Book "Semiotic agency" published in Softcover version

The book Semiotic agency: Science beyond mechanism, written by Alexei Sharov and me, appeared in a Softcover version February 9th, according to the publisher´s book webpage. Strangely, it is not cheaper than the Hardcover version (109,99 EUR). 

Region Stavanger´s Ambassador Prize 2018 received for organizing NASS XI

On Thursday March 21st I attended the "ambassador reception" of Region Stavanger, enjoyed a 2-course meal, and received Region Stavanger´s "Ambassador Prize for 2018" for organizing the 11th conference of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies (held in June 2019). About a dozen people received such prizes this evening.

The prize consists of a diploma and a statue of sorts. 

Copenhagen (WCEH)

The full program - including abstracts - of the world congress in environmental history, to take place in Copenhagen next week, is available at https://whec2009.ruc.dk/program/pdf.

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Why is it that so many academic events have such high-society profiles? At WCEH2009, lunch + coffee can be bought for 2000 DKK - 400 DKK (around 50 Euros) per day! Such prices discourage participation from low-income countries, and persons (as well as for scholars and students who don't mind - or even prefer - normal standards).

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Same story with hotels (pensions and B&B are more often than not not even mentioned as options - cf. the upcoming world congress in semiotics in La Coruna, Spain).

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As for the program, I am to be found at p.7 (program) and 183 (abstract).

1001 Estranged, Endangered, Extinct. Lessons from the Extinction of the Scandinavian Wolf
Morten Tønnessen, University of Tartu

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After thousands of wolves had been shot, the Scandinavian wolf went extinct. But it reappeared – and in Norway it’s had the status of a protected species since 1972. For many sheep farmers – widely regarded as the clearest antagonists of the wolves – the current wolf management remains a symbol of their modern estrangement. In what way does the estrangement of sheep farmers relate to the equally evident estrangement of the still endangered wolves?

Other Norwegian topics at WHEC2009:

380 Making yourself at home in nature: The conflict between public access to land and leisure cabin ownership in Norway, 1850-2000
Finn Arne Jørgensen, fa@jorgensenweb.net, NTNU

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473 Local knowledge in a global industry: the formation and movement of the science of salmonaquaculture

Stephen Bocking, sbocking@trentu.ca, Trent University

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914 War over Whales: Radical Environmentalist Organizations and Scientific Knowledge in Whaling Controversies
Morten Haugdahl, morten.haugdahl@hf.ntnu.no, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)

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959 The standard of living, consumption and the environment in Norway 1726-2006
Kjell Bjørn Minde, kjell.minde@hsh.no, Stord University College