The International Association for Semiotic Studies – IASS / AIS announces with sadness that Mexican researcher and semiotician Dr. Adrián Sergio Gimate-Welsh Hernández, from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, has recently passed away. La International Association for Semiotic Studies – IASS / AIS lamenta el fallecimiento del investigador y semiólogo mexicano Dr. Adrián Sergio Gimate-Welsh Hernández, miembro…
New Issue of Signs & Media (Autumn 2019)
Dear all, we are delighted to announce the new publication of our Journal Signs & Media (Autumn Issue, 2019). Please feel free to download it by clicking https://www.dropbox.com/sh/imr73vo4r0me1xi/AABcozqcPnzFgxeDROahx03Wa?dl=0 Editor’s Note Victoria Lady Welby and her works have generally been ignored in semiotics research over the last hundred years. We thus present a special section…
CFP: Cinema and the City: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Call for Papers Cinema and the City: Interdisciplinary Perspectives International Conference November 29-30, 2019 University of Palermo, Department of Architecture, viale delle Scienze Room 1.3 and 1.4, Main Building Deadline for proposals: November 6, 2019 The conference aims to explore the relationships established between cinema and urban areas. We want to stress the connections woven…
Call for Chapters on Trauma and Consumption
Call for Chapters for a bespoke volume to be published by a major publishing house on Trauma and Consumption (DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.20568.24324) Download the Call for Chapters PDF:CPC_Trauma and Consumption Oct 2019 This volume aims at opening new theoretical vistas in conceptualizing how the notion of trauma may be fruitfully applied to consumer research, as well…
Jesper Hoffmeyer, 1942-2019
Dear Members, It is with great sadness that we have to inform you that one of the figures who transformed contemporary semiotics, Jesper Hoffmeyer, passed away on 25 September 2019 at age 77. An obituary will follow on this website in due course. In the meantime, we exhort you to take some time to remember…
Eco-Communicology and Worldview Crisis – Powsin-Warsaw, Poland, July 7 (Tuesday)–10 (Friday), 2020
Eco-Communicology and Worldview Crisis: Exploring Lived Experiences of Multitextual Narratives and Multivoiced Judgements in an Age of Globalization Powsin-Warsaw, Poland, July 7 (Tuesday)–10 (Friday), 2020 www.ogrod-powsin.pl/for-visitors/how-to-reach-the-botanical-garden Organized by The Philological School of Higher Education in Wrocław and The Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in Cooperation with The Polish Academy of Sciences Botanical…
3rd International Encounter of the Academy of Cultural Heritages
The 3rd International Encounter of the Academy of Cultural Heritages (ACU) at Ermoupolis, Syros (Cyclades), Greece, on Oct. 1–8, 2019. Director of the congress and Academy: Eero Tarasti; assistants Paul Forsell, Helsinki; Lazaros Papoutzis, Florina, Greece The convention consists of: ■ 15th international doctoral and postdoctoral seminar of musical semiotics (Oct. 2– 5) ■ symposium…
New issue: Southern Semiotic Review Vol. 10
Southern Semiotic Review http://www.southernsemioticreview.net/ Issue 10, 2019 (i) Action Habit as Imperative: Peirce’s Supreme Art by Donna E. West The Golem Allegories by Ivan Capeller Visions of the Other and free indirect speech in Artistic Discourse by Augusto Ponzio and Susan Petrilli Coming out of Culture by Eduardo Chávez Herrera The Fate of the…
New Issue: Chinese Semiotic Studies Volume 15, Issue 3 (Aug 2019)
Frontmatter Page i Published Online: 08/16/2019 Download PDF Free Access Cultural Signs and Sign Theories Rhetorical Procedures in Chinese Literature Gándara, Lelia Mabel Page 289 Published Online: 08/16/2019 Get Access to Full Text Reduction: The Solution to Mind Representation? Cui, Yanying / Wei, Yidong Page 303 Published Online: 08/16/2019 Get Access to Full Text From…