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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…

Dear Friends and Colleagues, As you know the 44thAnnual SSA Conference will take place at the Hilton Hotel, Downtown Portland, 921 SW Sixth Avenue, Portland, OR 97204. The following are transportation options from Portland Airport to City Center: Portland Streetcar Tri Met (Red Line) The cost of the ticket is $2.50 one way and the travel time is…

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…

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…

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…

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