NEW: Dinda L. Gorlée, “From Translation to Transduction: The Glassy Essence of Intersemiosis” (Tartu Semiotics Library, 15). 260 p. The fascinating story of the intersemiotic growth of translation into the whirlpool of excitement in transduction. The conflict between the simultaneous attractions of language-based translation and not-only-language-based transductions in different arts shows the way that the…
Journal: Sign Systems Studies 43(2-3)
Sign Systems Studies 43(2-3), 2015 http://www.sss.ut.ee/index.php/sss/index We are happy to announce the publication of the new issue of Sign Systems Studies. An international journal of semiotics and sign processes in culture and living nature, the journal Sign Systems Studies was established in 1964 by Juri Lotman (initially as Труды по знаковым системам – Σημειωτικη), and…
CFP: Semiofest 2016 Tallinn
Semiofest 2016 Tallinn: “Semiotics and Culture of Innovation” http://2016.semiofest.com/2015/12/01/call-for-papers/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/semiofest2016/?fref=ts Semiofest Tallinn 2016 will explore one of the most important problems facing countries, economies and entrepreneurs alike by asking how semiotic thinking can be applied to foster innovation. How can we contribute to build a culture of innovation? We invite you to present your…
CFP: ΧΙ ΙNTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SEMIOTICS, Thessaloniki, Greece, 14-16 October 2016
CALL FOR PAPERS ΧΙ ΙNTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SEMIOTICS The Fugue of the Five Senses: Semiotics of the Shifting Sensorium Thessaloniki, Greece, 14-16 October 2016 Organized by the Hellenic Semiotic Society and the School of Journalism & Mass Communications of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Western thought has privileged sight above all other senses, placing hearing a distant second…
CFP: Lotman and Techne: Traversing Natural and Social Sciences
Lotman and Techne: Traversing Natural and Social Sciences. Submission deadline is February 1st, 2016. You are all very welcome to submit a proposal for this event. You may also read it online… English version: http://resistancesemiotique.org/cfp-conference-2016 French version: http://resistancesemiotique.org/appel-colloque-2016 Appel à communications — Call for papers * A shortened English version of this CFP follows Lotman…
CFP: Transmediations! Communication across Media Borders
The Linnæus University Centre for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS) invites researchers and research students to attend the conference Transmediations! arranged at Linnæus University, campus Växjö, Sweden, 13–15 October 2016 (from Thursday 9.30 am to Saturday 4 pm). Media can be understood as those entities that make communication among human minds possible. Whereas these entities are always material in…
Call for proposals: English language book series in the field of semiotics
Nanjing Normal University Press is launching two English language book series in the field of semiotics. This is a call for proposals in – Series 1: basics of semiotics (up-to-date textbooks for beginners, lecturers and researchers in semiotics) – Series 2: research in semiotics (cognition, culture, communication, philosophy, education, etc). Proposals must include: – title –…
2nd Call for the Second Conference of the Interantional Association for Cognitive Semiotics
Second Call for Papers The Second Conference of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS) June 20-22, 2016 Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland http://iacs2016.umcs.lublin.pl iacs2016@bacon.umcs.lublin.pl iacs2016 _2cfp Important dates: 1. Deadline for submission proposals of theme sessions: 30 Nov 2015 2. Deadline for abstract submission (oral presentations, posters): 10 Jan 2016 3. Notification of acceptance…
New book: Handbook of Brand Semiotics, George Rossolatos (ed.)
Title: Handbook of Brand Semiotics Publishing house: Kassel University Press ISBN (print): 978-3-7376-0042-2 ISBN (e-book): 978-3-7376-0043-9 Editor: George Rossolatos Release date: October 2015 Pages: 457 Semiotics has been making progressively inroads into marketing research over the past thirty years. Despite the amply demonstrated conceptual appeal and empirical pertinence of semiotic perspectives in various marketing research streams, spanning consumer…