GSIS joins as partner the new campaign of the Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR). This campaign will recall the theses Edgar Morin formulated in the 1990s for the new millennium and will culminate in next year’s…
Julian Nida-Rümelin, philosopher and political theorist at the LMU (University of Munich), author of Digitaler Humanismus 2018 together with his wife, literary scholar and film theorist Nathalie Weidenfeld, is the speaker at the next DigHum Lectures on 15 December 2020,…
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GSIS’s partner organisation, the Netzwerk Kritische Kommunikationswissenschaft, a scholarly network that tries to push critical communication and media studies in the German speaking countries, in cooperation with the Institute for Heterodox Economis, WU Vienna, hosts a conference on “Property, the…
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Under that title, a special issue of the journal Biosystems was released recently. More than twenty contributions have been edited by Pedro C. Marijuán, Bioinformation and Systems Biology Group at the Aragon Health Sciences Institute in Zaragoza, Spain, and Andrei…
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Researcher Shima Beigi is selected as one of the speakers at TEDWomen under this year’s theme fearless. That’s what she is happy to speak about: Fearless living for all human beings around the world. Liberation, self-actualisation, and fearlessly facing dogmas…
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The International Review of Information Ethics (IRIE) founded by renowned information philosopher – the first in the West – Rafael Capurro, has found a new platform after his retirement. Jared Bielby, research associate at the University of Alberta in Edmonton,…
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The topic: Strategies for a Humanistic Digital Future On Thursday, 19 November 2020, and Friday, 20 November 2020, from 16:00 to 18:30 CET, you can join international experts and policy-makers in online discussions or watch them via YouTube LiveStream. Programme:…
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Wolfgang Hofkirchner held a lecture at the online November plenary session of the Leibniz society of scholars (Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin) on 12 November 2020. The talk was in German and so are the slides. The Information Age Imperative…
Vangelis Papadimitropoulos who works as researcher with us published his first book. The title is The Commons: Economic Alternatives in the Digital Age. His book classifies the approaches to the commons into three categories: liberalism, reformism and anti-capitalism. After the…
After Laudato Si’, in which Pope Francis focussed on how to deal with ecological problems, he presented recently an encyclical letter on fraternity and social friendship, addressing all “brothers and sisters” while using Francis of Assisi’s words “fratelli tutti” for…
