Thursday, 27 January 2011

Program of Tartu zoosemiotics conference

The program of the 4-8 April 2011 conference Zoosemiotics and Animal Representations, to be arranged in Tartu, Estonia, has now been released. You'll find an overview on the conference website - full program in PDF here.

My own roles, apart from being part of the organizing team:
* Giving the presentation "The Umwelt trajectories of wolves, sheep and people", Wednesday April 6th.
14.30 – 16.30
Session: Perspectives in zoosemiotics II
Felice Cimatti, Marco Mazzeo. Uexküll’s heritage: do human animals live in an Umwelt?
Morten Tønnessen. The Umwelt trajectories of wolves, sheep and people.
Katya Mandoki. Performative acts among animals? Considering zoo-pragmatics
Mara Woods. An affective model of perception-action.
* Chair of the roundtable "Futures of Zoosemiotics", Wednesday April 6th at 17.00-18.30.

Further roundtables:
- Thursday April 7th: "Zoo as a semiotic environment", chair: Nils Lindahl Elliot
- Friday April 8th: "Animals and ecocriticism", chair: Wendy Wheeler

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