11th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature, 6-8 April 2017 The eleventh in a series of biennial international and interdisciplinary symposia organized by the Iconicity Research Project since 1997, this meeting will once again focus on iconicity – resemblance mappings between form and meaning – in language and in literature. The theme of…

Call for papers Semiotics and Fieldwork: On critical enthographies Special issue of Punctum Guest Editors: Eleftheria Deltsou (University of Thessaly) and Fotini Tsibiridou (University of Macedonia) The cross‐fertilization between anthropology and semiotics, stretching back to Levi‐Strauss’s structural anthropology, has repeatedly reinvigorated both disciplines, all the while encouraging rapprochments and interdisciplinarity across a wide range of disciplinary fields. Ethnography,…

YouTube Conference: Call for Papers 23/4 September 2016, Middlesex University, The Burroughs, Hendon, London. Keynote speaker: Professor Jean Burgess Please send an abstract of 350 words plus a short bio of 100 words for single papers or 500 words and individual bios for group panels by email attachment to youtube@mdx.ac.uk <mailto:youtube@mdx.ac.uk> . Deadline for receipt…

A special section of the Chinese Journal of Semiotic Studies devoted to Peirce, his work, and his contributions to semiotics and logic is being organized by Charls Pearson. Papers must be unpublished, in English and the topic must pertain to Peirce’s theory of inquiry and/or his semiotics. Deadlines: 2016-03-31 for an abstract 2016-04-30 for the full paper…