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PEOPLE and CONTACTS

UMWEB CONTACT INFO:
Sammonkatu 8 C 42 - 00100 Helsinki (Finland)
www.umweb.org - infoATumweb.org (please, replace AT with @)

Merja Bauters - President
merjabATevtek.fi (please, replace AT with @)
http://users.evtek.fi/~merjab/
Merja Bauters is researcher at the University of Helsinki, Department of Aesthetics and lecturer of usability, communication and media design at the Espoo-Vantaa Institute of Technology. Her main interest areas within semiotics are artefacts, the change / stability questions and how body is mind and mind is body.

Dario Martinelli - Scientific Director
dariomartinelli.euATgmail.com (please, replace AT with @)
http://dariomartinelli.eu
Dario Martinelli is Associate Professor of Semiotics and Musicology at the University of Helsinki, and composer. His main concerns, within semiotics, are animal communication, human-animal relation, popular music and film studies. His publications include the monographs "How musical is a whale?" (2002), "Zoosemiotics: proposals for a handbook" (2007), both published by the International Semiotic Institute in Helsinki-Imatra, and "Of birds, whales and other musicians" (2009 - University of Scranton Press).

Lina Navickaitė-Martinelli - Scientific and Editorial Board
linanavickaite.euATgmail.com (please, replace AT with @)
http://linanavickaite.eu
Lina Navickaitė-Martinelli is a researcher at the University of Helsinki, Department of Musicology, and a lecturer at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Her semiotic research focuses on various aspects of the musical performance phenomenon, such as Semiotic self, concept of medium, or idea of 'school' in musical performance. She has worked as editor of the musical magazine Muzikos barai in Vilnius, Lithuania until 2007.

Ano Sirppiniemi - Scientific and Editorial Board
sirppiniemiATgmail.com (please, replace AT with @)
http://www.musiikki.info/
Ano Sirppiniemi is a researcher at the University of Helsinki, Department of Musicology, and a musical composer and performer. His research project focuses on digital music culture, namely, the change that the digital revolution has brought on for amateur music making. He is also member of a research group on Music and Media in the Institute for Arts Research in the University of Helsinki.

Francesco Spampinato - Scientific and Editorial Board
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http://www.francescospampinato.net
Francesco Spampinato teaches Psychology of Music at the University of Aix-en-Provence, Department of Musicology, and Musical Semiotics at the "Up. Mat." University of Rome, Research Center on Globality of Languages. His interests in semiotics include the study of metaphoric discourse about the musical experience, the bodily basis of the musical understanding and the interartistic relations (music, painting and literature).

Natalya Sukhova - Scientific and Editorial Board
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Natalya Sukhova is a PhD, a full-time docent at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, School of Public Administration, Chair of Foreign Languages. Natalya is a language tutor at ABBYY, Software House (Russia). She is a scientific editor at the "Vysshaya Shkola" (High School) Publishing House. Her scientific interests lie in Linguistics (Phonetics), Nonverbal Semiotics (gesture-speech interaction) and Cognitive science (cognitive mechanisms of gesture-speech interactions).

Louise Anderson - Editorial Board
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Victoria Antoniou
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Victoria Antoniou is a secondary education state school teacher of English and a PhD candidate at the English Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece where she is currently teaching language mastery classes. Her main concern in semiotics is greimasian structural semantics.

Olga Kozati - Editorial Board
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Olga Kozati has studied Theology and French Literature in Greece and France. Her master’s papers focus on the semiotics of the image. She is an editor of the greek magazine “Avaton” and participates in the editing team of the Publishing House “Metaekdotiki”. She is a journalist at the International Film Festival of Thessaloniki. Her main interest areas are sociolinguistics and semiotics of cinema.

Katharina Salzmann - Editorial Board
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Katharina Salzmann has a MA in translation studies at the University of Vienna and Bologna and a BA in Finnish language and literature at Vienna University. She's been a professional proof-reader since 2004 and she is also specialised in teaching German as a foreign language. In 2007 she was awarded by the Austrian Ministry for Science and Research for outstanding academic achievement.

Kristian Bankov - Advisory Board
kbankowATomega.bg (please, replace AT with @)
http://www.bankov.net/
Kristian Bankov is Associated professor in Semiotics at New Bulgarian University, and Director of the Southeast European Center for Semiotic Studies, in the same university. He is the main organizer of the annual International Early Fall School in Semiotics, organized in Bulgaria each September since 1995. His main interests are in theoretical semiotics, temporality, semiotics of human identity, socisemiotics, semiotics of consumption.

