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…