2nd CALL FOR PAPERS
Dear Colleagues,
We are honoured to invite you to participate in
the 2nd Romanian Association of Semiotic Studies (ROASS)
We are honoured to invite you to participate in
the 2nd Romanian Association of Semiotic Studies (ROASS)
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
TRANSMODERNITY:
MANAGING GLOBAL COMMUNICATION
MANAGING GLOBAL COMMUNICATION
which will be held in Bacău & Slănic-Moldova - ROMANIA
23-25 October 2008
23-25 October 2008
ORGANIZERS
ROMANIAN ASSOCIATION OF SEMIOTIC STUDIES (ROASS)
FACULTY OF LETTERS- UNIVERSITY OF BACAU
SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN CENTER FOR SEMIOTIC STUDIES
NEW BULGARIAN UNIVERSITY
HUNGARIAN ASSOCIATION FOR SEMIOTIC STUDIES
PHILOLOGICAL SCHOOL OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN WROCłAW - POLAND
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF IASS
(INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SEMIOTIC STUDIES)
The time for a great change of paradigm – the shift from postmodernity to transmodernity – has already come.
Setting out from existing transformations, diversities (experienced as difference), varieties (perceived as absence of sameness, of routine and monotony), alterities (through a continuous transgressing of borders), transmodernity foregrounds the new phenomenon of the “network world”. The increased cultural complexity of the global(izing/ized) world, which seems to be the raison d’être for “trans-”prefixed domains of action has turned into fertile ground for cross-breeding between several areas of research, such as management, communication studies, marketing and semiotics.
How can transborder exchanges come to terms with processes within borders, how do international power relations influence structures mapped within frontiers, how can differences, varieties etc. be decoded and understood, how can communication be conducted in a “networld” where everything is produced and interpreted at a global level? How can the “relational dynamism” of this new (transcultural) “netocracy” be communicated and controlled? What is its new rhetoric like?
These are just few questions to be debated upon during the 2nd ROASS international conference “Transmodernity: Managing Global Communication”.
Setting out from existing transformations, diversities (experienced as difference), varieties (perceived as absence of sameness, of routine and monotony), alterities (through a continuous transgressing of borders), transmodernity foregrounds the new phenomenon of the “network world”. The increased cultural complexity of the global(izing/ized) world, which seems to be the raison d’être for “trans-”prefixed domains of action has turned into fertile ground for cross-breeding between several areas of research, such as management, communication studies, marketing and semiotics.
How can transborder exchanges come to terms with processes within borders, how do international power relations influence structures mapped within frontiers, how can differences, varieties etc. be decoded and understood, how can communication be conducted in a “networld” where everything is produced and interpreted at a global level? How can the “relational dynamism” of this new (transcultural) “netocracy” be communicated and controlled? What is its new rhetoric like?
These are just few questions to be debated upon during the 2nd ROASS international conference “Transmodernity: Managing Global Communication”.
The papers can be defended in English, French, or Romanian.
Doina Cmeciu
Traian D. Stănciulescu
