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Apologies for cross-posting Applying biosemiotics: understanding and misunderstanding culture ROUNDTABLE 9th World Congress of IASS/AIS Communication: Understanding/Misunderstanding will be held on 11-17 June 2007 at the University of Helsinki, and at the International Semiotics Institute at Imatra The biosemiotic perspective has been undoubtedly crucial in the development of semiotics in the twenty-first century. It has shed light on the status of the ‘semiotic animal’, has opened up new understandings of sociality and has reconfigured human relations in ecological and global context. Yet, the applications of biosemiotics to the understanding of culture from a micro perspective (as well as, sometimes, from a macro perspective) have been less extensive than might have been desired. Papers are therefore invited for a roundtable in which applications of biosemiotics to the study of culture will be discussed. Topics might include: • culture, innenwelt and umwelt • the biosemiotic paradigm in the structures of - fine art - film - television - radio - computer mediated communication (including the internet) - literature - science - philosophical writing - history - etc. • biosemiotics at work and home (e.g. status syndrome) • biosemiotics, subjectivity and groups • biosemiotics and contemporary social theory paradigms (e.g. complexity, culturalism). • biosemiotics and creativity • biosemiotics, ecology and eco-criticism Other topics for papers within the general rubric would be welcome. Abstracts of 300 words should be sent to Paul Cobley [log in to unmask] Deadline: 31 January 2007 -- Dr. Paul Cobley Reader in Communications London Metropolitan University 31 Jewry Street LONDON EC3N 2EY UK Email: <[log in to unmask]> Tel. ++44 (0)207 320 3086