Global semiotics; The evolution of semiosis; Biosemiotics; Galen in medical semiotics; Signs, bridges, origins; What do we know about signifying behavior in the domestic cat; Give me another horse; Nonverbal communication; Intersemiotic transmutations; The biosemiotic self; The cognitive self and the virtual self; Some reflections on Vico in semiotics; Women in semiotics; The music of spheres; The estonian connection; My short happy life in Finno-Ugric studies; Uralic studies and english for hungarians at Indiana University.