Special issue of Punctum. International Journal of Semiotics 13:1 (Summer 2027) GUEST EDITORS: Costantino Maeder, Mark Reybrouck & Lucio Spaziante When we watch a film, music influences us profoundly – even when we are unaware of its presence – as an organic, fundamental element of sense-making. It cannot and should not be ignored in film…
CALL FOR PAPERS Digital Age in Semiotics and Communication Vol. X (2027) Between Selves: Human and AI Subjectivity in Semiotic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives Recent developments in generative artificial intelligence have reopened a fundamental question for semiotics and the humanities in general: what does it mean to be a subject in a world where machines produce…
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Chinese Semiotic Studies “Building ecocivilizations in dialogue between social organizing and Chinese philosophy” In Western traditions, autonomy is the hallmark of opposite poles such as individual and social structure. The individual is thought to be autonomous in choosing, say, moral maxims, while an institution or a State is autonomous…
Dear researchers, Following the call for papers for ICHoLS XVII, which will be held from 23 to 27 August 2027 in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, we are pleased to announce that the submission system for individual and co-authored papers (with up to 2 co-authors) will be available from 9 October 2026. All proposals must…
Dear colleagues, Alexandre Marcelo Bueno (Universidade de São Paulo – USP) and Elder Cuevas (ULima) are organizing a special issue of the journal Estudos Semióticos titled “Semiotics and the Global South: Meanings, Knowledge, and Power” to be published in 2027. The link to the call is as follows: https://revistas.usp.br/esse/pt_BR/23_2_ dossier_sul_global_call Although the call for papers…
Although migration can be regarded as a “normal feature of civilization” (Bade and Oltmer 2004) and the term “migration” has been in use in the German-speaking world since the end of the 16th century, it played hardly any role in public or academic discourse as late as the 1970s. This changed fundamentally over the following…
deSignis invites submissions of articles, essays, and case studies for a thematic issue on “Semiotics of Myths.” The issue proposes a critical, interdisciplinary, and methodologically reflective approach to the ways in which myths produce, organize, transform, and contest meaning in past and contemporary cultures. Myth has historically constituted one of the privileged objects of semiotic inquiry. From the…
Dear colleagues, we are pleased to announce the Call for Papers and Panels for the 17th World Congress of Semiotics. Territorios semióticos: Saberes y caminos en la creación” (Semiotic Territories: Knowledge and Paths in Creation) is the title of the 17th World Congress of Semiotics. This IASS-AIS congress will be held in Cali, Colombia, from…
Call for AbstractsFirst Semiotic Symposium of Students (SemioSyS 2026) December 11, 2026 Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, HU SIGNS OF (MIS)TRUST: DIALOGUES ACROSS CULTURE, MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY This symposium invites students to explore the signs, texts, and practices through which trust is performed, granted, contested, or eroded. Two fundamental questions emerge: What are the semiotic…
La revue Interfaces Numériques invite à réfléchir au thème : Enseigner, étudier, vivre les Lettres à l’heure de l’intelligence artificielle (IA). L’appel à contribution est interdisciplinaire et s’adresse aux chercheurs, aux professionnels de l’enseignement, aux étudiants. Il s’agit d’ouvrir le débat autour de deux questionnements : 1) L’humain, les lettres et l’automate : écueils et défis du faire…
