From September 11th to 15th 2023, the Political Economies of the Media summer school was held at the Inter-University Centre (IUC) in Dubrovnik, jointly organised by the Institute for Development and International Relations (IRMO) and the University of Ljubljana. The…
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8-10 September 2023, the Institut für Design Science München held its annual conference at Leucorea in Wittenberg. The topic this time was “Naturphilosophie”. Rainer E. Zimmermann reports: Besides Zimmermann himself who is chairperson of the Institut für Design Science, three…
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The 31st Interdisciplinary Information Management Talks (IDIMT) took place 6–8 September 2023 in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic, under the title “New Challenges for ICT and Management” (see announcement here). The proceedings of this annual conference have been published. The editors…
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The World Logic Day is an international day promoted by Professor Jean-Yves Beziau, proclaimed by UNESCO in association with the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH) in November 2019 to be celebrated on January 14 every year. WLD…
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Our Member of Advisory Committee, the German philosopher of technology and physicist, Klaus Kornwachs, published last year a new book on the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Since the development of AI has so far been owed to humans, it…
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This book reports on cutting-edge research concerning social practices. Merging perspectives from various disciplines, including philosophy, biology, psychology and cognitive science, and economy, it discusses theoretical aspects of social behavior along with models to investigate them, and presenting key case…
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Besides the event video, you can view here all the interviews which were conducted at our Utopia(s) reloaded talks 26-28 October 2023. You can view them also at our The Great Bifurcation channel on vimeo. You can browse: “What is…
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The Critical Communication Studies Network announces its next conference. It is on the topic of solidarity: Call for Papers5th Conference of the Critical Communication Studies NetworkSeptember 19–21, 2024Paderborn University
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Hannes Werthner from the Digital Humanism Initiative with an assessment of the EU AI Act agreement (see here about the public statement): These have been 37 good hours for the EU AI Act and the (digital) world. Many from civil…
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Science, activism and the techno-eco-social transformation Date: 26-28 October 2023 Venue: 4lthangrund, Augasse 2-6, 1090 Wien Organisation GSIS in co-operation with partners:Club of ViennaDegrowth ViennaDFG-Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe “Zukünfte der Nachhaltigkeit”, Universität Hamburg (DFG-KFG)Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung (FIfF)Fridays for Future…
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