Registration for 12th Gathering in Biosemiotics

Some days back I registered for the 12th Gathering in Biosemiotics, which is to take place in Tartu July 17-21. I also registered for both of the two pre-conference events: The seminar "Biosemiotics and the Study of Culture" on July 16th and the "Language and life" event on July 17th. 

See also:

* Abstract: "In the gaze of the other: Describing cultural affordances by conducting comparative Umwelt mapping in animal studies" (for July 16th)

* Abstract: "The conceptual Umwelt and its role in the tripartite model of the human Umwelt" (for July 17th, to be revised)

* Abstract: "On the notion of induced semiosis, with emphasis on anthropogenic semiosis" (for July 21st)

Rendalen lecture: Title; date scheduled

My forthcoming lecture in Rendalen on Norwegian wolf management has been scheduled for May 8th. The title of my talk will likely (I am awaiting feedback) be "Hvorfor konflikten rundt ulv og sau har blitt så hissig: Ulv og sau som symbol og realitet" [Why the conflict on wolves and sheep has become so /fierce/heated/: Wolves and sheep as symbol and reality].

Programme for HAS rhetorics workshop; presentation scheduled

Four days ago the programme for the May 29-30 Oslo workshop "The Rhetoric of Human-Animal Relations", organized by Kristian Bjørkdahl, was distributed to presenters. The programme looks really exciting.

My presentation "Animals craving for meaning in the Anthropocene - a perspective on the global semiocide" has been scheduled for Tuesday May 29th at 13.45-14.15, as the fourth and ultimate paper in the session "Mute Brutes that Hoot in the Dark are the Moot Root of Quotation Marks".

HAS rhetorics workshop: Abstract accepted

My abstract "Animals craving for meaning in the Anthropocene - a perspective on the global semiocide" has been accepted for presentation by the organizer of the May 29-30 Oslo workshop "The Rhetoric of Human-Animal Relations". The notice was given February 15th, and I was simultaneously told that a few modifications which would be explained later were desired.

Two roles at Christianssand Protestfestival

While in Turku, Finland, I have been contacted by Svein Inge Olsen, primus motor for the annual Christianssand Protestfestival (English site here). In the last minute, the same day as this year's program went to press, I was included in the program with two different roles, one as a moderator (September 5h) and another as a sort of presenter, within a pre-formed concept (September 9th). Details will follow when the program is made public around July 15th. The festival, which is a festival of debate and discussion first and foremost, takes place in Kristiansand, Norway.