The XXI Early Fall School of Semiotics (EFSS 2016): Ways of Semiotic Research

The XXI Early Fall School of Semiotics (EFSS 2016) Ways of Semiotic Research (Sozopol, Bulgaria, 4-11 September 2016) Keynote speakers: Jacques Fontanille is a Professor of Semiotics at the University of Limoges, founder of the Centre de Recherches Sémiotiques (CeReS), Institut Universitaire de France. A former student and collaborator of the founder of the Paris School of Semiotics,…

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CFP: 11th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature, 6-8 April 2017

11th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature, 6-8 April 2017 The eleventh in a series of biennial international and interdisciplinary symposia organized by the Iconicity Research Project since 1997, this meeting will once again focus on iconicity – resemblance mappings between form and meaning – in language and in literature. The theme of…

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New Issue of Signs & Media (Spring Issue, 2016)

New Issue of Signs & Media (Spring Issue, 2016)

We are glad to announce the publication of the new issue 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/isms Editor’s Notes (Spring Issue of Signs & Media, 2016) Revised since the eighth issue, Signs & Media has attracted the attention…

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CFP: REVUE CYGNE NOIR – Sémiotique et écologie

CFP: REVUE CYGNE NOIR – Sémiotique et écologie

APPEL À CONTRIBUTION http://www.revuecygnenoir.org/contenu/appel-a-contribution Sémiotique et écologie Depuis quelques années, les cigognes blanches que l’on observe au Portugal, qui normalement migrent vers le sud l’hiver venu, se sont partiellement sédentarisées. Cet important changement dans leur comportement migratoire ne serait pas dû aux seuls changements climatiques ; on en impute la faute à la multiplication des décharges…

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CFP: Semiotics and Fieldwork: On critical enthographies. Special issue of Punctum

Call for papers Semiotics and Fieldwork: On critical enthographies Special issue of Punctum Guest Editors: Eleftheria Deltsou (University of Thessaly) and Fotini Tsibiridou (University of Macedonia) The cross‐fertilization between anthropology and semiotics, stretching back to Levi‐Strauss’s structural anthropology, has repeatedly reinvigorated both disciplines, all the while encouraging rapprochments and interdisciplinarity across a wide range of disciplinary fields. Ethnography,…

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Publication of the 2nd issue of PUNCTUM-International Journal of Semiotics

We are pleased to announce the publication of the 2nd issue of PUNCTUM- International Journal of Semiotics, the online, open access journal of the Hellenic Semiotic Society. This issue is devoted to the ‘Semiotics in translation, translation in semiotics’, providing a forum for the interaction between semiotics and translation and semiotically-informed translation studies. The articles…

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Summer Course in Tartu: Juri Lotman and the Semiotics of Culture

Summer Course in Tartu: Juri Lotman and the Semiotics of Culture

Juri Lotman and the Semiotics of Culture July 4-15, 2016 (including dates of arrival and departure) in Tartu, Estonia The aim of the course is to give an intensive introduction to Lotman’s semiotic theory of culture, its theoretical background and context as well as new developments and applications of his theory in current semiotics and cultural sciences….

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Obituary Solomon Marcus

A true polymath and a fitting representative of semiotics’ inherent interdisciplinarity for so many years – Solomon Marcus seemed to be a ubiquitous presence in semiotics. A prominent Romanian mathematician, he coupled rigour and logic with a comprehensive vision that is the privileged possession of only the most far-seeing historians of ideas. Here, we would…

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