Mailing ‘Cypriotness’: the sensorial aspect of official culture through stamps

Abstract

From the beginning of the 1990s, the so-called minor senses evoked interest in the fields of cultural history, sociology, anthropology and philosophy, questioning the parallel advances of visual studies thus leading away from the hegemony of vision. The title of 11th International Conference on Semiotics «The Fugue of the Five Senses: Semiotics of the Shifting Sensorium» that was co-organized by the Hellenic Semiotics Society and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the AUTh in Thessaloniki (14th -16th October 2016) alludes to the emblematic chapter «The Fugue of the Five Senses» written by Claude Lévi-Strauss (1964) and reflects the growing interest of the Hellenic semiotic community in the field of senses. The conference aimed at exploring and furthering the understanding of the contemporary shifting sensorium.