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 New USA University Department of COMMUNICOLOGY

Beginning in the Fall Semester 2011, the 

Department of Communicology at the UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII

(Manoa campus in Honolulu) becomes the first  degree granting (BA, MA) university in the USA to reflect the contemporary designation of the discipline. manoa.hawaii.edu/communicology

In Memoriam  •  ICI Fellow

Jeff Bernard  ( ✝   24 February 2010,  Wien, Austria)

ICI Bureau Regional - Continental Coordinator: Europe 
Director, Institute for Socio-Semiotic Studies (ISSS), Vienna 
Administrative Vice President, International Association for Semiotic Studies 
President, Austrian Association for Semiotics (OeGS-AAS) 
Editor, European Journal of Semiotic Studies 

Co-Editor, Semiotische Berichte  

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 2011  (Successfully Concluded)

 FIFTH ICI SUMMER CONFERENCE: 

♦ Symposium: “Human Understanding: The Matrix of Communication and Culture” 

♦ Seminar: “Communicology: Applied Pedagogy and Research”

JELENIA GÓRA, SILESIA, POLAND, 15–22 JULY 2011 

 Hosted by:

Department of Linguistic Semiotics and Communicology    

Philological School of Higher Education, Wrocław, Poland

Principal Organizer: Zdzisław Wąsik, School Rector, I.C.I Fellow and Bureau Member

Conference Agenda

Conference Participation

Participation is by invitation only for 20 scholars. All ICI Fellows and Scholars are invited (a) to submit paper abstracts for consideration and (b) to certify their attendance, if selected for participation in the Symposium or Seminar. Interested ICI Fellows and Scholars should contact the ICI Director, Richard L. Lanigan, at: rlanigan@mac.com.
 

Select scholars from Poland will be invited to participate as deemed appropriate by the conference directors. Interested Polish scholars should contact the ICI Summer Conference Director, Zdzisław Wąsik, at: zdzis.wasik@gmail.com


DEADLINES for Participation and Paper Proposal:

5 December 2010.

5 April 2011.

CONFERENCE FEE:

► Participants provide their own travel and lodging costs according to the agreed ICI conference organizational rules.  

Deadline for registration fee is May 15, 2011.

Payment should be made to the following account:

Contact details:  

Principal Organizer: Prof. Zdzislaw Wasik, email: zdzis.wasik@gmail.com

Secretary of the Conference: Anna Zaslona, email: a.zaslona@wsf.edu.pl     Phone: +48 71 395 84 73 

Conference Venue and Lodging:

The conference venue is located in Cieplice (a small resort town near Jelenia Gora in south western Poland,) at “Hotel Pod Różami”, where the organizers have booked both single and double rooms for the conference participants. The prices of the rooms per night with breakfast included are as follows: 165 PLN (single room) [US$ 60] and 220 PLN (double room) [US$ 80]. For the room reservation please contact the conference secretary Ms Anna Zaslona at: a.zaslona@wsf.edu.pl. Please note that the number of single rooms at Hotel pod Różami is limited. The deadline for the hotel booking is May 15, 2011. Participants are requested to pay for the lodging upon arrival at the hotel. Credit Cards Accepted: Visa, Maestro, Mastercard, Visa Electron.

More information about the hotel and the conference room at: www.podrozami.pl/en_index.html.

The most convenient way to get to Cieplice, Jelenia Góra is first to get to Wrocław, Poland by plane or train. For detailed information on transport options visit: http://iguide.travel/Wrocław or http://www.staypoland.com/airline-tickets/wroclaw-airport.asp. All participants will be provided a two ways coach transfer from/to Wroclaw - Cieplice. The departure times will be set at most participants’ convenience.

