Activities of Circe
Currently the following activities are carried out within CIRCe, organized by the group of semioticians from the Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences:
- A series of symposia called "Meetings on Meaning": distinguished scholars from the humanities and social sciences, not only from Italy and Europe but from around the world, are invited to give lectures on their ongoing projects and research, present their latest books, or offer new interpretations of different semiotic traditions to an audience of faculty, researchers, PhD students, and university students.
- A monthly seminar for post-doc researchers, PhD students, and graduate students in interdisciplinary social and human sciences, cultural studies, and semiotics; the seminar's theme changes each year but often involves a thorough collective reading and interpretation of the complete works of a renowned scholar.
- A seminar where PhD students present their ongoing research projects, both to their colleagues and to the senior staff of CIRCe.
- An annual roundtable, usually on a theoretical topic, involving both semioticians and non-semioticians.
- The publication of Lexia, an international A-rated journal indexed on Scopus, featuring a double-blind peer-review system, published biannually and dedicated to research in the field of cultural semiotics, published by Aracne (Rome) and also available online.
- A Summer School on cultural semiotics, organized in the first weeks of September.
- A series of lectures offered by European colleagues through numerous SOCRATES/ERASMUS agreements that the University of Turin has signed with other major semiotics research centers in Europe (Helsinki, Riga, Sofia, Tartu, Vilnius, etc.).