• Per-Aage Brandt, Centre for Semiotics, University of Aarhus, Denmark
• Peer Bundgaard, Centre for Semiotics, University of Aarhus, Denmark
• Merlin Donald, professor emeritus, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada
• Bruno Galantucci, Laboratory of Experimental Semiotics, Yeshiva University, New York City, USA
• Göran Sonesson, Centre for Cognitive Semiotics, University of Lund, Sweden

Per Aage Brandt is professor of cognitive science at Case Western Reserve (retired 2011). He is the founding director of the Center for Cognition and Culture at Case Western, the founding director of the Center for Semiotics at the University of Aarhus, and a founding co-editor of the journals Poetik, Poetica et Analytica, Semiotik, Almen Semiotik, and Cognitive Semiotics. His research fields include structural semantics, cognitive linguistics and poetics, philosophy of science, cognition, and music.

Peer Bundgaard is associate professor at the Center for Semiotics. His work divides into two major domains. First is the semiotics of aesthetic cognition: that is to say, the nature of aesthetic cognition in relation to plain cognition; second, the crossovers between phenomenology and cognitive semantics. In both domains, his focus is on the ontological and psychological constraints on human meaning making.

Merlin Donald is professor emeritus in the department of psychology and faculty of education at Queen’s University.  A cognitive neuroscientist with a background in philosophy, he is the author of numerous scientific papers and two influential books: Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition and A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness.

Bruno Galantucci is assistant professor in psychology at Yeshiva University, where he directs the Experimental Semiotics Laboratory. He is a research affiliate at Haskins Laboratories, where he has conducted research on the psychology of language — including speech perception, word recognition, and sentence processing. In recent years, he has focused on studying experimentally how humans establish and develop novel forms of communication, contributing to the foundation of Experimental Semiotics.

Göran Sonesson is professor of semiotics at Lund University, where he has directed the semiotics seminar since 1986. He is the head of the Centre for Cognitive Semiotics and the initiator of the doctoral program in semiotics. He was the first president of the Swedish Society for Semiotic Studies and is the current president of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies, as well as secretary general of the International Association for Visual Semiotics.

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Contributors: Jean Petitot, Peer F. Bundgaard, Wolfgang Wildgen, Ivan Darrault-Harris, Zoï Kapoula , Qing Yang, Marine Vernet, Maria-Pia Bucci, Alessandro Pignocchi, Ellen Dissanayake, Michael Kimmel.

http://uwf.edu/tprewitt/ssa.htm

The editors of Cognitive Semiotics are scheduled for two sessions, both under the heading “Semiotics and Cognitive Studies”.

Session 1 is Friday 16 October: 14:00 -15:30

Session 2 is Saturday 17 October: 10:15 – 12:15

The full program can be viewed here:

http://www.uwf.edu/tprewitt/2009SSAprogram.htm

We hope to see some of you there!

The first issue, due for publication in April 2007, bears the theme “Agency” and contains articles by Shaun Gallagher, Merlin Donald, Rick Grush, Søren Overgaard & Thor Grünbaum, Kristian Tylén, and Mikkel Holm Sørensen & Tom Ziemke.

This inaugural issue will in turn celebrate the successful transition from being a locally based endeavour at Aarhus University, Denmark to becoming a true international journal with prominent editorial board members positioned on both sides of the Atlantic; in Denmark at the University of Aarhus and the University of Copenhagen, and in the United States at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. The latter will also serve as the official future home for the journal.

More info will follow as the journal and our international cooperation progresses. This is just a short welcome to let you know of our existence and, hopefully, to spark your interest in our journal!