Conferences

Organized Conferences

2025 

• Conference Semiotics of Friendship: Relations Beyond Interactions, The 49th Semiotic Society of America Annual Conference, Charles University, Prague, Czechia, September 24–28, 2025 (50 attendees). https://www.semioticsocietyofamerica.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/SSA-49th-Call-for-Papers-Extended-Deadline.pdf 
• Two-day session Conceptual Blending, co-organized with Jamin Pelkey and Mark Turner, International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLC-17), Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 14-18, 2025 (200 attendees). https://iclc17.com/

2024

• Summer Retreat, Semiotic Resonance, in cooperation with ERC Consolidator grant FACETS, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czechia (50 attendees). https://isisemiotics.upol.cz/past-events/semiotic-resonance-2024/
• Conference Signs and realities, 16th World Congress of Semiotics, Warsaw, Poland, September 2-6, 2024, co-organizer (400 attendees). https://www.semcon2024.com/

2023

• Conference Gatherings in Biosemiotics, International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (ISBS), University of Copenhagen, Denmark, July 31-August 4, 2023, co-organizer (60 attendees). https://biosemiotics.org/gatherings-in-biosemiotics-2023/#:~:text=Welcome%20to%20Copenhagen!&text=The%20Gatherings%20in%20Biosemiotics%20will,for%20abstracts%20was%2031%20March. 
• Summer School Visual Metaphor, International Semiotic Summer School (ISSSIP 2023), Charles University, Prague, Czechia, July 23-28, 2023 (30 attendees). https://isisemiotics.upol.cz/summer-school/ 
• Winter School AI & SOCIETY, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czechia, January 16-19, 2023 (40 attendees). https://www.upol.cz/nc/en/calendar/event/clanek/winter-school-on-ai-society/ 

2022

• Conference Gatherings in Biosemiotics, International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (ISBS), Palacký University, Olomouc, Czechia, June 27-1 July, 2022 (80 attendees). https://biosemiotics.upol.cz/ 
• Eight International Conference in Code Biology, International Society of Code Biology, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czechia, June 7-11, 2022 (30 attendees). https://www.codebiology.org/conferences/Olomouc2022/#:~:text=Olomouc%20(Czech%20Republic)%2C%207,historical%20foundation%2C%20of%20Code%20Biology. 

2021

• Discussion Forum Transformation of Objects and Communication, 16. Internationaler Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Semiotik, September 28-October 2, 2021, online (co-organized with Stéphanie Schneider). video recording: https://www.academia.edu/video/kbL2v1
• Conference Gatherings in Biosemiotics, International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (ISBS), Stockholm and online, July 26-29, 2021, co-organizer (60 attendees). https://biosemiotics.org/2021-gatherings/#:~:text=July%2026%2D29%2C%202021,sign%20processes%20in%20life%20processes. 

2020

• Conference Gatherings in Biosemiotics, International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (ISBS), online, November 27-29, 2020, main organizer (70 attendees). https://biosemiotics2020.upol.cz/index.php/schedule-27-29-november-2020/ 

2017-2018

• Lectures series for the Central European Exchange Programme for University Studies (Ceepus), Olomouc, main organizer (100 attendees in total).

2016-2017

• Two conferences for Norway Grants, Oslo and Olomouc, co-organizer (30 attendees each).
• Linguistic afternoon, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czechia, co-organizer (40 attendees every year). https://bohemica.upol.cz/pdfs/boh/2017/02/14.pdf

Conference Papers

2025

• Semiotics of Friendship: Relations Beyond Interactions, The 49th Semiotic Society of America Annual Conference: Participative Opposition as a means for "Language of Friendship", Charles University, Prague, Czechia, September 24–28, 2025.
• Gatherings in Biosemiotics, International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (ISBS) Applied Semiotics: project Masked, (co-authored with Marc Mehu, Brian Khumalo, Yogi Hendlin, Devon Schiller), Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Netherlands, August 29, 2025.
• Gatherings in Biosemiotics, International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (ISBS): On Creative Love and Organismal Freedom (co-authored with Jana Švorcová), Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Netherlands, August 29, 2025.
• International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLC-17): Disanalogy and participative opposition in Digital Writing, Buenos Aires, Argentina, July 14-18, 2025.
• Summer Symposium Ideologies of Conservation and Transformation, Bruno Kessler Foundation ISR: Gender Ideologies and Algorithmic Bias: A (Bio)semiotic Perspective, Trento, Italy, June 23-24, 2025, invited speaker.
• Conference Animalità e biosemiotica. Ripensare la vita e le sue espressioni: Non-Self-Conscious Interpretants in Animal Cognition: the Case of the Canadian Goose, University of Cagliari, Italy, June 20, 2025, keynote speaker.
• Conference AI and poetry, Myrifield Institute for Arts and Cognition: AI: language, iconicity, and bodily constraints for creativity, Massachusetts, USA, May 16, 2025, invited speaker. 
• Conference Journées d'études Sémiotique et Participation: La biosémiotique comme participation, University Rennes 2, France, February 11-12, 2025.

2024

• Symposium Semiotic Interludes: Revealing the Space Between the Notes in the Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities and the Arts, hosted and funded by Duke University: Cognitive Consequences Of The Technological Turn In Communication: Semiotic Perspective, North Carolina, USA, November 7, 2024, invited speaker. 
  
