NASS board meeting attended, chaired

On October 10th I attended - and chaired, and wrote the minutes of - the board meeting of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies (NASS). The main topics concerned deciding on and planning the 10th conference of NASS, which is to be held in June 2017 in Kaunas, Lithuania.

NASS X held in conjunction with 13th World Congress of Semiotics; abstract deadline November 30

The 10th Conference of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies (NASS), "Nordic-Baltic links, networks and domains in semiotics and beyond" will be held in conjunction with the 13th World Congress of Semiotics (Kaunas, Lituania, June 26-30th 2017). The Call for Papers, with abstract deadline November 30th, is featured in the 9th newsletter of NASS (now online).

Nordic semiotics homepage updated

I´ve recently updated the webpage of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies.

Updates include:
 - 8th newsletter of NASS uploaded
 - CFP from the journal Cognitive Semiotics

Nordic semiotics website updated

The homepage of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies (NASS) has been updated. 

Specifically, these subpages have been updated:

 - Home

 - About

 - NASS IX - Tartu 2015

 - Newsletter

 - Conferences

I am the webmaster (and Secretary, and Norwegian Ordinary Representative) of NASS.

4th NASS newsletter composed, distributed

Some seven weeks ago I composed (with co-editor Inesa Sahakyan) the 4th newsletter of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies (NASS) - 21 pp. The PDF newsletter, which is also posted online, was distributed by email a few days later.

See also:

Nordic semiotics webpage updated

Nordic semiotics webpage updated

Some days ago I updated the webpage of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies, including these subpages:

• About NASS (see e.g. the new board, for 2013-2015)
• Newsletter (including no. 4, Autumn 2013)
• Members

Conference pictures II: 7th conference of the Nordic association for semiotic studies - Lund

These pictures have been taken by Michael Ranta, and have been published along with a host of others on the conference webpage.

From the conference dinner.

From a coffee break.

From my presentation of "Perception and the levels of biosemiosis", Friday May 6th.

See above.

In the audience - listening to Michael Arbib's plenary lecture, entitled "From action-oriented perception to language".