Nordic Phenomenology

I am about to become a member of The Nordic Society for Phenomenology/Nordisk Selskab for fænomenologi.

Umwelt Transitions: Uexküll and Environmental Change

My article "Umwelt Transitions: Uexküll and Environmental Change" is in the process of being published online (available for Biosemiotics subscribers). The paper version will appear in April 2009.

Cf. also Biosemiotics´ role at the David Abram workshops to be arranged in Tartu February 2009.

Workshop webpage: SemioPhenomenon

The David Abram events scheduled to take place in Tartu, February 2009 has given rise to a new webpage, SemioPhenomenon, where updates about the events will appear.

One more confirmed presenter for the David Abram workshops

For the Ecology of Perception workshop, Kalevi Kull will be offering the talk "On consortia, Umwelten, and biophony".

The David Abram workshops - Tartu, Feb 2009

I have now scheduled the two workshops involving David Abram (and several others) to be arranged in Tartu:
- Feb 6-7th: The Ecology of Peception: Landscapes in Culture and Nature
- Feb 9-10th: Animal Minds

A workshop webpage will appear shortly. As for now other confirmed presenters include Dario Martinelli, Kati Lindström and myself.

Poster presentation at The IARU International Scientific Congress on Climate Change

The organizers of The IARU International Scientific Congress on Climate Change, to take place in Copenhagen, March 2009, has announced that my work “The nature view held by environmentalists. Attitudes in the Norwegian environmental establishment” will appear at the congress as a poster presentation.

Estonian-Norwegian-Japanese cooperation

The David Abram workshop "The Ecology of Perception: Landscapes in Culture and Nature" will be organized in cooperation with the research project "Neolithisation and Modernisation: Landscape History on the East Asian Inland Seas" at Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto. Kati Lindström will be representing the project.