MA programme in Semiotics at the University of Tartu

Tartu University is home for a unique centre of semiotics, as the Department of Semiotics established by Juri Lotman is one of the oldest in the world. It has long-time traditions in research and teaching semiotics at BA, MA, and PhD levels. In the 2009/2010 academic year, we launched an international English MA programme in…

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Collection for the portrait painting of Professor Eero Tarasti – University of Helsinki

Collection for the portrait painting of Professor Eero Tarasti – To complete the portrait gallery of the professors at the University of Helsinki, Galleria Academica, we invite you to congratulate Professor Eero Tarasti on his 65th birthday on September 27, 2013 by participating in the portrait project. The portrait of Professor Tarasti will be painted…

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Ph.D. course in Cybersemiotics – 12.-16. of August 2013 in Copenhagen

5 ETCS one week PhD-course in Cybersemiotics and Transdisciplinarity: Applications in linguistics, communication, semiotics, culture analysis and biosemiotics Time: 12.-16. of August  2013. Place: Copenhagen Business School, Dalgas Have 15, Frederiksberg (close to the centre of Copenhagen) Organized by Professor Søren Brier (CBS) sb.ikk@cbs.dk – with lectures by Jesper Hoffmeyer, Fredrik Stjernfelt, Claus Emmeche, Torkild…

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Invitation to join the Founding Meeting of The International Association for Cognitive Semiotics

Invitation to join the Founding Meeting of The International Association for Cognitive Semiotics The founding meeting of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics will be held in connection with the Eighth Conference of The Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies, NASS VIII, May 29th, 2013 at Aarhus University, Denmark. Cognitive semiotics is the study of meaning-making…

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Doctorate positions at Lund University

The Department of Semiotics at Lund University announces the availability of one or more doctorate positions in semiotics at Lund University.   According to Swedish law, doctorate positions are 4-year long salaried positions.   For more information and to apply electronically, go to: http://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/o.o.i.s?id=24914&Dnr=523993&Type=E   For information about the Department of Semiotics at Lund University, see http://www.sol.lu.se/en/semiotik/…

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Summer School 2013 – Autocommunication in Semiotic Systems: 40 years after the Theses on the Semiotic Study of Culture

Summer School 2013 Autocommunication in Semiotic Systems: 40 years after the Theses on the Semiotic Study of Culture Summer School 2013 is five-day event taking place from August 18 to 23 in a secluded Kääriku in South Estonia. Theses on the Semiotic Study of Cultures first appeared 40 years ago, in 1973. The title of this publication indicates that alongside…

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The 25 year anniversary symposium of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies held in Imatra

Press release The Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies (NASS) June 22, 2012 The 25 year anniversary symposium of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies held in Imatra On June 9th the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies (NASS) marked its 25 year anniversary in Imatra, Finland, as part of the 27th International Summer School for Semiotic…

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