Topic: Semiotics

The new double issue of Sign Systems Studies (Vol. 54, Nos. 1–2) was recently published. The special issue “Learning in Transformation” was guest edited by Maarja Ojamaa and Tiit Remm.

A recently completed study on conspiracy theories, the most extensive one ever conducted in Europe, found that narratives circulating across national borders adapt to local history, cultural memory and social tensions. A book presenting the study’s findings has now been published, co-edited by Mari-Liis Madisson, Associate Professor of Semiotics at the University of Tartu.

On 5 October at 14:15 Eleni Alexandri will defend her doctoral thesis “The Phenomenon of K-Pop: A Place of Reality and Fiction” for obtaining the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (in Semiotics and Culture Studies).

On 18 August at 14:15 Hongjin Song will defend his doctoral thesis “Semiotic Anatomy of Rumour: Social Discourse, 'False Memory', and Infection” for obtaining the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (in Semiotics and Culture Studies).

On 18 August at 11:15 James Augustus Bacigalupi IV will defend his doctoral thesis “A Biosemiotic Theory of Semiogenesis: Building a Testable Hypothesis for Normative Self-regulation” for obtaining the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (in Semiotics and Culture Studies).