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.

Festschrift to Kalevi Kull referred to in TRAMES article

In the article "Emic conceptualization of a “wild edible plant” in Estonia in the Second Half of the 20th Century", published in TRAMES 19 (64/69, 1) (2015): 15-34, Renata Sõukand and Raivo Kalle refer to Semiotics in the Wild: Essays in Honour of Kalevi Kull on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday (Tartu: Tartu University Press), which was edited with Timo Maran, Kati Lindström, Riin Magnus and myself.

Context (p. 17):

Nature-culture dichotomy has been an important subject in anthropology for quite a long time (Ellen and Fukui 1996, Descola and Pálsson 1996), while perception and categorization of (wild) nature in science and modern society has lately been an actively disputed subject in ecosemiotics (e.g. Kull 1998, Maran 2004, 2006, Maran et al 2012, Augustyn 2013, Siewers 2014).

"Kalevi Kull and the rewilding of biosemiotics" available online

The introduction chapter to Semiotics in the Wild: Essays in Honour of Kalevi Kull on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday (eds. Timo Maran, Kati Lindström, Riin Magnus and myself, 2012), entitled "Kalevi Kull and the rewilding of biosemiotics: Introduction", is freely available online at the webpage of the publisher, Tartu University Press, along with the book's front matter and Table of contents.

Introduction chapter of Semiotics in the Wild available online

The cover page, table of contents and introduction chapter of the book Semiotics in the Wild: Essays in Honour of Professor Kalevi Kull on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday is available online on the webpage of the publisher, Tartu University Press. The introduction chapter, written by Kati Lindström, Riin Magnus, Timo Maran and myself, is entitled "Kalevi Kull and the rewilding of biosemiotics. Introduction".  

Reference for second statistician's guide to utopia article

This is the bibliographical reference for my contribution to the Festscrift to professors in criminology Kjersti Ericsson, Cecilie Høigård and Guri Larsen, which was launched in late February:

Tønnessen, Morten 2014. Statistikerens guide til utopia II: En demografisk analyse av øko-visjoner om befolkningsnedgang i det tredje årtusen [The statistician's guide to utopia II: A demographic analysis of eco-visions of population decline in the third milennium]. In the Festschrift Motmæle: En antologi til Kjersti Ericsson, Cecilie Høigård og Guri Larsen [Speaking out: An anthology for Kjersti Ericsson, Cecilie Høigård and Guri Larsen] (eds Heidi Mork Lomell and Liv Finstad), p. 435–453. Oslo: Novus forlag.

See also:

Launch of Festschrift to Guri Larsen, Kjersti Ericsson and Cecilie Høigård February 26th

Launch of Festschrift to Guri Larsen, Kjersti Ericsson and Cecilie Høigård February 26th

The Festschrift  Motmæle - en antologi til Kjersti Ericsson, Cecilie Høigård og Guri Larsen [/Retorting/ - an anthology to Kjersti Ericsson, Cecilie Høigård and Guri Larsen], who all turn 70 right about now, will be launched at Litteraturhuset in Oslo Wednesday February 26th. For the programme, see here - and for an invitation document (PDF), see here.

I will be attending.

Festschrift to Kalevi Kull: Contents, university press presentation

The Festschrift to Kalevi Kull (cf. previous posts on my contributions and the public announcement of the Festschrift) is published by Tartu University Press. This is how the book is presented on their webpage:

The collection of essays dedicated to the 60th birthday of Kalevi Kull, Professor of Biosemiotics at the University of Tartu, comprises twenty innovative articles in biosemiotics and nearby fields. Contributions have grown out of authors’ unpublished research materials, unconventional approaches or sketches of articles. The list of authors includes internationally renowned biosemioticians, Kalevi Kull’s co-thinkers and students. Among topics shared by many articles are attention to the borders of biosemiotics while pointing to the connectedness of the subject matter of biosemiotics and the human cultural sphere, emphasis on the dialogic nature of academic theories as well as human lives, and focus on the identity of biosemiotics and its ethical implications. The collection includes a bibliography of Kalevi Kull’s academic writings in English.

The book is beautifully illustrated by Aleksei Turovski, and is sold online for as little as 10 Euro plus postage.


Contributing authors:

• Kati Lindström, Riin Magnus, Timo Maran and Morten Tønnessen (introduction)
• Donald Favareau
• Anton Markoš
• Myrdene Anderson
• Yari Neuman
• Morten Tønnessen
• João Queiroz
• Alexei A. Sharov
• Terrence W. Deacon
• João Queiroz, Frederik Stjernfelt and Charbel Niño El-Hani
• Almo Farina
• Søren Brier
• Susan Petrilli and Augusto Ponzio
• Ekaterina Velmezova
• Winfried Nöth
• Claus Emmeche
• Paul Cobley
• Timo Maran
• Riin Magnus
• Jaan Valsiner
• Jesper Hoffmeyer
• PLUS a bibliography of Kalevi Kull's scientific publications in English

Contributions in Festschrift to Kalevi Kull - references

I have two contributions on the Festschrift to Kalevi Kull, which was launched on July 17th, namely the introduction and the text "Introducing semetics" (I further took part in compiling the bibliography of Kalevi Kull's scientific publications in English). Here are the references:

1. Maran, Timo; Lindström, Kati; Magnus, Riin; Tønnessen, Morten (eds) 2012. Semiotics in the Wild: Essays in Honour of Kalevi Kull on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday. Tartu: Tartu University Press. 212 pp.
2. Lindström, Kati; Magnus, Riin; Maran, Timo; Tønnessen, Morten 2012. Kalevi Kull and the rewilding of biosemiotics: Introduction. In Maran, Timo; Lindström, Kati; Magnus, Riin; Tønnessen, Morten (eds), Semiotics in the Wild: Essays in Honour of Kalevi Kull on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, Tartu: Tartu University Press, 7-13.
3. Tønnessen, Morten 2012. Introducing semetics. In Maran, Timo; Lindström, Kati; Magnus, Riin; Tønnessen, Morten (eds), Semiotics in the Wild: Essays in Honour of Kalevi Kull on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, Tartu: Tartu University Press, 47-54.

