SantralIstanbul, location provided by Istanbul Bilgi University – April 22nd-24th, 2010
information on application and registration here
Deadline for applications: September 1st, 2009
Panel proposals, individual proposals and performance proposals are encouraged but not limited to following areas:
Un-gestalt, Détournament, Spectacle/Specular, Noise, Perversion, Madness, Schizo-analysis, Hysteria, Histrionics, Addiction, Altered states, Actual/Virtual, Immanence/Transcendental, Dialectics, Nomadology, Affect/Percept, Noumenon/Phenomenon, Time/Matter, Ressentiment, Macro/Micro Perceptions, Quantum, Becoming, Year Zero, Micro-politics, Minor literature, Ritournelle

Semiophagy is an interdisciplinary forum for scholars, artists, and activists to engage in semiotics, broadly construed. More than abstractly saying what signs are generally, Semiophagy pushes the concept of the sign toward questions of praxis. Instead of asking ‘what’ a sign is, it questions ‘how’ we discover and interpret signs in the first place.
Semiophagy aims to trace the being of signs from their phenomenological emergence to their existential significance, asserting that insofar as all signs must be interpreted, the search for every sign’s meaning is a creative urge expressed as art. This includes but is not restricted to philosophical and critical inquiries, visual works, pataphysical experiments, manifestos, comics, spoof ads and articles, dada, ethical treatises, as well as the history and myth of semiotics itself.
For possible publication in Spring of 2009, submissions to Semiophagy MUST BE RECEIVED BY MARCH 1ST, 2009.

Semiophagy is a blind, peer-reviewed publication. More Information here

Semiophagy Homepage

University of Cologne (Schloss Wahn) – August 3rd-7th, 2009

Instructors: Ian Buchanan, Paul Harris, Patricia Pisters, Mirjam Schaub, Janell Watson, James Williams

Contact: LEGOdeleuze@web.de

Registration: open 01.10. 2008
60 places: “first come, first serve”.

All information here

University of Cologne – August 10th-12th, 2009

Speakers include: Réda Bensmaia, Hanjo Berressem, Arno Böhler, Ronald Bogue, Mark Bonta, Rosi Braidotti, Ian Buchanan, Didier Debaise, Norbert Finzsch, Johnny Golding, Paul Harris, Eugene Holland, Gillian Howie, Jan Jagodzinski, Gregg Lambert, Erin Manning, Brian Massumi, Luciana Parisi, Patricia Pisters, Arkady Plotnitsky, John Protevi, Bryan Reynolds, Martin E. Rosenberg, Mirjam Schaub, Henning Schmidgen, Inna Semetsky, Daniel W. Smith, Andreas Speer, Charles Stivale, Janell Watson, James Williams

Registration: open 01.10. 2008
Deadline for abstracts: 30.04. 2009

All information here