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Center for Thomistic Studies Welcomes Fulbright Scholar Kalevi Kull
10/9/2008
 Fulbright Scholar Kalevi Kull, professor in biosemiotics, and head of the Department of Semiotics at the University of Tartu, Estonia, is visiting the Center for Thomistic Studies at University of St. Thomas this semester.
His home base, Tartu University, is one of major centers in the field of semiotics. Kull’s fields of interest include biosemiotics, ecosemiotics, general semiotics, theoretical biology, history and philosophy of life science. His publications include a number of papers in the journals Semiotica, Sign Systems Studies, Biosemiotics, Cybernetics and Human Knowing, European Journal of Semiotics, and edited volumes, including “Jakob von Uexküll: A paradigm for semiotics and biology” in Semiotica (2001). He is an editor of the journal Sign Systems Studies since 1998, and a book series co-editor at Mouton de Gruyter. He has been one of the founders of the Jakob von Uexküll Centre. He is a honorary member of the Semiotic Society of America, of which he is the 5th Sebeok Fellow.
The Center for Thomistic Studies is an active participant in the Fulbright Program. Two Center faculty members have been Visiting Fulbright Professors, Dr. John F.X. Knasas at the Vilnius Pedagogical University (VPU) and the University of Vilnius (VU), Department of Philosophy of Lithuania in spring 2004 and Dr. John Deely at the New Bulgarian University in Sofia, Bulgaria in Spring 2005. In addition, the Center hosted Fulbright Scholar Dr. Pavlo Sodomora, associate professor in the Latin Language Department, Danylo Halytsky Lviv National Medical University, Lviv, Ukraine in 2007-2008.
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