12th gathering in biosemiotics to be held in Tartu

At the meeting of the International Society for Biosemiotic Studies (ISBS) during the 11th gathering in biosemiotics in New York City last week the board decided that next year's gathering will be arranged in Tartu, Estonia. This will be the third time the gatherings in biosemiotics is arranged in one and the same city for a second time - the second gathering, in 2002 (which happended to be my first gathering), was also held in Tartu. The other towns to have hosted a gathering in biosemiotics twice are Copenhagen and Prague.

The exact dates of the 12 gathering will be decided and announced later on, but it will in line with tradition be arranged in June or July.

Pics from zoosemiotics conference

A number of pictures from the April 4-8 Tartu conference Zoosemiotics and Animal Representations has been posted on Picasa. Here's a few examples, three of which involving myself. All pictures are taken by Iuliia Popova.

Coffee break.

From the morning session April 5th.


The reception.

The reception.

The reception.

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.

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.