Dear Friends and Colleagues, We are very pleased to share with you the Preliminary Program Schedule for our 39th Annual Meeting, which will take place in Seattle on October 2-5. We are creating an extraordinary conference for you this year. We are planning on more than doubling last year’s attendance and introducing you to an…
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.
Announcing CFP Extension for our 39th Annual Meeting
Dear Colleagues, We have received many abstract proposals to be considered for the 39th Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America in Seattle, October 2-5, 2014. Based on requests from several colleagues and institutions, we are pleased to extend the deadline for submitting abstracts to Friday, June 20, 2014. We anticipate a significant number of submissions…
Welcome from Farouk Y. Seif, Executive Director
Dear Colleagues and Friends, Welcome to our newly designed Semiotic Society of America website! It is a significant time in the history of the SSA. We are excited to introduce you to our new website in preparation for our 39th Annual Meeting entitled “Paradoxes of Life”, which will be held in Seattle, Washington, on October…
The Semiotic Society of America 39th Annual Meeting
October 2–5, 2014 Seattle, Washington CFP Extended Deadline: June 20 | Program details Non-restrictive Conference Theme: Paradoxes of Life Challenge – Determination – Resilience Ever since the paradoxes of Zeno (on the impossibility of motion) and Heraclitus (on the possibility of ever-present change)—through the work of Baudrillard, Eco, Escher, Hegel, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Peirce, Picasso, Russell,…
