Dossier dirigé par Simon Levesque Cinquante ans après l’explosion sémiotique des années 1970, où dominait l’obsession d’une théorie unifiée capable d’embrasser tout phénomène de signification ou de communication, nous nous trouvons face à un paysage épistémologique radicalement transformé. La pensée décoloniale a émergé principalement d’Amérique latine, d’Afrique et d’Asie depuis les années 1990. Elle a…
Call for Papers: Translation – Semiotics – Music
Guest editors: Anna Rędzioch-Korkuz (University of Warsaw) Małgorzata Grajter (The Grazyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Lodz) Deadline for submissions: the 30th of September 2026 Description Studia Semiotyczne (Semiotic Studies) invites submissions for a special issue of the journal. Papers should be written either in English or in Polish and prepared for blind review….
Second Call for Papers: Music as a Meaningful Art
2–6 June 2026 • Helsinki, Finland The 16th International Congress on Musical Signification will be held at the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki, 2–6 June, 2026. Twenty-five years after ICMS 7 and forty years after the first edition in Imatra, the ICMS returns to Finland. Since 1986, the ICMS congress has been organised…
Call for Papers-Mediality and Environment: interfaces, design, and practices
French and English below. La revue International Journal of Design Sciences and Technology (IJDST) lance un appel à articles pour un numéro spécial thématique intitulé “Médialité et environnement : interfaces, conception, et pratiques” à paraître en décembre 2026. Le dossier est coordonné par Federico Biggio, Rosa Cinelli, et Everardo Reyes. Si vous êtes intéressé·e, merci d’envoyer un…
Call for Papers: E|C n. 46, 2026 Food branding. Tendenze e resistenze del gusto
E|C n. 46, 2026 Food branding. Tendenze e resistenze del gusto (a cura di Dario Mangano, Davide Puca e Ilaria Ventura Bordenca (Università di Palermo)) In questo insieme di prospettive, la semiotica del food branding non coincide con un’applicazione della semiotica al marketing, ma emerge come un campo teorico e analitico autonomo: un luogo in cui pratiche,…
Appel à Contributions: L’analyse et sa reproductibilité. Science des arts et des textes.
Ouvrage à paraître aux Éditions Honoré Champion, coll. Lexica, 2027. Coordination : Anne Beyaert-Geslin (MICA, U. Bordeaux Montaigne), Jacques Fontanille (CeReS, U. de Limoges) et Ofra Lévy (Thalim, U. Sorbonne Nouvelle). Date de tombée (deadline) : 02 Avril 2026 Les sciences des arts et des textes placent en leur centre la question de l’analyse et des…
Call for Papers: Lexia n. 50 – Ecologies of Meaning: Semiosis in Nonhuman Landscapes
Lexia (Scopus-indexed, ANVUR A-ranked), the international peer-reviewed journal of CIRCe (University of Turin), announces issue n. 50, devoted to the theme Ecologies of Meaning: Semiosis in Nonhuman Landscapes.This special issue invites contributions that explore how meaning emerges, circulates, and transforms across nonhuman environments, where semiosis can no longer be understood as an exclusively human process. In a context…
Call for Papers: Semiosis en Communication
This conference explores the role of semiosis in communication. Objects of interdisciplinary knowledge par excellence, semiotics and communication are complementary ways of world mastery, of the big game, just like Solomon Marcus (2011) would say. The main objective of the International Conference Semiosis in Communication is to emphasize the importance of semiotic type queries in the communication sciences…
Call for Papers: Autonomous Images. Posthuman Perception, Agency and Ecology in Intelligent Visual
This volume examines the governance, aesthetics, and ecologies of autonomous images by bringing together perspectives from media theory, philosophy, visual culture studies, game studies, artistic research, film theory, design, and critical AI ethics. Contributions investigate how autonomous image systems reshape cinematic practices through computational camerawork; how gaming environments establish operational image cultures; and how artistic…