The Semiotic Society of America 39th Annual Meeting October 2–5, 2014 Seattle, Washington   www.semioticsocietyofamerica.org DEADLINE for Abstract and Proposal Submissions: May 16, 2014 PDF version of CFP: http://semioticsocietyofamerica.org/images/stories/2014_SSA_Call_for_Papers.pdf   Paradoxes of Life* Challenge – Determination – Resilience   Ever since the paradoxes of Zeno (on the impossibility of motion) and Heraclitus (on the possibility of ever-present…

Call for Papers: “Peirce and His Students“Tallinn, Estonia, 21 April 2014 Workshop in the 2nd Applying Peirce Conference (Tallinn-Helsinki, 20-23 April 2014)http://www.nordprag.org/ap2.html It has sometimes been claimed that, unlike many other classical philosophers, Charles Peirce had few or even no intellectual heirs at all. This event intends to establish the extent of relationships between Peirce…

Ocula.it is the oldest Italian online academic review in semiotics. It was founded in 2000 by a group of semioticians from Bologna University, all of them Umberto Eco’s disciples. Some of the group now hold positions in Italian Universities. The review has published its articles mostly in Italian, but it has recently adopted a double…

Few days left for the 20 Euro early registration discount for the next IASS world congress in Sofia, 16-20 September, 2014 (http://semio2014.org). The discount expires on 28 February. 12th World congress of IASS/IAS “New Semiotics: between Tradition and Innovation” Sofia, 16-20 September 2014, New Bulgarian University www.semio2014.org The registration form for the congress is now available. This is…

Extended Deadline – Feb 16, 2014 The 2nd International Conference of Semiosis Research Center (ICSRC), Seoul, Korea The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to February 16 2014. Narrative and Multimodality The ICSRC is a premier international conference covering interdisciplinary dialogues on semiosis (sign processes). The Semiosis Research Center (SRC) is a research institute sponsored by…