Cieplice (former German Warmbrunn), where the conference will be held, is the oldest Silesian spa town, situated in a picturesque valley, called Kotlina Jeleniogórska (in German Hirschberger Tal), surrounded by the Karkonosze Mountains. This is a popular holiday area, where most tourist routes start, inter alia, to Śnieżka (1,602 meters), and Szrenica (1362 meters), the two highest mountain peaks situated in the western part of Karkonosze (Riesengebirge) on the Polish and Czech border within the Karkonosze National Park, and furthermore, to Chojnik Castle, a semi-ruined stronghold dating from the 14th century. Another attraction of the area is the City Museum: The House of Gerhart Hauptmann (the Nobel Prize winner in Literature) located in Jagniątkowo, see http://www.muzeum-dgh.pl/pol/index.php. Since 1281, Cieplice has been an attractive health resort renowned for its unique “hot springs” with temperatures reaching 86 degrees Celsius, rich with active sulphur compounds. The Hotel Pod Różami - conference site for participant lodging and meetings is situated opposite a noble family castle within the Norwegian Spa Park. The hotel is located at an alley that leads to the park and its outdoor music pavilion. Apart from precious baroque art architecture in Cieplice there are numerous shops, restaurants, cafés, and of course, the local Spa House.

Symposium and Seminar Thematics

The primary research focus of the conference will be the Symposium organized under the Theme: “Human Understanding: The Matrix of Communication and Culture”.


The primary professional development focus of the conference will be the Seminar organized under the Theme: “Communicology: Applied Pedagogy and Research”. 

These themes will allow the participants to explore the expression/perception based research relationships between the practitioners of experiential phenomenology and embodied functionalism. A primary function of the Symposium is to produce a book collection of papers. The main purpose of the book is to trace the evolutions from and reactions to the positivists’ heritage of the Vienna School as found in the research methodology of semiotic-linguistic disciplines of West-European and North-American communicological science. This is to say, the research focus is on understanding (compréhension, savoir-faire ‘know how’) versus (to get) knowledge (connaissance, savoir-apprendre ‘know about’). The essential characteristics of each are: (1) possibility versus probability, (2) particular versus universal (or singular versus general), (3) praxis versus practice, (4) conscious experience versus the experience of consciousness (or perception/expression as theoretical versus sensation/observation as atheoretical; however, observation is a modality of expression because expression is reflexive to perception!)”.

It is assumed that some papers may only approximate the main human science themes of the Symposium and Seminar. Thus, publication preference will be given to work that focuses on the explication of semiotic codes in their phenomenological context, in other words, the meaning function of messages in codes (perceived understanding) as opposed to the signification function of contact in context (expressed knowledge). The phenomenological framework of the theories of personal constructs, social construction of reality, discourse analysis, and cultural applications of philological insight are desirable approaches. In short, applied semiotic phenomenology in the cultural world of embodiment is the desired communicological thematic, not the speculations of mentalist philosophy, e.g., “transcendental ego”, or, hypostatized instrumental referents of cognitive realism, e.g., “analytic speech act theory”.

Among the key conceptual tools and methodological distinctions which belong to the investigative domains of both the Symposium and Seminar are: understanding vs. knowledge; signification vs. communication; observation vs. inference; object matter (substance) vs. subject matter (attribute); constituent vs. structure; obiectum reale vs. obiectum formale; essence and accidence vs. relevance and contingency; quality, feature and property; repetition vs. redundancy; variance vs. invariance; interpersonal vs. intersubjective relations; subjective vs. intersubjective relations; interaction vs. transaction; abstract vs. concrete; abstraction vs. imagination; perception vs. apperception; reception vs. conception; opposition vs. apposition; induction/deduction vs. abduction/adduction, and the like.

 2012

 International Conference — Languages in Contact

“(...) Linguistic anthropology is a distinct discipline that deserves to be studied for its past accomplishments as much as for the vision of the future presented in the work of a relatively small but active group of interdisciplinary researchers.”
Alessandro Duranti, (1997: 1) Linguistic Anthropology. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.

“The development of a comprehensive written visual language caused civilization to grow more complex. (...) Literacy gives cultures the privilege of knowing the past.”
Denise Schmandt-Besserat, (2007:105) When Writing Met Art. From Symbol to Story. Austin: University of Texas Press.

The conference will consist of keynote lectures and parallel paper sessions. The language of the conference will be English.
Selected and reviewed conference papers, after the acceptance of the editor, will be collected and published as one of our book series Philologica Wratislaviensia: Acta et Studia.

