Candidates for Presidence – Paul Cobley – Jacques Fontanille – Anne Henault Candidates for Vice-Presidence – Mohamed Bernoussi – KIM Sung Do – Susan Petrilli Candidates for Secretary General – Kristian Bankov – Massimo Leone

Candidate for Secretary General Massimo Leone Short bionote (15/09/2014) Massimo Leone is Professor of Semiotics and Cultural Semiotics at the Department of Philosophy, University of Turin, Italy. He graduated in Communication Studies from the University of Siena, and holds a DEA in History and Semiotics of Texts and Documents from Paris VII, an MPhil in…

Candidate for Secretary General Kristian Bankov Kristian Bankov (born 1970) is full professor in Semiotics at New Bulgarian University and director of the Southeast European Center for Semiotic Studies. He is the leader of the organizing team of the congress. His interests in semiotics started during the early nineties when he was studying in Bologna,…

CANDIDACY STATEMENT ANNE HENAULT IASS/AIS can be proud of the considerable task accomplished since its foundation. Those who were at Vienna and Budapest will recall the luminous presence of Roman Jakobson and Umberto Eco and well know to what degree Thomas Sebeok was the soul of the 1979 Congress. They are aware of his considerable…