Call for abstracts

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the abstract submission for the 

16th World Congress of the IASS/AIS
“Signs and Realities”
2-6 September 2024, Warsaw, Poland

 
IS NOW OPEN!

You are invited to submit the abstract in one of the following topics or panels (with Conveners):


TOPICS
 
Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Modelling Systems of Reality
Conceptions of the Worldhood in Phenomenological, Metaphysical, and Mythical Thought
Text and Text-Processing Activities Associated with Different Types of Discourse
Constituents of Physical, Anthropic, and Semiotic Cosmologies
The Role of the Semiosphere in Relation to the Biosphere in the Structure of the Geospheres
Hominization of the World: The Impact of the Noosphere on the Evolution of the Biosphere
Epistemology as a Transsemiotic Cartography of Human Knowledge
The Role of Instrumentation and Technology in Mapping the World
Semiotic Landscapes of Creativity in the Anthropogenic Transformation of Reality
Others
PANELS
 
  • Semiotics and National Identity (Sebastián Moreno Barreneche)
  • Semiotics of Religion (Jenny Ponzo, Massimo Leone)
  • Semiotics of Guilt. Reconstructing Collective Shame and False Confessions in Digital Media and Beyond (Cristina Greco)
  • Pluriverses of Latin American Semiotics (Germán García, Mónica Cataño, Andrés Castiblanco)
  • Facing Multiple-Realities: Semio-Anthropology and Cultural Worlds (Ludovic Châtenet, Angelo Di Caterino)
  • Semiotics of Political and Strategic Communication: Unpacking Semiotic Processes, Conflict, and Security in Modern Society (Andreas Ventsel, Ott Puumeister)
  • The Sign We Missed: Semiotics of the Artefact (Barend Van Heusden)
  • Signs and Realities in the Semiotics Discourse of Space and Time (Dragana Vasilski, International Association for Semiotics of Space and Time)
  • On Aboutness (Barend Van Heusden)
  • Enunciation and Pragmatics: Sociosemiotics and Culture in Digital Times (Eliseo Colon-Zayas)
  • The Cultural Semiotics of Jingshen and Cognitive Homeostasis (Hongbing Yu, Jie Zhang)
  • Transference between Realities: Semiotic Relativity and Umwelt Building (Hongbing Yu)
  • Sign of Disaster, Disaster of Sign (Mohamed Bernoussi)
  • Semiotic Wars: A Study of Semiotic Weaponisation (Robert Boroch, Anna Korzeniowska-Bihun)
  • Communicology: Reality Convergence of Semiology and Phenomenology (Richard L. Lanigan, Jacqueline Martinez)
  • The Nature of Iconicity (Nastazja Stoch, Aleksandra Horecka, Piotr Kozak)
  • Semiotics of Industrial Art: between Technology, Politics and Senses (Jia Peng, Alin Olteanu, Jorge Urueña Lopez) 
  • (Re)Designing Realities (Rodrigo Morais, Roberto Chiachiri, Camila Nascimento, Samuel Rodeia, Gonçalo Figueiredo) 
  • Semiotics and the Elderly: Embracing a Semiotic Approach to Understanding an Ageing Society (Federico Bellentani, Massimo Leone)
  • Aspects of the Prosaic (Semir Badir, Carolina Lindenberg Lemos)
  • Semiotic Explorations of Ecology (in Design, Architecture, Urbanism, Landscaping) (Isabel Marcos, Claudio Guerri)
  • Semiotics of Nature-Culture Relations (Katarzyna Machtyl)
  • Faces Reloaded: Rebirth, Reproduction, Revival, and Regeneration in Digital Semiotics (Massimo Leone, Cristina Voto)
  • How Do We Exist With Our Signs... On the Epistemological Foundations of Semiotics (Eero Tarasti)
  • Internaturality and Meaning (Gianfranco Marrone, Tiziana Migliore)
  • Women, Femininity, and Gender…Who We Gonna Call? Semiotics! (Cristina Voto, Maria Giulia Dondero, Marita Soto, Daria Arkhipova, Alunimé Rosso)
