20th NASS newsletter

The 20th Newsletter of the Nordic Association for Semiotic studies has been issued and is available along with other newsletters here. Inesa Sahakyan and Lauri Linaks are newsletter editors. The NASS newsletter has been issued since 2012.

ISQOLS 2022 paper presentation rescheduled for August 5th

My paper presentation "The true value of „doing well“ economically", which was initially scheduled for oral presentation at ISQOLS 2022 (the annual conference of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, to be held in Burlington, Vermont, USA, August 3-6th) on Saturday August 6th, has now been rescheduled to Friday August 5th in Session 4.1, "Promoting Well-Being: Public Policy and Development", which takes place 9-00-10:30 AM.

See also the final conference program.

ISQOLS 2022 presentation scheduled for August 6th

I have just received the conference program of ISQOLS 2022 (the annual conference of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies), to be held in Burlington, Vermont, USA, August 3-6th. My paper "The true value of „doing well“ economically" has been scheduled for oral presentation in session 8.5, "Quality of Life and Environment", which will take place Saturday August 6th at 13.15-14.45.

Neurosemiotics chapter announced online by Routledge

The Routledge Handbook of Semiosis and the Brain is now advertised online by Routledge.

My chapter will appear as chapter 5.

Reference for my chapter:

Tønnessen, Morten, forthcoming. Beyond the human animal: Towards a cross-species neurosemiotics. In Adolfo García & Agustin Ibanez (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Semiosis and the Brain (Routledge Handbooks in Linguistics). Routledge. Planned publication date November 2022.

Letter to the editor published in Stavanger Aftenblad March 6th

On March 6th I had a letter to the editor titled "Tid for selvkritikk i Stavanger kommune og Aftenbladet" published in the regional daily Stavanger Aftenblad.

Softcover edition of "Semiotic agency: Science beyond mechanism" now apparently for sale

Some book sellers have now started advertising a softcover version of our book Semiotic Agency: Science beyond Mechanism for sale. This includes Bokus.com, where the softcover edition is sold for 684 kr, and AdLibris, where it is sold for 516 NOK. ISBN is said to be 978-3-030-89485-6.

Updated reference:

Sharov, Alexei & Morten Tønnessen (2021). Semiotic Agency: Science beyond Mechanism (Biosemiotics 25). Springer Nature. DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-89484-9, ISBN 978-3-030-89483-2 (Hardcover), 978-3-030-89484-9 (Ebook), 978-3-030-89485-6 (Softcover / MyCopy).

Two oral presentations scheduled for the 15th World congress of semiotics

I have been scheduled to give two online talks at the 15th World congress of semiotics, with the theme "Semiotics in the lifeworld" (Thessaloniki, Greece, August 30 - September 3), both to be given on Friday September 2nd:

— 09.00-11.30 session “Biosemiotics, Umwelt, and the Lifeworld” with my presentation “Umwelt theory for practitioners: Semiotic guidelines for application in a more-than-human descriptive phenomenology” (room 1) 

— 15:00–17:30 session “Semiotics in the Disciplines: Progress and Priorities” with my presentation “Semiotics in ethology and zoology” (room 5)

I never received any formal answer concerning my 2 other submitted abstracts. 

To be keynote speaker at comparative welfare conference in Havana 2023

The conference “Comparative Welfare: Cuban and Nordic Welfare - People`s experience of the welfare system” will be held at University of Havana, Havana, Cuba, November 27th - December 1st 2023. I have been invited as one of the keynote speakers. The conference is organized in relation to our joint project "Cuban and Nordic welfare" (CubaNor, University of Havana and University of Stavanger).

Declined to be "Review Editor" for Frontiers in Ethology

I have declined an invitation to become a Review Editor for Frontiers in Ethology. I do not trust Frontiers´ editorial model. I also don´t like the suggestion that doing 1-2 peer reviews per year makes you an "Editor".