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Highlight of the Thessaloniki IASS Congress: “Principles of Social Semiotics”

Highlight of the Thessaloniki IASS Congress: “Principles of Social Semiotics” by Theo van Leeuwen Please click on link to access the video: https://spaces.hightail.com/receive/mY45HpM7PN/dXMtYTc1MWIwNDQtNjQ4Ni00MjhkLWE1YjItODcyNmJjMzBiNzdh

Body Language in Political Discourse by Professor Rukmini Bhaya Nair

Gesture and the use of language in the public sphere comprise the theme of this presentation, which looks at culturally specific gestures such as the namaste. It presents an original theory and typology of the […]

Neurosemiotics

By Adolfo Martin Garcia Neurosemiotics is a pluralistic framework aimed to describe and explain semiosis as an emergent socio-biological phenomenon (García & Ibáñez, 2022a). It has been described as a subfield of biosemiotics that encompasses […]

The Facial Expression of Cognitive States, a webinar by Alan Crawley

SPEAKER: Alan Crawley Abstract: Is there any connection between cognitive states and facial displays? There have been several independent studies that suggest it is the case. The connection may be voluntary or involuntary, communicative or […]

Interview with Desmond Morris (2022)

Alan Crawley (Buenos Aires, Argentina) interviews Desmond Morris (Kildare, Ireland)) on body language with incidental reflexions on his life and the present time [with subtitles in Spanish].

Communicating danger. “Sebeok’s problem” and beyond

Communicating danger: “Sebeok’s problem” and beyond Review of Marcel Danesi’s Warning Signs. The Semiotics of Danger, Bloomsbury Academic. London, New York, Oxford, New Delhi, Sydney, 2022. By Susan Petrilli The book by Marcel Danesi, Warning Signs. The Semiotics of Danger […]

Jurij Lotman turns 100: A tribute to the intellectual who lived between two worlds

Remo Gramigna University of Turin, Italy Department of Philosophy and Education Science Born on 28 February 1922 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) to a noble and cultured Jewish family, whose father, Michail, was a well-known […]

People who Read People

Alan Crawley with Zachary Elwood A talk with nonverbal behavior expert Alan Crawley, also known by his online handle Sin Verba (www.sinverba.com). Topics discussed include: why he became interested in behavior; the challenges of studying […]

Virtual Bricks, Real Pixels: Semiotics of the Virtual Built Environment in Video Games

SPEAKER: Gabriele Aroni Abstract:This talk will investigate how architecture influences and constructs narration in digital games –architecture meaning here the virtual buildings, cities, and interiors present within videogames. What are the architectural elements and techniques […]

The Social Semiotics of Populism

The words ‘populism’ and ‘populist’ have been extensively used over the last years to refer to disparate contemporary political phenomena around the globe, ranging from the left to the right extremes of the political spectrum. […]

WEBINAR

From Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Wisdom

November 27, 2025 0

From Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Wisdom By Dr. Robert Finkelstein Robotic Technology Inc.,President and University of Maryland As with “intelligence,” there are many definitions of wisdom and none are totally satisfactory. Our pragmatic definition of wisdom is: a system […]

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Webinar on the semiotics of today’s orientalism.

October 2, 2025 0

Webinar on the semiotics of today’s orientalism by Professor Lia Yoka (Aristotle University Thessaloniki) Orientalist painting: rigid metaphors, flexible meanings Abstract The allure and cultural backwardness of an imaginary East in dominant Western discourse, a set of values and stereotypes […]

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Smart Semiotics webinar – “The semiotics of contemporary currency design”

February 26, 2025 0

Title: “The semiotics of contemporary currency design” Description: Banknotes and coins are material objects that circulate in our everyday lives. We recognize them as such thanks to their appearance and, particularly, to their design. In […]

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Facial expression, a gateway to affective semiotics

December 29, 2024 0

Announcing a webinar on Facial expression, a gateway to affective semiotics by Marc Mehu, Department of Psychology, Webster Vienna Private University. Sunday January 19, 2025, at 04:00 PM GMT (UTC +0) In communication, the access to […]

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Attention Mechanism in AI Systems and its Relevance for Textual Pragmatics,a webinar by Prof. Kristian Bankov (New Bulgarian University)

November 26, 2024 0

Attention mechanism in AI systems and its relevance for textual pragmatics Sun, 8 Dec 2024, 15:00 UTC Prof. Kristian Bankov, New Bulgarian University The discovery of the attention mechanism in deep learning algorithms became for […]

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