Cher.e.s collègues, Je vous écris pour vous inviter à prendre connaissance de l’appel à communications de l’Association Internationale de Sémiotique Visuelle /International Association for Visual Semiotics qui organise son 13ème congrès du 28 au 30 septembre 2023 à l’Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano, à Bogotá, Colombie. Ce congrès est organisé par l’équipe de Douglas Niño en collaboration avec le bureau de…

Deadline for submissions: 15 February 2023. The 13th Annual Lotman Conference at Tallinn Universityaims to bring together discussions about fear from various disciplines. Fear plays an important role in human culture on the individual as well as on the collective level serving as one of the constraints that regulates people’s choices and behaviour. However, at times the mechanism of fear seems to spiral out…

Guest Editors: Loukia Kostopoulou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) & Maria-Ilia Katsaridou (Ionian University) Art expresses and highlights social problems; it is usually the case that filmmakers are influenced by other artists or media and these influences are reflected in their work. Bruhn and Gjelsvik (2008) stress the affinities of cinema with other media: “As cinema…