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- Morten Tønnessen
- Kristiansand, Vest-Agder, Norway
- Førsteamanuensis ved Universitetet i Stavanger. Platonisk prostituert. Utopist.
Brief academic CV
- 1 Associate professor (25% > 100% > 20%) at University of Stavanger (Department of Health Studies) 2012-2013
- 2 Doctoral degree from University of Tartu (Department of Semiotics), Estonia. Title of PhD thesis (defended December 15th 2011): "Umwelt Transition and Uexküllian Phenomenology. An Ecosemiotic Analysis of Norwegian Wolf Management"
- 3 A main researcher in Timo Maran´s research project (2009-2013) "Dynamical Zoosemiotics and Animal Representations" ( ETF/ESF 7790)
- 4 Main organizer of the Tartu workshops on the semiotics/phenomenology of perception (Feb. 2009), and co-organizer of the international conference "Zoosemiotics and Animal Representations" (April 2011)
- 5 Guest-editor with Kati Lindström of special issue of Biosemiotics (3(3)), 'Semiotics of Perception' (2010), and with Riin Magnus and Nelly Mäekivi of special issue of Hortus Semioticus (no. 6), 'Semiotics of nature' (2010)
- 6 Editor with Timo Maran, Kati Lindström and Riin Magnus of "Semiotics in the Wild: Essays in Honour of Kalevi Kull on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday" (Tartu University Press 2012)
- 7 Editor with Kadri Tüür of "The Semiotics of Animal Representations" (Rodopi, forthcoming), and editor with Guri Larsen and Ragnhild Sollund of the Norwegian HAS anthology "Hvem er villest i landet her?" (Spartacus, forthcoming in 2013)
- 8 Member of the editorial board of the journal Biosemiotics
- 9 Chair of Minding Animals Norway (2011-2014), secretary of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies (2011-2013), member of the board of University of Stavanger (2012-2013)
Upcoming academic events
- 1st International Conference in Code Biology (Paris, France, 2014)
- 4th International Conference in Code Biology (Norway, 2017)
- Book launch: Norwegian HAS anthology (Domus Nova, Oslo, May 15 2013)
- Dyreetikkonferansen 2013: Hvor ville dyr? Hvordan vi former ville dyr i vårt bilde (Oslo - Norway, August 22 2013)
- Eighth Conference of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies (NASS): Sign Evolution on Multiple Time Scales (Aarhus, Denmark - May 29-31 2013)
- Gatherings in Biosemiotics 13 (Castiglioncelli - Livorno, Italy, June 4-8 2013)
- The Semiotics of Animal Representation (edited collection, editors Morten Tønnessen and Kadri Tüür - forthcoming, Rodopi)
Past events (2012-)
- 11th Annual Meeting of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology (Copenhagen, Denmark, April 18-20 2013)
- 1st International Conference on Interactivity, Language and Cognition (Odense, Denmark - September 12-14, 2012)
- 27th International Summer School for Semiotic and Structural Studies (2012 - June 8-12, Imatra, Finland)
- Arne i 100 (100-year anniversary of Arne Næss - Oslo, Norway, January 27 2012)
- Dyreetikkonferansen 2012: Dyret bak maten og mennesket bak forbrukeren (Oslo, Norway, September 21, 2012)
- Gatherings in biosemiotics 12 (Tartu, Estonia, July 17-22, 2012)
- General Meeting of Minding Animals Norway (Oslo, September 22, 2012)
- Language and Life workshop (Tartu, Estonia, July 15, 2012)
- Minding Animals 2 (Utrecht, July 4-6, 2012)
- Minding Animals Norges forskningsseminar 2012: Dyr, menneske og mat: Dyreetikk i landbruket (Oslo, Norway, September 22, 2012)
- The research seminar "Biosemiotics and study of culture" (Tartu, Estonia, July 16, 2012)
- The symposium “Nordic Semiotic Paradigms – NASS 25 years: Where do Cognitive, Bio- and Existential Semiotics Meet?” (Imatra, Finland, June 9, 2012)
- The workshop Agency in Health Care: Phenomenology and Experience (Stavanger, Norway, April 15 2013)
- Workshop: The Rhetoric of Human-Animal Relations (Oslo, May 29-30, 2012)
