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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Vrije Universiteit Brussel - Free University of Brussels
Centre for Studies on Media and Culture (CeMeSO)
Pleinlaan 2 - B-1050 Brussels - Belgium
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