Signs and the design of life — Uexküll’s significance today: A symposium, its significant history and future
Signs and the design of life — Uexküll’s significance today: A symposium, its significant history and future

Summary/Abstract: One may find many reasons to commemorate and celebrate Jakob von Uexküll in 2004: the 140th anniversary of his birth, the 60th anniversary of his death or 70 years since the publication of his famous book A Stroll through the Umwelten of Animals and Men (Uexküll, Kriszat 1934). Hamburg University may celebrate that it had called Uexküll to Hamburg 80 years ago. However the plan to organise an international symposium taking place on January 9th to 11th 2004 at the University of Hamburg was not driven by the wish to venerate biographical history. Though taking place at the Centre for the History of Science, Mathematics and Technology, the symposium celebrated primarily a very recent occasion and its agenda demonstrated the contemporary interest in Jakob von Uexküll among international academia: The inauguration of a Jakob von Uexküll Archive for Umweltforschung and Biosemiotics at the University of Hamburg, housing and maintaining a part of the scientific Nachlass of Uexküll and the library of the former Institut für Umweltforschung was the foremost reason to celebrate.

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