Peer-review for Semiotica

I have recently done a peer-review for Semiotica.

Review for Semiotica

I have recently done a peer-review for Semiotica.

Peer-review for Semiotica

Earlier this year, I have done a follow-up peer-review for Semiotica.

Peer-review

I have recently done a peer-revieew for Semiotica.

Online access to 10 year old book review granted

10 years after its publication, I have received online access to a book review of mine, namely "A stroll around the worlds of zoosemioticians and other animals", a review of Dario Martinelli´s book Zoosemiotics: Proposals for a handbook (2007) published in Semiotica.

"Umwelt ethics" cited in Deely article on environment, Umwelt, Lebenswelt

My article "Umwelt ethics" (2003, PDF available online) is cited in John Deely´s 2014 article "Semiotic entanglement: The concepts of environment, Umwelt, and Lebenswelt in semiotic perspective" (Semiotica 199: 7–42). The citation occurs on p. 21.

Excerpt:

Heidegger proceeds to an analysis of Sein that is breathtaking in its scope, for he does not at all omit the cathectic dimension from his sweep, and presents us with a notion of Dasein so much more profound than the classical and medieval "rational animal" as to awaken us to the full depths of human culture in its amalgamation and dependence upon, even though irreducible to, the zoösemiosis constructive of the Umwelt, and to the human person as itself a part of nature, even if a species-specifically distinctive transcendent part thanks to the exaptation of linguistic communication (cf. Tønnessen 2003: 287; Kull and Nöth 2001: 283).

"Umwelt trajectories" published online in mid-February

My article "Umwelt Trajectories", published in Semiotica no. 198 (Special Issue on zoosemiotics, guest-edited by Timo Maran), was ahead of print publication published online on February 15th 2014 (DOI: 10.1515/sem-2013-0106). Abstract and keywords is available to non-subscribers.

"Umwelt trajectories" proof-read, to be published early 2014

This weekend I proof-read my article "Umwelt trajectories", which will be published in Semiotica no. 1/2014 (issue 198), pp. 159 – 180.

"Umwelt trajectories" to be published this autumn

A few days ago I was notified that the special issue of Semiotica on zoosemiotics has been scheduled for publication in the autumn of 2013. It will include my article "Umwelt Trajectories", which is loosely based on my conference presentation "The Umwelt trajectories of wolves, sheep and people" (2011, abstract written 2010). The special issue is guest-edited by Timo Maran.

Two peer-reviews

The last month or so I have conducted two peer-reviews, one for Semiotica and one for Sign Systems Studies.

Umwelt trajectories paper accepted and publication thereof invited

My paper "The Umwelt trajectories of wolves, sheep and people" (cf. previous posts) has been formally accepted for presentation at the conference Zoosemiotics and Animal Representations (Tartu, April 2011), and invited for inclusion in the related special issue of Semiotica on zoosemiotics, which is to appear in the autumn of 2012. As for the latter, a full-length text is due by May 20th 2011.

'The Umwelt trajectories of wolves, sheep and people' to be published

My paper 'The Umwelt trajectories of wolves, sheep and people', which will be presented at the April 2011 zoosemiotics conference in Tartu, will likely be published in the special issue of Semiotica on zoosemiotics which is to be published the autumn of 2012.

Zoosemiotics book review published

My book review "A stroll around the worlds of zoosemioticians and other animals" was published electronically in Semiotica the 24th of August (print version: issue 181, pp. 317-325). Unfortunatelly the proof reading I reported was not executed - an errata crediting the research projects I am involved in will be published in no. 182, in October.

Zoosemiotics conference: Updated CFP

The organizing team of the international conference 'Zoosemiotics and Animal Representations', to be arranged in Tartu April 4-8, 2011 - cf. initial announcement and launch of webpage - has issued an updated CFP. The deadline for abstract submission is September 15th. To submit a proposal, interested scholars should e-mail an abstract (300-600 words) and a bio-note (less than 100 words) to the address zoosemiotics@semiootika.ee. The abstract and bio-note should be sent together in one file (.doc or .rtf) attached to the e-mail.

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The news fall in two categories - plenary speakers and publication venues. We are glad to announce the plenary speakers of the conference [already mentioned in Utopian Realism]: Colin Allen (Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University, USA), Jesper Hoffmeyer (Professor emeritus, Biological Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark), Graham Huggan (Professor of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literatures at University of Leeds, UK) and David Rothenberg (Professor of Philosophy and Music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA).
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There are two publications planned for the articles based on conference presentations: a volume in Rodopi´s Nature, Culture and Literature series and a special issue on zoosemiotics in journal Semiotica. The Rodopi volume will be edited by me and Kadri Tüür, the Semiotica issue by Timo Maran.

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For up-to-date information, see the conference webpage.