October 29-31, 2026 The Azerbaijan Comparative Literature Association and DAAD-Alumni Azerbaijan, in collaboration with Khazar University and ADA University (Azerbaijan), , in partnership with the Georgian Comparative Literature Association, Literary Museum (Azerbaijan), UPO – University of Piedmont (Vercelli, Italy), Suor Orsola Benincasa University (UniSOB, Naples, Italy), FLECIR – Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca “Filosofia e Letteratura”…

Convenor & Program Chair: Prof. Dr. Hongbing Yu, Vice President of the IASS-AIS Organizer & Local Host: School of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Nanjing Normal University The School of Foreign Languages and Cultures at Nanjing Normal University, the International Institute for Semiotic Studies Semiotics, and the editorial board of Chinese Semiotic Studies are pleased to…

The journal deSignis invites submissions for its upcoming thematic issue, Nº 46, Ciberculturas en disputa: algoritmos, poder y sentido [Cybercultures in Dispute: Algorithms, Power, and Meaning]. This issue explores how meaning is produced, mediated, and contested in contemporary digital environments. Moving beyond earlier notions of cyberculture as spaces of interaction, it approaches digital culture as…

DGS Kongress 2027: Terminfenster und Call. Unser internationaler Kongress im nächsten Jahr in Schwäbisch Gmünd wirft seine Schatten voraus. Mit „Signs in Motion: Semiotic Perspectives on Migration“ steht der Titel fest und mit dem Beirat wurde der übergeordnete Call erarbeitet. Aus diesem Call erarbeitendie Mitglieder des Beirats nun Calls für Sektionen. D.h. als Mitglied kann…

Between 3 and 5 September 2026, the 39th edition of the annual congress of the Italian Association for Political Science (SISP) will take place in Trento, Italy. More information about the event can be found here: https://www.sisp.it/en/conference-2026 One of the panels, now accepting proposals for presentations, is called “Identity and culture: semiotics and memory in social…

The 2027 issue of Semiotika will be devoted to reflecting on the relationship between sociocriticism (the sociology of text) and sociosemiotics. Sociocriticism proposes looking for sociality not beyond the text but within the text itself and considers semiotic text analysis one of the main tools for reconstructing sociality. This field of research considers context, primarily…

An international conference titled “Media Text, Semiotics, and AI: In Search of New Meaning” will be held on October 15–17, initiated by the Faculty of Journalism of Yerevan State University and the Armenian Association for Semiotic Studies.  This conference aims to discuss the modern relationship among media texts, semiotics, and artificial intelligence (AI) in the…

Dear colleague, We are pleased to announce the launch of a new Call for Papers for Punctum – International Journal of Semiotics, issue 12:2 (2026), dedicated to ‘Interdisciplinary approaches to medical semiotics‘. Guest editors: Georgios Damaskinidis (University of Western Macedonia) & Ludmilla Bennett (Charles University in Prague). More information at https://punctum.gr/

CALL FOR PAPERS The 50th Conference of the Semiotic Society of America Pittsburgh, 14–18 October 2026 Semiotic Communities and Collective Inquiry This Year’s Theme: Semiotic Communities and Collective Inquiry Relationally conceived, the Collective is a form of continuity of semiosic relations that makes reasoning and reasonableness open to experimentation, critique, and correction. Collective reasoning emerges when interpretations are rendered accountable to others,…

Call for presentation proposals: gathering of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft  (KWG) Berlin, 16-19 September 2026 Criticism & Culture. Perspectives from Cultural Studies and Cultural History & Theory We face times of heightened crisis rhetoric, during which the concept of culture is once again being put to the test. Laden with connotations of belonging and homogeneity, ‘culture’ has…