Paul Cobley is Professor in Language and Media at Middlesex University and has been publishing in the field of semiotics and contributing to its administration for over twenty years. He is the author/editor of a number of defining books, including The Communication Theory Reader (1996), Introducing Semiotics (1997; with Litza Jansz), The American Thriller (2000),…
15th International Doctoral and Postdoctoral Seminar of Musical Semiotics, March 2-6, 2015 Organizer: Musicology at the Institute for Philosophy, History, Arts and Culture, University of Helsinki, Finland address: Topelia, Unioninkatu 38 C, 00014 University of Helsinki The traditional international seminar convenes under direction of Professor Eero Tarasti; co-directors are Prof. Marta Grabocz (Strasbourg) and Prof…
LECTURE SERIES CELEBRATING THE 50th ANNIVERSARY OF THE JOURNAL „SIGN SYSTEMS STUDIES“, AUTUMN, 2014, THE DEPARTMENT OF SEMIOTICS, UNIVERSITY OF TARTU, ESTONIA This year we will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of our journal “Sign Systems Studies”, the oldest academic journal of semiotics in the world. A lecture series “Lectures on the study of sign…
“Serendipity, inference, and abduction present opportunities for solutions to the puzzles appealing to humans, mathematicians included. When successful, these intuitive semiosic leaps find pattern, even when the pattern may not be explained beyond the frame of the puzzle. In foregrounding abduction, Danesi and Bockarova refresh ancient queries about any distinctions between discovery and invention. The…
www.ijmarketingsemiotics.com http://ijmarketingsemiotics.com/journal-contents-2/ PRESS RELEASE: LAUNCH OF THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARKETING SEMIOTICS (IJMS) VOL.II We are pleased to announce the launch of the second issue of the International Journal of Marketing Semiotics. Almost three years have elapsed since the official release of the International Journal of Marketing Semiotics. During this period we have witnessed an…
New book from Laura Gherlone, Dopo la semiosfera. (Con saggi inediti di Jurij M. Lotman) [After the Semiosphere. (With Unpublished Essays By Yu. M. Lotman)], Mimesis Publishing.
On behalf of the organizers we remind you that the definitive deadline for participants to the 12. World congress of IASS/AIS who present a paper, is approaching: 15 August! Don’t forget to register for the conference.
New book from Massimo Leone: Spiritualità digitale: il senso religioso nell’era della smaterializzazione [“Digital Spirituality: the religious sense in the age of dematerialization”].
We are happy to announce that Professor Eero Tarasti has been nominated as Doctor Honoris Causa of Aix-Marseille University. The ceremony will take place on Nov. 18, 2014 at 5 pm during the “Soirée Scientifique” at Aix-Marseille University. Our congratulations to Prof. Tarasti.
Dear participants to the world congress of semiotics, This is the first draft of the preliminary detailed program, please have a look and if you do not see your name and title write to us (info@semio2014.org), there are certain proposals still under evaluation, but the majority of them should be there. We cannot reschedule entire…
