Semiotics in the Lifeworld

15th World Congress of Semiotics / IASS-AIS

August 30 – September 3, 2022, Thessaloniki, Greece

Semiotics in the Lifeworld

The 15th World Congress of Semiotics aims to foreground semiotics as the socially engaged, critical investigation of the sign- and meaning-making processes forming the core of human worldmaking. Semiotic investigation is grounded in the historical lifeworld, in concrete timescapes and semioscapes, in the dense and dynamic weave of semiotic practices that structure human experience and communicative (inter)action by constantly (re)articulating the perceptual and the conceptual, the discursive and the performative, the ethical and the aesthetic, the ideological and the figurative, the material and the immaterial, the human and the non-human, the natural and the man-made.

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Important Dates

Paper submission for the congress e-proceedings
December 1, 2022 – December 31, 2023

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Organizers

The Hellenic Semiotics Society

The Laboratory of Semiotics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

The Department of Balkan, Slavic & Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia

Culture – Borders – Gender Lab, University of Macedonia

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

(Note that more keynote speakers will be added)

Jacques Fontanille

Emeritus professor of semiotics at the University of Limoges, France

Semiotics, collective and politics. The case of people

Susanne Hauser

Professor of Art History and Cultural Studies, Berlin University of the Arts (UdK), Germany

On Places. Semiotics, architecture, and everyday environments

André Helbo

Emeritus professor of semiotics, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Revisiting the semiotics of the performance arts

Alexandros Ph. Lagopoulos

Emeritus professor of Urban Planning, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Semiotics and materiality: Some epistemological issues

Theo van Leeuwen

Professor of Language and Communication, University of Southern Denmark

Some principles of social semiotics

Kobus Marais

Professor of translation studies, Department of Linguistics and Language practice, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa

The Thermodynamics of Semiosis

Gianfranco Marrone

Professor of Semiotics, Department of Cultures & Society, University of Palermo, Italy

New trends in the semiotic of food: forms and genres of the gastronomic discourse

Kay O’Halloran

Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Communication and Media, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom

Matter and Meaning in the Digital Age

Clotilde Perez

Professor of Semiotics, Universidade de São Paulo – USP, Brazil

Semiotics of Fashion: between mimeticism, creativity and adaptation

Isabella Pezzini

Professor of Philosophy and Theory of languages, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Trajectories of Identity, Difference, Otherness

Peeter Torop

Professor of Semiotics of Culture University of Tartu, Estonia

Lifeworld, artistic world and semiotics of culture

A modern venue

The University of Macedonia is a modern public Institute of Higher Education that stands out for the quality, freedom, democracy, meritocracy and personal development it offers to its students, faculty and administrative staff. The University has recently added a main auditorium where it also hosts major cultural events.

In the heart of a vibrant urban centre

Thessaloniki is the most important administrative, cultural, and business centre in northern Greece. A midsize city situated on the Thermaic Gulf, near the Aegean Sea, an hour’s drive from both Mt.Olympus and beautiful beaches, and a short flight from the capitals of several Balkan and Mediterranean countries.

IASS-AIS

15th World Congress

Organized by

The Hellenic Semiotics Society
The Laboratory of Semiotics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
The Department of Balkan, Slavic & Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia
Culture – Borders – Gender Lab, University of Macedonia

Semiotics in the Lifeworld