We welcome Kurt Bayer’s Commentary as a befriended website of GSIS. Economist Kurt Bayer served as expert at our Utopia(s) Reloaded talks in 2023. Find here his interview on “How can climate justice be executed?” (https://vimeo.com/896184065). Kurt maintains a blog…
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The Digital Humanism TU Wien Lecture Series reminds us of next week’s talk: Tuesday, February 4, 2024 at 5:00 p.m. (17:00) Central European Time (UTC+1) Topic: “Misinformation and Social Media as a Historical Process: Insights from the American Experience”(scroll down for abstract…
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Two years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, founded by Albert Einstein and former Manhattan Project scientists, established the Doomsday Clock. Every year since then the state of the world had been assessed. Setting the minute…
The latest issue of FIfF Kommunikation, the German journal in the field of informatics and society, issued by the Forum Computer Professionals for Peace and Social Responsibilty (FIfF) in December 2024, focusses again on the topic of AI. Hans-Jörg Kreowski…
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Our Member Vangelis Papadimitropoulos co-authors with Giannis Perperidis a chapter in The Routledge Handbook of Cooperative Economics and Management. This more than 500 pages volume was published on 23 December 2024 in London (imprint 2025). Chapter 26 is On the…
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Peter Brandt (son of Willy Brandt), Dieter Segert and Gert Weisskirchen edited last year a more than 500 pages volume on that question. Based on it, Dieter Segert will hold a lecture at the Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin e.V.*…
Our friend Günther Witzany reminds us of a symposium in 1991: “Klein sein oder nicht sein. Für eine Kultur der Selbstbeschränkung”. Experts Leopold Kohr, Erwin Chargaff, Robert Jungk and Peter Cornelius Meyer-Tasch were the speakers. What was said there, sounds…
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Francesca Vidal, our friend from Schwerpunkt Rhetorik at the Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität (RPTU) in Landau, reminded us of a lecture by her in which she discussed the rhetorical side of Rosa Luxemberg. This may be of interest in the context…
On the occasion of the 2025 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI), our Emergent Systems, Information and Society Research Group – which is also an IS4SI Special Interest Group – invites to an event to…
GSIS Utopia(s) Conversations on a Convivial Society for All Unser Mitglied Margarete Maurer hat einen Band zu diesem Thema fertiggestellt. Rosa Luxemburg war eine der wichtigsten Persönlichkeiten und DenkerInnen der Sozialdemokratie im beginnenden 20. Jahrhundert. Die deutsche kommunistische Partei gründete…
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