Susan Petrilli named seventh Thomas A. Sebeok Fellow of the Semiotic Society of America
Susan Petrilli named seventh Thomas A. Sebeok Fellow of the Semiotic Society of America

Summary/Abstract: The thirty-third annual meeting of the Semiotic Society of America meeting was held at the Renaissance Houston Hotel Greenway Plaza October 16–19, 2008 in conjunction with the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas.21At this meeting Professor Susan Petrilli of the University of Bari, Italy was inscribed as the seventh Thomas A. Sebeok32 fellow. Professor Petrilli’s Fellow address was delivered on October 17, 2008 12:45–14:00 in a plenary session. Her presentation, entitled “Semioethics and responsibility: Beyond specialisms, universalisms and humanisms”, was an outstanding presentation on the topic semioethics and its importance to all of us in the twenty-first century. The large audience was entranced by her insightful observations. 3 Professor Petrilli was born in Adelaide, Australia and she received her doctorate from the University of Bari, Italy in 1993 in Language Theory and Sign Sciences.

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