Academic readings 2025; most read authors

Over the last year I have logged academic readings amounting to 5.357,5 pages. This is somewhat less than in 2024, but somewhat more than what I read in 2023. Altogether I logged texts written by 350 different authors. On the 40 most read authors, 27 were duty-related (related to teaching, supervision, committee work etc (including 12 of the 20 most read authors). Among the most read authors were Martin Bech Holthe, Krystof Kasprzak and Thomas Hylland Eriksen.

Appointed to honorable committee of Spanish semiotics conference

I have been appointed to the honorable committee of the XIX Congreso Internacional de la Asociación Espanola de Semiótica (AES), in my capacity as President of the Nordic association for Semiotic Studies. The conference takes place April 21-23, 2022 at University of Granada.

Member of committee for publication project at University of Valladolid

I have agreed to be part of a committee related to a publication project at University of Valladolid (Spain) run by Juan R. Coca which involves publishing a digital book on biosemiotics, and another one within biosociology.

Provisionary member of university library complaint committee

I have agreed to be member of a committee that is to consider a complaint after a book (anthology) was rejected in regard to publication points by the university library of Stavanger. The case concerns 23 articles, 19 authors.

Appointed member of student grant and prize committee for NASS IX

At the board meeting of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies (NASS) in mid-November I was appointed as one of the members of a student grant and prize committee in relation to the conference NASS IX, which will be held in Tartu, Estonia, August 17-20th 2015.