Gatherings in Biosemiotics 2

Program - Abstracts

June 14–17 2002, Tartu–Puhtu–Tallinn, Estonia

Tartu

June 13

Arrival

June 14

 

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)

 

June 15

 

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)

 

 

 

June 16

 

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)

 

June 17

Puhtu–Tallinn

 

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

 

June 18

Departure from Tallinn

 

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Note: The length of each paper will be 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for discussion.