An Evening with Jesper Hoffmeyer

 

In this half-hour video presentation, Jesper Hoffmeyer recounts his early days as a “positivist” biochemist, his involvement with the radical student movement in Denmark and Paris in 1968, and how he came to help initiate the current project of biosemiotics – as well as how he sees the future development of the field.

Recorded on August 17, 2016, this interview would turn out to be the last one he would ever give before the advent of the stroke that would from that time forward impair his speaking capabilities, but not his endlessly active and creative mind.

We are delighted to be able to share excerpts from this fascinating two-hour interview at this commemorative Gatherings in his honour, and to have Jesper with us once again share his warmth and wisdom in his own inimitable voice and fashion. The showing of the video will be followed by a short Q&A with the filmmaker, and a panel discussion with some of Jesper’s colleagues from the early days of biosemiotics