Obituary for Joseph Morton Ransdell

Online obituary:http://lubbockonline.com/obituaries/2011-01-06/joseph-morton-ransdell A memorial service will be held this Saturday, January 8, in Lubbock,  Texas. Details are here:  http://www.memorialdesigners.net/obituaries/Joseph-Ransdell2/ Obituary & Life History Joseph Morton Ransdell was born June 5, 1931 to Frances Lucille and Morton Ransdell in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He passed into eternity on December 27, 2010. He attended junior college in Edmond, Oklahoma, then…

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Call for Papers:13th International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations

CALL FOR PAPERS Problems and Possibilities of Computational Humanities 13th International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations IFIP WG8.1 Working Conference July 4-6, 2011 Fryske Akademy, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands http://www.orgsem.org/2011 The 13th International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations (ICISO 2011) is the thirteenth in a series of international events devoted to the…

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First Call for Papers, Nanjing 11th IASS congress, 2012

The Nanjing 11th World Congress of Semiotics (IASS) Call for Papers ▬▬ Global Semiotics: Bridging Different Civilizations ▬▬ Time: October 5 – 9, 2012 Location: Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China Modern semiotic theories can be traced back to four theoretical sources originating in the beginning of the 20th century: Saussurean structural linguistics, Peircean pragmatism, Husserlian…

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First Call for Papers of the Seventh Conference of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies (NASS). Towards Cognitive Semiotics.

First Call for Papers of the Seventh Conference of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies (NASS). Towards Cognitive Semiotics. A semiotic perspective on cognition – A cognitive perspective on semiosis We invite the submission of abstracts for oral or poster presentations for the Seventh Conference of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies, to be held at…

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Obituary for Richard Robin

Richard Shale Robin Richard Shale Robin 1926-2010 SOUTH HADLEY – Richard Shale Robin, Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Mount Holyoke College, passed away on October 4th. He was born in Stamford, Ct. on April 18th 1926. Richard was one of the primary advocates of the field of American philosophy, especially American pragmatism, the kind whose roots…

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News from the Peirce Edition Project

This issue of the “News” will update you, our valued readers and supporters of the Peirce Edition, about the current state of affairs at the Project. It comes with several positive reasons for optimism, and thus for your continued steadfast backing of our mission. — André De Tienne Dear Friend of the Peirce Edition, It…

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Towards the IASS11 in China

Towards the IASS11 in China Eero Tarasti Semiotics lives in historical times.  Namely, what Thomas A. Sebeok envisioned when he entitled his last book Global Semiotics, is no longer a utopia, challenge or prophecy; it is the reality in which we dwell in the contemporary world.  One would even call it a ‘technosemiotic’ stage of…

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SEMIOTICIANS OF MUSIC CONVENE AGAIN

SEMIOTICIANS OF MUSIC CONVENE AGAIN Eero Tarasti Introducing the 11th International Congress on Musical Signification at Cracow Music Academy on Sept 27 – Oct 2, 2010:  “Function and Value in Music” (www.icms11.krakow.pl) When the research project ‘Musical Signification’ was launched in the Parisian spring of 1984 at the French Radio Building, during a live broadcast…

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