Dear Friends and Colleagues, The Omni Hotel in Pittsburgh has extended the cut-off date for reserving rooms to 5:00 pm local time on September 1, 2015. Please make your reservation ASAP. After September 1, it will be at the Omni’s discretion whether to accept reservations, which will be subject to prevailing rates and availability. The…
Author: Farouk Seif
Farouk Y. Seif, PhD is Professor Emeritus, Antioch University Seattle, former President and Executive Director of the Semiotic Society of America, a registered architect, and an artist. Seif serves as the Editor of the Semiotic Society of America Yearbook. Prior to becoming an American citizen, Seif was born and raised in Egypt with a Coptic background. His main interests are design, semiotics, paradoxes, transdisciplinarity, and transmodernity. His doctoral dissertation “Semiotics and Urban Morphogenesis: Metaphysical Aspects of Ancient Egyptian Monumentality as a Theoretical Approach to Urban Form" designed to reinterpret the Ancient Egyptian experience for thoughtful reflections on contemporary life. Prof. Seif has taught in universities and lectured at conferences worldwide. He was the recipient of the 2010 Fulbright Specialists Program at University of Sofia, Bulgaria. He has authored numerous articles and a dozen book chapters. His book "De-sign in the Transmodern World: Envisioning Reality Beyond Absoluteness" is a state-of-the-art integration of design and semiotics.
SSA 40th Annual Meeting Seminars/Workshops
Great workshops/seminars at our 40th Annual Meeting, pre-conference activities, on Thursday October 1st, 2015, 9:00–11:50 am. Don’t miss this opportunity! Richard L. Lanigan, “Visualizing Semiotic Models for Applied Research” The complexity of most semiotic models can be illustrated visually in what Peirce (4.418-419) called diagrams and graphs: “The aid that the system of graphs thus…
Keynote and Plenary Speakers
—Thursday, October 1, 2015— Welcome Address: Farouk Y. Seif “What’s Evolutionary Love Got to Do with Our Annual Meeting?” My welcoming address draws attention to the connections between this year’s theme, “Evolutionary Love,” and the celebration of a milestone in our history: the 40th…
Presidential Address, SSA 40th Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA
Marcel Danesi Love Is Not a Sign, Romance Is: The Transformation of the Body into Culture Saturday, October 3, 2015 Marcel Danesi is President of the Semiotic Society of America. He is Full Professor of linguistic anthropology and Director of the Program in Semiotics and Communication Theory at the University of Toronto. He has published…
Keynote Speakers, SSA 40th Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA
Michael L. Raposa On the Very Idea of a Virtual Community: Peirce and Royce Revisited Thursday, October 1, 2015 Michael L. Raposa is Professor of Religion Studies and the E.W. Fairchild Professor of American Studies at Lehigh University, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1985. He served as Associate Dean for…
SSA 40th Annual Meeting Call For Abstracts: Two Symposia Under Organization
The Semiosis of Pretense: Deception, Compliance, Novel Projection Organizers: Donna E. West westsimon@twcny.rr.com and Myrdene Anderson myanders@purdue.edu This symposium will explore the emergence and ontogenesis of pretense in living systems (especially human), exploring: simple reiteration of false beliefs; acceptance of claims with meager evidence; novel extensions of conventional uses; misfeasance with intent to deceive. The two initial…
Announcing CFP Extension for the 40th Annual Meeting
Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to extend the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 40th Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America to Monday, June 22, 2015. We anticipate a significant number of submissions. We encourage you to submit your proposal as soon as possible. All the best, Farouk Seif Executive Director, Semiotic Society of…
CFP: Semiotic Society of America 40th Annual Meeting
October 1-4, 2015 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Submission Deadline: June 22, 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,…
Happy 2015 and 40th Celebration!
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Happy New Year…! 2015 marks the 40th anniversary celebration, a significant event in the history of the Semiotic Society of America. As most of you know, the Annual Meeting will be held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on October 1–4, 2015. Appropriately, the theme of our 40th Annual Meeting is: “Evolutionary Love: Relations…
2014 Kevelson Award Winner is No “Ordinary” Student
Each year, the Semiotic Society of America (SSA) features the Roberta Kevelson Award for best student paper presented at its annual meeting (if, in the award committee’s judgment, a paper has been submitted that is worthy of this award). This year’s Kevelson Award recipient is John Tredinnick Rowe, a third-year Ph.D. student in medical studies…