// About SemiotiX New Series

About SemiotiX New Series

SemiotiX is a global information bulletin. Its aim is to provide periodic snapshots of the situation of semiotic research in the world, with photos, editorials by, and profiles of, active semioticians, mini-reviews of books, state-of-the-arts at a glance, and selective publicizing of scholarly events.

Editorial team

Paul Bouissac is the editor in chief of SemiotiX New Series.

Kay O’Halloran, Laura Oswald, Piotr Sadowski, Robert Yelle, and Anne Wagner are editors.

John McLevey is associate editor and webmaster.

Mark Dingemanse is responsible for technical development and design.

Tomasz Wysocki is Administrator.

Notices

Call for Papers: The International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS) announces the Fifth Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies: The communicative body in development, to take place in Lund, Sweden, July 24–27, 2012.

We invite abstracts of unpublished work for individual papers, posters, and thematic panels.Each author may submit no more than three abstracts: one as main author and two as co-author).

Important dates

•February 13, 2012: deadline for all submissions
•April 13, 2012: notification of acceptance
•July 24-27, 2012: conference, starting in the morning
•July 24, closing in the afternoon on July 27.

Local committee

•Marianne Gullberg, Lund University
•Mats Andrén, Lund University
•Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen, University of Copenhagen
•Maria Graziano, Lund University
•Agneta Gulz, Lund University
•Elaine Madsen, Lund University
•Sandra Debreslioska, MA, Lund University
•Maja Petersson, Lund University