Digital Humanism for a techno-eco-social transformation of global society
The GSIS Institute will host the annual conference of the German Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung (FIfF) from 21 to 23 November 2025 at “Alte Mensa”, Kulturzentrum 4lthangrund für Alle, Vienna, where GSIS held the “Utopia(s) Reloaded” talks…
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ICT in military affairs
Second announcement: Call for Contributions to the Online Workshop on ICT in Military Affairs Organizers: Stefan Hügel and Hans-Jörg Kreowski together with Forum Computer Professionals for Peace and Social Responsibility (FIfF) Date: June 14, 2025 as a track of SOCIAL INFORMATION GATHERINGS 2025 (SIG…
AI generating new habits. Critical reflections
Utopia(s) Conversations on Meaningful Technologies A hybrid symposium organised by Raffaela Giovagnoli, Irena Mostowicz and Tomáš Sigmund in the framework of the International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI) biennial Summit 2025. It will take place in 4lthangrund, “Alte…
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NGO Committee on Peace – UN Vienna
On 25 April 2025, this NGO Committee held a session on the legislation-peace nexus and new insights in peace research. Josef Mühlbauer was given the opportunity to talk about critical peace research. See here.
About IMF and World Bank
In honor of the Pope
Robert K. Logan, physicist, systems theorist, editor of New Explorations, a former collaborator of Marshall McLuhan, a member of the Pugwash movement, draws our attention to a paper in which he compares the Christian and Jewish traditions with regard to the…
Science, Culture, and the World Crisis
The International Academy of Information Studies announces another dialogue with: Prof. Howard Bloom, Howard Bloom Institute (https://howardbloom.net ) Prof. Daniel Pinchbeck, Liminal Institute (https://pinchbeck.net/) Title: Science, Culture, and the World Crisis: “The State of the World”The session will take place on Friday, April 25th, at 16:00 PM (NY) =…
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Eine neue gerechte Weltwirtschaftsordnung?
Der Thirring-Plan heute
Friedensforscher Werner Wintersteiner, Experte in den Schriften von Edgar Morin, hat einen Band zum Friedensplan des österreichischen Wissenschaftlers Hans Thirring aus dem Jahr 1963 herausgegeben. Thirring war im ersten Kalten Krieg Mitbegründer der internationalen Pugwash-Bewegung. Das Buch wird auf einem…