Marcel Danesi is stepping down from his role as editor-in-chief of the IASS journal Semiotica. Since 2004, when Marcel took over from interim editor-in-chief, Jean Umiker-Sebeok, the journal has grown and continued to lead in the field and in the international community of scholars. With the help of the publisher, de Gruyter, the journal has…
Announcement and Call for Paper: “The Semiotic Intersection of Literature, Language and Cognition” (3rd IASS-AIS—NNU Advanced Semiotics Workshop at the Nanjing Normal University, 6-7 June, 2020)
Download: Announcement & CFP updated Nov. 16, 2019 Following its success in 2018 and 2019, our exciting annual program IASS-AIS—NNU Advanced Semiotics Workshop continues into its third year in celebrating decades of international exchange, cooperation and coordination in the global arena of semiotics, which has long been regarded as an interdisciplinary methodology that cuts across…
Adrián Gimate-Welsh (1943-2019)
The International Association for Semiotic Studies – IASS / AIS announces with sadness that Mexican researcher and semiotician Dr. Adrián Sergio Gimate-Welsh Hernández, from Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, has recently passed away. La International Association for Semiotic Studies – IASS / AIS lamenta el fallecimiento del investigador y semiólogo mexicano Dr. Adrián Sergio Gimate-Welsh Hernández, miembro…
Jesper Hoffmeyer, 1942-2019
Dear Members, It is with great sadness that we have to inform you that one of the figures who transformed contemporary semiotics, Jesper Hoffmeyer, passed away on 25 September 2019 at age 77. An obituary will follow on this website in due course. In the meantime, we exhort you to take some time to remember…
Obituary for Gunther Kress
Gunther Kress, one of the key figures in the forging of social semiotics, as well being one of the definers of multimodality studies, has died. Born in 1940 in Germany, Kress’ family moved to Australia where, on leaving school, he pursued a career as a furrier. Later, he moved to the UK where he became…
IASS Election: Stéphanie Walsh Matthews Vice-Treasurer Candidature
Candidature for the role of Vice-Treasurer for a next term within the IAS-AISS. As an Associate Professor of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures and in the Graduate Program of Communication and Cultures at Ryerson University, I have developed and taught courses on Semiotics, Anthropology, Linguistics, Culture Studies, and Literatures. I have been an executive member of…
IASS Election: José María Paz Gago Vice-president Candidature
CANDIDAT AU POSTE DE VICE-PRESIDENT EUROPE IASS/AIS JOSÉ MARÍA PAZ GAGO est Professeur en Théorie de la Littérature et en Littérature Comparée à l’Université de La Coruña (Espagne) ainsi que à l’Université de Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle (2008-2012). Il a été secrétaire général de l’IASS/AIS entre 2004 et 2014 et il est actuellement Président de la…
IASS Election: Marita Soto Vice-secretary General Candidature
Candidatura Vice Secretaria General Adjunta Marita Soto – Argentina Doctora en Ciencias Sociales, UBA. Decana de Crítica de Artes, UNA. Docente e investigadora en diferentes universidades nacionales, al frente de asignaturas específicamente semióticas tales como Semiótica de los Géneros Contemporáneos, Semiótica de las Artes. Durante su gestión se han implementado las Licenciatura en Curaduría…
IASS Election: Mohamed Bernoussi Vice-President Candidature
Candidate for Vice-President (Africa) Mohamed Bernoussi is Full Professor of Semiotics at the University of Meknes. He is interested in the works of Umberto Eco, intracultural problems in Morocco and the Arab world and in intercultural conflicts between East and West. He recently published: Principes de la sémiotique du texte (Principles of the semiotics of…
IASS Election: joint candidacy statement of incumbents, Kristian Bankov (Secretary General), Paul Cobley (President) and Daina Teters (Treasurer)
JOINT CANDIDACY STATEMENT OF INCUMBENTS, KRISTIAN BANKOV, PAUL COBLEY AND DAINA TETERS FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL, PRESIDENT AND TREASURER OF THE IASS 2019, RESPECTIVELY Kristian Bankov, Secretary-General Kristian Bankov is Professor in Semiotics at New Bulgarian University and Director of the Southeast European Center for Semiotic Studies. His interests in semiotics started during the early nineties when…