Explorers event to be private

The aforementioned event which might or not take place in the localities of New York's Explorers' Club this June will regardless of where it will take place be a private event, not open to the public. Participating names are not confirmed yet.

Lecture at University of Oslo in October

I have been invited by professor in criminology Guri Larsen to give a lecture this autumn as part of her seminar in "økologisk-global kriminologi" (eco-global criminology). We have scheduled that I will talk October 19th. I will probably choose the global species as my topic.

Elected as secretary of NASS

NASS, the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies, held its general assembly during its seventh conference, which took place in Lund, Sweden, May 6-8. The general assembly took place Saturday May 7th. Göran Sonesson stepped back as president and is now treasurer, whereas Luis Emilio Bruni of Denmark is our new president. I was elected as secretary of NASS, plus ordinary national representative of Norway (Torill Strand was elected as suppletant in this role).

These roles will likely remain for two years, until the next conference of NASS is arranged (in either Denmark or Estonia).

Nordic Semiotics, Lund: Paper given

As scheduled I gave my paper "Perception and the levels of biosemiosis" Friday 6th of May in Lund, Sweden, at the Seventh conference of the Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies. The response from the audience was positive, with one notable exception. There were 20-30 people present in this parallel session.

Intensive course: All classes held

The last three days I have taught the second half of my intensive course "Semiotics and phenomenology" (6 hours of teaching). Attendance has been lower than in the first round, but the level of the attending students has been very high, so discussions have been spot on.

The topics in this round have been:
1) Heidegger and his reading of Uexküll
2) Merleau-Ponty and his reading of Uexküll
3) Naturalized phenomenology (Zahavi); and semiotic causation (based in part on David Wood's paper "What is ecophenomenology?")

The concluding research paper is due May 31st.

Intensive course: Papers examined

A couple of weeks ago I examined four compulsory papers delivered as part of my intensive course "Semiotics and phenomenology". I have given thorough feedback on two of them (and offered it on all).

Rodopi update: Feedback on eight papers

The last few weeks I have been doing editorial work as one of the two editors of the planned Rodopi volume The Semiotics of Animal Representations. Being two, we have divided the submissions between us, and I have given feedback on conference papers (for the most part) to eigth authors. Full-length papers are due May 31st.