Summer University Program – Juri Lotman and the Semiotics of Culture Intensive course Juri Lotman and the Semiotics of Culture, 2018 – International Summer University Program at the University of Tartu July 2-13 2018, Tartu The aim of the course is to give an intensive introduction to Juri Lotman’s semiotic theory of culture, its theoretical…
Call for Papers First Call for Papers 12th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (ILL-12) 3-5 May 2019 Lund University, Sweden We invite the submission of abstracts to the 12th Biennial International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature initiated by the Iconicity Research Project, with the first symposium held in Zurich 1997,…
Call for Papers Semiotics of hybrid natures: Anthropogenic ecosystems, multimodalities, transformed umwelts 8–10.11.2018 University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia Plenary speakers: Nathalie Blanc (CNRS / Université Paris Diderot -Paris 7, France), Morten Tønnessen (University of Stavanger, Norway) and Kati Lindström (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden). Global and all-encompassing human impact has brought along many new…
Call for papers Semiotics of Selfies Special issue of Punctum. International Journal of Semiotics Editor: Gregory Paschalidis In Camera Lucida Roland Barthes suggests that the “age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the public, or rather into the creation of a new social value, which is the publicity of the…
Call for participation at the conference Love and Sex in the Digital Age: a Semiotic Perspective (XXIII EFSS’ 2018, 5-9 September, Sozopol, Bulgaria) & a Call for papers for the second issue of the journal Digital Age in Semiotics and CommunicatioN Deadline for the abstracts: 15 July The advent of the internet and digital technologies…
New Issue of Signs & Media (Spring Issue, 2018) We are glad to announce the publication of the Spring Issue（2018）of Signs & Media, a bilingual (English-Chinese), peer-reviewed semiotic journal. Please feel free to download the PDF Version of Signs & Media: http://www.semiotics.net.cn/index.php/zine_view/index/93 Editor’s Note (Spring Issue of Signs & Media, 2018) Semiotics is open to…
Semiofest Mumbai 2018 “’METANOIA’: CELEBRATING CHANGE” Semiofest, Mumbai invites you to explore the notion of societal, business and branding change by asking you how semiotics and related methodologies can help us navigate the spirit of accelerating change at work and in the world. We live in a chaotic and shape-shifting world today. Artificial Intelligence and…
Elisabeth Walther-Bense – Obituary Professor Dr. Elisabeth Walther-Bense was born in Oberweißbach, Thuringia, Germany, on August 10, 1922. She studied philosophy, German and French philology, mathematics and physics at the Universities of Jena and Mainz, and at the College of Technology, Stuttgart, later to become the University of Stuttgart. There, she was awarded her Ph.D….
AUTH SemioLab Open Lectures – Spring 2018 We kindly invite you to our Spring Lecture Series Semiotics of Space in Culture and Society organized by AUTH SemioLab (Faculty of Philosophy) in collaboration with the Department of Architecture (Faculty of Engineering). Thursday 15 Μarch 2018, 11:00 Sociosemiotics of Space and the Semiotic Construction of ‘Participative Governance’ Dr. Tiit Remm, Department of Semiotics,…
Deadline approaching! 2018 application round for University of Tartu International Master Studies in Semiotics! Announcing the 10th class of the international MA in Semiotics at the University of Tartu We are excited to welcome new students to our 2-year international Master’s programme in Semiotics. The courses are taught in English. 10 best applicants will be awarded with tuition-waiver…
