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Upcoming Virtual Seminars

3 April 2025 15:15 - 17:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "Bidirectionality of perception in language: An exploration across sensory modalities and volitionality modes" (Yana Aquilina, University of Lyon)

10 April 2025 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "Making sense of non-representational cognitive artifacts" (Marcin Trybulec, UMCS, Lublin & Hajo Greif, Warsaw University of Technology)

Recent Virtual Seminars

27 March 2025 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: “Semiosis and cognition in Science fiction narratives” (Carlos H. Guzmán)

20 March 2025 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: “Semiotics as Metaphysical Ground in C.S. Peirce: Putting Firstness in Second Place” (Manuel Quezada, Lund University)

27 February 2025 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "Towards a less anthropocentric approach to semiosis" (Claudia Cicerchia, Sapienza University, Rome)

13 February 2025 16:15 - 17:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "Integrating ideas from cognitive semiotics and integral linguistics in the study of metaphor" (Elena Faur, Cluj-Napica & Jordan Zlatev, Lund)

13 February 2025 15:15 - 16:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "The double grounding of poetic expression: A phenomenological analysis" (Alexandra Mouratidou, Jordan Zlatev, LU)

6 February 2025 15:15 - 17:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "Enhanced agency and the visual thinking of design" (Juan Mendoza-Collazos, Universidad Nacional de Colombia)

30 January 2025 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "Phrenological neuromania and its antidotes, between yesterday and today" (Alice Orrù, Sapienza University, Rome)

23 January 2025 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "Gestures from the Hollow: The Evocation of Images Through Desire" (Samuel Nyholm, HfK Bremen)

19 December 2024 15:00 - 16:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "Finding peace for the metaphor war? Differentiating between levels of meaning and consciousness" (Di Wu, Sun Yat-sen University)

5 December 2024 15:15 - 16:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "A cognitive semiotic approach to irony" (Vlad Zlov, LU)

28 November 2024 15:15 - 17:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "Brandom’s pragmatism, linguistic theory and cognitive semiotics?" (Ulf Harendarski, Europa-Univerität Felensburg)

21 November 2024 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "Synesthesia and institution: the intertwining of perception and language" (Edoardo Moré, Sapienza University, Rome)

7 November 2024 15:15 - 17:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "Experimental Phenomenology: Reflecting about its past, present and future" (Ivana Bianchi, Univ. of Macerata)

31 October 2024 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "Language context may shape decision-making in a legal context: Investigating linguistic relativity beyond the lab" (Panos Athanasopoulos, LU)

3 October 2024 15:15 - 16:30, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: Reading and discussing "The Forms of Memory: Biosemiotic Modelling of Alloanimal Episodic Semiosis"

10 October 2024 15:15 - 17:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "Phenomenology and Phaneroscopy" (a reading seminar)

3 October 2024 15:15 - 17:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "Statistics for cognitive semiotics" (Joost van de Weijer, LU)

19 September 2024 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "Intertwining the body and signification in phenomenology and cognitive semiotics" (Jordan Zlatev, LU)

12 September 2024 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "Deictic gestures and justification of choices based on preference (Alexandra Mouratidou, LU, Mats Andrén Linköping University)

12 September 2024 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "Beyond Neuromania: A Critical Examination of the Mirror Neuron Hypothesis from the perspective of Cognitive Semiotics" (Claudia Cicerchia, University of Rome “La Sapienza")

5 September 2024 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "What is it like to walk the ridge to the tip of the iceberg: The roots of embodied experiences in utero" (Prof. Piotr Konderak, UMCS Lublin)

29 August 2024 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "Coseriu’ Individual Level: A semiotic framework for the study of discourse" (Elena Faur, Romanian Academy, Institute of Linguistics and Literary History)

30 May 2024 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "AI Zoosemiotics: Cognitive Opportunities and Moral Challenges" (Prof. Massimo LEONE, University of Turin, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies)

23 May 2024 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "Lost and Found in Translation: Evaluating English translations of Mulan Shi" (Yan Miao & Jordan Zlatev)