Scientific Committee:

• ·  Prof. Stanisław Prędota (Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław Branch; University of Wrocław & Opole University)

• ·  Prof. Zdzisław Wąsik (Philological School of Higher Education in Wrocław; The Angelus Silesius State School of Higher Vocational Education in Wałbrzych, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań & Kolegium Karkonoskie in Jelenia Góra)

• ·  Prof. Piotr P. Chruszczewski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław Branch; University of Wrocław & Philological School of Higher Education in Wrocław)

  Organizing Committee:

• ·  Anna Zasłona

• ·  Jacek Mianowski

• ·  Piotr P. Chruszczewski

  Important dates:

• ·  Closing date for registration and submission of abstracts: 31 March, 2012

• ·  Notification of abstract acceptance: 15 April, 2012

• ·  Deadline for registration fee payment: 5 May, 2012

  Registration and Submission of Proposals:

  Please register online: http://www.wsf.edu.pl/43365.xml

  Please send a 400-500 word abstract for a 30-minute paper (20 minutes presentation and 10 minutes for discussion) by 31 March, 2012 at languagesincontact@wsf.edu.pl

Paper proposals should include the following elements:

• ·  Title of the paper

• ·  Author(s) name

• ·  Author(s) institution affiliation, address, and contact e-mail

• ·  Abstract text (max. 400-500 words)

• ·  Times New Roman font size 12 pt.

• ·  A Microsoft Word 2003 file

  Conference fee:

  450 PLN (approx. 100 EUR) - conference materials, coffee breaks, lunch and banquet included

  The conference fee should be paid by 5 May, 2012 to the following account of the Philological School of Higher Education in Wrocław:
  Account Holder: Wyższa Szkoła Filologiczna we Wrocławiu
  Bank: Raiffeisen Bank Polska S. A.

  Account No (IBAN): PL 23 1750 1064 0000 0000 0856 4167
  SWIFT Code: RCBWPLPW
  Please make sure to include your name and the conference title (Languages in Contact) in the description of the bank transfer.
  The conference fee does not include travel and accommodation costs.

  Conference venue:

  The National Labour Inspectorate Training Centre in Wroclaw (Centrum Konferencyjne Państwowej Inspekcji Pracy), ul. Mikolaja Kopernika 5

  The conference will be held in a historic building, which is ideally situated in the heart of the most beautiful district of Wroclaw, near the Szczytnicki Park, the Centennial Hall (a UNESCO heritage building) and the Zoo.
  We recommend accommodation at the Hotel Park, which is part of the conference venue. Please note that the organizers do not provide accommodation for the conference participants.

  Important information:

  A list of recommended hotels and the map of location of the conference venue are available at

  http://www.wsf.edu.pl/aktualnosci,Languages-in-Contact-2012.xml

  Contact details:

  Conference secretary - Anna Zasłona
  e-mail: a.zaslona@wsf.edu.pl, phone: +48 71 395 84 73

  Honorary patronage:

· President of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław Branch

· Rector of the Philological School of Higher Education in Wrocław For more information visit:

• ·  www.pan.wroc.pl

• ·  www.wsf.edu.pl

  Preliminary Announcement

International Human Science Research Conference, 25 - 29 JUNE 2012

The University of Québec

Mobntréal, Québec, CANADA

   << SECOND CALL >>  FOR PAPERS   

"Global Semiotics: Bridging Different Civilizations",

5 - 9 OCTOBER 2012

11th WORLD CONGRESS OF SEMIOTICS,

International Association for Semiotic Studies

Nanjing Normal University

Nanjing, P. R. CHINA

Complete List of Proposed Topics

Roundtables ► 46 Topics and Organizer Contacts NOW Listed!

