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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How to integrate and implement the approach towards a techno-eco-social transformation
Our colleague Teresa Guarda organised in 2022 a new edition of the ARTIIS international conference:Advanced Research in Technologies, Information, Innovation and SustainabilitySecond International Conference, ARTIIS 2022Santiago de Compostela, Spain, September 12–15, 2022arttis.org The need for a greener and more digital…
War in Ukraine: negotiate now!
Edgar Morin published a new book with a French publisher on 6 January 2023. It is about WW I and WW II, about wars after Nuremberg and, of course, about the war in Ukraine that has become a proxy war…
Combat drones hearing
The IPPNW invites to an online hearing on combat drones. The focus will be on recent developments in Africa, Ukraine and Turkey. The event will take place on 25 January 2023, 19:00 CET. You can register here. Language mostly German.…