Call for papers: Special issue of Punctum 9:1 (2023) “The Meaning of Collections between Media and Practices” (Guest editors: Gabriele Marino and Bruno Surace)

In 2009, in an essay that was to become famous, Umberto Eco associated the list with a kind of dizzying, vertigo-like semiotic mode of accumulation and categorization. The list, the catalog, the register, the inventory, are indeed quasi-synonyms, all united by their belonging to a specific semantic area: they refer to a set of things,…

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Anthroposemiosis, Augustine, Poinsot, Peirce and Deely and the Production of Human Knowledge and Experience (November 12)

Follow the rhythm… and you will get into the swing of the greatest maestros of semiotics on the liveliest of stages of human evolution. Event times around the world IO2S ⚘ Performing Arts in a Process of Semiosis November 12, 2022 / 11am (EST), 4pm (UTC) Lecturer: Javier Clavere Commentator: António Manuel Martins Chair: William…

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Seminar: “Semiotics and City Poetics: Jakobson’s Theory and Praxis”, by Mary Coghill (13th January 2023, 16-18.00 (GMT) on Zoom)

The semiotics of urban poetics and Formalist praxis – Jakobson’s contribution to urban poetics. Analysis of the metonym is neglected in poetry. In city poetry, shifters and deictics are particular tools which provide for a city narrator and explore the city’s nature and effects – the city and the human. This is a presentation with…

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Nouvelle ouvrage collectif: “Le sensible, passion sémiotique en communication. Dialogues avec Jean-Jacques Boutaud”

Bonjour à toutes et à tous, L’ouvrage collectif consacré aux travaux de Jean-Jacques Boutaud est désormais disponible. Il réunit une vingtaine de contributeurs français et étrangers qui sont entrés en dialogue avec lui en s’appuyant sur une sélection de publications. Vous trouverez en pièces jointes, la couverture, ainsi que le sommaire de cet ouvrage édité…

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Forthcoming book: “Semiotics and city poetics. Jakobson’s theory and praxis”, by Mary Coghill (due date: 5th December 2022)

Volume 25 in the series Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] Roman Jakobson stands alone in his semiotic theory of poetic analysis which combines semiotics, linguistics and structuralist poetics. This groundbreaking book proposes methods for developing Jakobson’s theories of communication and poetic function. It provides an extensive range of examples of the kinds of Formalist praxis…

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Songbirds of the Primate World (October 15)

Look after other species… and hark to the insightful chant of nature as you magnify the focus of human perception. Event times around the world IO2S ⚘ Songbirds of the Primate World October 15, 2022 / 11am (EDT), 4pm (UTC+1h) Lecturers: Baranna Baker and Sofi Berstein Commentators: Susan Mancino and Amelia Lewis Chair: Tim Troutman…

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Appel pour le colloque: “De quoi sémio est-il le nom?” (13, 14 et 15 septembre 2023)

Chères et chers collègues,  j’ai le plaisir d’annoncer l’appel à communications, ci-joint, pour le colloque « De quoi sémio est-il le nom ? L’apport des SIC à la sémiotique », qui se tiendra à l’université de Liège les 13, 14 et 15 septembre 2023. Les propositions de communication sont attendues pour le 15 décembre 2022. N’hésitez pas…

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Call for papers: DeSignis, 18 “Cocina, gusto y mediatización” (Hors serie 3)

El número 18 de deSignis, titulado “Comer, beber, hablar. Semióticas culinarias” y coordinado por Oscar Traversa (con la colaboración de Gustavo Aprea y Gastón De Lazzari), proponía en el año 2011 un enfoque semiótico de la cultura alimentaria, la gastronomía y las prácticas a ellas vinculadas. Más de diez años después, el tema se ha…

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