Isis Institute

Farouk Y. Seif, Ph.D., AIA

These recent presentations
and publications represent
Professor Farouk Seif’s
transdisciplinary areas of
interest that focus on
social/cultural transformation,
metaphysics of design,
wholeness, semiotics
and design communication.

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information.

Dialogue with Kishtta:A Semiotic Revelation of the Paradox of Life and Death. Download PDF The American Journal of Semiotics. Volume 29.1-4 (2013) pp 101-115.

From the Absolute to Metamorphoses: Egypt at the Epicenter of Transmodernity. Download PDF Semiotics 2011:"The Semiotics of the Worldviews". Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Semiotics Society of America, 27-30 October, 2011. Eds: Karen Haworth, Jason Hogue, Leonard G. Sbrocchi. pp 82-104.

Beyond the Fallacy of the Abbsolute God and Inflexibility of Religions. Forthcoming

In the Proceedings of the11th World Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies: Global Semiotics: Bridging Different Civilizations, Nanjing, China, October 2012.

Navigating Through Diaphanous Space and Polychronic Time. Forthcoming

In the Proceedings of the11th World Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies: Global Semiotics: Bridging Different Civilizations, Nanjing, China, October 2012.

Semiotic Paradox of the New Media: Experiencing Transmodern Reality in a Transmodern World. Forthcoming

In the Proceedings of the Semiotic Society of America Annual Meeting,Toronto, Canada, Nocember 2012.

From the Absolute to Metamorphoses: Egypt at the Epicenter of Transmodernity. Forthcoming

In Worldviews, Proceedings of the Semiotic Society of America Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 2011.

Wholophilia: Design and the Metamorphoses of the Absolute. Forthcoming

In Metamind 2010: Metamorphoses of the Absolute, Proceedings of the International Research Conference, Riga, Latvia, October 2010.

At Home with Transmodernity: Reconstructing Cultural Identity in a
Globalizing World. Forthcoming
In Transmodernity: Managing Global Communication. Proceedings of the 2nd
International Conference of the Romanian Association of Semiotic Studies (ROASS),
Slanic-Moldova, Romania, October 2008.

Conflict, Change, and Continuity: The Everlasting Dance of Cultural
Transformation. Forthcoming
In Understanding Conflicts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Proceedings of the
International, Interdisciplinary Research Conference on the Diversity of Conception and Cultural Images of Conflicts, University of Aarhus, Denmark, August 2008.

Communication in the Age of the Great Turning: Understanding the Role of
Analog and Digital Modes in Liberating Imagination. Download PDF
In Communication: Understanding/misunderstanding. Proceedings of the 9th
World Congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies - Association
Internationale de Sémiotique (IASS/AIS), Helsinki-Imatra, Finland, June 2007.

Eros of ‘Leader-fullness’: The Seductive Nature of Leadership and Global
Reality. Download PDF
In L3 Global Leadership. Proceedings of the International Conference: L3 Global Leadership, Shanghai, China, April 2006.

Social Change in the ‘Aperspectival World’: The Paradox of Social
Reproduction and Cultural Innovation. Download PDF
In TRANS. Internet-Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften. No. 16/2005. WWW: http://
www.inst.at/trans/16Nr/01_2/seif16.htm. Proceedings of the International Congress:
Innovations and Reproductions in Cultures and Societies (IRICS), IASS/AIS, Vienna,
Austria, December 2005.