Festschrift to Kalevi Kull presented at 12th gathering in biosemiotics

Around 18 o'clock on Tuesday July 17th, at the end of the first session of the 12th gathering in biosemiotics, in Tartu, Estonia, Timo Maran, Kati Lindström, Riin Magnus and I presented the book Semiotics in the Wild: Essays in Honour of Kalevi Kull on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday to Kalevi and the public at large (with perhaps 70-80 people present).

The four of us are the editors of this volume, which features 20 short contributions written by biosemioticians, an introduction, and a bibliography of Kalevi Kull's scientific publications in English (1977-2012, and counting). The book is published by Tartu University Press.

Hoffmeyer Festschrift received - bibliographical reference

Yesterday I received my copy of the Festschift at the occasion of biosemiotician Jesper Hoffmeyer's 70 year anniversary, A More Developed Sign: Interpreting the Work of Jesper Hoffmeyer (see also previous post).

Bibliographical reference for my contribution:

Tønnessen, Morten 2012. Semiogenesis. Pp. 247-249 in Donald Favareau, Paul Cobley and Kalevi Kull (eds): A More Developed Sign: Interpreting the Work of Jesper Hoffmeyer (= Tartu Semiotics Library 10). Tartu: Tartu University Press.

Furthermore, my text is listed in the Contents on p. 6 and my name in the Name index on p. 333.

Bibliographical reference for "Semiogenesis"

Here's the full bibliographical reference for the brief article "Semiogenesis" - my contribution to Jesper Hoffmeyer's Festschrift, which was published this week.

Tønnessen, Morten 2012. Semiogenesis. Pp. 247-249 in Donald Favareau, Paul Cobley and Kalevi Kull (eds): A More Developed Sign: Interpreting the Work of Jesper Hoffmeyer (= Tartu Semiotics Library 10) (Tartu: Tartu University Press).

Festschrift for Jesper Hoffmeyer

This week the Festschrift at the occasion of Jesper Hoffmeyer's 70 year anniversary, "A More Developed Sign: Interpreting the Work of Jesper Hoffmeyer", was published by Tartu University Press. It was presented to him on his birthday February 21st by Kalevi Kull, who has edited the volume along with Don Favareau and Paul Cobley.

I am behind one of the volume's 80 contributions, namely "Semiogenesis". Each of the 80 contributions has a one word title and relates to a quote from Jesper's work. For a full contents list, see here.

Excerpt from the blurb on the backpage:

In this volume, over 80 world-class scholars from more than 20 countries select a short quotation taken from any of Jesper Hoffmeyer’s published texts and provide their scholarly commentary upon that passage – whether in the form of an analytical explication, a critical disagreement or a conceptual extension – that they feel asks the questions that need to be asked, proposes the ideas that need to be proposed, or that draws out the implications that need to be so explicitly drawn out, germane to the claims of the selected passage.

At once a celebration and a serious academic development of the work of Jesper Hoffmeyer, this landmark volume marks the occasion of his 70th birthday on February 21, 2012.

There are three more contributors from Norway, namely Drude von der Fehr ("Art"), Thomas Hylland Eriksen ("Interconnections") and Ingmar Meland ("Tertium Datur"), and four (more) from Estonia, namely Kalevi Kull ("Scaffolding"), Mihhail Lotman ("Semiotic freedom"), Riin Magnus ("Energy") and Timo Maran ("Fitness").

Bibliographical reference for Lotman piece

Here's the bibliographical reference for 'Da Lotman og semiotikken kom til Norge' [When Lotman and semiotics came to Norway], which I got to see in print for the first time last Monday:

Dinda L. Gorlée and Morten Tønnessen 2010. "Da Lotman og semiotikken kom til Norge". Pp 258-259 in Turid Farbregd and Øyvind Rangøy (Eds.): Estland og Norge i fortid og nåtid - Norsk-estisk forening 25 år. Oslo: Norsk-estisk forening.

The article includes a picture (in Dinda Gorlée's ownership) from Sebeok and Lotman's encounter in Bergen in 1986.

Festschrift to be published in June

The Festschrift wherein will appear my piece on Juri Lotman (and his encounter with Sebeok in Bergen), co-written with Dinda Gorlée, will appear in print not in February, as originally planned, but only in June.

Festschrift contribution submitted

The festschrift contribution of me and Dinda Gorlee, now entitled "Da Lotman og semiotikken kom til Norge" (When Lotman and semiotics came to Norway), has been finished and submitted to the editors.

Lotman piece to be co-written by Dinda L. Gorlée

I have agreed with Dinda L. Gorlée (the Netherlands) that we will cowrite my (now our) aforementioned 2 pp contribution to a Norwegian-Estonian Festschrift, due for next spring. She was a central figure in Norwegian semiotics in the mid-1980s - the only time (so far) semiotics has flourished much in Norway.