IASS-AIS

International Association for Semiotic Studies --
Association Internationale de Sémiotique

How to join the IASS-AIS?

The IASS-AIS is open to everybody who is working in the field of semiotics or who is interested in sign theoretic problems.

The annual fee for individual membership amounts to US$ 25.00 or 25. Members are also entitled to highly reduced subscription rates for S – European Journal for Semiotic Studies (published by the Institute for Socio-Semiotic Studies ISSS). To receive the reduced rate, orders have to be placed directly with the publishers.

To join the IASS-AIS, please copy&paste/print out the membership form (see below) and send the filled out form together with your payment to the Treasurer in charge of your country (a check or money order, payable to the IASS-AIS).

The IASS-AIS offers also the possibility of collective membership on different levels (from international associations to small circles or research groups). For details please contact the Secretary General (or see below):

Extracts from the Rules of Procedure:

This is part of the IASS Rules of Procedure complementing or specifying the Statutes

According to the election of the IASS Board by the IASS Executive Com­mittee, the new Treasurers of the IASS since Lyon, July 8, 2004, are

Treasurers of the IASS-AIS:

For all countries except North & South America:		North & South America:
Susan Petrilli (Treasurer of the IASS) Dip. di Pratiche Linguistiche e Analisi di Testi Direzione e Sezione Filosofia e Scienze del Linguaggio Università di Bari Via Garruba, 6 I–70100 Bari, Italy phone/fax +390-80-5717460 <		John DEELY (Vice Treasurer of the IASS) University of St. Thomas, Houston Center for Thomistic Studies 3800 Montrose Boulevard Houston, TX 77006, U.S.A. phone +713-942-3449 / fax +713-942-3452 < >
Membership fee should be paid by transferences to the account given below. Checks cannot be received, nor cash. Only transferences to the above accounts are accepted. Fees perceived by the bank must be paid by the member. Please note the difference of procedure for this account and the other one		Payable exclusively by check sent to the above address Please note the difference of procedure for this account and the other one
Bank account Italy: UNICREDIT BANCA Sede centrale Via Putignani, 98 70122 Bari BA www.unicredit banca.it
Coordinates for the IASS-AIS bank account On the name of Susan Petrilli/IASS SWIFT: UNCRIT2B400 BIC: UNICBANC400 COSTS: OUR (this means that expenses for eventual operations, such as paying enrolment fees, falls upon the subscriber). IBAN: IT 21 M 02008 04000 000010437871 Note: IBAN number corrected: four zeros in the last series   TRANSLATION IT = Codice paese (country code) 21 = Check Digit M = CIN 02008 = BANCA (ABI) 04000 = SPOT. (CAB) 000010437871 = N. Conto (Account number)

The Vice-treasurer is in charge of the 2 Americas, the Treasurer for the "rest" of the world.

Everybody can copy the form sheet for registration as IASS me­ber and send it either electronically or materially to the Treasurer in charge of him/her as well as to the Secretary General.

There exist the possibilities of

1) Individual Membership
which concerns
a) persons, as well as
b) bigger institutions (international, transnational, and national semiotic and semiotics-related associations), and
c) smaller institutions (regional semiotic associations, university institutes, re­search centers, extra-university institutes, libraries, etc.)

The yearly Membership Fee for a) is US$ 25
The yearly Membership Fee for b) is US$ 80
The yearly Membership Fee for c) is US$ 40

International and transnational associations are of 3 types:
a) international special interest associations in semiotics such as the Internat. Association for Visual Semiotics;
b) international semiotics-related associations such as the International Sym­metry Association;
c) transnational semiotic associations such as the Federacion Latino-Ameri­cana de Semiotica or the East-Asian Association for Semiotic Studies.

With a) and b) it is also possible to arrange mutual institutional membershup without exchange of money.

2) Collective Membership
Collective Membership means, that a national semiotic association can be (come) an Institutional Member of the IASS including ALL individual (pay­ing!) Members of the respective national association, on the proviso that the Treasurer(s) of the national association collect the membership fees and for­ward them in one transmission procedure to the Treasurer(s) of the IASS, in­cluding a list of the paying members. In this case, which is meant to reduce the administrative work of the IASS officers, the fee of the national association is not US$ 80 sum total but US$ 12,50 (= 50 per cent of the regular fee for persons) for each individual paying member of the national association. These members of the national associations have the same rights and duties as the individual members of the IASS, including of course the right of voting and being elected in the IASS Gen. Assembly.

Such am arrangement exists with the following national associations:
Austrian Association for Semiotics
German Association for Semiotic
Czech Semiotic Circle
Associazione Italiana di Studi Semiotici
Association Française de Sémiotique
Hellenic Semiotic Society
Semiotic Society of America
(perhaps no complete list)

Please copy the form sheet for registration as IASS me­ber and send it either electronically or materially to the Treasurer in charge of him/her as well as to the Secretary General.

======================= Membership Form ========================

Please check off the *address* which you prefer for IASS mail 
and for publication in the IASS-AIS Members' Directory; 
in case your last name consists of more than one name, please 
mark the #one# relevant for the alphabetic order)


Name              ..............................................
First Name        ..............................................
Address (home)*   ..............................................
                  ..............................................
Address (office)* ..............................................
                  ..............................................

                  country  area   phone/fax numbers
phone office:     +......  ....   ..............................
phone home:       +......  ....   ..............................
fax office:       +......  ....   ..............................
fax home:         +......  ....   ..............................

e-mail(s)         ..............@...............................
Occupation        ..............................................


has paid to the IASS-AIS the annual fee for 2005 (25 US$/25 Euro) 
[please check off mode of payment]: 
... cash 
... check (payable to the IASS) 
... international money order
... postal remittance
... bank remittance

I give my consent to the publication of 
my address*, 
phone*/fax numbers* and 
e-mail address* in the IASS-AIS Members' Directory
... yes
... no

Date  20… ... ...     Signature  .............................. 

===================== end Membership Form ======================
      

Contacts  
IASS-AIS:  

Eero Tarasti (President), email:

Jose M. Paz Gago (Secretary General), email:

Göran Sonesson (Vice Secretary General), email:  

Jeff Bernard (Administrative Vice-President)
email: &

Contact Web Service 2005-2009:
Webmaster: Göran Sonesson (Vice Secretary General), email:

Created: January 20, 1998 / Last Update: November 3, 2006 (Göran Sonesson, IASS-AIS)

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