Back from Canada

Returned home from Canada today. Very much jetlagged.

Two trips abroad arranged

I have arranged two trips; a writing trip for Oxford in the transition from April to May, and my trip to Canada for the OECD Social Policy Ministerial in Mid-May.

As for the writing trip, I suggested to meet up with someone from the Oxford Center for Animal Ethics, but apparently they don´t do that sort of thing (meetings).

Visa for Turkey

I have just applied for, and received a visa for Turkey, in connection with my participation at a GroupHouseNet COST event over two days this week in Skopje, Macedonia. I will be returning to Norway via Istanbul, with a night there.

Travel complications for Brighton staff trip

Our return from England to Norway last Friday did not happen quite as planned. Our bus broke down a 15 minutes drive from Gatwick. Taxis were ordered, but took so long to get there, apparently due to miscommunication, that we (meaning a group of 14 I was in) did not get to the airport in time for our flight to Stavanger. We ended up staying the night at Holliday Inn Gatwick, and the next morning I joined the taxi to Heathrow along with the others before flying, on my own, to Kristiansand via Amsterdam.

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Staff trip to Brighton attended

Tartu conference plans

I have just arranged my trip to Tartu, Estonia, at the occasion of the 9the conference of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies (NASS). I will be going alone with my soon 3 year old son - the second time I try this.

Staff meeting attended; member of work group planning personell trip abroad

Today I have attended the personell gathering/meeting at University of Stavanger's Department of social studies. 

I volunteered to be a member of a work group that will plan a 2-day personell seminar/gathering abroad which will take place next Spring.

October 2011: PhD defence trip arranged

Around the end of October 2011 I arranged my visit to Tartu, Estonia, December 14-16 at the occasion of the defence of my PhD thesis "Umwelt transition and Uexküllian phenomenology: An ecosemiotic analysis of Norwegian wolf management" which was to take place (and did indeed take place) December 15th that year. I would go with my parents, my wife and my aunt Marte.

[This blog post is part of my backlog catch-up]

Academic travels - June, July

Yesterday I arranged tickets and accommodation in relation to two academic travels this summer - to Imatra, Finland, June 8-13, where I will take part in the International Semiotics institute's Summer School (which includes the 25th year anniversary symposium of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies), and to Utrecht, the Netherlands, July 3-7th, where I will take part in the second Minding Animals Conference. The only thing that remains to arrange is my trip back home from Utrecht.

In between these two academic trips I will be on holyday with my wife and child-to-be in Brazil.

Academic travels planned for March 18-22

I have arranged tickets for a trip which will March 18th to 22nd take me from Kristiansand via Oslo to Stavanger and back to Kristiansand. I will spend two days in Oslo, where I will take part in a one-day work seminar in relation with the HAS anthology Hvem er villest i landet her? [Who's the wildest in the country here?] on Monday the 19th and attend a meeting on Dyreetikkonferansen (The animal ethics conference) on Tuesday 20th. After an 8-hour train trip I will then spend two days in Stavanger, where I will teach Wednesday 21nd and Thursday 22nd plus meet up with a couple of Minding Animals colleagues the 21st and meet with an event company in Stavanger on the 22nd.

No trip to world congress of semiotics in China

Due to fortunate circumstances - my wife's pregnancy - I will not be able to attend this autumn's world congress in semiotics (the 11th such world congress), which is to be arranged in Nanjing, China, October 5-9. I had been looking forward to visit China for the first time, but now it will have to wait until another chance materializes.