[ecrea] Preconference on Pragmatism - ICA, Boston 2011

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>Post-Rorty Pragmatism: The New Wave of Pragmatism in Communication
>Research
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>International Communication Association Preconference ­ Boston, 2011
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>Sponsored by the Communication History Interest Group and Co-sponsored
>by the Philosophy of Communication Division
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>Organizers:
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>Chris Russill ­ Carleton University, Canada
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>Robert Craig ­ University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
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>Klaus Bruhn Jensen ­ University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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>Mats Bergman ­ University of Helsinki, Finland
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>Robert Danisch ­ Concordia University, Canada
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>Call For Papers:
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>             Philosophical pragmatism has been a significant substream
>in the history of ideas as well as in communication research ­ from
>John Dewey via Jim Carey to John Durham Peters. The neopragmatist work
>of Richard Rorty, while widely influential, has remained contested,
>and has left important contributions of classic pragmatism untapped.
>Indeed, Richard Rortys position of postmodernist bourgeois
>liberalism was, in certain respects, in discord with the committed,
>communal, and communicative conception of society and politics that is
>at the heart of the pragmatist legacy. Recently, an article by Mats
>Bergman (2008) identified a New Wave of Pragmatism in Communication
>Studies, which has returned to the classics, recruiting pragmatism
>for both theory development and empirical studies of media and
>communication. This preconference proposes to advance this development
>and to explore its future potential by involving the wider community
>of researchers in the ICA. Coordinated by some of the central
>contributors to the new wave of pragmatism, it invites contributions
>from across the sections of ICA to an interdisciplinary symposium. The
>format emphasizes a combination of paper presentations about ongoing
>theoretical and empirical work with extended discussions, concluding
>with a panel on the present state and future prospects of pragmatism
>for the field.
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>             Pragmatism has a very long, a medium long, as well as a
>short history in the perspective of communication studies. Ancient
>rhetoric counts as one central influence on modern pragmatism,
>including its conception of community and democracy.  The three
>classic figures of American pragmatism ­ Charles Sanders Peirce,
>George Herbert Mead, William James, and John Dewey ­ engaged
>communication, in various ways, as a descriptive and explanatory
>category.  Peirces semiotics, for one, fed twentieth-century theory
>development about communication across the humanities and social
>sciences.  In the last decade, debates on communication theory have
>returned to pragmatism.  The aim of this preconference is to further
>promote the line of research that examines the relationship between
>pragmatism and communication first initiated by Peirce, James, and
>Dewey.  Therefore, we invite submissions examining any one of a number
>of themes to which this relationship draws attention: democratic
>deliberation, semiotics, communication ethics, media and the public
>sphere, the importance of face-to-face communication, philosophical
>foundations of rhetoric, media and communication, and social movements
>to name just a few.  The purpose of this preconference is to showcase
>the manner in which the intellectual tradition of pragmatism has
>helped with the advancement of communication scholarship, and to
>continue to develop communication theory by using the tradition of
>pragmatism to advance our understanding of key questions in the
>field.  We welcome any papers that aid in either of these tasks.
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>The preconference will be limited to 40 participants.  Dr. Peter
>Simonson from the University of Colorado-Boulder will be a featured
>speaker.  All events will take place at the conference site; a
>preconference registration fee will be announced at a later date. A
>minimum of 15 papers will be selected through a peer-review process.
>Participants are invited who are interested in reflecting on the
>preconference¹s themes, whether from the sponsoring divisions or beyond.
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>Submission guidelines
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>-Preconference will be held on May 26th, 2011.
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>- Abstracts of no more than 500 words are due by December 15, 2010.
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>- Submit your abstract via email to Robert 
>Danisch- (rdanisch /at/ gsu.concordia.ca)  - as an MS 
>Word attachment (please use your full name to label the
>file).
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>- The authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by February 1, 2011
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>- After the preconference, the coordinating group will explore the
>possibility of an edited volume on communication research and the
>pragmatist tradition. Final Papers will be considered for inclusion in
>this edited volume.
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>Klaus Bruhn Jensen
>Professor, dr.phil.
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>Film and Media Studies Section
>Department of Media, Cognition, and Communication
>University of Copenhagen
>DK-2300 Copenhagen S
>Denmark
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>(kbj /at/ hum.ku.dk)
>www.media.ku.dk
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>Tel +45-35328100
>Fax +45-35328110
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