  • Semiotic and Artistic Realities (Małgorzata Gamrat)
  • Jerzy Pelc and Polish Semiotics (Tadeusz Ciecierski, Małgorzata Gamrat)
  • Semiotics of Sustainability: Reinterpreting Waste and Cultural Heritage (Francesco Mazzucchelli, Elonora Chiais, Massimo Leone)
  • 40 Years of Musical Semiotics (Małgorzata Gamrat, Eero Tarasti)
  • Semiotic Approaches to Image Generation Models (Maria Giulia Dondero, Tiziana Migliore, International Association for Visual Semiotics) 
  • On Sign Typologies: Indices, Index and the Connection between Sign and Reality (Semir Badir, Eugenio Israel Chávez Barreto)
  • Enunciation and Reality (Darrault-Harris Ivan)
  • Semiotics of Consumption (Paulina Gómez Lorenzini, Liliana De Simone, Vanessa Saiz, Rafael Orlandini)
  • Fashion, Semiotics and Reality: How Fashion Designs Gender Realities? (José María Paz Gago, Bianca Terracciano, Maya Marx Starque, Giulia Adriana Ceriani, Román Padín, Janiene Santos)
  • Semiosis in Platformization and Digital Mediation (Eneus Trindade, Arlete Dos Santos Petry, Filipe Perez)
  • Multiple Panoramas of Latin American Semiotics (Emiliano Vargas, Baal Delupi, Mónica Santillán, Roberto Chiachiri, Neyla G. Pardo Abril, Luis Ospina) 
  • Sign Systems and Sign Users in Ecological Settings (Elżbieta Magdalena Wąsik)
  • Brand Semiotics (Silvio Sato, Paulo Lencastre, Nuno Corte-Real, Carolina Boari)
  • Semiotics of Human Rights (Roberto Chiachiri, Maria Ogécia Drigo, Luciana Coutinho Pagliarini de Souza)
  • Semiotics of Sexual-Emotional Relations: From Post-Confinement to Artificial Intelligence, Including Dating Sites and Video Games (Rafael Del Villar, José Miguel Labrin) 
  • Social Realities in Crisis and Pathways to Peace: Semioethical Perspectives on Signs, Languages, Ideologies, and Their (Mis)Interpretation (Susan Petrilli, Devon Schiller)
  • General Semiotics: Blending Structuralism and Pragmatism (Jamin Pelkey, Tyler James Bennett)
  • The Role of Signs for Representing Contested Realities in Media, Text and Performance (Muthiah Ramakrishnan, Burla Venkata Naresh)
  • Unresolved Problems in Biosemiotics (Donald Favareau, Kalevi Kull)
  • Semiotics of Videogames, Interactive, and Generative Media (Kristian Bankov, Everardo Reyes, Mattia Thibault)
  • Forgotten Semiotics / Semiotic Forgetting (Daina Teters)
  • Hidden Orders Behind Visual Cultures (Daina Teters, MetaMind Group)
  • Advertising Semiotics (Bruno Pompeu, Ana Elisa Antunes Viviani, Maria Ogécia Drigo, Roberto Schmidt, Rogério Covaleski, João Ciaco)
  • Logical Semiotics in Poland (Anna Brożek, The Lvov-Warsaw School Research Center)
  • Semiotic Diversity (Anne Hénault, Maria-Giulia Dondero, Jean-François Bordron, Enzo D’Armenio)


 
IMPORTANT DATES
31.12.2023   Panels proposal submission closes
15.01.2024   Notification of panels acceptance
20.01.2024   Abstracts submission opens
31.03.2024   Abstracts submission closes
30.04.2024   Notification of abstracts acceptance
31.05.2024   Deadline for early bird fee registration & payment
30.06.2024   Deadline for regular fee registration & payment
31.07.2024   Deadline for late fee registration & payment
2-6.09.2024  16th World Congress of the IASS/AIS
 
For more details on abstract submission, refer to https://semcon2024.com/submissions
 

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See you in Warsaw!
 
With Best Regards,
The 16th World Congress of the IASS/AIS Organizing Committee
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