Seventh Annual International Gatherings in Biosemiotics
University of Groningen, Netherlands
June 6-9, 2007
Biosemiotics is an interdisciplinary field of theoretical and empirical studies of communication and signification in living systems. Sign processes, from molecular to ecological and evolutionary scales, have frequently been studied throughout the history of biology. However, very often the description of the informational and communicative aspects of living systems has been considered merely “metaphorical” and ultimately replaceable by chemical or physical descriptions.
Biosemiotics, by contrast, attempts to study informational sign processes as something genuine – a basic set of phenomena that are found instantiated, however differently, in all living systems that must act in the world and evolve accordingly. It is thus the study of meaning, sense, and the significance of dynamic codes and relational sign processes as such processes may be discoverable using the rigorous methodologies and empirical verification procedures of modern science.
The Seventh Annual Gatherings in Biosemiotics is being made possible at the University of Groningen under the kind auspices of our host, Dr. Barend von Huesden, and the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Seventh Annual Gatherings in Biosemiotics welcomes paper proposals from any academic discipline investigating the real-world use of sign processes among or within living organisms. The Call for Papers for the Seventh Annual International Gatherings in Biosemiotics is here .
PLEASE NOTE: THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS OF PAPER PROPOSALS TO THIS CONFERENCE HAS NOW PASSED. PRESENTERS WHOSE PAPERS HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED APPEAR ON THE CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
More details regarding this conference will be made available in the weeks ahead. Please feel free to e-mail any questions regarding the conference to: Gatherings2007@biosemiotics.org