The latest issue of FIfF Kommunikation, the German journal in the field of informatics and society, issued by the Forum Computer Professionals for Peace and Social Responsibilty (FIfF) in December 2024, focusses again on the topic of AI. Hans-Jörg Kreowski…
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Political Economies of the Media. Theories and Methods, an advanced postgraduate course. Šibenik, Croatia, 9 – 12 September 2025 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Micky Lee, Suffolk University, USAMandy Troeger, University of Tuebingen, Germany COURSE DIRECTORS Thomas Allmer, Paderborn University,…
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Our Member Vangelis Papadimitropoulos co-authors with Giannis Perperidis a chapter in The Routledge Handbook of Cooperative Economics and Management. This more than 500 pages volume was published on 23 December 2024 in London (imprint 2025). Chapter 26 is On the…
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Peter Brandt (son of Willy Brandt), Dieter Segert and Gert Weisskirchen edited last year a more than 500 pages volume on that question. Based on it, Dieter Segert will hold a lecture at the Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin e.V.*…
Our friend Günther Witzany reminds us of a symposium in 1991: “Klein sein oder nicht sein. Für eine Kultur der Selbstbeschränkung”. Experts Leopold Kohr, Erwin Chargaff, Robert Jungk and Peter Cornelius Meyer-Tasch were the speakers. What was said there, sounds…
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GSIS is once again taking part in World Logic Day this year. The lectures are called: Logic, Sustainable Society & AI Lectures They will take place online only on 14 January 2025, 13:30 to 17:00 CET: 13:30 Irena Mostowicz (GSIS,…
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Francesca Vidal, our friend from Schwerpunkt Rhetorik at the Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität (RPTU) in Landau, reminded us of a lecture by her in which she discussed the rhetorical side of Rosa Luxemberg. This may be of interest in the context…
GSIS Utopia(s) Conversations on a Convivial Society for All Unser Mitglied Margarete Maurer hat einen Band zu diesem Thema fertiggestellt. Rosa Luxemburg war eine der wichtigsten Persönlichkeiten und DenkerInnen der Sozialdemokratie im beginnenden 20. Jahrhundert. Die deutsche kommunistische Partei gründete…
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Wolfgang Hofkirchner was invited to give a talk at the 10th East Lake Forum on Global Governance in Wuhan, China, 16-17 November 2024. The topic of the forum was “Common Security and Global Governance”. The talk was pre-recorded. You can…
Our next public event is devoted to the question of war and peace in our time. It will be held in German: Ukraine, Naher und Mittlerer Osten, Asien-Pazifik – Eskalation bis zum Weltkrieg?GSIS Utopia(s) Conversations on a Convivial Society for…
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