16 May 2024 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "Regularity and Schematicity in Multimodal (and Polysemiotic) Constructions of Speech and Gesture: The case of “back and forth”" (Daiya Kuryu, LU)

2 May 2024 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "Metaphor and metonymy in Chinese and American political cartoons (2018-2019) about the Sino-US Trade Conflict” (Charles Forceville, Universiteit van Amsterdam)

11 April 2024 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "From Evaluative Language to Evaluative Experience" (Alessandro Guardascione, University College Dublin)

4 April 2024 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "New Tools for Music Analysis: Cognitive Semiotics and Triangulation" (Gabriele Giacosa, University of Cologne)

14 March 2024 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "Spectators’ Experience of Watching Dance without Music: A cognitive semiotic exploration of kinesthetic empathy" (Katja Woxell, Jordan Zlatev, Joost van de Weijer, LU)

7 March 2024 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "Culture-Specific 'Items' in Intersemiotic Translation: Translating Spring Festival Traditions into LEGO Bricks" (Jun Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

22 February 2024 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "The sensory semantics of ideophones: methodological, typological, and historical perspectives" (Bonnie McLean, Uppsala University)

8 February 2024 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "Cross-modal iconicity and indexicality in the production of lexical sensory and emotional signs in Finnish Sign Language" (Jarkko Keränen, University of Jyväskylä)

1 February 2024 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "Extending the life world: Phenomenological triangulation along two planes" (J. Zlatev & A. Mouratidou, LU)

14 December 2023 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "Cognitive History" (David Dunér, LU)"

4 December 2023 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - "Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "The semiotics of the body: agentivity, experience and memory" (José Enrique Finol, Univ. del Zulia, Venezuela)

30 November 2023 16:15 - 17:00, Lund - Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "Clustering LIFE in Metaphors: A joined perspective from cognitive semiotics and phenomenology" (Xing Liu, Zhejiang Univ. of Technology)

23 November 2023 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - "Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "What it is like to be a gesturer? Towards first-person methods" (Piotr Konderak, Lublin)

16 November 2023 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - "Cognitive Semiotics Seminar:"If looks could kill: The human ecology of visible and overlooked worlds in the perspective of Umwelt phenomenology" (Morten Tønnessen, Univ. of Stavanger)

9 November 2023 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - "Cognitive Semiotics Seminar:"The Cultural Semiotics of Jingshen and Cognitive Homeostasis" (Hongbing Yu, Toronto Metropolitan University)

2 November 2023 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - "Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "Linguistic Feeling in Real Life and in Linguistics" (Ad Foolen, Radboud University)

26 October 2023 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - "Cognitive Semiotics Seminar: "Constraining metaphor and metonymy with the Motivation & Sedimentation Model: A case study on political cartoons" (Di Wu & Jordan Zlatev, Lund University)

12 October 2023 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - "Bodily Meaning, Artificial Intelligence, and the Experience of Wonder" (Jamin Pelkey, Toronto Metropolitan University)

28 September 2023 15:15 - 17:00, Lund - "The [X-shock] Construction in Macroeconomics" (Todd Oakely, CWRU Cleveland)

21 September 2023 16:15 - 17:00, Lund - "When is non-space represented as space (and when not)?" (Johan Blomberg, Lund University)

14 September 2023 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - "Business Storytelling Through the lenses of Cognitive Semiotics" (Andrey Iliev, Leader Academy, Sofia)

7 September 2023 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - "Choice awareness and manipulation" (Alexandra Mouratidou, LU)

31 August 2023 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - "Merleau-Ponty and the intertwining of bodily experience and language" (Jordan Zlatev, LU)

15 June 2023 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - "Identifying metonymies and (metaphors) in political cartoons on Russia's war against Ukraine" (Di Wu & Jordan Zlatev)

8 June 2023 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - "Image Schemas and Embodied Meaning" (Mark Johnson, University of Oregon)

