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FOCUS ON GESTURES

– in the past, present, and future The special exhibition “Gestures – in the past, present, and future” will run from 17 November 2017 to 4 March 2018 at the Saxon Museum of Industry. It looks at […]

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Special issues of Semiotica on A. J. Greimas

We are pleased to announce two special issues in honor of A. J. Greimas edited by Thomas F. Broden and Stéphanie Walsh Matthews and published in Semiotica: Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies / […]

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HARAJUKU – DISTRICT FOR ANTI-FASHION

INTRODUCTION In order to understand Harajuku (a district of Tokyo), one of the most exciting places to know Japanese fashion, I prefer to focus not on its sophisticated fashion trends but on its more casual […]

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Jerzy Pelc (1924-2017)

Jerzy Pelc (1924-2017) It is with great sadness that we announce that Jerzy Pelc, University of Warsaw, honorary president of Institut International de Philosophie and International Association for Semiotic Studies passed away on the 2nd […]

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Semiotic Society of America

Signs of Revival: The new website of the semiotic Society of America offers important information and resources.   semioticsocietyofamerica.org

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The SemiotiX Review of Books

HUMAN BODIES AS X’S Book Review by David Lidov   The semiotics of X: chiasmus, cognition and extreme body memory. Jamin Pelkey. London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury (Advances in Semiotics), 2017. Jamin Pelkey, […]