CentersSouth-East European Center for Semiotic Studies
Early Fall School of Semiotics (EFSS)
XXVIII. EFSS 2024
"The Cultural Explosion of AI: Navigating the Intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Society, and Culture from a semiotic and interdisciplinary perspective"
9-12 September 2023, Sozopol, Bulgaria
XXVII. EFSS 2023
“Conceptualizing digital reality through metaphors: semiotic and interdisciplinary perspective”
6-9 September 2023, Sozopol, Bulgaria
XXVI. EFSS 2022
"Digital Transformation of Higher Education: Semiotic and Interdisciplinary Perspectives"
(6-10 September 2022, Sozopol, Bulgaria)
XXV. EFSS 2021
"Translation and Transformation in Audiovisual and Digital Culture"
(3-6 September 2021, Sozopol, Bulgaria)
EFSS 2020
The school didn't take place because of COVID-19
XXIV. EFSS 2019
"Culture and Communication of Taste"
1-5 September 2019, Sozopol, Bulgaria
The event is funded by Erasmus+ KA2 Code: 2017-1-IT02-KA201-036736; with the support of the STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT FUND of NBU;
The conference is under the auspices of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS)
See the preliminary program.
XXIII. EFSS 2018
"Love and Sex in the Digital Age: a Semiotic Perspective"
5-9 September 2018, Sozopol, Bulgaria
XXII. EFSS 2017
"Digital Age in Semiotics and Communication"
4-10 September 2017, Sozopol, Bulgaria
"Ways of semiotic Research II"
4-11 September 2016, Sozopol, Bulgaria
XXI. EFSS 2015
"Ways of semiotic Research"
5-13 September 2015, Sozopol, Bulgaria
EFSS 2014
The school didn't take place because of the XII World Congress of the IASS which took place at the NBU
XIX. EFSS 2013
“Food and Cultural Identity: Between Market, Social Sciences and Humanities - II”
7-17 September 2013, Sozopol, Bulgaria
Granted by the Human Resources Development Center (HRDC) - Bulgaria
XVIII. EFSS 2012
“Food and Cultural Identity: Between Market, Social Sciences and Humanities - I”
8-18 September 2012, Sozopol, Bulgaria
Granted by the Human Resources Development Center (HRDC) - Bulgaria
XVII. EFSS 2011
“Forms of Symbolic Efficacy in Complex Societies”
3-11 September 2011, Sozopol, Bulgaria
In collaboration with CIRCe – Turin, Granted by the Italian ministry of education (MIUR)
XVI. EFSS 2010
“Imagining and Understanding”
4-12 September 2010, Sozopol – Bulgaria
In collaboration with CIRCe – Turin, Granted by the Italian ministry of education (MIUR)
XV. EFSS 2009
“Sociosemiotics III”
5-15 September 2009, Sozopol, Bulgaria
Granted by the Human Resources Development Center (HRDC) - Bulgaria
XIV. EFFS 2008
“Sociosemiotics II”
6-16 September 2008, Sozopol, Bulgaria
Granted by the Human Resources Development Center (HRDC) - Bulgaria
XIII. EFSS 2007
“Sociosemiotics I”
8-18 September 2007, Sozopol, Bulgaria
Granted by the Human Resources Development Center (HRDC) - Bulgaria
XII. EFFS 2006
“Semiotics, Image and Narration”
11-18 September 2006, Sozopol, Bulgaria
XI. EFFS 2005
“Semiotics and Genre”
10-16 September, 2005, Sozopol, Bulgaria
In collaboration and financial support of Dante Alighieri Committee Sofia
X. EFFS 2004
“Culture and Text”
15-23 September 2004, Sozopol, Bulgaria
In collaboration with the department of Semiotics, Tartu University
IX. EFFS 2003
“Sign Theories in Use”
5-14 September 2003, St. Kyrik Complex – Assenovgrad, Bulgaria
VIII. EFFS 2002
“Semiotics of social: Genealogy and practice of communication”
“St. Kirik and Julita”, Asenovgrad, September 2002
VII. EFFS 2001
“Difference and Identity”
6-11 September “St. Kirik and Julita”, Asenovgrad, Bulgaria
13-16 September Sozopol, Bulgaria
VI. EFFS 2000
“General Semiotics and Biosemiotics”
“St. Kirik and Julita”, Asenovgrad, Bulgaria
V. EFFS 1999
"Semiotic Space and Cultural Time"
14-18 September, 1999 “St. Kirik and Julita”, Asenovgrad, Bulgaria
IV. EFFS 1998
“L'Otherness: Signness, Perception, Presentation"
September 17-20,1998 “St. Kirik and Julita”, Asenovgrad, Bulgaria
III. EFFS 1997
“Semiotics in a Pragmatic Key. Applicability vs. Esoterism”
September 1997, Bankia, Sofia, Bulgaria
II. EFSS 1996
“The Self as a Sign”
September 1996, Journalist, Varna, Bulgaria
I. EFSS 1995
“International Semiotics”
4-7 October 1995, Sofia Library, Sofia, Bulgaria