Den cybersemiotiske stjerne fylder rundt

On the occasion of Søren Brier’s 60th birthday, the Department of International Culture and Communication Studies and the Center for Language, Cognition and Mentality are hosting a one-day conference. The theme of the conference is the transdisciplinary input and theories for the area of information, cognition and communication sciences (including semiotics and linguistics) inspired by the suggestions made by Søren Brier's work on the Cybersemiotic framework and the questions it raises.

Time and place:

23 September, 2011

08.30 - 18.30

Copenhagen Business School

Room SØ.041

Dalgas Have 15,

2000 Frederiksberg

See adress on map — See room on floor plan

Organized by:

The Department of International Culture and Communication Studies

and

The Center for Language, Cognition and Mentality

Registration: If you wish to participate in the conference, send an e-mail to Merete Borch, mb.iadh@cbs.dk.

Deadline for registration is 12 September 2011.

Participation is free of charge. Tea/coffee is provided and lunch can be purchased in the cafeteria.

Further information: Please contact Søren Brier sb.ikk@cbs.dk

Cybersemiotics and other

Transdisciplinary Studies of

Distributed Cognition

and Communication

For further details see the programme for the conference attached to this invitation. The programme will be updated on IKK’s website.

Søren Brier is Professor MSO of the semiotics of information, cognition and communication in the Department of International Culture and Communication Studies at CBS. His primary research fields include transdisciplinary philosophy and theory of science, in the area of information, computation, cognition and communication. He works primarily with system and information science, cybernetics and semiotics. He has contributed to the development of bio-semiotics and the Foundation of Information Science group and has created the field of Cybersemiotics, which integrates Peircean semiotics, system theory, autopoiesis and cybernetic information theory.
Søren Brier has published widely. Much of his work is collected in the book Cybersemiotics: Why Information is not enough, Toronto University Press 2008 and 2010. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Cybernetics & Human Knowing, A journal of Second Order Cybernetics, Autopoiesis & Cyber-Semiotics. Søren Brier received the Warren McCulloch award from the American Society of Cybernetics in 2008.

Søren Brier på CBS har aldrig forsøgt at skjule, at han

oprindeligt er biolog. Fra Søren Briers hjemmeside på CBS.

(Klik på billedet for at forstørre).