Kaie Kotov - Advisory Board
kaie.kotovATut.ee (please, replace AT with @)
http://www.ut.ee/~kotov/
Kaie Kotov is a researcher in the Department of Semiotics, University of Tartu. Her interests in semiotics include multimodality in visual communication, multimedia, media in the human Umwelt, the concept of embodied mind, and theories of semiosphere and biosphere.

Kalevi Kull - Advisory Board
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http://www.zbi.ee/~kalevi/
Kalevi Kull is the Head of the Department of Semiotics, University of Tartu. His main interests include biosemiotics, theory of diversity, co-existence of species

Ruben Lopez Cano - Advisory Board
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http://www.geocities.com/lopezcano/RLC.html
Ruben López Cano teaches Aesthetics, World Music and Theory of Knowledge at the Department of Musicology, in Barcelona Music Academy (Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya), and collaborates with several universities in Spain and Latin America, particularly in the field of ethnomusicology. His publications include the monographs "Música Plurifocal" (México: JGH, 1997) and "Música y Retórica en el Barroco" (México: UNAM, 2000)

PUBLICATIONS

IF - Journal of Italo-Finnish Studies

Issues currently available:
1/2007, 2/2008, (3/2009 forthcoming)

Editors in chief, Dario Martinelli and Lina Navickaite-Martinelli

(In English, Finnish and Italian)

IF is the first Umweb academic journal. It is a result of collaboration between us and the Italian Institute of Culture in Helsinki, and will be published once a year.

We think there is a lot to say about the relationship of Italy and Finland, about its past, its present and surely its future. We think this relationship is articulated in the most diverse and profound ways, and we think it makes sense to discuss it according to different points of view. This journal accepts contributions from the Italian scholars who write about Finland, the Finnish scholars who write about Italy, and scholars from anywhere who provide comparative analyses of the two socio-cultural realities.

The journal was particularly designed for readers whose personal and/or professional interests are strongly related to the Italo-Finnish cultural relationship.

Subscriptions:
One issue 20,- including forwarding expenses
Six issues 100,- including forwarding expenses and one book at choice between Finland-Italy: a few comparisons and Stili, stilemi, stilismi

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Before and After Music

Proceedings of the International Congress of Musical Signification 10, Vilnius 2008

Ed. by Lina Navickaite-Martinelli

(In English, German, French and Spanish)

Poetics and Politics of Place in Music

Proceedings from the 40th Baltic Musicological Conference, Vilnius October 17-20 2007

Ed. by Ruta Staneviciute and Lina Navickaite-Martinelli

(In English and German)

In 2007, the 40th Baltic Musicological Conference was organised in Vilnius by the Musicological Section of the Lithuanian Composers’ Union in association with the International Musicological Society. Devoted to the link between music as creative practice and experience and its social and cultural contexts, the topic of the conference, “Poetics and Politics of Place in Music,” included the following aspects: sense and representation of place in music and politics of cultural identity; embeddedness of music in cultural context and intercultural exchange; local vs. global in musical creativity and its reception; genius loci and conceptualisations of local soundscapes, and others.

The essays contained in this collection of the conference’s proceedings explore how these ideas have been expressed in Europe and in Baltic diasporas in the U.S. from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Twenty contributions from all over Europe (Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Poland, Serbia, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Austria, Germany, Lithuania) are organised into three sections:
· Music and Cultural Identity: (Re)debating National and Modern
· Space, Place and Individual Expression
· Migration, (De)contextualization and Politics of Representation

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Music, senses, body

Proceedings of the International Congress of Musical Signification 9, Roma 2006

ed. by Dario Martinelli

(In English, French, Italian and Spanish)

From the 19th to the 23th of September 2006, the ninth International Congress on Musical Signification was successfully held at the University of Roma Tor Vergata. It was actively attended by more than 100 scholars from all over the world, 58 of which were published in this volume. The chosen theme for this edition of the congress, "Music Senses Body", especially encouraged studies on topics such as: musical ‘gesture’; ‘feeling, emotion and meaning’, today; bodily roots of the musical mind; metaphor in music; image and embodied schemata in musical semiosis, composition and analysis; synaesthesia and transductions ‘interartes’; body as musical medium; and many others.

