Journal Publication: Semiotica, issue 265 – Mystics and Politics
We are pleased to announce the publication of issue 265 of Semiotica, a distinguished special volume entitled “Mystics and Politics”, expertly edited by Juan Alonso-Aldama and Denis Bertrand. The issue features contributions by Michel Costantini, Mohamed Bernoussi, Jean-François Bordron, Jacques Fontanille, Sémir Badir, Joël Clerget, María Luisa Solís Zepeda, Jenny Ponzo, Francesco Galofaro, Juan Alonso-Aldama, Ivan…
Book Publication: Power of Emotions: On the Affective Constitution of Political Struggle. A Multidisciplinary Approach.
Ventsel, Andreas; Selg, Peeter (Eds.). Power of Emotions: On the Affective Constitution of Political Struggle. A Multidisciplinary Approach. Springer International Publishing, 2025. The emergence of political identities and communities in (social) media is largely driven by affective responses to current events—a tendency facilitated by the dominance of emotionally and visually oriented communication. However, this mode…
Call for Papers: TAMGA-Turkish Journal of Semiotic Studies
Dear colleagues and friends, As you know, TAMGA-Turkish Journal of Semiotic Studies (https://e-tamga.com/index.php/pub) is an international peer-reviewed open-access journal that has been active in Türkiye for two years. The journal is now accepting contributions for the next issue -December 2025. Download Call for Papers
In Memoriam: Vilmos Voigt
Vilmos Voigt died at the age of eighty-five on June 8, 2025. He was graduated from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in 1963, where he served during a long time as head of the Folklore Department, and Director of the Institute of Ethnography. He was a lecturer from 1970…
Journal Publication: Revista deSignis No. 43 – Peirce y la Semiótica Contemporánea
We are pleased to annonce the publication of Revista deSignis No. 43, titled Peirce y la Semiótica Contemporánea, which was released on July 1, 2025. This number was Coordinated by Claudio Guerri and Lucia Santaella, with the collaboration of Lucrecia Escudero Chauvel, this special monograph gathers contributions from leading semioticians across Latin America and elsewhere and explores the ongoing…
Snapshots from de International Congress of the Brazilian Association of Semiotic Studies (ABES)
Jacques Fontanille, President of the IASS, was present at the 6th International Congress of the Brazilian Association of Semiotic Studies (ABES), which took place in São Paulo. On 1 July 2025, he delivered the talk “Modes de présence de la manipulation: propagande, incitation, inflexion, influence” and took part in a discussion alongside some of the most prominent…
Journal Publication: Semiotica 264/2025
We are delighted to announce the publication of the latest issue of Semiotica. It features contributions by Volkhard Krech, Zoe Hurley, Kyriakos Demetriou, Gyeyeon Park, Sung Do Kim, Xi Wang, Zhixia Bo, Jiashuai Li, Jiangping Zhou, Charles H. Lineweaver, and Annick Farina. Spanning topics from religious metaphor and gendered significs to biosemiotics, translation studies, and visual semiotics in…
Call for Contributions: 14th Conference Association for Visual Semiotics / Association Internationale de Sémiotique Visuelle
Next Conference of AISV/IAVS (February 2026) Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce, in collaboration with the board of the Association for Visual Semiotics / Association Internationale de Sémiotique Visuelle, that its 14th Conference will be held in São Paulo (Brazil), hosted by the Escola de Comunicação e Artes (ECA) of the University of São Paulo (USP). It will take…
Book Publication: Wittgenstein & Semiotics
Gorlée, Dinda L. (Eds.). Wittgenstein & Semiotics. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004708723 Wittgenstein’s philosophy is directly related to the semiotic discipline to understand the signs, their processes, and signalling. Wittgenstein’s nervous system was a semiotic model of control and power to make choices. To examine this critical question, Wittgenstein & Semiotics discusses the cultural…
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