Elected as secretary of NASS

NASS, the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies, held its general assembly during its seventh conference, which took place in Lund, Sweden, May 6-8. The general assembly took place Saturday May 7th. Göran Sonesson stepped back as president and is now treasurer, whereas Luis Emilio Bruni of Denmark is our new president. I was elected as secretary of NASS, plus ordinary national representative of Norway (Torill Strand was elected as suppletant in this role).

These roles will likely remain for two years, until the next conference of NASS is arranged (in either Denmark or Estonia).

Nordic semiotics conference - program (where are the Norwegians?)

The pre-liminary program of the 7th Conference of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies has been released online.

My presentation 'Perception and the levels of biosemiosis' (official conference version of the abstract here) has been scheduled for Friday May 6th at 11.45-12.15, in the session Semiotical Views of Perception, chaired by Lars Kopp. There are two more presentations in the session: Luis Emilio Bruni's 'A heterarchical approach to semantic congruence in multimodal perception' and Anna Cabak Rédei's 'Visual Perception—a matter of ’filling in’ the gaps'.

Judging by the names in the program, I am not sure whether there are other Norwegians coming to present than me (Dinda Gorlée is presenting, though, and she has a link to Norway). An embarassing fact.