University History Museum (Toome Hill)
11.00 Registration desk opened
12.00 Opening, forewords
M.Anderson, M.Lotman, C.Emmeche, K.Kull
12.40 Jesper Hoffmeyer - Scitoi mesoib - or
why the genome is so small
13.10 Coffee break
13.30 Marcello Barbieri - Organic codes: metaphors
or realities?
14.15 Anton Markos & Fatima Cvrckova - Who is
the addressee of the genetic text
15.00 Lunch
16.00 Stefan Artmann - Four principles of Jacobian
biopragmatic
16.30 Stephen Pain - Introduction to biorhetorics:
applied rhetoric in the life sciences
17.00 Coffee
break
17.15 Frederik Stjernfelt – The core hypotheses of biosemiotics
17.45 Kalevi
Kull – Biosemiosis: A search for other
18.15 Discussion: Organic codes and first
principles of biosemiotics
20.30 Garden party: Karl Ernst von Baer House (Veski Str. 4)
9.00 Wolfgang
Hofkirchner - The differentia specifica of biosemiosis in the
perspective of a theory of evolutionary systems
9.30 Yagmur Denizhan & Candas Sert - In search of a reconciliation between semiotics, thermodynamics and metasystem transition theory
10.00 John
Collier - Information expression requires cohesive levels
10.30 Coffee
break
11.00 Claus
Emmeche - Biosemiotics and experiential biology
11.30 Tom
Ziemke - Affordance vs. functional tone: a comparison of Gibson's and von
Uexküll's theories
12.00 Coffee
break
12.30 Donald
Favareau - Collapsing the wave function of meaning: the contextualizing
resources of talk-in-interaction
13.00 Toshiyuki
Nakajima – Construction of umwelt to control probabilities of events in living
13.45 Lunch
15.00 Tommi
Vehkavaara – An outline of basic semiotic concepts for bio- and robosemiotics
and the emergence of umwelt
15.30 Mark Reybrouck - A biosemiotic approach to music cognition: event perception between
auditory listening and cognitive economy
16.00 Coffee
break
16.15 Andres
Luure - The role of relations in semiotics
16.45 Sergey
Chebanov - Bilateral biosemiotics: a problem of sense on a super-triplet level
17.15 Coffee
break
17.30 Elisabeth
Johansson - Biosemiotic perspectives in gasflux models
18.00 Christophe
Menant - From biosemiotics to semiotics
18.30 Discussion:
Formalisation in biosemiotics
20.30 Evening snacks and drinks (Tammekuru Str. 5)
9.00 Edwina
Taborsky - A pansemiotic architecture
9.30 Soren
Brier - Biosemiotics and the Third Culture
10.00 Coffee
break
10.15 Luis
Bruni - The global phenotype
10.45 Alexander
Sedov - Sustainability during development depends on the types of part-whole
interactions: logical comparisons of biological systems of various structural
levels
11.15 Coffee
break
11.30 Myrdene
Anderson - Neoteny and its role in taming and domestication
12.00 Mette
Böll - The evolution of empathy in social systems
12.30 Coffee
break
12.45 Domonique
Lestel - On the expression of negation among animals
13.15 Gottfried
Suessenbacher - Mythology and evolutionary psychology: on the relevance of
prehistoric fire usage for the evolution of human culture, consciousness and
language
14.00 Lunch
15.00 Aleksei Turovski - The signs of bizarre characteristics in the semiometabolism of animal associations
15.30 Timo
Maran – Mimicry and mimesis in the bio-semiosphere
16.00 Coffee
break
16.15 Mark
Vian - Biotic integrity, ecosemiotic archetypes, and the boundary of self: Some
thoughts on the intentional coupling of human and non-human semiotics
16.45 Morten
Tönnessen – Umwelt ethics
17.15 Coffee
break
17.30 Tiberiu
G. Mustata – The semiotic substance of homeopathy
18.00 General
discussion: Experimental use of biosemiotics
20.30 Evening
tea (Tammekuru Str. 5)
7.30 Departure
to Puhtu
11.00 Arrival
to Puhtu, coffee
11.40 K.Kull
– Genius loci
12.00 Sune
Frolund – Teleology and the ‘natural history of signification’: the
implications of Hans Jonas’ bioontology for biosemiotics
12.30 Torsten
Rüting – A project to establish the Jakob-von-Uexküll-Archiv at the University
of Hamburg
13.00 Ester
Võsu – How to stage nature
14.00 Lunch
in Puhtu
15.00 Laelatu
walk
16.00 Departure
to Tallinn
18.00 Arrival
to Hotel Mihkli in Tallinn
19.30 Dinner
in Tallinn Zoo
20.30 Aleksei
Turovski - The zoo as a field of reestablishing semiotic boundaries
22.30 Closing
event
24.00 Finish
Departure from Tallinn
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Note: The length of
each paper will be 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for discussion.