Philosophy of Communication Conference Landmarks 2 - Communication and Memory, University of London 9-11 December 2009

From 9-11 December 2009 the ECREA Philosophy of Communication Section will hold its
second Landmarks conference at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. The
topic of the conference is COMMUNICATION AND MEMORY.

Keynote speakers:

Andrew Hoskins (University of Warwick, UK) - “The Mediatization of Memory: Ubiquitous
Media and the End of Collective Memory”

Herman Parret (University of Leuven, Belgium) - “The Communicative Value of
Forgetting”

Anna Reading (London South Bank University, UK) - “Towards a Philosophy of the
Globital Memory Field”

Roger Sell (Åbo Akademi University, Finland) - “Communication, Literature, Cultural
Memory

Panels:

Reification, Ideology, Metaphor
Memory, Remembrance, Conflict
Content, Memory, Systematicity
Narrative, Memory and Expression
Reference, Virtuality and Archiving
Testimony, Mediation, Conversation
Social Memory and Mediality
Intersubjectivity and Naturalism
Temporality, Imagination, Forgetting
The Body of Memory
Approaches in Philosophy
Memory and Representation

For a full program, registration, travel and accommodation details, see:

http://www.philosophy-of-communication.eu/news_landmarks2.php

and

http://igrs.sas.ac.uk/index.php?id=392

ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND; PLEASE REGISTER IN ADVANCE

Conference organisers:
Johan Siebers (Uclan)
Vivienne Boon (Surrey)
Bart Vandenabeele (Ghent)

dr. Johan Siebers
Senior Lecturer English Language and Linguistics
Course Leader, M.A. Rhetoric,
School of Journalism, Media and Communication, Fylde 409
University of Central Lancashire
Preston, United Kingdom
PR1 2HE

Editor, Empedocles - European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication

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