What? Phenomenology constitutes one of the most important and influential philosophical movements with a rich history that dates back (at least as regards its formal exposition) to Hegel. 20th C. was the age of phenomenology, one might say, that was inaugurated with Husserl’s ego-centric approach, and progressively opened up to social phenomenological perspectives. Starting with Husserl’s student and major critic…

CFP: Semiotic Society of America 41st Annual Meeting (Deadline: Jun 19)
Call For Papers Semiotic Society of America 41st Annual Meeting September 28–October 2, 2016 / Delray Beach, Florida The Semiotic Society of America welcomes abstracts on any subject with a connection to semiotics. We apply semiotic theories and insights to disciplines as diverse as anthropology, the arts, biology, cognitive science, communication, cybernetics, education, ethics, law,…
CFP: Semiotics and Fieldwork: On critical enthographies Special issue of Punctum. International Journal of Semiotics
Call for papers Semiotics and Fieldwork: On critical enthographies Special issue of Punctum. International Journal of Semiotics Guest Editors: Eleftheria Deltsou (Univ. of Thessaly) and Fotini Tsibiridou (Univ. of Macedonia) The cross-fertilization between anthropology and semiotics, stretching back to Levi-Strauss’s structural anthropology, has repeatedly reinvigorated both disciplines, all the while encouraging rapprochments and interdisciplinarity across a…
CFP: Forms and policies of animality Zoosemiotics 2.0, Palermo
call for papers [english version above] Università degli studi di Palermo, Dipartimento Culture e Società Università delle Scienze gastronomiche di Pollenzo Centro internazionale di scienze semiotiche di Urbino Circolo semiologico siciliano Fondazione Ignazio Buttitta Museo internazionale delle marionette Forme e politiche dell’animalità Zoosemiotica 2.0 seminario internazionale di studi Palermo, Museo internazionale delle marionette 1-2 dicembre…
The XXI Early Fall School of Semiotics (EFSS 2016): Ways of Semiotic Research – Extended Deadline
Call for participation (until 1 July) The XXI Early Fall School of Semiotics (EFSS 2016) Ways of Semiotic Research (Sozopol, Bulgaria, 4-11 September 2016) Keynote speakers: Jacques Fontanille is a Professor of Semiotics at the University of Limoges, founder of the Centre de Recherches Sémiotiques (CeReS), Institut Universitaire de France. A former student and collaborator…

CFP: 4th volume of the International Journal of Marketing Semiotics
www.ijmarketingsemiotics.com Included in Call for papers: International Journal of Marketing Semiotics Vol.IV The International Journal of Marketing Semiotics is an open-source, double blind-reviewed academic journal that covers a wide spectrum of interdisciplinary marketing/semiotics research streams, spanning: – Conceptual approaches to the 5 P’s by drawing on different semiotic perspectives (Peircean, structuralist, post-structuralist, sociosemiotics, cultural, textual,…
CFP: The Reproduction of the Other: Originality and Copy in a Cross-‐Cultural, Trans‐Historical Perspective.
The Reproduction of the Other: Originality and Copy in a Cross-Cultural, Trans-Historical Perspective. Discussion on concepts such as originality, authenticity, and uniqueness and, on the other hand, fake, copy, and reproduction often tend to ignore that the status of an original, the procedure of copying, and the evaluation of the reproduction vary, sometimes dramatically, across…
The XXI Early Fall School of Semiotics (EFSS 2016): Ways of Semiotic Research
The XXI Early Fall School of Semiotics (EFSS 2016) Ways of Semiotic Research (Sozopol, Bulgaria, 4-11 September 2016) Keynote speakers: Jacques Fontanille is a Professor of Semiotics at the University of Limoges, founder of the Centre de Recherches Sémiotiques (CeReS), Institut Universitaire de France. A former student and collaborator of the founder of the Paris School of Semiotics,…
CFP: 11th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature, 6-8 April 2017
11th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature, 6-8 April 2017 The eleventh in a series of biennial international and interdisciplinary symposia organized by the Iconicity Research Project since 1997, this meeting will once again focus on iconicity – resemblance mappings between form and meaning – in language and in literature. The theme of…

CFP: REVUE CYGNE NOIR – Sémiotique et écologie
APPEL À CONTRIBUTION http://www.revuecygnenoir.org/contenu/appel-a-contribution Sémiotique et écologie Depuis quelques années, les cigognes blanches que l’on observe au Portugal, qui normalement migrent vers le sud l’hiver venu, se sont partiellement sédentarisées. Cet important changement dans leur comportement migratoire ne serait pas dû aux seuls changements climatiques ; on en impute la faute à la multiplication des décharges…