WEBINAR - Smart Semiotics

Can semiotics become computational?

Webinar by Jean-Guy Meunier Can semiotics become computational? Under what conditions can semiotics enter the digital age? Can there exist a computational semiotics? Should it be building a “semiotic theory” of computers and computing […]

Smart Semiotics Webinar Series. Sensemaking across the human organism – October 23, 2022.

By Adolfo M. García Cognitive Neuroscience Center, Universidad de San Andrés, ArgentinaNational Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), ArgentinaGlobal Brain Health Institute, University of California, San Francisco, USADepartamento de Lingüística y Literatura, Facultad de Humanidades, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

Signs and symbols in space and place – Sites of memory in contemporary Europe and the U.S.

SPEAKERS: Ken Foote, University of Connecticut, USA Anett Árvay, University of Szeged, Hungary Sites of memory are often powerful symbols. Varying greatly in form, scale, and meaning, they range from massive memorials honoring key events […]

The Colors of Ideology

E-Seminar by Gregory Paschalidis School of Journalism & Mass Communications, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece. According to conventional metaphor, political ideology colors our ideas, attitudes, and actions, meaning that it affects or shapes them. Next to […]