<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Dear
colleagues,<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">With apologies for cross-listing, we
enthusiastically write to share the publication of part II of “Images,” a
special issue of <i>Semiotic Review</i>:<i> </i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="https://www.semioticreview.com/ojs/index.php/sr/issue/view/9" style="color:blue" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)">https://www.semioticreview.com/ojs/index.php/sr/issue/view/9</span></a></span>. <span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Part
II expands the issue’s interdisciplinary approach to the semiotic
study of images. The essays range from linguistic anthropology to visual
anthropology, religious to deaf studies, and Peircean semiotics to film studies,
taking up questions of how we transcribe and aesthetically represent discursive
data (<a href="https://www.semioticreview.com/ojs/index.php/sr/article/view/68" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Murphy</a>,
<a href="https://www.semioticreview.com/ojs/index.php/sr/article/view/69" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Hoffmann-Dilloway</a>),
image-making practices among the Nepali Deaf (<a href="https://www.semioticreview.com/ojs/index.php/sr/article/view/69" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Hoffmann-Dilloway</a>)
and Cuban Spiritists (<a href="https://www.semioticreview.com/ojs/index.php/sr/article/view/70" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Wirtz</a>),
and the Peircean semiotics of cinematic special effects (<a href="https://www.semioticreview.com/ojs/index.php/sr/article/view/71" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Lefebvre</a>).<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">The
Table of Contents for part II is:</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span style="color:windowtext">- <i><a href="https://www.semioticreview.com/ojs/index.php/sr/article/view/68" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Transcription
Aesthetics</a></i>, Keith Murphy<br>
- <i><a href="https://www.semioticreview.com/ojs/index.php/sr/article/view/69" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Images
and/as Language in Nepal’s Older and Vulnerable Deaf Person’s Project</a></i>, Erika
Hoffmann-Dilloway</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span style="color:windowtext">- <i><a href="https://www.semioticreview.com/ojs/index.php/sr/article/view/70" style="color:blue" target="_blank">Scopic
Regimentation of Cuban Popular Religious Altars</a></i>, Kristina Wirtz</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"><span style="color:windowtext">- <i><a href="https://www.semioticreview.com/ojs/index.php/sr/article/view/71" style="color:blue" target="_blank">A
Peircean Lens on Cinematic Special Effects</a></i>, Martin Lefebvre</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">And
if you didn’t check out part I, please find links below to our introductory
essay, roundtable on indexicality of the image, conversation with Steven Feld,
and essays by Esra Soraya Padgett, Angela Reyes, and Constantine V. Nakassis:<b></b></p>

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</span><i><a href="https://www.semioticreview.com/ojs/index.php/sr/article/view/61" style="color:blue" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Images: An Introduction</span></a></i>, by Meghanne Barker and Constantine V. Nakassis<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">- <i><a href="https://www.semioticreview.com/ojs/index.php/sr/article/view/62" style="color:blue" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Opening Up the Indexicality of the
Image, Again (a virtual roundtable)</span></a></i>, with Christopher Ball,
Elizabeth Edwards, Meghanne Barker, Tomáš Kolich, W. J. T. Mitchell, Daniel
Morgan, and Constantine V. Nakassis (moderator).<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">- <i><a href="https://www.semioticreview.com/ojs/index.php/sr/article/view/63" style="color:blue" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Spectral Signage, A Conversation
with Steven Feld</span></a></i>: Steven Feld, Meghanne Barker, and Constantine
V. Nakassis<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">- <i><a href="https://www.semioticreview.com/ojs/index.php/sr/article/view/65" style="color:blue" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Deixis and the Linguistic
Anthropology of Cinema</span></a></i>, by Constantine V. Nakassis<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">- <i><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><a href="https://www.semioticreview.com/ojs/index.php/sr/article/view/66" style="color:blue" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Image into Sequence: Colonial
Photography and the Invention of Filipino Evolution</span></a></span></i><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">, by Angela Reyes</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">- <i><a href="https://www.semioticreview.com/ojs/index.php/sr/article/view/67" style="color:blue" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Dirty Pictures: Performativity and
the Obscene Image</span></a></i>, by Esra Soraya Padgett<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p>

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always, issues of <i>Semiotic Review </i>are
rolling and open for new submissions. If you have an essay or other publication
(review, interview, photo essay, etc.) that you think would fit into the rubric
of the issue, please contact us!<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p>

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best wishes,<span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Constantine
V. Nakassis (<a href="mailto:cnakassi@uchicago.edu" style="color:blue" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">cnakassi@uchicago.edu</span></a>) and Meghanne Barker (<a href="mailto:m.barker3@lse.ac.uk" style="color:blue" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">m.barker3@lse.ac.uk</span></a>)</p><div><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">--------------------------------</div><div dir="ltr">Constantine V. Nakassis<div>Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, </div><div>Associate Faculty in the Departments of Cinema and Media Studies and Comparative Human Development, The University of Chicago</div><div><div>Chair, Committee on Southern Asian Studies (COSAS), The University of Chicago</div><div>email: <a href="mailto:cnakassi@uchicago.edu" target="_blank">cnakassi@uchicago.edu</a><br></div></div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://anthropology.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/constantine-v-nakassis" target="_blank">https://anthropology.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/constantine-v-nakassis<br></a></div><div><a href="http://nakassis.com/constantine" target="_blank">http://nakassis.com/constantine</a><br></div><div><a href="http://chicagotamilforum.uchicago.edu" target="_blank">http://chicagotamilforum.uchicago.edu</a></div><div><a href="https://southasia.uchicago.edu/" target="_blank">https://southasia.uchicago.edu/</a><a href="http://chicagotamilforum.uchicago.edu" target="_blank"><br><br></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>