Communication Forum

The CRF runs a seminar programme and currently comprises seven PhD students. Its chair is editor of the Peter Lang book series Interdisciplinary Communication Studies.

Members:

Ms Vivienne Boon
Prof. Nicholas Emler
Prof. Christopher Flood
Prof. Colin Grant (chair)
Dr Helen Hughes
Dr Rosina Marquez Reiter
Dr Tino Meitz (corresponding member)
Dr Cornel Sandvoss
Dr Edmond Wright (Cambridge)
Dr Zafar Iqbal Mohammad (HEC Postdoctoral Fellow)
Dr Ghulam Shabir (HEC Postdoctoral Fellow, Pakistan)

Research student members:

Taroub Khayyat (Jordan)
Marie-Jo Raines Morelle (France)
Reem Rasheed (Syria)
Nitida Sangsingkeo (Thailand)
Katerina Strani (Greece)
Ioanna Zampara (Greece)
Darinpaj Oonpipat (Thailand)
Sangita Shrestha (Nepal)

Conference:

Landmarks 2007 Theme: 25 years of Universal Pragmatics Facts and Fictions
The Forum is organising this major two-day conference in conjunction with the Philosophy of Communication section of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) on 8-9 November 2007. The keynote speaker was Siegfried J. Schmidt. Post-conference PhD seminar on Political Communication, Translation and the Arab World (12th November 2007).

Past Seminars:

Dr Tino Meitz, ECREA Philosophy of Communication Section Vice Chair:
"Consciousness, Mind and Brain: the concept of 'Observance' and the fear of relativism", (March 2007)

Dr Craig Smith, Dept. of Communications, North Carolina State University:
"The Quest for the White House" and "The Use of Terrorism by Social Movements", (December 2007)

CRF Doctoral Seminar:

Communication, Politics, Translation and the Arab-speaking world (Dr Henri Nickels/Prof. Chris Flood, N. Sangsingkeo, T. Khayyat)

Seminars and other Activities: 2008

28 February 2008
Dr Bill Kinsella (North Carolina State University) gave a research paper on Risk Communication

7 March 2008
Prof. Colin B. Grant presented a research paper entitled "After Habermas? Post-transcendental communication" to the Institute for Communication Research at Seoul National University, Korea

9 March 2008
Prof. Colin Grant presented a lecture entitled "Gliobalisation, Communication and Uncertainty" at Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Dalian, China

The CRF will be hosting a one-day research seminar on Political Communication and Islam on 23 April

Papers by:
Dr Zafar Iqbal: "Measuring Islamophobia: Analyzing the Framworks of Analysis"
Ms Taroub Khayyat: "Ideology of political intertextuality: Political Speeches and the War in Lebanon".

29 May 2008
Dr Edmond Wright, University of Cambridge: The Greatest Prejudice of All: A Reflection on the Distortions of The Idealization of Reciprocity¹ -- Alfred Schutz's Concept'.

News:

• Prof. Colin Grant has been invited to become a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication.
• Ms Vivienne Boon has been invited to be Reviews Editor of Empedocles. European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication
• Prof. Colin Grant's latest monograph, Post-transcendental Communication. Contexts of Human Autonomy will be published later this year.
• Siegfried J. Schmidt is editing a special issue of the Siegener Periodicum für empirische Literaturwissenschaft devoted to Colin Grant's Uncertainty and Communication. New Theoretical Investigations. International scholars have been invited to discuss Grant's essay "Kommunikation ohne Intersubjektivität".
  
  Contact:
  Colin Grant / email