2006

Fourth Biennial Summer Symposium and Professional Development Seminar

in collaboration with the Centre for Philosophy and Science Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark

Theme: Language Beyond Power

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   Seminar Description

Communication in and beyond the concept of power, with particular reference to Ernst Cassirer's work on culture and communication.

The visibility of language seems to make it a politically and scientifically controllable instrument. Consequently, lifeworld communication develops forms of language and communication to create social meaning that evade the systems of observation and control. Is communication prior to science, power and control? Is the intelligence of communication the most advanced intelligence? Is communication always able to develop forms of language that penetrate beyond power and scientific control? Subtopics include amongst others:

Art, Communication and Power

Deconstruction of Language by Power

Science and Communication Beyond Power

The Power of Art and Symbolic Communication

Autonomous Connection to the World

Creating Freedom

Hidden Worlds

  Seminar Purpose

A primary function of the seminar is to produce a book collection of papers to be published in 2007 under the title Cassirer on Communicology. A primary theme of the book is to explicate Cassirer's use of semiotic phenomenology as a research methodology. While seminar papers are not required to utilize the work of Cassirer, those that do will be reviewed for inclusion in the book. Cassirer's key concepts are expression [Ausdruck], representation [Darstellung], and signification [Beutung], with expression specified as mimetic, analogical, and symbolic.

  Seminar Participation and Submission Deadlines

Attendance at the seminar is by invitation only.
A working draft paper must be submitted by 15 January 2006.
Papers accepted for presentation will be announced 15 February 2006.

The inclusive time of the Summer Seminar is Monday, 26 June through Sunday, 2 July, 2006

  Initial Contact:

Prof. Richard L. Lanigan, or Prof. Lennart Norreklit,

  Seminar Venue

Skagen City, North Jutland, Denmark

All participants are responsible for a visa and the cost of travel to Denmark.

  Seminar Organizers

International Communicology Institute
Director: Prof. Richard L. Lanigan, Ph.D.
Southern Illinois University, USA

Centre for Philosophy and Science Studies
Lennart Norreklit, Dr. Phil.
Aalborg University, Denmark

  Local Organizers

Lennart Norreklit, Prof. (Leader)
Jürg Zeller, Assoc. Prof.
Maziar Etemadi, Ext. Lecturer
Michael Paulsen, Ph.D. Student

  Seminar Social Events

Skagen Folk Festival 30 June to 2 July

Folk music festival, major event, great atmosphere

Skagen Painters Exhibitions (The Skagen painters are the most famous group in Danish history of art)

Tour to "Grenen" (The Twig, where the two oceans meet; walk with one leg in each ocean!

Sunset at Skagen (special sunset place utilizing the special light due to the surrounding oceans!)

Plus

Great dunes and beaches
Left over bunkers from WWII
Beautiful old city and fishing harbor
Nearby ferries to Sweden and Norway

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  ICI: Institute Director

Richard L. Lanigan, Ph.D.
Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Communicology
Dept. of Speech Communication   (MC 6605)
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale, IL.  62901-6605
USA
(618) 453-1894