LOF50: The Unmarked State. Laws of Form 50th Anniversary Conference Liverpool University Liverpool, UK, August 8-10, 2019 |
Conference website | https://lof50.com |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lof50 |
Submission deadline | March 11, 2019 |
The Unmarked State Laws of Form 50th anniversary conference is a celebratory cross-disciplinary gathering which will be of interest to mathematicians, philosophers, sociologists, cyberneticists, designers, and all those interested in how to create a world from nothing.
The cross-disciplinary conference will review the influence that Laws of Form has had since its publication and its unexplored potential and explore the work of author and polymath, George Spencer Brown, 1923-2017. We aim to explore the past, present, and future of his attempt to rethink creation from first principles, his influence on Kauffman, Luhmann, von Foerster, Varela, and others; and question what might develop out of Spencer-Brown’s work in the next fifty years.
As with other academic conferences, the primary goal of LoF50 is for people to meet and interact.
Presentations of research connected to the work of George Spencer-Brown are invited in two forms:
1. Regular papers
Every regular paper will have a 30-minute slot in the programme, during which they are expected to give a 20 minute presentation and answer questions in person.
2. Short presentations and workshops
These can be of a more fluid nature and give personal or artistic responses to the Laws of Form. Short presentations should be at about 20 minutes in length.
Workshop organisers please say how long they might require.
Cross-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary approaches are encouraged.
Please submit a 200-word abstract of your proposal by noon on the 11th of March 2019. Your proposal will be peer-reviewed by the Program Committee and you will be notified whether your proposal is accepted.
We intend to publish regular papers, where appropriate, in a special volume of the Series on Knots and Everything. Please note that there will be a separate deadline for full papers to be included in the publication at a later date. While it is certainly possible to submit full papers already at this time, it is not a requirement.
An account of the conference as a collection of abstracts and presentations will be circulated as an edited pdf.