Contribution to Kalevi Kull Festschrift published online

A Festschrift to Kalevi Kull at the occasion of his 70th birthday this summer was released in digital form today, and announced at the 22nd Gathering in biosemiotics. It is available for download online, and will soon appear in print.

Reference to my contribution:

Tønnessen, Morten 2022. Translating mind to text (and back). In Donald Favareau and Ekaterina Velmezova (eds.), Tunne loodust! Knowing Nature in the Languages of Biosemiotics (Epistemologica et historiographica linguistica Lausannensia № 4), pp. 333–337. Université de Lausanne Press.

I have attended the first four days of the 22nd Gathering in biosemiotics and am now returning back home tomorrow morning.

“Zoosemiotics beyond Sebeok” presented at 22nd Gathering in Biosemiotics in the Czech Republic

Today I have presented my paper “Zoosemiotics beyond Sebeok” in the first session of the 22nd International Gathering in Biosemiotics, which is held at Palacký University in Olomouc, the Czech Republic, June 27th - July 1st. Perhaps 60 people attended the talk. In addition, a dozen people or so followed the conference livestream on YouTube.

By now todays´ livestream has been seen by some 200 people.

Paper "Zoosemiotics beyond Sebeok" accepted for presentation at 22nd gathering of biosemiotics

I have been notified by the conference organizers that my abstract "Zoosemiotics beyond Sebeok" has been accepted for oral presentation at the 22nd gathering in biosemiotics, which will be held in Olomouc, the Czech Republic, June 27th to July 1st.

2 job interviews and a scientific committee meeting

Today I have chaired 2 job interviews and attended a meeting of the scientific committee (abstract evaluation committee) for the 22nd gathering in biosemiotics. I have taken part in evaluating about 30 abstracts.

CFP for 22nd International Gathering in Biosemiotics announced

The call for papers for the 22nd International Gathering in Biosemiotics, to be held at Palacký University in Olomouc, the Czech Republic June 27th - July 1st 2022, has been made. Abstracts are due February 28th 2022.