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…

deSignis invites submissions of articles, essays, and case studies for a thematic issue on “Semiotics of Myths.” The issue proposes a critical, interdisciplinary, and methodologically reflective approach to the ways in which myths produce, organize, transform, and contest meaning in past and contemporary cultures. Myth has historically constituted one of the privileged objects of semiotic inquiry. From the…

Call for AbstractsFirst Semiotic Symposium of Students (SemioSyS 2026) December 11, 2026 Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest, HU SIGNS OF (MIS)TRUST: DIALOGUES ACROSS CULTURE, MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY This symposium invites students to explore the signs, texts, and practices through which trust is performed, granted, contested, or eroded. Two fundamental questions emerge: What are the semiotic…