Philosophy of Communication

OD2010, the Fourth International Conference on Online Deliberation30 June – 2 July, 2010Leeds University Business School, UKThe widespread diffusion of the Internet and a growing trend towardsdemocratisation worldwide have encouraged new modes, projects and visionsof citizen participation in decision making and governance.

University Research Scholarship
Session 2010-2011
University of Leeds - Faculty of Education, Social Sciences & Law
Up to 18 University Research Scholarships are available for UK and EU students for Session 2010-2011 for study in any Faculty at the University of Leeds.  Up to 2 awards are available in each Faculty.
Closing Date: 1 June 2010
Schools of Education; Politics & International Studies; Law; Sociology & Social Policy; Interdisciplinary Gender Studies

Fully funded PhD Studentship
 
The University of Manchester - Institute for Social Change
 

Symposium at the University of Leeds, 26 February: Neo-liberalism and contemporary culture
Neo-liberalism and contemporary culture

As part of the continued investment into our research profile, The Centre for Excellence
in Media Practice at Bournemouth University is offering three fully-funded PhD
studentships.

The studentships are being advertised under the following themes:

The Place of Story in Media Education
The Philosophy of Media Education
The Widening Gender Gap in the Television and Film Industries.

The application deadline for these studentships is Friday 30th April 2010.

For more information please visit www.cemp.ac.uk

PHILOSOPHY of COMMUNICATION: LANDMARKS 2 - COMMUNICATION AND MEMORY

Empedocles - European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication
 
is out now. See:
 
http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=163/
 
 
Contents of issue 1.1:
 
Editorial
 
Elena Fell - Beyond Bergson - The Ontology of Togetherness
 

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”