Circolo Semiologico Siciliano presents the fourth edition of the Paolo Fabbri Summer School of Semiotic Methodology. A week of lectures, workshops, and conferences aimed at undergraduate students, doctoral candidates, and researchers in the field. The theme of this edition is Political Rhetoric: Actions and Passions. The goal of the sessions is to provide tools for…
The IASS is happy to share the news about the creation of the Burkinabe Semiotics Association (BSA). The Burkinabe Semiotics Association (BSA) was established on March 2025 in Ouagadougou. It has the following main objectives: 1. to work towards for the development of fundamental and/or applied semiotics research in universities and research centres in Burkina…
The IASS is happy to share the news about the creation of the Gabonese Semiotics Association (GSA). The Gabonese Semiotics Association (GSA) was founded in March 2023 in Libreville. It is made up of a number of academics from different establishments in Gabon’s higher education system.Its board is made up of the following members: *…
Dear colleagues, We are delighted to invite you to the book presentation of Semiotics of Images: The Analysis of Pictorial Texts, published by De Gruyter in the “Semiotics, Communication and Cognition” series, directed by P. Cobley and K. Kull. The event, organized on behalf of the Board of the Association Internationale de Sémiotique Visuelle / International Association for Visual Semiotics will take…
Dear IASS colleagues, DeSignis, an international peer-reviewed journal of the Latin American Federation of Semiotics (FELS), is happy to announce the publication of its third hors serie issue. With the title Cocina, gusto, identidad, the issue was edited by Francesco Mangiapane, Carina Perticone and Ilaria Ventura Bordenca. It is available as open access and can…
We are pleased to announce that the paper edition of the Book of Abstracts is now available! To receive a copy, please send a message to Olga Lesicka (o.lesicka@uw.edu.pl) or Elena Janchuk (e.janchuk@uw.edu.pl) with your postal address. They will arrange for the book to be sent to you by post. Cover
Panico, Mario. 2024. Spaces for Nostalgia : Difficult Memories and Material Consolations. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-62929-7. How is nostalgia expressed through space? Studies of nostalgia have long illustrated the emotional dynamics which condition our desire to go back to a time and a space that belong to the past. This book addresses this condition from an…
The new issue of Punctum-International Journal of Semiotics (https://punctum.gr/), volume 10, issue 1, is dedicated to “The Semiotics of Animation. From Traditional Forms to Contemporary Innovations” and co-edited by Ilia Katsaridou (Ionian University) and Loukia Kostopoulou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki).
Peverini, Paolo. Bruno Latour in the Semiotic Turn. An Inquiry into the Networks of Meaning. Cham: Springer, 2024 This open access book highlights the link between Bruno Latour’s works and the semiotic perspective on social phenomena analysis. It identifies and relaunches a dialogue that was as heated as it was fruitful, but still little recognized within the social sciences….
