CfP: Communication and Memory - Philosophy of Communication Conference 'Landmarks 2' - 9-11 December 2009.
Johan Isaac Siebers
ECREA Philosophy of Communication Conference
9-11 December 2010, IGRS, School of Advanced Study, University of
London
“Communication and Memory”
The ECREA Section for the Philosophy of Communication will host its
second Landmarks conference, from 9-11 December 2009, at the University
of London’s School of Advanced Study. Landmarks is the name of our
bi-annual conference exploring current pathways of research and
scholarship in the philosophy of communication. We aim to provide a
platform for interdisciplinary discussion and engagement, spanning
philosophy and communication studies broadly understood, and creating
opportunities for established as well young scholars and researchers to
present their work and their ideas.
The theme for Landmarks 2 is Communication and Memory. At all levels at
which communication mediates, expresses or constructs relatedness, the
function of memory – and with it forgetting and expecting - is present.
Memory shapes presuppositions in communication as much as expectations.
The temporality of personal existence and of consciousness is a
prerequisite for communicative interaction. But communication processes
have a formative influence on the content of individual and collective
memories and of cultures and practices of remembrance as well – as
indeed, according to some thinkers, on the performative constitution of
temporality, seriality or iteration itself. At the same time,
communication introduces a factor of change, or otherness - of mediation
- in what is remembered or memorised. Thus the dialectics of memory and
communication signals the interdependence of the immediate and the
mediated. In personal, social, political, ideological and cultural
practices and identities this dialectic plays a largely unexplored
role.
Again, for hermeneutics, the process of understanding is essentially
both mediated by memory, in the form of tradition, and by communication,
in the form of dialogue – Mnemosyne is the mother of the muses. Memory,
as conceptualised in traditions of thought as diverse as phenomenology
and the philosophy of cognition, plays a central role in the
understanding of interpretation, thinking and thought processes.
With this conference we aim to explore the fundamental aspects of the
relation between memory and communication, across a range of
(philosophical) methods and disciplines. These include phenomenology,
philosophy of culture, philosophy of language and cognition,
metaphysics, critical theory, rhetoric and aesthetics, the history of
philosophy, the new universalism and communication ethics.
Many aspects of the relation between communication and memory have not
yet been investigated systematically; this conference aims to provide a
map of the landscape. We hope to be able to bring together researchers
from a wide range of backgrounds to collectively explore this area.
We seek to explore questions such as the following:
1. What role does communication play in rituals and cultures of
remembrance?
2. What is the role of memory in the information society?
3. What is the difference between memory and remembrance and how do
mediation practices play a role in this difference?
4. How can we conceptualise the relation between memory, remembrance
and communication in various philosophical traditions and disciplines,
including aesthetics and ethics?
5. What are the outlines of a (critical) theory conceptualising the
interplay of memory and communication – including cultural practices,
social and political practise, cognitive practices, information
management practices etc.?
6. How can we understand the relationships between the mediation of
memory and ideology formation, hegemony and power, reason, mythos and
logos?
7. Is there a utopian dimension to memory, remembering and
communication?
8. What are the outlines of a contemporary theory of rhetorical memoria
and how do they relate to a descriptive and normative theory of
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ommunicative competence?
9. What is the role of communicating memory and of remembering in the
constitution and dynamics of the subject and of intersubjectivity – e.g.
in psychoanalysis or the philosophy of mind?
Key note speakers will be announced shortly (suggestions are also still
welcome!)
Abstracts of 500 words maximum for a paper or poster presentation can
be submitted to: papersu...@philosophy-of-communication.eu, by 1
October 2009 at the latest.
The registration fee is £40; an on-line registration form will be
available on the Section’s website from 1 September.
The conference is taking place in the beautiful buildings of the
Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study,
University of London, on Russell Square in central London. Participation
fee is TBC. A full programme, as well as information about accommodation
and travel, will be made available in due course on the Section’s
website, www.philosophy-of-communication.eu. A selection of conference
papers will be published in the Section’s Journal, Empedocles – European
Journal for the Philosophy of Communication.
dr. Johan Siebers
Senior Lecturer English Language and Linguistics
School of Journalism, Media and Communication, Fylde 409
University of Central Lancashire
Preston, United Kingdom
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Johan Isaac Siebers
just to avoid any confusion: this conference will be taking place this
year, so in 2009 (there is a typo in the title below, saying 2010).
best
Johan
dr. Johan Siebers
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of memory and communication – including cultural practices,management practices etc.?