CALL FOR PAPERS The 50th Conference of the Semiotic Society of America Pittsburgh, 14–18 October 2026 Semiotic Communities and Collective Inquiry This Year’s Theme: Semiotic Communities and Collective Inquiry Relationally conceived, the Collective is a form of continuity of semiosic relations that makes reasoning and reasonableness open to experimentation, critique, and correction. Collective reasoning emerges when interpretations are rendered accountable to others,…

Call for presentation proposals: gathering of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft  (KWG) Berlin, 16-19 September 2026 Criticism & Culture. Perspectives from Cultural Studies and Cultural History & Theory We face times of heightened crisis rhetoric, during which the concept of culture is once again being put to the test. Laden with connotations of belonging and homogeneity, ‘culture’ has…

Between Selves: Human and AI Subjectivity in Semiotic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives XXX EFSS, 4-7 September 2026, Sozopol, Bulgaria Recent developments in generative artificial intelligence have reopened a fundamental question for semiotics and the humanities: what does it mean to be a subject in a world where machines produce discourse, images, and narratives? In his recent…