UMWEB CONTACT INFO:
Harustie 8 G 69 – 00980 Helsinki (Finland)
www.umweb.org – infoATumweb.org (please, replace AT with @)
Dario Martinelli – Scientific Director
dariomartinelli.euATgmail.com (please, replace AT with @)
http://dariomartinelli.eu
Dario Martinelli is Associate Professor of Semiotics and Musicology at the University of Helsinki, and composer. His main concerns are animal communication, human-animal relation, popular music and film studies. His publications include the monographs “How musical is a whale?” (2002), “Zoosemiotics: proposals for a handbook” (2007), both published by the International Semiotic Institute in Helsinki-Imatra, and “Of birds, whales and other musicians” (2009 – University of Scranton Press).
Lina Navickaitė-Martinelli – Scientific and Editorial Board
linanavickaite.euATgmail.com (please, replace AT with @)
http://linanavickaite.eu
Lina Navickaitė-Martinelli is a researcher at the University of Helsinki, Department of Musicology, and a lecturer at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Her semiotic research focuses on various aspects of the musical performance phenomenon, such as Semiotic self, concept of medium, or idea of ‘school’ in musical performance. She has worked as editor of the musical magazine Muzikos barai in Vilnius, Lithuania until 2007.
Ano Sirppiniemi – Scientific and Editorial Board
sirppiniemiATgmail.com (please, replace AT with @)
http://www.musiikki.info/
Ano Sirppiniemi is a researcher at the University of Helsinki, Department of Musicology, and a musical composer and performer. His research project focuses on digital music culture, namely, the change that the digital revolution has brought on for amateur music making. He is also member of a research group on Music and Media in the Institute for Arts Research in the University of Helsinki.
Francesco Spampinato – Scientific and Editorial Board
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http://www.francescospampinato.net
Francesco Spampinato teaches Psychology of Music at the University of Aix-en-Provence, Department of Musicology, and Musical Semiotics at the “Up. Mat.” University of Rome, Research Center on Globality of Languages. His interests in semiotics include the study of metaphoric discourse about the musical experience, the bodily basis of the musical understanding and the interartistic relations (music, painting and literature).
Natalya Sukhova – Scientific and Editorial Board
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Natalya Sukhova is a PhD, a full-time docent at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, School of Public Administration, Chair of Foreign Languages. Natalya is a language tutor at ABBYY, Software House (Russia). She is a scientific editor at the “Vysshaya Shkola” (High School) Publishing House. Her scientific interests lie in Linguistics (Phonetics), Nonverbal Semiotics (gesture-speech interaction) and Cognitive science (cognitive mechanisms of gesture-speech interactions).
Louise Anderson – Editorial Board
louise.andersonATtemple.edu (please, replace AT with @)
Louise L. Anderson is a researcher of Music Education at Temple
University, Philadelphia, USA. In November 2007, she achieved
National Board Teacher Certification in the United States. Previous
publications and presentations include interdisciplinary
research in art, philosophy, and music.
Victoria Antoniou – Editorial Board
vantonioATenl.auth.gr (please, replace AT with @)
Victoria Antoniou is a secondary education state school teacher of English and a PhD candidate at the English Department of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece where she is currently teaching language mastery classes. Her main concern in semiotics is greimasian structural semantics.
Olga Kozati – Editorial Board
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Olga Kozati has studied Theology and French Literature in Greece and France. Her master’s papers focus on the semiotics of the image. She is an editor of the greek magazine “Avaton” and participates in the editing team of the Publishing House “Metaekdotiki”. She is a journalist at the International Film Festival of Thessaloniki. Her main interest areas are sociolinguistics and semiotics of cinema.
Katharina Salzmann – Editorial Board
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Katharina Salzmann has a MA in translation studies at the University of Vienna and Bologna and a BA in Finnish language and literature at Vienna University. She’s been a professional proof-reader since 2004 and she is also specialised in teaching German as a foreign language. In 2007 she was awarded by the Austrian Ministry for Science and Research for outstanding academic achievement.
Advisory Board
Kristian Bankov – New Bulgarian University
http://www.bankov.net/
Kaie Kotov – University of Tartu
http://www.ut.ee/~kotov/
Kalevi Kull – University of Tartu
http://www.zbi.ee/~kalevi/
Ruben Lopez Cano – Barcelona Music Academy
http://www.geocities.com/lopezcano/RLC.html