CONGRESS INFORMATION SITE (Multilingual Options on Homepage; Updated October 2011):

 www.semio2012.com/index.asp

Modern semiotic theories can be traced back to four theoretical sources originating in the beginning of the 20^th century: Saussurean structural linguistics, Peircean pragmatism, Husserlian phenomenology and analytical philosophy. Since then a variety of semiotic theories in various fields of European and American human and social sciences have developed in addition to philosophical ways of reasoning.   Semiotic theorization is typically interdisciplinary in nature, indicating a pluralization of scientific thinking about mankind. This pluralized theoretical tendency has been further strengthened by the unprecedented progress of current semiotic sciences since the end of the Second World War. Current semiotics has  become a major impetus  for structural reform efforts in the human sciences.

After its hundred years of modernization contemporary semiotics  has arrived at another turning point at the beginning of the 21th century: the globalization of semiotics, or cross-cultural semiotic expansion. Cross-cultural semiotics is the natural development and extension of the interdisciplinary humanities of the West in our times. Unlike  the natural and social sciences, human sciences, including their semiotic epistemology and methodology, deal with both horizontal and diachronic phenomena in human history. That means semiotics, as a constitutive part of human sciences, is fated to be confronted with the most difficult as well as the most significant challenges arising from human conditions.

Semiotics is popularly called the logic or general semantics of culture. So it implicitly includes cultural-academic globalization and cross-civilization communication. In light of comparative scholarship, this  new -century semiotics signifies a comprehensive interaction between European-American and non-European-American intellectual sources, characterized by its strength in doing general-semantic analysis in respect to linguistic-expressive, behavior-communicative and institutional-compositional levels. In this sense, semiotic work,necessarily interdisciplinary, must be converged with the modern theoretical practice of all human sciences still partly suffering from its traditional semantically ambiguous composition. The typology of the scientific and the rational practices would thus be more relevantly adjusted to accommodate different historical realities. Semiotics, functioning as a universal semantic denominator, will promote intellectual communication among different civilizations, cultures and disciplines.

First China Semiotics Forum 

The Nanjing 11^th World Congress of Semiotics will be the first IASS forum in history to be held outside European or the Americas. Substantially and symbolically it will provide semiotics scholars from all over the world with a suitable dialogic context for exploring the new orientation of global semiotics. In conjunction with the 11^th IASS Congress, whose program will basically follow the rules and procedures established in the past IASS congresses, there will be also a parallel conference in Nanjing, the First China Semiotics Forum, which will provide additional opportunity for comparative-semiotic communication.

 Proposals or requests for Panels and Round-Tables

In order to prepare the scientific program, we are requesting that interested participants initially present their proposals or requests for panels and round-tables to our scientific contact, 

Mr. Ji Haihong  semio2012@hotmail.com

The program will be arranged to reflect the interests and priorities of those intending to participate. On-line registration and formal submission of abstracts (200-300 words) will be requested later, according to the rules that will be announced in the near future.

Please send to us in your earlier convenience proposals or abstracts about any semiotic topics with respect to the following fields:

1. General theory and philosophy;

2. Linguistics and logic;

3. Literature and arts;

4. History, sociology and anthropology;

5. Theories of film and video and media.

   INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, 1 - 4 November 2012

1. The Semiotic Society of America in conjunction with the semiotic community of Toronto, invites the submission of abstracts, including proposals for organized panels (either three or four papers), for presentation at its 37th Annual Meeting, to be held Thursday 1 November through Sunday 4 November 2012 at the The WestinHarbour Castle, Toronto, One Harbour Square, Toronto, Ontario, M5J 1A6.

2. Hotel reservations at $169.00 USD per night (single) can be made by calling 1-800-325-3535 and indicating that the reservation is for the Semiotic Society of America Meeting.  Alternatively, you may go to the  Semiotic Society of America Meeting hotel link.  Early reservation is advised, the deadline for reservations at the conference rate is October 1, 2012.  Rooms at the conference rate during the days before and after the meeting date can be arranged at the conference rate on an availability basis. 

To help you with planning your arrival and departure times, please note: the Conference will open with a Plenary Address on Thursday evening, November 1 (speaker to be announced), to be followed by welcoming reception. Regular conference sessions will begin at 8:30am, October 28 and continue through Sunday morning, concluding in the late morning with a plenary round-table session. The Executive Board meeting will be held on Thursday afternoon, and the General Business Meeting will be held on Sunday Morning.  All members are welcome at both of these meetings.

