Items for discussion: 1. Voting procedure 2. Next two Congresses 3. IASS publications arising from the Sofia Congress 4. Honorary posts 5. Reporting regional activity 6. Website overhaul/online activities 7. Surveying the membership 8. Membership and renewal 9. Establishment of the Ecuadorean Semiotic Society/admit to EC Key KB = Kristian Bankov (Secretary General) PB =…
Dear colleagues, With great sadness, we announce that the former editor-in-chief of our journal Chinese Semiotic Studies, Prof. GU Jiazu, passed away in Jiangsu People’s Hospital on July 4, 2015, aged 74. Prof. Gu was born on July 14, 1941 in Soochow, Jiangsu. He graduated from Soochow University in 1964 and started teaching there upon…
The International Association for Semiotic Studies invites proposals from universities and other research institutions to host the IASS Congress in 2017. Proposers must be paid-up members of the IASS and should have a good knowledge of the history of the Association and its Congresses. Proposals must be submitted in English, in PowerPoint or pdf format,…
The IASS values the views of its membership and is currently carrying out a survey. For members to participate in the survey, the links are English: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1MSrBNfTitHZtsz6kwKrlbvuetY3n-k232OZWA2pFAMI/viewform Spanish: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11XfITIDmfwma2G6qIujXIJpfCn22Ln3L4xPi_b_8RSE/viewform Results of the survey will be published on the IASS website later this year.
IASS/AIS Bureau (2014-2019) elected in Sofia 2014. President Paul Cobley (United Kingdom) Secretary general Kristian Bankov (Bulgaria) Vice-Presidents EUROPE: Anne Hénault (France) AMERICAS: José Enrique Finol (Venezuela) ASIAN: Kim Sung-do (Korea) AFRICA: Mohamed Bernoussi (Morocco) AUSTRALASIA: Susan Petrilli (Australia/Italia) Vice-secretary general: Priscila Borges (Brazil) Treasurier Daina Teters (Latvia) Jie Zhang (China) Vice- Treasurier Stephanie Walsh-Matthews…
Vice-Secretary General Report From September 25 th 2009 to September 12th 2014 Priscila Borges The new website I created the new website using WordPress, a web software that allows the creation of websites and blogs. The interface is user-friendly and the software is free, so it was not necessary to pay a webmaster to update…
Candidates for Presidence – Paul Cobley – Jacques Fontanille – Anne Henault Candidates for Vice-Presidence – Mohamed Bernoussi – KIM Sung Do – Susan Petrilli Candidates for Secretary General – Kristian Bankov – Massimo Leone
Candidate for Secretary General Massimo Leone Short bionote (15/09/2014) Massimo Leone is Professor of Semiotics and Cultural Semiotics at the Department of Philosophy, University of Turin, Italy. He graduated in Communication Studies from the University of Siena, and holds a DEA in History and Semiotics of Texts and Documents from Paris VII, an MPhil in…
Candidate for Secretary General Kristian Bankov Kristian Bankov (born 1970) is full professor in Semiotics at New Bulgarian University and director of the Southeast European Center for Semiotic Studies. He is the leader of the organizing team of the congress. His interests in semiotics started during the early nineties when he was studying in Bologna,…
CANDIDACY STATEMENT ANNE HENAULT IASS/AIS can be proud of the considerable task accomplished since its foundation. Those who were at Vienna and Budapest will recall the luminous presence of Roman Jakobson and Umberto Eco and well know to what degree Thomas Sebeok was the soul of the 1979 Congress. They are aware of his considerable…
