Tartu University is home for a unique centre of semiotics, as the Department of Semiotics established by Juri Lotman is one of the oldest in the world. It has long-time traditions in research and teaching semiotics at BA, MA, and PhD levels. In the 2009/2010 academic year, we launched an international English MA programme in…
Director Professor Eero Tarasti, Co-Directors Professor Jean-Marie Jacono (Université d’Aix-Marseille), Professor Dario Martinelli (Kaunas Technological University) MONDAY, MARCH 2 Unioninkatu 38 hall C120 Musicology 10-12.30 Session I – Opening Eero Tarasti – Jean-Marie Jacono, Musique, narrativité et société russe : les ballets de Tchaikovski – Juan Barrera, Forme et signification dans le répertoire d’orgue francais du…
The IASS values the views of its membership and is currently carrying out a survey. For members to participate in the survey, the links are English: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1MSrBNfTitHZtsz6kwKrlbvuetY3n-k232OZWA2pFAMI/viewform Spanish: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11XfITIDmfwma2G6qIujXIJpfCn22Ln3L4xPi_b_8RSE/viewform Results of the survey will be published on the IASS website later this year.
October 1-4, 2015 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Submission Deadline: May 8, 2015 Evolutionary Love: Relations and Identities in a Virtual World Charles Sanders Peirce’s concept of evolutionary love is behind the theme of this year’s conference, which prompts an exploration into the digital age of virtual relationships and identities. How have these relationships grown, or changed,…
Organised by the Norwegian research group of the Norwegian-Estonian research project “Animals in Changing Environments: Cultural Mediation and Semiotic Analysis” (EEA Norway Grants/Norway Financial Mechanism 2009–2014 under project contract no. EMP151). The research project is carried out in cooperation between University of Stavanger (Norway) and University of Tartu (Estonia). Co-organised by Minding Animals Norway. Venue: Kjell Arholms hus,…
Sign Systems Studies 42(4) http://www.sss.ut.ee/index.php/sss/index The current issue contains four articles that can be brought together using the general key phrase ‘semiotics of culture extended’, thus proceeding from the main line of thought that has been characteristic of the journal. In addition, we are publishing a self-reflective review of contemporary semiotics in the form of…
SEMIOTIC (UN-)PREDICTABILITY Second Call for Papers The paradoxical co-presence of predictability and unpredictability is a fundamental aspect of the dynamics of the semiotic world. Abduction, habit, explosion, (artistic) modelling, code, interaction, meaning-making, signification, innovation, uncertainty, change, order and disorder, entropy, translation, interpretation – there are numerous concepts that reflect this tension in different kinds of semiotic…
Doctoral student in Cognitive Semiotics Type of employment: Limit of tenure, Maximum 4 years Extent: 100 % Location: Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund First day of employment: 2015-09-01 Official Records Number: HTPA 2015/6 Job assignments Doctoral education. Departmental work can be assigned. Eligibility/Entry Requirements Eligibility for doctoral studies in each subject is specified in…
Issue 5 (1) 2015 of this widely read, international blind/peer reviewed journal is now available at: www.southernsemioticreview.net with articles by Augusto Ponzio, Göran Sonesson, Susan Petrilli, Donna West, George Rossolatos, Nicoleta Blanariu, Benson Igboin and Oluchi Igili. Submissions for next issue (s) welcome. Additional submission by same author welcome.
Semiotics of Cultural Heritages, From Authenticity to Informatics. 7-10 May 2015 İstanbul University Department of Informatics & Fine Arts Department http://iscch2015.org/ Semiotics of Cultural Heritages is an international research project founded by Professor Eero Tarasti two years ago. It is largely based upon his theory of existential semiotics. The projects has now over 80 members,…
NEW DEADLINE EXTENDED-31 JANUARY 2015 2nd International Conference & Exhibition on Semiotics and Visual Communication 2-4 October 2015, Cyprus University of Technology, Lemesos / Cyprus Conference web site: www.icsvc-conference.com The conference The event will take place from the 2nd to the 4th of October 2015 at the Cyprus University of Technology, and is being organized…
Title: Semiotics of Popular Culture ISBN: 978-3-86219-556-5 Author: George Rossolatos Release date: January 2015 Pages: 193 Available for purchase (paperback) at http://www.upress.uni-kassel.de/katalog/abstract_en.php?978-3-86219-556-5 Download the Introduction and the Table of Contents from http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2534969 Download sample chapter (A Dio: A Sociosemiotic/Phenomenological Account of the Formation of Collective Narrative Identity in the Context of a Rock Legend’s Memorial) from http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2516969…
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