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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
CANDIDATURA VICE PRESIDENTE AIS-IASS PARA AMERICA LATINA Lucrecia Escudero: académica argentina, miembro de AIS (1979), AAS, AFS, LASA. MCHC de Teoría y Modelos en Comunicación Universidad de Lille, investigadora asociada (EHESS) Laboratoire Mondes Américaines UMR8168. Participa redes LAPREC UAB (España) e ICARIBE (Erasmus Building). Profesor Doctorado Socio Semiótica en la UNC; Doctorado en Comunicación en…
Candidate for Vice-President (Asia) KIM SUNG DO Seoul, Korea CV I was born in 16th of July 1963 in Seoul, Korea. After I graduated from Korea University more than thirty years ago, I earned my Master and Ph.D in linguistics in Paris 1987 and 1991. First of all, I would like to emphasize that I…
CANDIDACY FOR VICE-PRESIDENT EUROPE IASS: Dinda L. Gorlée (The Hague, the Netherlands) (http://www.dindagorlee.com/) is a semiotician of applied linguistics (Peirce, Jakobson, Wittgenstein) and translation theoretician (philosophical, legal, and musical translation). With a dual PhD in translation theory and semiotics from University of Amsterdam, she worked as general linguist at the Wittgenstein Archives at University of…
