NOR. Reverse engineering the Laws of Form

Call for Papers

Call for participation in a paper development workshop on “NOR. Reverse engineering the Laws of Form” (3-4 June 2019 in Dubrovnik)

Co-organizers:

• Steffen Roth, La Rochelle Business School, France, and Yerevan State University, Armenia*
• Markus Heidingsfelder, Habib University Karachi, Pakistan
• Lars Clausen, University College Lillebælt, Denmark, and University of Flensburg, Germany*
• Klaus Brønd Laursen, Aarhus University, Denmark

*Corresponding co-organizers

Purpose: Participants in the workshop will brainstorm and discuss ideas as well as co-develop papers on an unpublished manuscript by George Spencer Brown.

Date and venue: 3-4 June 2019, Inter-University Center Dubrovnik, Don Frana Bulića 4, HR-20000 Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Registration deadline: 3 February 2019. Applications are via email to the corresponding co-organizers* and ought to include a brief CV and statement of interest in the PDW. We particularly look forward to hearing from colleagues with backgrounds in engineering, information science, mathematics, logics, and philosophy. Friends and colleagues with backgrounds in social sciences or humanities are more than welcome to join us in this venture, too. 

It is anticipated that ideas developed in the workshop will transform into submissions to a special issue published in a S/SCI-listed journal. Participants are furthermore kindly invited to consider combined participations in precedent and subsequent events @Inter-University Center Dubrovnik such as the conference on Political communication: Observed with Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory (29-31 May 2019) and the 18th International Social Theory Consortium Conference (5-7 June 2019).