1 June 2023 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - "Phenomenological triangulation in the study of humans and animals as subjects of phenomenology – perspectives from cognitive semiotics and biosemiotics" (Morten Tønnessen, University of Stavanger)

25 May 2023 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - "Origins of Money: A Motivation & Sedimentation Model (MSM) Analysis" (Todd Oakley, Case Western Reserve University & Jordan Zlatev, LU)

4 May 2023 CET 14:00 - 15:30, Lviv - "Narrative and Pantomime" (Jordan Zlatev, Lund University), [via Zoom]

20 April 2023 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - "Expressives, Directives and Informatives: An Analysis of the Evolution of Speech Acts" (Hubert Hågemark)

22 March 2023 CET 18:00 - 19:00, Niš - "Tears in music: Towards a cognitive-semiotic account" (Anna Bonifazi, University of Köln), [via Zoom]

21 March 2023 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - "Language, Meaning, and Rational Thought" (Prof. Ray Jackendoff, Tufts University/MIT)

9 March 2023 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - "ChatGPT: Searching for the substance amidst the hype" (Joel Parthemore)

2 March 2023 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - "Epistemic Reformulations as Cognitive-Emotive, Semiotic and Interactive Means for Problem Definition and Restructuring in Group Decision and Negotiation" (Bilyana Martinovski)

23 February 2023 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - "Language, gesture and depiction in two sand-drawing cultural practices" (Jordan Zlatev, SOL and Simon Devylder, Artic University of Norway, Tromsö)

16 February 2023 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - "A history of diagrams – Long trends and turning points in the spatial representation of abstract thought" (Janne Holmén, Uppsala University)

9 February 2023 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - "The emergence of post-narrativity in the era of artificial intelligence: A non-anthropocentric perspective on the new ecology of narrative agency" (Sung Do Kim, Korea University)

2 February 2023 15:15 - 17:00, Lund - "Building a system for communication: How infants start off" (Prof. Eve Clark, Standford University)

26 January 2023 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - "Co-speech gesturing: Embodiment, experience, and experimental studies" (Piotr Konderak, UMCS Lublin)

19 January 2023 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - "Haptic-proprioceptive iconicity: deaf signers, deafblind signers, hearing gesturers and hearing blind gesturers" (Jarkko Keränen, University of Jyväskylä)

17 December 2022 10:00 - 13:00, Lund - PhD Thesis Defense: "Agency and Artefacts: A cognitive semiotic exploration of design" (Juan Carlos Mendoza Collazos)

15 December 2022 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - "The Inferential Foundation of Human Language" (Dan Everett, Bentley University)

8 December 2022 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - "Beyond a chess model of sign use: Relevance and its two sides" (Jan Strassheim, Univ. of Hildesheim)

1 December 2022 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - "Growing into sign use in the second year of life and beyond" (Monika Boruta-Zywiczynska, NCU Torun)

17 November 2022 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - "Issues of analysis for the definition of linguistic epistemology" (Henrik Bergquist, Univ. of Gothenburg)

25 October 2022 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - "The Origins of Money: A Motivation & Sedimentation Model (MSM) Analysis" (Todd Oakley, Case Western Reserve University)

20 October 2022 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - "There’s nothing arbitrary about the linguistic sign" (Bodo Winter, University of Birmingham)

13 October 2022 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - "Reading Keller's A Theory of Linguistic Signs" (Jordan Zlatev, Lund University)

6 October 2022 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - "‘I would give it a not-so-boring name than semiotics.’" A look at the experience of semiotics through narratives (Eduardo Chávez Herrera, National Autonomous University of Mexico)

22 September 2022 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - "Recent developments in ape gesture research. What is new and what is bygone?" (Tomas Persson, LUCS)

15 September 2022 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - "Translation validity in metaphor theories: CMT, DMT and the Motivation & Sedimentation Model" (Jordan Zlatev, Lund University)

9 September 2022 15:00 - 17:00, Lund - "Layers of agency and enhanced agency: A cognitive-semiotic approach to the human-artefact relationship" (Juan Mendoza Collazos, Lund University)

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