FYI. This is an excerpt. For more information including Plenary Speakers,
and for the CFP in French and Spanish, see:
http://iass-ais.org/first-call-for-papers-12th-conference-of-the-iavs-aisv/?fbclid=IwAR1tqM9s1xcb4PsNYu9u-NPOuq0pMDySCIbGcfPRgUtUw3rcoaZ5uhPHaYg*First
Call for Papers: 12th
Conference of the IAVS-AISV*
Visual semiotics goes cognitive
*Le tournant cognitive de la sémiotique visuelle *
*El giro cognitivo de la semiótica visual*
August 22 to 24, 2019,
Centre for language and literature, Lund University
What can cognitive semiotics bring to visual semiotics, and vice-versa?
Visual semiotics has, most of the time, been concerned with the
interpretation and modelling of visual (and in particular pictorial)
“texts” (artefacts). Cognitive semiotics is an endeavour to bring together
the two great transdisciplinary approaches (re-)emerging at the middle of
the last century, semiotics and cognitive science. According the
formulation of one of the pioneers of cognitive semiotics, Thomas Daddesio,
cognitive semiotics is not only concerned with structures, but also with
the abilities in human being permitting the use of such structures. This
means that, like cognitive science (which includes psychology) cognitive
semiotics can realise its own experimental studies, in addition, and as
complement to, studies of artefacts and semiotic systems. What could be
more fitting then proposing a cognitive approach when the association of
visual semiotics, IAVS-AISV, holds its first conference in Lund, one of the
centres from which originated cognitive semiotics and the present
association for cognitive semiotics. We invite participation from those
already taking a cognitive approach to visual semiotics, as well as those
versed in cognitive science and/or semiotics who are curious about visual
implementation, and those within visual semiotics who are interested in a
cognitive approach.
The following list includes, but does not exhaust, questions of relevance
to the conference:
- Can you think with pictures? In other words, does pictures and/or
other visual media contain propositions?
- How can we account for the multilayer structure of pictures (and other
visual and/or iconic signs) which seems to make them more complex than
verbal signs?
- Can pictures (and/or other visual and/or iconic media) be used to tell
a story? How is this story different from a verbal story?
- Are computer and/or video games stories? Are they even games in any
classical sense?
- Are visual rhetorical figures cognitively and/or semiotically
different from the corresponding verbal ones, or is the difference only
in the expression of the signs?
- Are some rhetorical figures possible in verbal but not in visual form,
and/or vice-versa?
- Are pictures and/or other visual and/or iconic media in any sense
easier to understand than language? More specifically, do the emerge
earlier or later in child development and evolution?
- What part might be played by sand painting/sand drawing in such a
process?
- What is the position and importance of contemporary street art in
relation to the semiotically understood historical process of
picture-making?
- What is the part played by petrified visual signs (“emblems”) in
visual communication, from prehistory to contemporary street art?
- Is there is “pictorial world” distinct from that of the world depicted
and does it in that case pre-exist to the latter in children’s development?
- If blind people can interpret haptic pictures, can there still be some
truth in the proposal by some phenomenologists that touch is piecemeal,
contrary to vision which opens into a continues world of experience?
- If pictures can be experienced non-visually by blind people, is that
connected to some aesthetic experience, comparable to that experienced when
seeing pictures?
The International Association for Visual Semiotics (IAVS-AISV) was founded
as an association under French law in 1989 in Blois. The aim of the
IAVS-AISV is to gather semioticians all over the world who are interested
in images and, in general terms, in visual signification, without
privileging any particular interpretation of semiotics and without
favouring any semiotic tradition. Since 1990, IAVS-AISV has organized 11
conferences, as well as 5 meetings in other frameworks. The conferences
took place in Blois, Bilbao, Berkeley, Sao Paulo, Siena, Quebec City,
Mexico City and Lyon, Istanbul, Venice, Buenos Aires, and Liège.
*Bureau of the IAVS-AISV:*
*President*: Göran Sonesson, Lund
*Secretary General:* Maria Guilia Dondero, Liège
*Vice-presidents:*Alfredo Cid Jurado, Mexico D.F.
Anna Beyaert-Geslin, Bordeaux
Rengin Kuckerdogan, Istanbul
Elisabeth Harkot-de-la-Taille, Sao Paulo
Rocco Mangieri, Mérida (Venezuela)
Isabel Marcos, Lisbon
Tiziana Migliore, Venice
*Treasurer:* Everardo Reyes, Paris.
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*Abstract* *submission:* We invite abstracts in English, French or Spanish
(450 words maximum, excluding references) of unpublished works for oral
presentations, posters, and theme sessions.
- Oral papers: 20 minutes + 10 minutes discussion, in two or three
parallel (Deadline: March 31, 2019)
- Theme sessions: three individual papers, focusing on a well-defined
topic (corresponding to a two-hour slot). An abstract proposing the theme
itself as well as abstracts for the three individual papers composing the
theme should be (Deadline: February 28, 2019)
- Posters: there will be a 2-hour poster session for up to 30
presentations, to be held in the lobby of the Centre for Languages and
(Deadline: March 31, 2019)
Abstracts are to be submitted through *Easychair*, which will open from
December 17, 2018 at
https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?welcome=1;conf=iavsaisv-12
Each abstract will be reviewed by at least two reviewers from an
international Scientific Committee.
The symposium will be hosted by the Division for Cognitive Semiotics at the
Centre for Language and Literature at Lund University. For specific
information, including abstract submission, see
https://konferens.ht.lu.se/iavs-aisv-2019.
For specific questions, please contact: [email protected]
*Gary Richmond*
*Philosophy and Critical Thinking*
*Communication Studies*
*LaGuardia College of the City University of New York*
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