3. The non-restrictive theme of the meeting is “Semiotics of New Media” –  Papers on any aspect of the theme, and either of a theoretical or of an applied nature, are welcome, though an explicit tie-in to the theme is NOT required.

4. Proposals should be made in the form of abstracts of approximately 150 words for evaluation by the Program Committee; abstracts should include 3 to 5 keywords and Audio-Visual requests. All abstracts should be accompanied by Email address & full information concerning institutional affiliation and academic status (the latter is primarily for determining eligibility for awards), as applicable.  Abstracts for individual papers or panels, together with index key-words and AV requirements (only if necessary: please keep AV request to a reasonable minimum), should be submitted directly to Professor Terry J. Prewitt (AbstractSubmission@frontier.com).  The abstracts are not to have special fonts or graphics and should be in the body of the email (please do not send abstracts as attachments).  Professor Prewitt will circulate the submissions to the Program Committee members and communicate acceptance/rejection decisions. 

5. Student submissions will be eligible for the Kevelson Award for “best student paper presented at the SSA Annual Meeting” – students who want to be considered for the Kevelson Award should indicate their interest with the abstract submission.

6. The Meeting Program has space for 104 papers in total.  Submissions will be considered on a “first-come, first-served basis” until September 10, or until the program space is filled, whichever comes first.  However, proposals received by 15 June 2012 will be given preference on the final program; early submission of proposals, both for individual papers and for panels — the earlier the better — is recommended, and is the only sure way to be relatively guaranteed of space on the program.  Panel abstracts are to be submitted along with the individual abstracts for the papers (three or four) to be presented on the panel.  Each speaker will have 30 minutes.  Recommended use of the time is 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion.

7. To be eligible for publication in the Semiotics 2012 Proceedings Volume, presented papers must be submitted to Karen Haworth, University of West Florida (khaworth@uwf.edu), in final form conformed to the SSA Style Sheet in WordPerfect, Word, or RTF format, but the date provided on the SSA Proceedings instructions. NOTE: do not include special fonts, margins, or formats. Questions concerning the 2012 Proceedings may be directed to either Karen Haworth or Terry Prewitt.

8. Please note that in accord with Article 4, Section 4, of the SSA Constitution, “Only Individual, Student, and Honorary members in good standing may offer papers to the Program Committee for oral presentation at meetings of the Society”.  Membership can be updated or established by contacting Ms Pam Swope at 1+800–444–2419,or on-line through the Philosophy Documentation Center website.  Membership in good standing should be taken care of at or before the time of abstract submission.  Only invited speakers are exempted from this constitutional requirement.  In addition to your required membership, your acceptance on the program is not complete until you register for the conference.  The registration fee is set at $130 USD for regular members, $65 USD for students.  Luncheon and Banquet fees for the Friday and Saturday Plenary Papers will be an additional $50 USD, which will cover both meals (the Society in contributing part of the actual meal cost).  Membership and Registration for the 2012 Annual Meeting can be arranged at the Philosophy Documentation Center direct SSA Registration link.

We want to encourage members to attend the conference and organize panels for this meeting.  Please remember that PASSPORTS ARE REQUIRED for entry into Canada, so make sure your passports are up to date and that you remind others of the requirement.

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  Chinese Semiotic Studies   ♦ Continuing Submissions ♦

Sponsored by the International Semiotic Research Institute of Nanjing Normal University and the Chinese Semiotic Research Center of the Chinese Association of Linguistic Semiotics

Published every 6 months by Nanjing Normal University Press, Nanjing, China, 21009

Language of publication is ENGLISH.

General requirements:

Continuing Deadlines:

► January 31 for the JUNE Issue.

► July 31 for the DECEMBER Issue.

