Sebeok Award Fellow Address Thinking at the Edges Abstract: The field of semiotic studies requires borders to function as a discipline but as a living science it is essential that those borders be unheeded. Semioticians must be free to roam over the entire range of knowledge for, as Thomas Sebeok observed, semiotics “circumscribes what we…
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.
Keynote & Plenary Speakers, SSA 44th Annual Conference
We are honored to announce that Prof. Beata Stawarska and Prof. Leonard Lawlorare our keynote speakers, and Prof. Daniela Vallega-Neu and Prof. Jamin Pelkey are Plenary Speakers at the SSA 44thAnnual Conference in Portland, Oregon, October 9–13, 2019. Keynote Speakers “Ghostwriting or How to Make an Official Doctrine” Abstract: In my talk I will reconstitute the process of ghostwriting…
The IACS 4th Conference: SEMIOTIC COMPLEXITIES: Theory & Analysis
Save-the-Date The International Association for Cognitive Semiotics is pleased to announce that the 4th conference of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics(IACS) will take place July 2nd- 4th, 2020, at RWTH Aachen University in Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle), Germany. The International Association for Cognitive Semiotics is pleased to announce that the 4th conference of the International Association for Cognitive…
Announcing CFP Extension for NARRATIVE (III): PUNCTUATIONS, SEAMS, SYNTHESES, TRANSFORMATIONS
Dear Colleagues, The deadline for submitting abstracts to the symposium: NARRATIVE (III): PUNCTUATIONS, SEAMS, SYNTHESES, TRANSFORMATIONS, in conjunction with the 44thSSA Conference, has been extended to Monday, July 15, 2019. Please submit your abstracts to co-organizers: Myrdene Anderson <myanders@purdue.edu> and Donna West <westsimon@twcny.rr.com> by Wednesday, 10 July 2019. Farouk Y. Seif On behalf of co-organizers, President, Semiotic Society of America
Announcing CFP Extension for the 44th SSA Annual Conference
Dear Friends and Colleagues, The 2019 SSA Program Committee and I are pleased to extend the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 44th Annual Conference of the Semiotic Society of America to Monday, July 15, 2019. We anticipate a significant number of submissions. We encourage you to submit your proposal as soon as possible. All the…
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:
NARRATIVE (III): PUNCTUATIONS, SEAMS, SYNTHESES, TRANSFORMATIONS A symposium in conjunction with the Special Interest Group on Empirical Semiotics, for the 44th Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America; Portland, Oregon, 9-13 October 2019 Co-organized by Myrdene Anderson (Purdue University) <myanders@purdue.edu> Donna E. West (State University of New York at Cortland) <westsimon@twcny.rr.com> Symposium Abstract Narrative…
John Deely/Jacques Maritain Lecture and Colloquium
Invitation 2019 Second Annual John Deely/Jacques Maritain Lecture and Colloquium at Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, PA, Friday, March 22, 2019 John Deely (1942–2017) Jacques Maritain (1882–1960)
Exhibit: Thomas A. Sebeok and the Scientific Self
https://libraries.indiana.edu/thomas-sebeok-and-scientific-self Thomas A. Sebeok and the Scientific Self | Indiana University Libraries Location: Herman B Wells Library E460 1320 E. Tenth St.BloomingtonIN47405 Date: December 7th 2018, 8:00am – March 29th 2019, 5:00pm
44th SSA Call for Papers
The Semiotics of Borders and the Borders of Semiotics The SSA 44th Annual Conference Portland, Oregon, USA, October 9–13, 2019 This year’s Conference theme: “The Semiotics of Borders and the Borders of Semiotics” speaks to the limit conditions of systems of all sorts. As well, it poses both broad and specific questions of ontology and epistemology…
44th SSA Conference
Dear Friends and Colleagues, On behalf of the SSA Executive Board, I am pleased to confirm that our 44th SSA Conference will take place at the Hilton Hotel in the heart of Downtown Portland, Oregon, October 9–13, 2019. Please mark your calendar. More information will follow in the next few weeks. Farouk Y. Seif President, Semiotic…
