International Association for Semiotic Studies


International Association for Semiotic Studies is the major world organisation of semioticians, established in 1969.
Founding members of the association include Algirdas Julien Greimas, Roman Jakobson, Julia Kristeva, Emile Benveniste, André Martinet, Roland Barthes, Umberto Eco, Thomas A. Sebeok, and Juri Lotman.
The official journal of the association is Semiotica, published by De Gruyter Mouton. The working languages of the association are English and French.
The Executive Committee of the IASS consists of the representatives from semiotic societies of member countries.

World congresses in semiotics

The association is regularly organising the world congresses in semiotics:
  1. Milan, Italy, June 2–6, 1974
  2. Vienna, Austria, July 2–6, 1979
  3. Palermo, Italy, June 24–29, 1984
  4. Barcelona, Spain, and Perpignan, France, March 31 – April 4, 1989
  5. Berkeley, USA, June 12–18, 1994
  6. Guadalajara, Mexico, July 13–18, 1997
  7. Dresden, Germany, October 6–11, 1999
  8. Lyon, France, July 7–12, 2004
  9. Helsinki and Imatra, Finland, June 11–17, 2007
  10. A Coruña, Spain, September 22–26, 2009
  11. Nanjing, China, October 5–9, 2012
  12. Sofia, Bulgaria, September 16–20, 2014
  13. Kaunas, Lithuania, June 26–30, 2017
  14. Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 9–13, 2019
  15. Thessaloniki, Greece, August 30 – September 3, 2022
  16. Warsaw, Poland, September 2–6, 2024

Presidents

The list of the presidents of the association include
The former presidents are also honorary presidents. In addition, there are two elected honorary presidents: Umberto Eco and Gloria Withalm.