Intensive course “Commercial applications of semiotics” – University of Tartu

Intensive course “Commercial applications of semiotics” by well known commercial semioticians Malcolm Evans and Chris Arning. November 13.-20., 2014. University of Tartu, Department of Semiotics. Everybody is welcome to join an intensive course where world leading commercial semioticians Malcolm Evans and Chris Arning will introduce how to use semiotics models in marketing research and apply…

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Creative Continuity: 50 Years of Sign Systems Studies

Creative continuity – 50 years of Sign Systems Studies Department of Semiotics at the University of Tartu continues the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the world oldest international journal of semiotics – Sign Systems Studies – with international, bilingual two-day conference “Creative Continuity” taking place in December 5-6, 2014 in Tartu. Within the framework…

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CFP: Animals in the Anthropocene Human–animal relations in a changing semiosphere

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS Animals in the Anthropocene Human–animal relations in a changing semiosphere Stavanger, Norway, 17–19 September 2015 Organised by the Norwegian research group of the Norwegian-Estonian research project “Animals in Changing Environments: Cultural Mediation and Semiotic Analysis” (EEA Norway Grants/Norway Financial Mechanism 2009–2014 under project contract no. EMP151). The research project is carried…

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CFP: SPACTION – Spaces in action, actions in space. International Conference – University of Palermo, 14th – 16th, 2014

Call for papers SPACTION Spaces in action, actions in space  International Conference University of Palermo, November 14th, 15th, 16th, 2014 How do we define space? How do we define action? During this conference, rather than thinking of them separately, we would like to consider space and action jointly, starting with the ways in which they…

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Roundtable “Existential Semiotics” at 12th World Congress of Semiotics

Roundtable “Existential Semiotics” directed by Eero Tarasti and Zdzisław Wąsik at the 12th World Congress of Semiotics: New Semiotics. Between Tradition and Innovation, Sofia 16-20 September 2014. See: http://semio2014.org/en/existential-semiotics The PDF document of Existential Semiotics Tarasti & Wasik Roundtable Semio2014, (in the attachment) to be downloded, is avaialble here: http://wsf.academia.edu/ZdzislawWasik

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CFP: METAMIND’2014 The Order in Destruction and the Chaos of Order. Freedom.

THE ORDER IN DESTRUCTION AND THE CHAOS OF ORDER. Freedom. Riga, September 25 – 28, 2014. National Library of Latvia/ Campenhausen’s Manor house/Gut Orellen/ Researchers from European countries and abroad are kindly invited to take part in the 2014 international research conference METAMIND’2014 The Order in Destruction and the Chaos of Order. Freedom. The international…

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Conference: Applying Peirce 2 (Tallinn and Helsinki, 21-23 April)

We are happy to announce that the second “Applying Peirce” conference will take place at Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia (21 April) and the University of Helsinki, Finland (22-23 April). This second edition brings together scholars and researchers to explore and discuss Charles S. Peirce’s thought and applications in diverse fields. The year 2014 marks…

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CFP: 2nd International Conference & Exhibition on Semiotics and Visual Communication

Call for Papers 2nd International Conference & Exhibition on Semiotics and  Visual Communication 24-27 October 2014 University of Northampton, United Kingdom The 2nd International Conference & Exhibition on Semiotics and Visual  Communication themed Culture of Seduction [the seduction of culture] will take  place from the 24th to the 26th of October 2014 at the University…

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Villa Lante Symposium: Semiotics of Cultural Heritages

Villa Lante Symposium: Semiotics of Cultural Heritages International Research Project Institutum Romanum Finlandiae, Passeggiata di Gianicolo, 10,  Roma Monday    April 7, 2014    10-12     Opening  by the Chair:  Eero Tarasti Invited guest lecture:  Stefania Guerra Lisi & Gino Stefani  (Rome):  Roma barocca – semiotica di una tradizione Theory Altti Kuusamo (Turku, Finland):  I primi angeli custodi…

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