The Reproduction of the Other: Originality and Copy in a Cross-Cultural, Trans-Historical Perspective. Discussion on concepts such as originality, authenticity, and uniqueness and, on the other hand, fake, copy, and reproduction often tend to ignore that the status of an original, the procedure of copying, and the evaluation of the reproduction vary, sometimes dramatically, across…

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,…

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…

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,…