• Panel "Blending Structuralism and Pragmatism": Digital Writing and the New Primitive Mind, 16th World Congress in Semiotics, Warsaw University, Poland, September 4, 2024.
• Panel "Biosemiotics": Folding as Semiotic Modeling, 16th World Congress in Semiotics, Warsaw University, September 3, 2024.
• Gatherings in Biosemiotics, International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (ISBS):  In search of C space: Umberto Eco between dyadicity and interpretation, University of Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa, presented online, June 18, 2024.

2023

• Conference So many insights of semiotics and philosophy on culture and arts today: Digital Mind and the New Era for Linguistics, Nitra Constantine Philosopher University, Slovakia, December  13, 2023, invited speaker.
• Gatherings in Biosemiotics, International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (ISBS): Biological Writing: An Appendix to The Language Metaphor of Life, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, August 1, 2023.

2022

• Conference Oscar´s day: Roman Jakobson´s Shifting Semiotic Status, University of Helsinki, Finland, December 2, 2022, invited speaker.

• Conference HUGOD: Humanities Going Digital at Department of General Linguistics, (co-authored with Lenka Pivoňková), University of Pécz, Hungary, September 8, 2022.
• 15th World Congress in Semiotics: Semiotics Means to Participate, University of Thessaloniki, Greece, September 3, 2022.
• Summer School Znak jako bonboniéra: Peirce is like a box of chocolates, Charles University, Prague, August 7, 2022, keynote speaker. 
• Gatherings in Biosemiotics, International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (ISBS): From proteins to algorithms: A (bio)semiotic approach to artificial intelligence, (co-authored with Vinicius Romanini), Palacký University, Olomouc, June 27-1 July, 2022.
• Eight International Conference in Code Biology, International Society of Code Biology: The Lower Threshold in Code Biology, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czechia, June 10, 2022. 
• Conference HUGOD: Humanities going digital, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czechia, online, February 18, 2022.

2021

• Conference X. Peripatetic Conference on Cognitive Systems Modelling: Proteins as minimal agents for modeling AI, (co-authored with Tyler J. Bennett), Zakopane, Poland, October 22, 2021.
• Seventh International Conference in Code Biology, International Society of Code Biology: On the asymmetrical relation between linearity and non-linearity, Luznica, Croatia, online, September 2, 2021. https://www.academia.edu/video/k36pLl 
• Gatherings in Biosemiotics, International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (ISBS): A Peircean reading of Lamarck: evolution by habit, (co-authored with Jana Švorcová), Stockholm and hybrid, July 27, 2021. https://www.academia.edu/video/kAZ8Xj 
• Biosemiosalong Funktionskreis and the Biosemiotic Signifieds: Law of Nature, Phaneron, and Relational Logic: Form and Substance in Peirce as the First Semiologist, Karl Ernst von Baer House, Tartu, Estonia, July 13, 2021, invited speaker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlSGmLBq6vM&list=PLkPrduw3UtaYw1MrUC642LCusbzqe8g8o&index=2
• Semiosalong Transmutation: Between Form and Substance: A non-orthodox reading of Hjelmslev, online, April 15, 2021, invited speaker. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb4XZhnvIWY

2020

• Gatherings in Biosemiotics, International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (ISBS): Some Notes on the Representational Aspect of Low-Level Semiosis, (co-authored with Dan Faltýnek), Olomouc, Czechia, online, November 27, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y_glNZ0D0o

2019

• Conference Studia Romanistica Beliana: Embrayage, débrayage. Stratégies dans les nouvelles de Robbe-Grillet, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia, October 11, 2019.
• Conference 14th World Congress of Semiotics: Jalous narrator: enunciative strategies in Robbe-Grillet's novel La Jalousie, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 10, 2019.
• Gatherings in Biosemiotics, International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (ISBS): How to do things with proteins, (co-coauthored with Dan Faltýnek), Moscow, Russia, July 1, 2019.

2018

• Gatherings in Biosemiotics, International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (ISBS): Triadic conception of relations. Peircean proteomics, (co-coauthored with Jaroslav Krbec), UC Berkeley, California, June 17, 2018.

2017

• Conference The Course in General Linguistics. 1916-2016: Quelques remarques sur l´usage du terme arbitraire du signe, Geneve, Switzerland, January 12, 2017.
• Conference Word order and Information Structure: Speech in progression. The interface between intonation and information structure in political discourse, (co-authored with Roberta Cicchirillo), Olomouc, Czechia.
• Conference Word order and Information Structure: Linguistic Iconicity in Syntax and Information Structure, (co-authored with Diego Gabriel Krivochen), Oslo, Norway.
• Congress Borders & Boundaries: Logic of Relatives as Syntax in the Genetic Code, Passau, Germany, September 13, 2017.
• Gatherings in Biosemiotics, International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (ISBS): Text dependency between length of protein secondary structure and the protein size, (co-authored with Dan Faltýnek and Vladimír Matlach), Lausanne, Switzerland, June 8, 2017.

2016

• Gatherings in Biosemiotics, International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (ISBS): Arbitrariness is not enough, (co-authored with Dan Faltýnek), Charles University, Prague, Czechia, July 5, 2016.

2015

• Central European Conference in Linguistics for Postgraduate Students (CECIL'S 5): Grammars and semiotic descriptions of DNA, Olomouc, Czechia, September 5, 2015.
• Conference Lingvistického odpoledne: Semiotics descriptions of the DNA, Olomouc, Czechia, May 13, 2015.
• Workshop ForkShoP, FSP and its Forks: Iconicity and topic˗focus sequentiality in French and Italian, Brno, Czechia, May 12, 2015.

2014

• 39th Conference of the Società Italiana di Glottologia, Società Italiana di Glottologia: Iconicity and functional sentence perspective, Siena, Italy, October 24, 2014.