Insights
In the aftermath of the glossaLAB project, a second international workshop will be held in Spain 2023 as sequel of the one held there in 2022. Time will be devoted to the discussion of INSIGHT as a follow-up project. See…
Utopia(s) reloaded: science, activism and the techno-eco-social transformation. A GSIS call for talks
Before the turn of the millennium, French philosopher and sociologist Edgar Morin drew attention to the “Homeland Earth” of a common humanity.[i] However, such ideas no longer seem to play a major role in the new millennium, while a multiple…
glossaLAB: from 2019 to 2023
The glossaLAB project was originally conceived to be supported by the Ecuadorian Santa Elena Institute of Science and Technological Development (INCYT) in cooperation with an international consortium of academic and scientific institutions in which GSIS has partaken, for a two-year…
GSIS Report 2022 available
The annual Institute activities report has been published. You find it on our research page here.
Mark Burgin, extreme scientist, passed away
Mark was an extreme scientist. He has written more than thousand publications in different fields of science, has held many positions and was not afraid to take on work. When he joined our institute, he did not want to become…
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Advanced postgraduate course: political economies of the media
Call for Applications: Political Economies of the Media. Theories and Methods, an advanced postgraduate course. Inter-University Centre (IUC), Dubrovnik, Croatia, 11 – 15 September 2023 Keynote Speakers: Christian Fuchs, Paderborn University, GermanyKylie Jarrett, Maynooth University, Ireland Course Directors: Thomas Allmer,…
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ARTIIS 2023
After 2021 (see here) and 2022 (see here), the third conference on Advanced Research in Technologies, Information, Innovation and Sustainability will be held at Universidad a Distancia de Madrid, Spain, between the 18th and 20th of October 2023. It will…
Techno-social innovation and the Collaborative Economy
Under that title – in short: “CollabEcon” – our Member Vangelis Papadimitropoulos is working on a project supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation. The objective is to explore the potental of social as well as technological innovation…
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Blockchain and the commons
Our Member Vangelis Papadimitropoulos has published a book:
Degrowth as social-ecological transformation
A book on degrowth has been published. The book is a project of Degrowth Vienna as a follow up to the conference Degrowth Vienna 2020: Strategies for Social-Ecological Transformation. It covers 19 chapters by over 50 authors on more than 400 pages. Degrowth…
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