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…
Category Archives: Announcement
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.…
The quest for a new paradigm in studies of information
The IS4SI (International Society for the Study of Information) Summit 2023 calls for a paradigm shift in the field of information. The most used paradigm so far is borrowed from physics, criticises Chinese scholar Yixin Zhong from the AI School…
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On into 2023!
“It is 100 seconds to midnight.”* Concerned scientists had set the doomsday clock at that time even before the hostilities in Ukraine escalated into one of the hot spots of “World War III” – as Pope Francis used to call…
IDIMT 2023
Petr Doucek and Antonin Pavlicek from the Prague University of Economics and Business (VSE, Czech Republic) and Michael Sonntag from the J. Kepler University Linz (JKU, Austria) write: in this pre-Christmas time, we bring you good news – we would…
Logic and society lectures
We organise an online event for the World Logic Day 2023, called for by UNESCO. You are invited to take part as indicated below. Presentations will be uploaded after the event.
Climate-friendly living, II
On 28 November 2022, the APCC Special Report on Structures for climate-friendly living was presented in a press conference by Karl Steininger (Uni Graz) and Andreas Novy (WU Wien), featuring Leonore Gewessler, Federal Minister for Climate Action, and Martin Kocher, Federal…
Digital ethics
This fifth volume in Christian Fuchs’s Media, Communication and Society series presents an approach to critical digital ethics. It develops foundations and applications of digital ethics based on critical theory. It applies a critical approach to ethics within the realm of…
Conference for digitalisation and sustainability
Bits & Bäume is approaching. The programme has been updated (see here). Our befriended organisation Forum Computer Scientists for Peace and Social Responsibility (FIfF) belongs to the panel of supporters. The Conference is funded by the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU) and co-funded…
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About the topicality of Ivan Illich’s conviviality
The Club of Vienna invites to an event on the thinking of Ivan Illich. Illich has become famous because of his term “conviviality” used in his 1973 book with the title “Tools for Conviviality” – a criticism of current civilisation.…
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