Reference in 2008 master thesis

I have just found out that I am mentioned in a master thesis from 2008.

Reference:

Nigu, Leenu 2008. Keha ja tähendus nüüdistantsus: Fine5 Tantsuteatri lavastus „Panus“ [The body and meaning in post-modern dance: “Bet” by Fine5 Dance Theatre] [p. 23]. Master thesis. University of Tartu.

In footnote 16, she writes, in a comment to the view of Paul Ricoeur (where she points out similarities with a biosemiotic idea of phenomenological creatures):

Viimane väide on intrigeerivalt sarnane biosemiootikute ideedega. Hiljutisel TÜ ja Helsingi Võrguülikoolide kraadiõppurite ühisseminaril täheldas Morten Tønnessen, et juhindub J. v Uexkülli fenomenoloogilisest semiootikast ning D. Abrami ökofenomenoloogiast ning et just läbi semiootilise tegevuse (semiotic agency) on kõik elusolendid fenomenoloogilise maailma subjektid. Õigupoolest, biosemiootika taustal vaadelduna kukub küsimus fenomenoloo-gilisest ja semiootilisest täiesti kokku. Ka teatris kokku saades ei jäta ei etendaja(d) ega publik oma bioloogilist olemust ukse taha. Bioloogilised märgisüsteemid toimivad teatris nagu igal pool mujalgi. Käesolev magistritöö jääb aga teadlikult inimese- ja kultuurikeskseks.

Opponent at MA defense

A couple of days ago I was asked to be the opponent at Mara Wood's MA defense at the Department of Semiotics, University of Tartu, which will take place May 30th or May 31st (I will take part through Skype). The title of her MA thesis is "Modelling affect into Jakob von Uexküll's functional circle".

Invitation to give keynote address in Uppsala

I have been invited to give one of the six keynote addresses at the Uppsala Minding Animals Pre-Conference event - and accepted. The academic event, which is titled Zoo-ethnographies, is to be arranged October 17-18.

Worktitle: "Two global species and their age-old foe: The semiotic eth(n)ology of wolves, sheep and people".

Review for Biosemiotics

Yesterday I conducted a peer-review for the journal Biosemiotics. This was my third such review for Biosemiotics and my fifth altogether.

MAO meeting

Today we had another phone/internet meeting in the organizing committee of the Oslo Minding Animals event. No big news - except that today we launched our Facebook page.

For an overview of all planned Utrecht pre-conference events, see MA international.

PS: I think I have not yet mentioned in Utopian Realism that when I was in Sydney a couple of weeks ago I met Rod Bennison, the convenor of Minding Animals International.

Talk on levels of biosemiosis in Lund materializing

My abstract for the Seventh Conference of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies (NASS), to be arranged May 6-8 in Lund, Sweden, has been accepted as an oral presentation. It is entitled "Perception and the levels of biosemiosis".

Pics from the Blue Mountains II

By the Sisters.

Nearby.

Oh, heavenly...

Foggy beauty.

There it is.

See also Pics from the Blue Mountains I and my brief report from the Sydney workshop.