12th world Congress of Semiotics
The strategic objective of
this Congress is the expansion and reinforcement of the semiotic web. The
Congress will not only attract the leading figures in contemporary semiotics
but will, with Sofia as host city, provide exceptionally favourable conditions
for wide participation. These include a specially organized low fee,
comfortable budget accommodation and excellent organization.
"Innovation" is
not only a theme from the title but also informs the organization of the
Congress. The Congress will be preceded by a broad discussion on social media
so as to enable participants to select the most interesting topics and
facilitators for scientific sessions and round tables. This will also provide an
opportunity to highlight the profile of new semiotics – that which constantly
occurs on separate sites but which today needs to be strengthened by common
formulations and a common strategy, new tactics for the affirmation of this
disciplinary field both in the new academic realities and outside the
university, in the labour market and the market of research services. New
semiotics is thus global, project-oriented, and focused on its contribution to
human endeavour within the flexible boundaries of interdisciplinarity.
Mirroring the innovations
of semiotics, New Bulgarian University, the host of the Congress, was founded
by a mandate of the Bulgarian Parliament in 1991 and is the largest private
university in the country today. It is the host of the South-East European
Center for Semiotic Studies (the organizer of the famous Early Fall School of
Semiotics since 1995) and is the university which introduced and continues to
be the seat of the major innovations in Bulgarian academia.
At a time of challenge for
the university as an institution, for the humanities, as well as for culture as
a whole, "New Semiotics: between Tradition and Innovation" has two
main aims. It aims to facilitate presentations of cutting-edge research and it
aims to seize the opportunity to demonstrate to the global community the
central role that semiotics will continue to play in the analysis of life in
contemporary societies.
The main directions
reflecting the current state of the discipline are listed in the discussion
panels. Papers for the Congress will present research that sits within the
framework of any of those main directions (or, possibly, sits within emergent
directions). You are invited to take part in the preliminary discussions by way
of social media and to propose topics for the roundtables and study sessions.
Please follow this link to participate to the discussions:
At the conclusion of these
discussions, specific sessions and roundtables will be set up and abstracts
will then be invited. All abstracts will be peer reviewed.
Deadline for paper
proposals is 30 June 2014, but…
There are two options:
1)
Just send the proposal (up to 500 words) on info@semio2014.org and wait our
answer if the proposal is accepted and in which round table or study session
has been placed.
2)
Read carefully the information about the congress,
check the existing proposals for round tables and study sessions listed here and contact their
chairs with your paper proposal; if you do not find any proposed topic suitable
to your interests check our discussions in social media and make there your own
proposal for a Round table or study session, i.e. be part of the New semiotics!
Recommended timetable for
the involved participants:
until 28
February
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take part in the
discussions in the social media or open your own topic and become a chair
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until 31 May
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closing the
debates in social media, set up of the Round Tables and Study Sessions, a
draft program will be published.
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until 30 June
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final arrangement
of the round tables and study sessions, publishing of preliminary program
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1 July – 15
August
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proposals still
can be evaluated, but there are less chances to be accepted and inserted into
the most appropriate Round Tables and Study Sessions
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For information: http://semio2014.org/en/home
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