Call for papers Music, Politics, Ideology in the Era of the Internet Semiotics, cognitive sciences, political sciences, sociology, media studies, cultural studies Louvain-la-Neuve, 8-9 May 2020 Université catholique de Louvain Centro di studi italiani, Globalit, ISPOLE Download: cfp-music-politics-ideology Organizers: Costantino Maeder (UCLouvain), Mark Reybrouck (KU Leuven, Ghent University), Lucio Spaziante (Università degli studi di Bologna),…

With a Call for papers for the 4th issue of the journal Digital Age in Semiotics and Communication (ISSN, DOI, CEEOl) Semiotics of the Digital Face (6-10 September 2020, Sozopol, Bulgaria) (Deadline for the proposals: 31 March 2020) efss_xx@nbu.bg  The advent of the internet and digital technologies in general wrought deep changes to the socio-cultural tissue in almost…

DEADLINE EXTENDED! Since the adoption of Web 2.0, the Internet has chosen food and nutrition as its favorite topic. The Chowhound boards, for example, have been active since ’97, a fact which speaks volumes about how much we owe the “great conversation” of online social media for the culinary megatrend we call—according to Marrone (2014)—gastromania….

Future. A time of history Edited by Jorge Lozano (Universidad Complutense – Madrid)  and Daniele Salerno (Universiteit Utrecht) Founded in 1971 by Umberto Eco, who had been its editor-in-chief until his death in February 2016, Versus is one of the first international journals of Semiotics, Philosophy and Theory of Language. It is currently directed by…

“Lexia”, the international, peer-reviewed journal of CIRCe, the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Communication of the University of Turin, Italy, invites contributions to be published in the issue n. 37-38 of the new series. The topic of the forthcoming issue is “Transhuman Visages”. Download: Lexia-CFP-Transhuman Visages Here is the expected publication schedule of the volume:…

(suit le texte en français) THE KRISTEVA CIRCLE, MAY 21-23, SOFIA, 2020 SEMIOTIZATION AND TRANSUBSTANTIATION: JULIA KRISTEVA FOR THE 21ST CENTURY Hosted by: SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR SEMIOTIC STUDIES, NEW BULGARIAN UNIVERSITY DEADLINE FOR THE ABSTRACTS: 15 JANUARY 2020 In the general introduction to her trilogy on the “female genius,” Kristeva notes that Arendt, Klein, and…

Since the adoption of Web 2.0, the Internet has chosen food and nutrition as its favorite topic. The Chowhound boards, for example, have been active since ’97, a fact which speaks volumes about how much we owe the “great conversation” of online social media for the culinary megatrend we call—according to Marrone (2014)—gastromania. Indeed, food…