Special topics:

1. Discussion on the hot issues of semiotics: Although it is difficult to define what are hot issues in semiotics, we generally believe those  which would cause heated discussion or  which would probably provoke differences in opinion are among the categories of hot issues such as what semiotics aims at, or whether semiotics is all-inclusive or whether semiotics should have its own boundary in spite of the fact that some issues have been discussed before.
2. Research on applied semiotics: Although semiotics seems theoretical and abstract, it has wide prospects for application, which should be emphasized and fully developed. In terms of application, adequate attention should be paid to provision of convincing theoretical evidences and the realization of unity between theory and practice.
3. Semiotic achievement in the employment of interdisciplinary approach to semiotics. A good use of advantages in other branches of learning is beneficial to broadening and perfecting the disciplinary system of  semiotics , an international approach to be encouraged.
4. The study of recent development of three semiotic kingdoms (U.S.A., Russia and France) as well as the recent development of semiotics in other countries
5. An introduction to contemporary famous semiotic scholars in different countries, which will involve their research methods and research achievements so that their experiences can be shared by us all.
6. Other related topics within the field of semiotics

HOW TO CONTRIBUTE YOUR PAPERS:

Please use microsoft Word format and send your papers to:

Dr.  Yongxiang (Jack) WANG

Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Semiotic Studies

Associate Professor

School of Foreign Languages & Cultures,

Nanjing Normal University

E-mail: nshdyxwang@163.com

Postal Address:

School of Foreign Languages & Cultures,

Nanjing Normal University,

No. 122, Ninghai Road,

Nanjing, Jiangsu Province (210097),

P. R. China

EDITORIAL BOARD of Chinese Semiotic Studies

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 Journal of Phenomenology and the Human Sciences

 The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Forthcoming Issues on (1) Heidegger and (2) Merleau-Ponty

Submission Information ► Website: www.cuhk.edu.hk/rih/phs/journal.htm

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 Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication 

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  PHENOMENOLOGY & PRACTICE

Increasingly, researchers and practitioners in these and other fields are adapting interpretive methodologies to address questions related to practice. Phenomenology & Practice is intended to serve as a forum for such research. Correspondingly, "phenomenology" is understood in this context in broad and eclectic terms. Phenomenology has been practiced in various guises for centuries, but it came into its own in the early 20th century in the works of Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Levinas; and it has been developed as a method by various individuals and groups, such as the Utrecht School. Phenomenology affirms the primacy of lived experience and of the lifeworld - everyday contexts which we inhabit as natural and taken-for-granted - over the conceptual and theoretical. It works to regain a fuller grasp of the nature and significance of our lived experiences. Merleau-Ponty (1962) called this the program of "re-learning to look at the world" by "re-awakening the basic experience of the world" (pp. 8, 11). Experience can be best understood integrally, using evocative, descriptive language that is neither analytic nor conceptual. It is, as Luijpen (1960) says, a question of "restoring to experience its ontological weight." (p. 88). Proceeding from these premises, phenomenology is understood here as a context-sensitive and transdisciplinary form of inquiry into lived experience that is employed both inside, outside and across of traditional disciplinary boundaries.

'Practice,' the second word in the journal's title, has complex and interrelated meanings. In one sense, it refers to professional and other domains: "the explicit and tacit dimensions of the rules, precepts, codes, principles, guides, commitments, affects, and behaviors that one observes or recommends within a domain of action" (OED, 1989). Practice is also understood as the application of theory; in practice we operationalize methods, techniques, knowledge, skills, and competencies. Additionally, practice can be viewed as having an integrity all of its own. Instead of deriving exclusively from theory, it can be characterized as non-cognitive, as residing in the body, in the world, in relations, and in action, rather than being explicitly known or formalized (van Manen, 1999). Knowing, in this sense, is co-emergent with practice in different situations, actions and relations; together, this practice and knowledge-in-action is manifest, for example, as habituation, demeanor, dwelling and intimacy.

All three of these meanings of practice listed above - as profession, as opposed to theory, and as 'non-cognitive' - are central to this journal. Phenomenology & Practice consciously exploits the resonant and symbiotic relationship between the orientation of phenomenology to lived experience and the notion of practice as non-cognitive knowledge-in-action. It is this orientation in phenomenology and this dimension of practice to which this journal gives priority. 

Submission Information: www.phandpr.org/index.php/pandp/index