International Conference on Music Semiotics in Memory of Raymond Monelle. Establishing New Musical ‘Topics’ in the Repertoire and Popular Culture.’ Location: University of Edinburgh Music Department, United Kingdom Dates: 26-28 October, 2012 The Department of Music at The University of Edinburgh presents an international conference on Music Semiotics in memory of Professor Raymond Monelle. The…
Obituary for Omar Calabrese
In memory of Omar Calabrese On Saturday, March 31, 2012, Omar Calabrese succumbed to a heart attack in his home of Monteriggioni, Siena. Born in Florence on June 2, 1949, Calabrese has been a key-figure in semiotics and a protagonist of communication studies in Italy (President of Italian Association for Semiotic Studies – AISS in…
CFP – Michel Tournier and Otherness. Literature, Myth, Photography
Call for papers Michel Tournier and Otherness. Literature, Myth, Photography International Conference University of Tallinn, May 18-19, 2012 Deadline for receiving abstracts: April 20, 2012 How can Otherness be conceived? How can we define our relationship with our distant and near Others? We could simply say that Otherness is conceived of as a process…
14th International Doctoral and Postdoctoral Seminar on Musical Semiotics
14th International Doctoral and Postdoctoral Seminar on Musical Semiotics, Department of Musicology, University of Helsinki March 26-29, 2012, at Vironkatu 1, floor 3B, Helsinki Director of the Seminar: Prof. Eero Tarasti; Co-directors: Profs. Ivanka Stoianova (Paris VIII), Jean-Marie Jacono (Université de Provence) Languages: English and French Programme: Monday March 26 : Arrival, welcoming reception (buffet) at Vironkatu…
CFP: Journal of Theory and Criticism
CALL FOR PAPERS GRAMMA Journal of Theory and Criticism Semiotics as a Theory of Culture: Deciphering the Meanings of Cultural Texts Issue number 20, 2012 Semiotics, defined by Ferdinand de Saussure in the early years of the 20th century as the study of how sign systems function in the life of society, has become…
Wittgenstein in Translation Exploring Semiotic Signatures
Book Published: Gorlée, Dinda L. Wittgenstein in Translation Exploring Semiotic Signatures Series: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] 9 http://www.degruyter.com:80/view/product/181689 Apart from the Tractatus, Wittgenstein did not write whole manuscripts for books, but composed short fragments. The current volume reveals the depths of Wittgenstein’s soul-searching writings – his “new” philosophy – by concentrating on ordinary language and using few…
CFP: GRAMMA Journal of Theory and Criticism
CALL FOR PAPERS GRAMMA Journal of Theory and Criticism Semiotics as a Theory of Culture: Deciphering the Meanings of Cultural Texts Issue number 20, 2012 Semiotics, defined by Ferdinand de Saussure in the early years of the 20th century as the study of how sign systems function in the life of society, has become such an…
CFP – Twelfth Annual International Gathering in Biosemiotics
Call for Papers Twelfth Annual International Gathering in Biosemiotics University of Tartu, Estonia, 17-22 July, 2012. Gatherings in Biosemiotics is the annual meeting of world scholars studying sign processes in living systems. Since 2006, it has also been an annual meeting of the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (ISBS). In 2012, the Department of Semiotics…
CFP – XL Congress of the Italian Association for Semiotic Studies
XL Congress of the Italian Association for Semiotic Studies Turin, September 28-30, 2012 Semiotics of Subjectivities In an époque when the meaning of subjectivities seems to be both blurring and confounding in the anonymity of social formations, the automatisms of technology, the fragmentation of networks, and the impotence of hierarchies, but also in the…
Publication of Lexia n. 9-10
Lexia. Rivista di semiotica, 9–10 Ambiente, ambientamento, ambientazione Lexia. Journal of Semiotics, 9–10 Environment, Habitat, Setting a cura di edited by Massimo Leone A presentation of the volume in the following link: Lexia 9-10 Sample