ΧΙ ΙNTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SEMIOTICS, Thessaloniki, Greece, 14-16/10/2016

CALL FOR PAPERS ΧΙ ΙNTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SEMIOTICS The Fugue of the Five Senses: Semiotics of the Shifting Sensorium Thessaloniki, Greece, 14-16 October 2016 Organized by the Hellenic Semiotic Society and the School of Journalism & Mass Communications of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki   Western thought has privileged sight above all other senses, placing hearing a distant second and touch, taste and smell among the ‘lower senses’. This hierarchy of the senses was accepted even by Simmel, whose belief that ‘senses build a thousand bridges between human beings’ forms the…