Due to the continued demand for registrations, the deadline is extended to March 31, 2020.Shortly, the link to pay the registration will be enabled the term to cover it is extended to April 20, 2020. For more information about the Congress, go to their website.