[ecrea] Call for Papers - LANDMARKS 2 - ECREA Philosophy of Communication Conference

Call for Papers - LANDMARKS 2

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 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:
   * What role does communication play in 
rituals and cultures of remembrance?
   * What is the role of memory in the information society?
   * What is the difference between memory and 
remembrance and how do mediation practices play a role in this difference?
   * How can we conceptualise the relation 
between memory, remembrance and communication in 
various philosophical traditions and disciplines, 
including aesthetics and ethics?
   * 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.?
   * How can we understand the relationships 
between the mediation of memory and ideology 
formation, hegemony and power, reason, mythos and logos?
   * Is there a utopian dimension to memory, remembering and communication?
   * What are the outlines of a contemporary 
theory of rhetorical memoria and how do they 
relate to a descriptive and normative theory of communicative competence?
   * 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.

Abstracts of 500 words maximum for a paper or 
poster presentation can be submitted to: 
<mailto:(papersubmissions /at/ philosophy-of-communication.eu)>(papersubmissions /at/ 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, 
<http://www.philosophy-of-communication.eu>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.




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Nico Carpentier (Phd)
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