The year 2026 will mark the 10th anniversary of Umberto Eco’s death on 19 February 2016. Ten years during which Eco himself had asked not to organise any conferences about him, so as to better determine and appreciate what to forget, what to keep, and what to build on. Indeed, a decade is an adequate…
Dear colleagues The current issue of Southern Semiotic Review (2025 ii) is available and can be accessed here It includes papers from six continents and nine countries, and continues to fulfill the journal’s aim to be international in scope. The next issue will be thematically organised, although there will be a section for general submissions. There will be…
We are pleased to announce the publication of issue 265 of Semiotica, a distinguished special volume entitled “Mystics and Politics”, expertly edited by Juan Alonso-Aldama and Denis Bertrand. The issue features contributions by Michel Costantini, Mohamed Bernoussi, Jean-François Bordron, Jacques Fontanille, Sémir Badir, Joël Clerget, María Luisa Solís Zepeda, Jenny Ponzo, Francesco Galofaro, Juan Alonso-Aldama, Ivan…
Ventsel, Andreas; Selg, Peeter (Eds.). Power of Emotions: On the Affective Constitution of Political Struggle. A Multidisciplinary Approach. Springer International Publishing, 2025. The emergence of political identities and communities in (social) media is largely driven by affective responses to current events—a tendency facilitated by the dominance of emotionally and visually oriented communication. However, this mode…
Dear colleagues and friends, As you know, TAMGA-Turkish Journal of Semiotic Studies (https://e-tamga.com/index.php/pub) is an international peer-reviewed open-access journal that has been active in Türkiye for two years. The journal is now accepting contributions for the next issue -December 2025. Download Call for Papers
Vilmos Voigt died at the age of eighty-five on June 8, 2025. He was graduated from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in 1963, where he served during a long time as head of the Folklore Department, and Director of the Institute of Ethnography. He was a lecturer from 1970…
We are pleased to annonce the publication of Revista deSignis No. 43, titled Peirce y la Semiótica Contemporánea, which was released on July 1, 2025. This number was Coordinated by Claudio Guerri and Lucia Santaella, with the collaboration of Lucrecia Escudero Chauvel, this special monograph gathers contributions from leading semioticians across Latin America and elsewhere and explores the ongoing…
Jacques Fontanille, President of the IASS, was present at the 6th International Congress of the Brazilian Association of Semiotic Studies (ABES), which took place in São Paulo. On 1 July 2025, he delivered the talk “Modes de présence de la manipulation: propagande, incitation, inflexion, influence” and took part in a discussion alongside some of the most prominent…
We are delighted to announce the publication of the latest issue of Semiotica. It features contributions by Volkhard Krech, Zoe Hurley, Kyriakos Demetriou, Gyeyeon Park, Sung Do Kim, Xi Wang, Zhixia Bo, Jiashuai Li, Jiangping Zhou, Charles H. Lineweaver, and Annick Farina. Spanning topics from religious metaphor and gendered significs to biosemiotics, translation studies, and visual semiotics in…
Next Conference of AISV/IAVS (February 2026) Dear colleagues, We are delighted to announce, in collaboration with the board of the Association for Visual Semiotics / Association Internationale de Sémiotique Visuelle, that its 14th Conference will be held in São Paulo (Brazil), hosted by the Escola de Comunicação e Artes (ECA) of the University of São Paulo (USP). It will take…
Gorlée, Dinda L. (Eds.). Wittgenstein & Semiotics. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004708723 Wittgenstein’s philosophy is directly related to the semiotic discipline to understand the signs, their processes, and signalling. Wittgenstein’s nervous system was a semiotic model of control and power to make choices. To examine this critical question, Wittgenstein & Semiotics discusses the cultural…
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