World congress of semiotics - Nanjing, China

The 11th world congress of semiotics will take place in Nanjing, China, October 5-9th, 2012, and has the general - and ambitious - theme Global semiotics: A bridge linking different civilizations. A conventional call for papers will follow later on, but a first call was made already around New Year.

Please send to us in your earlier convenience proposals or abstracts about any semiotic topic concerning nature, society and culture, especially with respect to the following fields:

1. General theory and philosophy;
2. Linguistics and logic;
3. Literature and arts;
4. History, sociology and anthropology;
5. Theories of film and video and media;
6. Cognitive and biosemiotic studies.

In the preliminary call for papers, it is stated that:

The Nanjing 11th World Congress of Semiotics will be the first IASS forum in history to be held outside Europe or the Americas. Substantially and symbolically it will provide semiotic scholars from all over the world with a suitable dialogic context for exploring the new orientation of global semiotics. In conjunction with the 11th IASS Congress, whose program will basically follow the rules and procedures established in the past IASS congresses, there will be also a parallel conference in Nanjing, the First China Semiotics Forum, which will provide additional opportunities for comparative-semiotic communication.