From the editors of this volume
From the editors of this volume

Summary/Abstract: Current volume of Sign Systems Studies is reflecting two remarkable events that took place in 2004. First, this was the establishing of Jakob von Uexküll Archive for Umweltforschung and Biosemiotics at the University of Hamburg, accompanied with an international conference “Signs and the Design of Life — Uexküll’s significance today” held for the inauguration of the Archive in Hamburg in January 2004 (see a detailed review by T. Rüting in the end of this volume). Second, there was the meeting “Cassirer, Lotman, Uexküll: Between biology and semiotics of culture”, held in Tartu in May 2004. This has been organised by John Michael Krois from the Humboldt University of Berlin (at that time the first Ernst-Cassirer-Professor at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Social Sciences) together with the Department of Semiotics of Tartu University.

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