Interview on animal awareness of death to appear on NRK P2's Verdibørsen

Yesterday I met with NRK P2s Aase Cathrine Myrtveit to be interviewed for this week's "Verdibørsen". The topic of the 15 minute long radio interview was animal awareness of death. I was interviewed in my capacity as Chair of Minding Animals Norway and Associate professor in philosophy at University of Stavanger.

The program will be sent this Saturday, and then again on Sunday.

Exact time of annual meeting of Minding Animals Norway

The annual meeting of Minding Animals Norway has been scheduled for 12.00 at Friday September 5th. It will take place at the same location as the 4th research seminar of Minding Animals (Blindern campus, Oslo), which takes place earlier the same day.

Eco-existentialist talk on animal death scheduled for presentation September 5th in Oslo

My paper "Øko-eksistensialisme og dyrs dødelighet: Et forsvar for et mer inkluderende begrep om dødelighet" [Eco-existentialism and the mortality of animals: A defence of a more inclusive notion of mortality] (see full abstract in Norwegian) has been scheduled for presentation at the 4th research seminar of Minding Animals Norway, which will take place on the Blindern campus of University of Oslo on Friday September 5th. My presentation will take place at 10.00-10.45.

The theme of the research seminar, which also features an hour of open discussion, is "Dyrene og døden" (Animals and death).

Agency review article rescheduled to Biosemiotics #1/2015

My review article "The biosemiotic glossary project: Agent, Agency" (see previous posts) will appear in Biosemiotics no. 1/2015 (April 2015), not no. 3/2014 (December 2014) as previously planned. This is due to the overall coherence of each of these two issues.

4 hours of teaching

Today I have taught for 4 hours - 2 x 2 hours teacher-assisted seminars (half course in academic writing, half work with multiple choice questions), at University of Stavanger's Department of social studies. This completes my second week of teaching this term.

Press release from Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference addresses double standards concerning fish

Here, on the homepage of the Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference, is this year's press release, "Dyreetikkonferansen tar opp dobbeltmoral om fisk" [the Norwegian Animal Ethics Conference addresses double standards concerning fish]. The press release, which was posted online a day or so before the conference (which took place in Trondheim August 20th), features some statements by me as Chair of Minding Animals Norway as well as statements from Tore Kristiansen and Kristian Bjørkdahl.

6 hours of teaching

Today I have taught for 6 consecutive hours - 2 hours lecture (on what a human being is), followed by 2 x 2 hours teacher-assisted seminars (half course in academic writing, half work with multiple choice questions), at University of Stavanger's Department of social studies.