Dear Friends and Colleagues, The countdown continues for the 43rd SSA Annual Conference in Berea! The Program Committee would like to extend an invitation to you to bring sample copies of your published books for display at the Book Exhibit in Berea. If you have any questions about our book exhibit, please direct them to our local host Javier Clavere at:…
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.
43rd SSA Conference: Detailed Program Schedule (Updated)
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Plenary Speakers, SSA 43rd Annual Conference
Vincent Colapietro Sebeok Fellow Award Lecture: The Music of Meaning: Gestures, Traces, and Media Abstract Just as theories of signs have been deployed to elucidate the nature of music, music might provide us with a source for illuminating the meaning of meaning. Indeed, theorists, such as Hanslick, Langer, Scruton, Lidov, and Hatten, have crafted their…
43rd SSA Conference: Detailed Program Schedule
43rd SSA Detailed Program Schedule 2018
43rd SSA Conference: Program Schedule (Updated)
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43rd SSA Conference: Program Schedule
43rd SSA Program Schedule (updated)
Rooms at the Boone Tavern Hotel, Berea
Dear Colleagues, The Boone Tavern Hotel still has 48 rooms available. The price for the hotel is the same as the Holiday Inn on route 75. It is best to go to the Tavern, as we are 0.15 miles from the music building. www.boonetavernhotel.com
CFP Extension for the 43rd SSA Annual Conference: June 22, 2018
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Announcing CFP Extension for the 43rd SSA Annual Conference
Dear Colleagues, We are pleased to extend the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 43rdAnnual Conference of the Semiotic Society of America to Friday, June 22, 2018. We anticipate a significant number of submissions. We encourage you to submit your proposal as soon as possible. All the best, Farouk Seif Chair, Program Committee
Keynote Speakers, SSA 43rd Annual Conference
We are honored to announce that Prof. Ivo Assad Ibri and Prof. Wendy Wheelerare our keynote speakers at the SSA 43rd Annual Conference in Berea, Kentucky. Prof. Ivo Assad Ibri “The Semiotic Resilient Mind – Conflictual and Agapic Relationship between Logic and Emotional Interpretants” Abstract By resilient mind I mean every mind’s capacity to deal with the hardness of…
