Call for Abstracts: Signs of (Mis)Trust: Dialogues across culture, media and technology

Call for Abstracts
First Semiotic Symposium of Students

(SemioSyS 2026)

December 11, 2026

Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, HU

SIGNS OF (MIS)TRUST: DIALOGUES ACROSS CULTURE, MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY

This symposium invites students to explore the signs, texts, and practices through which trust is performed, granted, contested, or eroded. Two fundamental questions emerge: What are the semiotic constraints and possibilities created by trust–mistrust dynamics? And how are these dynamics changing in contemporary times?

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