Past events (-2011)
- 10th World Congress in Semiotics (Spain, September 22-26, 2009)
- 52nd research seminar of the Scandinavian Research Council for Criminology: Globalization in criminology (Hønefoss, May 10-12, 2010)
- 6th European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) conference (Turku, 28 June - 2 July, 2011)
- Christianssand Protestfestival 2011 (Kristiansand, Norway, September 3-9, 2011)
- Climate change: Global Risks, Challanges and Decisions (Copenhagen, March 2009)
- Defence of doctoral thesis at the University of Tartu, December 15th 2011
- Den nasjonale konferansen om rovvilt, beitedyr og samfunn (Hamar, Norway, 31 Oct - 1 Nov, 2011)
- First World Congress on Environmental History (Copenhagen, August 4-8th 2009)
- Gatherings in Biosemiotics 10 (Braga, Portugal, June 22-27, 2010)
- Gatherings in biosemiotics 11 (New York, June 21-26, 2011)
- Gatherings in Biosemiotics 9 (Prague, June 30th - July 4th 2009)
- Kriminalpolitisk seminar (Oslo, November 11th)
- Lecture on the global species in criminology seminar (Oslo, October 19, 2011)
- Minding Animals Oslo: Shared Worlds (October 14-15, 2011)
- Minding Animals Uppsala: Zooethnographies (Uppsala, October 17-18, 2011)
- Semiotics of Perception - special issue of BIOSEMIOTICS (vol. 3, no. 3 - December 2010)
- Seventh Conference of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies (May 6-8, 2011)
- SI of Hortus Semioticus 'Semiotics of nature'
- Spatiality, memory and visualisation of culture/nature relationships: theoretical aspects (Tallinn, October 22-24th 2009)
- The 60th International Congress of Phenomenology (Bergen, Aug. 10-13, 2010)
- The course ´Semiotics and phenomenology´ (Department of Semiotics, University of Tartu, 11-13 April and 16-18 May 2011)
- What's wrong with nature? (2008)
- Workshop: Animal Minds (2009)
- Workshop: The Ecology of Perception. Landscapes in Culture and Nature (2009)
- Workshop: The History, Philosophy and Future of Ethology (Sydney, Australia, February 19-21, 2011)
Some related academic links
- Arne i 100 (100-year anniversary of philosopher Arne Næss (1912-2009))
- Biosemiotics email list
- Center of Excellence in Cultural Theory
- Concerned Scientists Norway
- Conference: Zoosemiotics and animal representations
- Department of Health Studies (UiS)
- Department of Semiotics (Tartu Ülikool)
- Dynamical zoosemiotics and animal representations (project)
- Environmental Humanities (journal)
- Homepage of David Rothenberg
- Homepage of Jonathan Beever
- International Association for Environmental Philosophy (IAEP)
- International Society for Biosemiotic Studies
- International Society for the Study of Interactivity, Language and Cognition (ISSILC)
- International Society of Code Biology
- Jakob von Uexküll Centre (Tartu)
- Language and Life (research cluster in the Distributed Language Group)
- Minding Animals International
- Minding Animals Norway
- Subscribe to biosemiotics mailing list
- The Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies (site under construction)
- The Nordic Society for Phenomenology
- Umweb's zoosemiotics portal
- University of Stavanger (UiS)
Current research fields
- Biosemiotics and zoosemiotics
- Climate change
- Deep ecology (as developed by Arne Næss)
- Domestication
- Ecophilosophy and ecosemiotics
- Environmental ethics, biosemiotic ethics
- Environmental history
- Environmentalism, activism
- Epistemology
- Human-animal studies
- Ontology
- Phenomenology (especially eco-)
- Philosophy of science (especially biology)
- Semiotic economy
- Wolf ecology and wildlife management
Further academic interests
- Demography
- Economy (especially historical, and future)
- Existentialism
- Political philosophy
- Semiotic threshold
- Technology studies
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