Yesterday I gave my plenary talk "The crisis of mechanistic science seen through the lens of the nature crisis" at The Fifth Conference of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics, with the theme “Crises of meaning”, organised at Division of Cognitive Semiotics at the Centre for Language and Literature at Lund University, in Lund, Sweden (August 15-17th). Some 50-60 people attended.
Abstracts of the six plenary talks for the 5th conference of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics have now been shared online.
These include:
Elena Cuffari: "Autonomy, participation, and sense-making as sites of crisis: studying the technopolitical situatedness of linguistic bodies"
Hans-Georg Moeller: "The Crisis of Authenticity: Meaning under Conditions of "Profilicity""
Cornelia Müller: "Multimodality and aesthetic experience: How feeling guides the ways we make sense"
Jamin Pelkey: "The birth of wild meaning: Facing crises of alienation and disenchantment"
Komarine Romdenh-Romluc: "Break-downs and times of crisis"
Morten Tønnessen: "The crisis of mechanistic science seen through the lens of the nature crisis"
My plenary speech at The Fifth Conference of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics, with the theme “Crisis of meaning”, which is to be held at Lund University in Sweden August 15-17th, has according to a preliminary programme been scheduled for presentation Friday August 16th at 17.30-18.30.
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The 2023 newsletter of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics, IACS News, published in December, includes presentation of the six plenary speakers for the forthcoming IACS conference to be held in Lund, Sweden this Summer (August 15th to 17th), with the theme "Crises of meaning".
The newsletter can be read in full here.
The conference website of the 13th conference of the International Association for Visual Semiotics (IAVS) has been updated, with the abstract book and presentation of the plenary speakers in English, Spanish and French. Some of the info in my bionote is outdated (namely, I am no longer Vice-dean of research, President of the Nordic assosiation for semiotic studies or Editor in chief of Biosemiotics).
A conference poster has been posted in social media.
The Fifth Conference of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS-5), to be held August 15-17, 2024 in Lund, Sweden with the theme "Crisis of meaning", has now launched its conference website. I figure as one of the plenary speakers, along with Hans-Georg Moeller, Cornelia Mueller, Jamin Pelkey and Komarine Romdenh-Romluc. Abstract submissions are due January 15th, 2024.
My plenary talk for the conference “Contemporary Umwelt Analysis: Applications for Culture and Ecological Relations”, to be held April 18-19th at Estonian Naturalists’ Society in Tartu, Estonia (organized by Department of semiotics at University of Tartu), titled “A Comprehensive Framework for Studies of Changing Umwelten”, has been scheduled for presentation Wednesday April 19th at 11.00-12.00 local time.
The conference program is now available at the conference website.
I have composed an abstract for my plenary speech at the conference “Contemporary Umwelt Analysis: Applications for Culture and Ecological Relations” (to be held April 18-19th in Tartu, Estonia).
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Title: “A comprehensive framework for studies of changing Umwelten”
By Morten Tønnessen
Using Jakob von Uexküll´s classical Umwelt theory and updated knowledge on how human agency works as a driver of environmental change as starting points, I will present a comprehensive framework for studies of changing human and animal Umwelten. The framework indicates how past Umwelten, contemporary Umwelten, and future Umwelten can be studied by drawing on Umwelt theory accompanied by other relevant fields of study. The framework is comprehensive not only in that it allows for studies of different Umwelt temporalities, and different “layers” of the Umwelt (core – mediated – conceptual), but also by being applicable at different levels of biological organization, and by showing how changes in the Umwelt (outer subjective world) are correlated with changes in the Innenwelt (inner subjective world) and the physical environment. By seeing changes in the Umwelt, the Innenwelt, and the physical environment in context, we can achieve a better understanding of the interplay between semiotic causation and efficient causation in socio-ecological and socio-cultural contexts, and of how human agency can cause environmental problems – and solutions. In the setting of culture, socio-cultural transformations are particularly pertinent. In light of the framework presented here, these can be understood as involving collective Innenwelt transitions that in turn affect how we perceive our Umwelt. As part of my presentation, I will outline how Umwelt theory can serve as the basis of a more-than-human descriptive phenomenology suitable for studies of animal Umwelten and human–animal relations. I will further share some tentative ideas about how Umwelt theory can play a role in phenomenological triangulation, in which 1st, 2nd and 3rd person perspectives are combined (drawing on methodology developed by Jordan Zlatev).
Bionote: Morten Tønnessen (born 1976) is a Professor of philosophy at University of Stavanger´s Department of social studies, Norway. He has worked with Jakob von Uexküll´s Umwelt theory since his master degree in philosophy (University of Oslo, 2002) and ph.d. thesis in philosophy and semiotics (University of Tartu, 2011).
A call for papers has been made for the 13th Conference of the IAVS-AISV: "Visual Semiotics & Agency", which will be held at Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano, in Bogotá, Colombia, September 28-30, 2023. Abstracts in English, Spanish or French are due May 15th.
I am a plenary speaker at AISV-IAVS 2023, along with Susanne Eichner, JosÉ Enrique Finol, Shaun Gallagher, Jean-Marie Klinkenberg, Aleksandra Mouratidou, Göran Sonesson and Jordan Zlatev.
More info here.
I will be a plenary speaker at AISV-IAVS 2023 - 13th Conference of the IAVS-AISV: Visual Semiotics & Agency, to be held at Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano, in Bogotá, Colombia, September 28-30, 2023.
Call for papers is available here. Abstracts are due February 15th.
I have agreed to be a plenary speaker at Tartu Summer School of Semiotics 2021, which will be held in Sammuli, Estonia, on August 13-16th. The topic for the summer school is "Semiotic horizons: Time, memory and future".
