Dear Friends and Colleagues, The Westin Seattle Hotel has extended the cut-off date for reserving rooms to 5:00 pm local time on September 2, 2014. Please make your reservation ASAP. After September 2, it will be at the Westin’s discretion whether to accept reservations, which will be subject to prevailing rates and availability. The SSA…
All Aboard! Destination: Emerald City
(Latitude 47° 36′ 23″ N / Longitude 122° 19′ 50″ W) Dear Friends and Colleagues, The 39th SSA Annual Meeting is just around the corner. In order to take advantage of the special SSA rate, please make your room arrangements with Westin Seattle Hotel Reservations online or by calling +01-888-627-8513 before August 22, 2014. After this date,…
Sail away…!
Dear Friends and Colleagues, It’s my great pleasure to apprise you that we have received 168 abstracts from 24 countries. We have a record-breaking number of submissions as we “sail away” toward the 39th Annual Meeting in Seattle. For those of you who didn’t have the opportunity to submit proposals, I highly encourage you to come…
Don’t miss the boat!
Dear Friends and Colleagues, As of today, we have received 115 abstracts from more than 20 countries for our 39th Annual Meeting this October. The deadline for submitting abstracts is approaching rapidly—this Friday, June 20th. If you plan on submitting a proposal, please do so soon as possible before the deadline. Due to the volume of abstracts…
39th Annual Meeting Program: Some Highlights
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…
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,…
