International Association for Semiotic Studies
World organisation of semioticians
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International Association for Semiotic Studies (Association Internationale de Sémiotique, IASS-AIS) is the major world organisation of semioticians, established in 1969.
Founding members of the association include Algirdas Julien Greimas, Roman Jakobson, Julia Kristeva, Emile Benveniste, André Martinet, Roland Barthes, Umberto Eco, Thomas A. Sebeok, and Juri Lotman.
The official journal of the association is Semiotica, published by De Gruyter Mouton. The working languages of the association are English and French.
The Executive Committee of the IASS (le Comité Directeur de lâAIS) consists of the representatives from semiotic societies of member countries (two from each).
World congresses in semiotics
The association is regularly organising the world congresses in semiotics:
- Milan, Italy, June 2â6, 1974 (A Semiotic Landscape)
- Vienna, Austria, July 2â6, 1979 (Semiotics Unfolding)
- Palermo, Italy, June 24â29, 1984 (Semiotic Theory and Practice)
- Barcelona, Spain, and Perpignan, France, March 31 â April 4, 1989 (Signs of Humanity/Lâhomme et ses signes)
- Berkeley, USA, June 12â18, 1994 (Signs of the World. Synthesis in Diversity)
- Guadalajara, Mexico, July 13â18, 1997 (Semiotics Bridging Nature and Culture/La sémiotique: carrefour de la nature et de la culture/La semiotica. Intersección de la naturaleza y de la cultura)
- Dresden, Germany, October 6â11, 1999 (Sign Processes in Complex Systems/Zeichenprozesse in komplexen Systemen)
- Lyon, France, July 7â12, 2004 (Signes du monde. Interculturalité et globalisation / Signs of the World. Interculturality and Globalization / Zeichen der Welt: Interkulturalität und Globalisierung / Los signos del mundo: Interculturalidad y Globalización)
- Helsinki and Imatra, Finland, June 11â17, 2007 (Understanding/Misunderstanding)
- A Coruña, Spain, September 22â26, 2009 (Culture of Communication/Communication of Culture) See
- Nanjing, China, October 5â9, 2012 (Global Semiotics: Bridging Different Civilizations) See Archived 2012-07-16 at the Wayback Machine
- Sofia, Bulgaria, September 16â20, 2014 (New Semiotics: Between Tradition and Innovation) See
- Kaunas, Lithuania, June 26â30, 2017 (Cross-Inter-Multi-Trans) See Archived 2018-06-13 at the Wayback Machine
- Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 9â13, 2019 (Trajectories) See
- Thessaloniki, Greece, August 30 â September 3, 2022 (Semiotics in the Lifeworld) See
- Warsaw, Poland, September 2â6, 2024 (Signs and Realities) See
Presidents
The list of the presidents of the association include
- Emile Benveniste (1969â1974)
- Cesare Segre (1974â1984)
- Jerzy Pelc (1984â1994)[1]
- Roland Posner (1994â2004)
- Eero Tarasti (2004â2014)
- Paul Cobley (2014â2024)
- Jacques Fontanille (since 2024)
The former presidents are also honorary presidents. In addition, there are two elected honorary presidents: Umberto Eco and Gloria Withalm.