[Commlist] 12th Conference of IAVS-AISV in Lund - Visual semiotics goes cognitive

CFP: "Visual Semiotics Goes Cognitive", 12th Conference of IAVS-AISV, 
Lund 22-24 August 2019

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

This call for papers is available in English, French and Spanish at 
https://konferens.ht.lu.se/iavs-aisv-2019

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 a “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 Giulia 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

PLENARY SPEAKERS
Anne Beyaert-Geslin, Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France
Johanna Drucker, UCLA, USA
Jennifer Green, University of Melbourne, Australia
Antonis Iliopoulos, University of Oxford
John M. Kennedy, Professor emeritus, University of Toronto
Jean-Marie Klinkenberg, Professor emeritus, University of Liège
Douglas Niño, University of Bogota

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 sessions. (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 submitted. (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 
Literature. (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: (iavs_aisv-2019 /at/ semiotik.lu.se) 
<mailto:(iavs_aisv-2019 /at/ semiotik.lu.se)>

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Anna Cabak Rédei, Sara Lenninger, Jean Carlos Mendoza, Collazos Georgios 
Stampoulidis, Göran Sonesson

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:
Anna Beyaert-Geslin
José-Luis Caivano
Alfredo Cid Jurado
Maria Giulia Dondero
Johanna Drucker
Jennifer Green
Elisabeth Harkot-de-la-Taille
Antonis Iliopoulos
John M. Kennedy
Jean-Marie Klinkenberg
Rengin Kuckerdogan,
Rocco Mangieri
Isabel Marcos
Tiziana Migliore
Douglas Niño
Claudio Paolucci
Jamin Pelkey
Piero Polidoro
Everardo Reyes
Göran Sonesson
Jordan Zlatev
Göran Sonesson

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