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IF - Journal of Italo-Finnish Studies

Issues currently available:
1/2007, 2/2008

Editors in chief, Dario Martinelli and Lina Navickaite-Martinelli

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Teksti, Tila, Kuva

Ed. by C.Langinauer and J.Turunen

(In Finnish)

A book written by the students in a semiotic course given at Helsinki University, by Umwebber Merja Bauters
The book applies semiotic methodologies to such themes as "A
need for love", "Art in media - Media in Art", "Un-understandable art",
" Always a step behind - adds braking the myths".

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Stili, stilemi, stilismi

ed. by Dario Martinelli

(In Italian)

Essays around the notion of style in arts, music, cinema and hypertextuality. Includes essays by Gino Stefani, Lina Navickaite, Dario Compagno, Silvia Valente, Giuseppe Chieco, Francesco Spampinato and Dario Martinelli

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Biosemiotics in Transdisciplinary Contexts

Proceedings of the Gathering in Biosemiotics 6, Salzburg 2006

Ed. by Günther Witzany

(In English)

From the 5th to the 9th of July, the sixth Gathering in Biosemiotics was successfully completed in Salzburg, Austria. It has been planed and organized by Wolfgang Hofkirchner and Günther Witzany in Cooperation with Alfred Winter of the Government of Salzburg.
The main programm was held at the venues of the St. Virgil Conference Center and covered 7 sections (with a total of 37 talks), all of which are featured in this volume:

· Semantics in Biosemiotics
· Methods of Biosemiotics
· Semiotics in Biosemiotics
· Applied Biosemiotics
· Biosemiotics and Information Theory
· Evolution, Development and Sign-Functions
· Biosemiotics and Mind Models

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The Logos of the Bios 2

Bio-Communication

Günther Witzany

(In English)

“The Logos of the Bios“ Volumes 1 and 2 both focus on the necessary and ongoing change from a pure mechanistic biology to a biology as an understanding social science.
Volume 1 established the foundations of a three-leveled biosemiotics, i.e. one in which any investigation or analyses of sign-mediated interactions must recognize the complementarity of syntactic (combinatorial), pragmatic (context-sensitive) and semantic (contentspecific) rules.
Volume 2 now delivers the practical application. The articles cover all organismic kingdoms except that of Archaea, demonstrating Bio-Communication in all domains of life.
Bio-Communication is the precondition for any coordination within and between organisms. Bio-Communication occurs on three levels (A) intraorganismic, i.e. intra- and intercellular, (B) interorganismic, between the same or related species and (C) metaorganismic, between organisms which are not related.
The Bio-Communicative approach transforms empirical data of traditional biological research into a practical tool for a consistent categorization of all living processes.

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Finland-Italy: a few comparisons

ed. by Dario Martinelli and Lina Navickaite

(In English, Finnish and Italian)

Cultural exchange and reciprocal artistic influence have often been a leitmotif in the relation between Finland and Italy. This book focuses on five cases, chosen among the least predictable ones, with a general preference for comparative analyses. Such cases include the fields of visual arts, music, popular culture, sports, advertising and anthrozoology. The wish is to give a little more impulse to a field of inquiry that experiences the paradox of being extremely lively and rich on the one hand, and so relatively little explored on the other.

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The Logos of the Bios 1

Contributions to the Foundation of a three-leveled Biosemiotics.

Guenther Witzany

(In English)

This book opens a new perspective on living nature through the philosophical foundation of biology as an understanding social science. The contributions integrate the pragmatic turn of the theory of science discussion, replacing the solus ipse subject of knowledge of objectivism by the intersubjective - communicative character of thought, experience and research. A three-leveled biosemiotics investigates rule-governed sign-mediated interactions within and between organisms of all organismic kingdoms. This approach underlines the complementarity of syntactic, pragmatic and semantic
rules as a precondition for adequately investigating the languagelike structure of the genetic code and the communicative organization of interacting living nature.

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Semiotics from S to S - A Selection of not-So-SeriouS Semiotic StudieS

ed. by Merja Bauters, Guido Ipsen, Dario Martinelli

preface by Eero Tarasti

(In English)

S stands certainly for Semiotics,
but also for…
Salmon, Sebeok, Secret of the Fox's byte, Semantic Nets, Semantics Sibilants, slivovice and Svejk, Sinebrychoff, Singalong, Singing tree, Sixty-Nine, Slurs'n'slides, Smack, Soccer, Solution to the Puzzle, Some Stories, Soulmate Seeking, Spare Time, Speaking Non-verbally, Splitting, Strawberry Fields, Stumble, Swindle, Synergy

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