The SSA announces its call for submissions to the next volume of the Yearbook, Semiotics 2018: Signs of Resilience. The Yearbook seeks 3,000-to-6,000-word submissions from current SSA members–including 2018 SSA Conference participants–based on scholarly work completed during the past year. Contributions should be accessible to a broad interdisciplinary readership, but focused on some aspect of…
Author: Farouk Seif
Farouk Y. Seif, PhD is Professor Emeritus, Antioch University Seattle, former President and Executive Director of the Semiotic Society of America, a registered architect, and an artist. Seif serves as the Editor of the Semiotic Society of America Yearbook. Prior to becoming an American citizen, Seif was born and raised in Egypt with a Coptic background. His main interests are design, semiotics, paradoxes, transdisciplinarity, and transmodernity. His doctoral dissertation “Semiotics and Urban Morphogenesis: Metaphysical Aspects of Ancient Egyptian Monumentality as a Theoretical Approach to Urban Form" designed to reinterpret the Ancient Egyptian experience for thoughtful reflections on contemporary life. Prof. Seif has taught in universities and lectured at conferences worldwide. He was the recipient of the 2010 Fulbright Specialists Program at University of Sofia, Bulgaria. He has authored numerous articles and a dozen book chapters. His book "De-sign in the Transmodern World: Envisioning Reality Beyond Absoluteness" is a state-of-the-art integration of design and semiotics.
Thank You
Dear Friends and Colleagues, Many thanks to all of you for making the 43rdSSA Conference a very successful event. The quality of papers and presentations were very high and inspirational. Questions, answers, and comments were thoughtful, amicable, and graceful. A special thank you to our local host and Executive Director Javier Clavere for his gracious…
President’s Message:
I am delighted to welcome you to the 43rd annual meeting of the Semiotic Society of America. This year we are hosted by Berea College in Berea, Kentucky. We are especially grateful to our Executive Director and local host, Javier Clavere, and his colleagues at Berea College for their hospitality. Our program committee, headed by…
Transportation
Dear Friends The transportation from Lexington to Berea is difficult to coordinate. In an effort to help our members, we are offering free shuttles from Lexington Airport to Berea, and from Berea to Lexington Airport. In order to group as many guests as possible, and to provide a service to several members we ask that…
Book Exhibit at the 43rd SSA Conference
Dear Friends and Colleagues, The countdown continues for the 43rd SSA Annual Conference in Berea! The Program Committee would like to extend an invitation to you to bring sample copies of your published books for display at the Book Exhibit in Berea. If you have any questions about our book exhibit, please direct them to our local host Javier Clavere at:…
43rd SSA Conference: Detailed Program Schedule (Updated)
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Plenary Speakers, SSA 43rd Annual Conference
Vincent Colapietro Sebeok Fellow Award Lecture: The Music of Meaning: Gestures, Traces, and Media Abstract Just as theories of signs have been deployed to elucidate the nature of music, music might provide us with a source for illuminating the meaning of meaning. Indeed, theorists, such as Hanslick, Langer, Scruton, Lidov, and Hatten, have crafted their…
43rd SSA Conference: Detailed Program Schedule
43rd SSA Detailed Program Schedule 2018
43rd SSA Conference: Program Schedule (Updated)
43rd SSA Program Schedule (updated)43rd SSA Program Schedule (updated)
43rd SSA Conference: Program Schedule
43rd SSA Program Schedule (updated)
