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ABOUT

UMWEB is an international network of devoted semioticians from diverse fields with the purpose of developing and communicating the semiotic approach.

To this end, UMWEB produces publications, organises events, and employs other means to enhance communication and cooperation between individuals and groups.

As a publishing house, Umweb welcomes papers and manuscripts from semioticians who plan to present their worthwhile approaches to semiotic theory or applied semiotics.

To authors who find the traditional publication apparatus too expensive, UMWEB provides a non-profit outlet for printing and publishing works (CDs, monographs, editions from the fields of our mutual interest…). Still, the quality of the publications will be guaranteed by evaluation of our editorial board. UMWEB does not pursue commercial publication interests.

Publication costs will generally include the actual printing costs, and an additional fee if technical editing, language check, etc. will be asked for. The actual costs for these services will depend on the extent of the demand.

UMWEB can furthermore provide style sheets and formatting help. Any of these services will also be included in the overall costs, but only to the amount which our organisation itself requires in order to keep working. None of the members or the board members of UMWEB will receive payment from the publication costs. The charges and prices are therefore calculated for the customer’s benefit. UMWEB offers to publish:

Monographs
Editions
PhD theses
Conference proceedings
Other academic output such as CDs

UMWEB will also accept other forms of literature, such as novels or poetry, if generally related to semiotics.
Please contact us for further information..

UMWEB also disseminates articles, papers and other activities in its portal. The UMWEB-portal presents the latest events in the sphere of semiotics from all branches. The portal promotes discussions and collects links from different semiotic areas including course material and selected writings. In addition the portal has a section of semiotic fun, such as the semiotic dictionary of everyday words.

PEOPLE and CONTACTS

UMWEB CONTACT INFO:
Topeliuksenkatu 11 B 33 - 00250 Helsinki (Finland)
www.umweb.org - infoATumweb.org (please, replace AT with @)

Kristian Bankov

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.

Merja Bauters

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.

Kaie Kotov

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

kaleviATzbi.ee (please, replace AT with @)
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

lopezcanoATyahoo.com (please, replace AT with @)
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)

Dario Martinelli

dariomartinelli.euATgmail.com (please, replace AT with @)
http://dariomartinelli.eu

Dario Martinelli is Docent of Semiotics and Musicology at the University of Helsinki, Guest professor at the Finnish Network University of Semiotics, and co-ordinator of the Biosemiotics Study Unit at the University of Helsinki. 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) and "Zoosemiotics: proposals for a handbook" (2007), both published by the International Semiotic Institute.

Lina Navickaitė

linanavickaiteATgmail.com (please, replace AT with @)
http://linanavickaite.eu

Lina Navickaitė 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 is also an editor of the musical magazine Muzikos barai in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Ano Sirppiniemi

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

francescospampinatoATyahoo.it (please, replace AT with @)
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

ling_worldATmail.ru, sukhovanvATspa.msu.ru (please, replace AT with @)

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).

PUBLICATIONS

Music, senses, body

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

ed. by Dario Martinelli

(In English, French, Italian and Spanish)

IF - Journal of Italo-Finnish Studies

Editors in chief, Dario Martinelli and Lina Navickaite

(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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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".

euros 20.- (including forwarding expenses) order here

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

10 euros - order here

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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