Gulf Association of Semiotic Studies

22/04/2025

Join us for an insightful panel discussion on "Semiotics in the Age of Complexity: The Search for Meaning in a World in Crisis".

🗓️ Thursday, April 24, 2025
🕟 4:30 PM (Dubai local time) | 12:30 PM (UTC)
📍 Online: https://lnkd.in/dRMKdUfB

🧞‍♀️ Key Discussion Points:
✅ Semiotics and global crisis
✅ Visual culture and identity
✅ Social Media and global conflicts
✅ The role of the semiotic associations in the current global context
✅ Semiotic analysis and conflict resolution

Don't miss out:
✅ Expert insights
✅ Certificate of attendance

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Info: [email protected] - [email protected]

04/07/2024

We are delighted to share a new article by Zoe Hurley on GENAI and why we need guardrails.

While traditional family portraits have always been value-laden constructs, generative artificial intelligence’s text-to-image tools are adding new postdigital complexities to already sophisticated photo and video editing processes. To explore what is being produced or generated by text-to-image g...

05/06/2024

Zoe Hurley and Tariq Elyas's co-authored semiotic research focusing on the-call-to prayer in the Gulf! Let us know if you'd like a pdf.

Taking the Islamic call-to-prayer as a case, or the Adhān as it is known in Arabic, this study examines its more-than-digital dynamics as a soundscape of profound sociocultural meanings, semiotic and multicultural interpretations. The novel semiotic more-than-digital framework is designed to consid...

22/04/2024

We are happy to inform you that the abstract submission for the CFP "Semiotic Assemblage, Translanguaging and Translating Laws of the Middle East and North African Region", has been extended.

Special issue of the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law.
Guest editors: Rafat Y. Alwazna, Zoe Hurley & Tariq Elyas

Looking forward to your participation.

https://link.springer.com/collections/aefabjbbih?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1jQbcoSKKOSYSe-NSDYHtvC15vQyMNaJTANcp7J-lAu-q7im79FKNUQak_aem_AUI-mI1y__5hggfxkF03dAAP4h9PQHXFv1zcKdCuGNlAxBstpbGrxpEUzpxLDa-qL7YPVY7GGvZQBXUbBPngHwV3

The Middle East and North African region (MENA) is an interesting area where several laws ranging from sacred laws to secular laws are applied to different ...

25/01/2024

Tartu Summer School of Semiotics is a new series of gatherings that brings together representatives of semiotics and related disciplines with the aim to provide an environment to converse about core issues in semiotics that are of disciplinary as well as transdisciplinary relevance. It revives the t...

18/12/2023

On December 14, 2023, the biannual meeting of the Gulf Association of Semiotic Studies was held to discuss current trends, opportunities and perspectives of semiotics within the Gulf countries and beyond. The meeting was attended by members of the Association and consisted of two main sessions with the discussion of new calls for papers by Zoe Hurley, Tariq Elyas, Rafat Y. Alwazna, Marianna Boero and Cristina Greco, and a presentation of the fascinating research on the Semiotics of Muslimness by Ibrar Bhatt.

Thanks to all attendees!

The video of the meeting can be viewed through the following link:

https://zu-ac-ae.zoom.us/rec/share/mcR_G13a0Jkjxvo5fn7i1qjzCfP9ZNwyh2pxsGIN8sIAnKtYtdVPfvymiasxhsM.8ryJQUmT1vTHXMkl?startTime=1702540810000

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13/12/2023

Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow 😊

We are delighted to invite you to participate in the Biannual Meeting of the Gulf Association of Semiotic Studies on Thursday, the 14th of December on Zoom, 12:00 PM (GST).
On this occasion, we will discuss new Calls for Papers, in order to analyze current and future approaches of Semiotics to a variety of issues. We are also glad to host Ibrar Bhatt with a talk on "A Semiotics of Muslimness in China".
Looking forward to your participation.

26/11/2023

We are delighted to invite you to participate in the Biannual Meeting of the Gulf Association of Semiotic Studies on Thursday, the 14th of December on Zoom, 12:00 PM (GST).
On this occasion, we will discuss new Calls for Papers, in order to analyze current and future approaches of Semiotics to a variety of issues. We are also glad to host Ibrar Bhatt with a talk on "A Semiotics of Muslimness in China".
Looking forward to your participation.

20/11/2023

Welcome to the Gulf Association of Semiotic Studies page. We are excited to be here, sharing our current and future projects, contributing to the advancement of semiotics as an academic discipline and a research domain in the Gulf countries and internationally. Stay tuned for upcoming events!