Thursday, September 21Time: 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. PST PresentersDr. Natasa LackovicDr. Michael LingDr. Alin OlteanuDr. Cary Campbell Register here This in-person workshop addresses the transdisciplinary challenge posed by postdigital philosophy to research in education and specifically literacy studies. This builds on an earlier researchhub workshop and recent research, introducing and articulating the need for transdisciplinary, semiotic and multimodal research in education. While highly insightful,…
162023Jul
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Extended deadline to 31 July for EFSS XXVII “Conceptualizing Digital Reality through Metaphors: Semiotic and Interdisciplinary perspective” 6-9 September, Sozopol, Bulgaria
Keynote lectures: “From the Metaverse to the Multiverse: rethinking the metaphors of our digital futures“ Mattia Thibault (Tampere University) “Generative Media: Sign, Experience, and Metaphor“ Everardo Reyes (Université Paris VIII Vincennes – Saint-Denis) “Conceptualizing Creativity: Peirce on Visual Metaphors“ Ivan Mladenov (Bulgarian Academy of Science) Open Workshops: “Conceptualizing the Digital through Environmental Metaphors” chaired by…
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32021Jun
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15th World Congress of Semiotics IASS – AIS (August 30 – September 3, 2022 / Thessaloniki, Greece)
Semiotics in the Lifeworld The 15th World Congress of Semiotics aims to foreground semiotics as the socially engaged, critical investigation of the sign- and meaning-making processes forming the core of human worldmaking. Semiotic investigation is grounded in the historical lifeworld, in concrete timescapes and semioscapes, in the dense and dynamic weave of semiotic practices that structure…
312021May
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Hongwei Jia, talented Chinese semiotician and translator, passes away at 44.
By Hongbing Yu Dr. Hongwei Jia, a linguist-turned Chinese semiotician and translator, died on May 24 in Harbin, China. He was 44 and lived in Beijing. The cause of his passing was complications from severe pneumonia due to overfatigue, according to his brother Hongtao Jia. At his death, Dr. Jia was Associate Professor of Linguistics…
242021Mar
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Jorge Lozano Hernández (1951 – 2021)
Profesor, semiólogo, director del Grupo de Estudios de Semiótica de la Cultura, catedrático de Teoría de la Información en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, ex director de la Academia de Roma, secretario de redacción de la Revista de Occidente, gran maestro y amigo. Fue uno de los miembros fundadores de la revista deSignis, alguien que…
202021Jan
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Round Table: New normality, new life forms: Semiotics and Pandemic (Virtual), Moscow (January 23, 2021)
State Academic University for the Humanities, MoscowInternational Center for Semiotics and Intercultural Dialogue in collaboration with the Center for Franco-Russian Studies Under the Auspices of the International Association for Semiotic StudiesIASS-AIS ROUND TABLENew normality, new life forms: Semiotics and Pandemic Nouvelles normalités, nouvelles formes de vie : sémiotique et pandémieNueva normalidad, nuevas formas de vida:…
Call for papers: Lexia, 39-40, “Heritage and the City”
HERITAGE AND THE CITY – Semiotics and Politics of Cultural Memory in Urban Spaces Guest Editors: Francesco Mazzucchelli (University of Bologna), Maria Rosaria Vitale (University of Catania), Massimo Leone (University of Turin/University of Shanghai) This Special Issue of Lexia aims at bringing together articles that critically reflect, from a semiotic angle, on the relation between…
72020Jun
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Paolo Fabbri (17 April 1939 – 2 June 2020)
Paolo Fabbri was very much a man of the word: in every sense of the term. He studied languages, speeches, images, media, and with them everything that human societies use to communicate and to give meaning to the world, to themselves and to others: gestures, clothes, tattoos, clothes, food, buildings, entire cities. So, he was…
62020Jun
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Roland Posner (1942-2020)
Roland Posner, President of the IASS from 1994 to 2004, died on 26 May 2020. Born on 30 June 1942, Posner studied philosophy, comparative literature, linguistics and communication theory at the universities of Bonn, Munich and Berlin. In 1972 he graduated summa cum laude in the subjects of General Linguistics, German language and Philosophy at the…