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WANTED: BOOK REVIEW EDITOR The American Journal of Semiotics (TAJS), the scholarly journal of the Semiotic Society of America (SSA), welcomes applications for Book Review Editor. This position will support the editorial work of The American Journal of Semiotics in the following ways: assisting the TAJS editorial team in identifying books worth reviewing, soliciting publishers for…

THE SCHOOL OF ARTS, HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT INVITES YOU TO ATTEND “WHO IS JOHN DEELY?”  A Contemplative Reflection on the Journey of a Philosopher and Semiotician  By FAROUK SEIF, PH.D. Please click the link below to join the webinar:https://stvincent-edu.zoom.us/j/97331653231 The question, “Who Is John Deely?”, with its use of “is” rather than “was”, emphasizes that Deely is semiotically still with us. To answer…

Addressing Precarity: Semiotics, Semiosis, and Semioethics The 45th Annual Conference (Virtual) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, October 20-23, 2021 The theme for this year’s conference is Addressing Precarity: Semiotics, Semiosis, and Semioethics. The conference centers on considering precarity through the framework of semiotics. Presenters are encouraged to develop panels and submissions that consider semiosis, semioethics, and precarity. As always, we welcome abstracts…

  Very sad news. The former President of the International Association for Semiotic Studies Roland Posner (1942–2020) has died. Richard L. Lanigan writes: The first generation of Semioticians is passing quickly these days!  I worked with Posner over many years. In good German fashion, he was always correcting my English and I (as a good…

We are very sad to announce the passing of Dr. Joseph L. Brent. A semiotician and historian who published the first biography of American Philosopher and “father of pragmatism” Charles Sanders Peirce, died on January 21, 2020, aged 91, from lung cancer. Dr. Brent was the 2006 President of the Semiotic Society of America. The…

IACS4-2020 Final Call for PapersThe 4th biennial Conference of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS4) will be held from July 2-4, 2020, in Aachen, Germany. The call for papers for IACS4 has been extended. The submission deadline for theme session proposals is now November 30, 2019. The deadline for abstracts is December 15, 2019….

Dear Friends and Colleagues, Just a friendly reminder before you retreat for the Thanksgiving Holiday. Please submit your final papers to the Editor of Semiotics: Yearbook of the SSA, Geoffrey Owens at  geoffrey.owens@wright.edu by December 16th, 2019. The Yearbook seeks 3,000-to-6,000-word submissions from current SSA members, including 2019 SSA Conference participants. Happy Thanksgiving! Farouk Seif Past President, Semiotic Society of America Fellow,…

Dear Friends and Colleagues, It is with deep sorrow that I have to inform you that one of the figures who transformed contemporary semiotics, Jesper Hoffmeyer, passed away on 25 September 2019 at age 77.  Hoffmeyer was a professor at the University of Copenhagen’s Institute for Biological Chemistry, a leading figure in Biosemiotics, the President…

Welcome to the 44th SSA Annual Conference Portland, Oregon 2019 It is a special privilege to welcome you to the 44th Annual Conference of the Semiotic Society of America. This year’s theme, “The Semiotics of Borders and the Borders of Semiotics,” has stimulated provocative ideas and inspiring perspectives that have profound implications for our perception and…