IACS-5: The Fifth Conference of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University Lund, Sweden, August 15-17, 2024 |
Conference website | https://konferens.ht.lu.se/iacs-5/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iacs5 |
Submission deadline | February 15, 2024 |
We are happy to host the Fifth Conference of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS-5) at Lund University in August 15-17, 2024! This is nearly 10 years after the first conference in the short but productive history of cognitive semiotics, the new discipline which integrates theories and methods from semiotics, linguistics and cognitive science, with the help of phenomenology.
Conference theme: "Crises of Meaning"
Currently we face not only social, political, environmental, and scientific crises but also - and arguably underlying these - crises in how we make sense of ourselves and our world. Husserl diagnosed a general “Crisis of the European Sciences” nearly a century ago, leading us to oscillate between the extremes of positivism and relativism. We witness how this has only deepened, given increasing gulfs between science and the humanities, between technology and spirituality, between “civilizations”, and between conflicting “narratives”, and even “truths". Our plenary speakers (and other speakers, as far as possible) are asked to address some aspect of this meaning crisis from the perspective of their own research. In this way, cognitive semiotics can hopefully make a contribution to the situation in our troubled world!
Specific topics include but are not limited to:
- Consciousness and semiosis (meaning making)
- Perception and representation
- Language and other semiotic systems
- Developmental and evolutionary aspects of semiosis
- Universal and culture-specific of semiosis
- Intercultural and interspecies communication
- Potentials and dangers of technology
- Narratives across media and semiotic systems
- Metaphor and metonymy across media and semiotic systems
- Polysemiosis and multimodality
- Intersemiotic translation and transmediation
- Epistemology and truth
- Agency and subjectivity
Local organizing committee
- Johan Blomberg
- Niklas Erben Johansson
- Alexandra Mouratidou
- Jordan Zlatev, chair
Submission Guidelines
Abstract submission: Abstracts are to be submitted through Easychair. One page abstracts (at most 400 words, excluding title and references), written in English, should be uploaded to the EasyChair website by January 15, 2024. Abstracts will then be reviewed by two members of the Scientific Committee, and notification of acceptance will be sent by March 15, 2024.
- Theme session proposals: Are to be submitted to iacs5[at]sol.lu.se. Deadline: 15 December, 2023
- Oral presentations: These will last 20 minutes followed by 5 minutes for quesions and 5 minutes for transitons between rooms (Deadline: January 15, 2024)
- Posters: There will be a poster session for up to 30 presentations (Deadline: January 15, 2024)
Plenary speakers
- Merlin Donald, Queen's University
- Hans-Georg Moeller, University of Macau
- Cornelia Mueller, Europa-Universität Viadrina
- Jamin Pelkey, Toronto Metropolitan University
- Komarine Romdenh-Romluc, University of Sheffield
- Morten Tønnessen, University of Stavanger
Contact
For specific questions, please contact: iacs5[at]sol.lu.se