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…

La revue Interfaces Numériques invite à réfléchir au thème : Enseigner, étudier, vivre les Lettres à l’heure de l’intelligence artificielle (IA). L’appel à contribution est interdisciplinaire et s’adresse aux chercheurs, aux professionnels de l’enseignement, aux étudiants. Il s’agit d’ouvrir le débat autour de deux questionnements : 1) L’humain, les lettres et l’automate : écueils et défis du faire…

The journal De Ethica invites submissions for a 2027 special issue, “Crisis & Recovery: Ethics in Interdisciplinary Dialogue.” The issue particularly welcomes work at the intersection of semiotics and ethics, alongside contributions on crisis and recovery; memory, trauma and commemoration; hope and resilience; political ethics; democracy and peace; forgiveness and reconciliation; environmental ethics; and related themes. The special…