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The Discipline of Communicology
Communicology is the science of human communication. One of the Human Science disciplines, it uses the logic based research methods of semiotics and phenomenology to explicate human consciousness and behavioral embodiment as discourse within global culture. Cognate subdiscipline applications include: (1) Art Communicology, (2) Clinical Communicology, (3) Media Communicology, and (4) Philosophy of Communicology.
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Communicology is the study of human discourse in all of its semiotic and phenomenological manifestations of embodied consciousness and practice in the world of other people and their environment. As a young discipline in Human Science research, Communicology is the critical study of discourse and practice, especially the expressive body as mediated by the perception of cultural signs and codes. Communicology uses the logic based research method of semiotic phenomenology in which the expressive body discloses cultural codes, and cultural codes shape the perceptive body—an ongoing, dialectical, complex helix of twists and turns constituting the reflectivity, reversibility, and reflexivity of consciousness and experience.
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Just Concluded: Landmarks 2: "Communication and Memory"
A Conference of the Philosophy of Communication Section of the European Communication Research and Education Association
Wednesday - Friday, 9 - 11 December 2009
University of London's School of Advanced Study, London, United Kingdom
Principal Organizer: Johan Isaac Siebers, Fellow of I.C.I.
Just Concluded: ICNAP II
Second Annual Conference — Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists (ICNAP)
Thursday - Saturday, 27 - 29 May 2010
Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada
Organizer: Maureen Connolly, Fellow of I.C.I.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Amedeo Giorgi, Fellow of I.C.I.
TOPIC: "Phenomenology: From Philosophy to Science!"
Just Concluded: "Summer School and Festival: 25 Years of Semiotics at Imatra"

11 - 15 June 2010
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See Updated Symposia List on Announcements PageInternational Semiotics Institute, Imatra, FINLAND
Organizer: Eero Tarasti, Fellow of I.C.I.
Upcoming: International Human Science Research Conference
Wednesday - Sunday, 4 - 8 August 2010
University of Seattle, Seattle, Washington [state], USA
Assisting Organizer: Amedeo Giorgi, Fellow of I.C.I.
Upcoming: International Research Arts Project METAMIND
“Metamorphoses of the Absolute”
NEW DATE ► 7 - 10 October 2010
Latvian Academy of Culture, Riga, Latvia
Abstract Deadline: 15 July 2010
Organizer: Daina Teters, Academy Vice-Rector, Fellow of I.C. I.
Upcoming: 3rd ROASS International Conference
4 - 7 November 2010
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Iasi, Romania
Special Program on Communicology
Organizer: Traian D. Stánciulescu, Fellow of I.C.I.
Upcoming: Fifth ICI Summer Symposium and Professional Development Conference
JELENIA GORA, SILESIA, POLAND 15 - 22 JULY 2011
Hosted by the Department of Linguistic Semiotics and Communicology, Philological School of Higher Education, Wrocław, Poland.
Principal Organizer: Zdzisław Wąsik, School Rector, Fellow of I.C.I.
In Development: "Communicology and Cognitive Science in East-West Cultures"
A Biennial Summer Symposium and Professional Development Seminar
Beijing, People's Republic of China
ICI Administration
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Richard L. Lanigan, Ph.D.
University Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Communicology (Emeritus)
Southern Illinois University, USA
I.C.I. Executive Office, Washington, DC
8117 Glenhurst Drive, Suite One
Fairfax Station, VA 22039-3145
USA
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Director of Integrated Media
Thomas D. Craig, D.Phil., Ph.D.
Occasional Instructor
Centre for Applied Disability Studies
Brock University
St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1
CANADA
aporia@gmail.com
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AMERICA (SOUTH) ♦
• Fernando Andacht (Uruguay)
• José Enrique Finol (Venezuela)
• William B. Gomes (Brazil)
• Lucia Santaella (Brazil)
ASIA ♦
• Shushan Cai (P.R. China)
• Ersu Ding (P.R. China)
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AUSTRALIA ♦
• Horst Ruthrof (Australia)
EUROPE ♦
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MIDDLE EAST ♦
• Mehdi Mohsenian-Rad (Iran)
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MEMBER, Union of International Associations
http://www.uia.be
Representative:
Richard L. Lanigan, Ph.D.
I A S S
International Association for Semiotic Studies
Association Internationale de Sémiotique
Asociación Internacional de Semiótica
Internationale Vereinigung für Semiotik
MEMBER, International Association for Semiotic Studies
http://www.iass-ais.org
Representatives:
Richard L. Lanigan, Ph.D., Executive Committee, USA Representative; Past Vice President
Maureen Connolly, Ph.D., Executive Committee, ICI Representative
Note: Many other ICI Fellows sit on the IASS Executive Committee as representatives of their own country.
MEMBER, Organization of Phenomenological Organizations
http://www.o-p-o.net
Representatives:
Thomas D. Craig, D. Phil., Ph.D.
Mauren Connolly, Ph.D.
Note: Many other ICI Fellows from disciplinary research associations and societies are OPO Representatives.
MEMBER, Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists
www.icnap.org
Representative:
Richard L. Lanigan, Ph.D., ICNAP Founding Member
ICI Founded at SIU in 2000
Founding Director:
Richard L. Lanigan, Ph.D.
University Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Communicology
International Communicology Institute
