The Interdisciplinary Information Management Talks this year are scheduled for 7-10 September 2022 in Prague, Czech Republic. For more information click here. –––––––––– Update: The deadline for manuscript submission is April 11, 2022. The submission system EasyChair has been now opened and you may…
Rebecca and Tahzara have dropped out of school – and they still want to make something of their life. Luka has always been an excellent student, but she wants to learn differently. What they have in common: deregistered from school…
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The European Sociological Association (ESA) – Research Network 18: Sociology of Communications and Media Research announces its mid-term conference 2022 at the Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, 1-3 September 2022, in co-operation with the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies…
Under this title, the Platform Computer Professionals for Peace and Social Responsibility (FIfF) – a friend of the GSIS Institute – holds its yearly conference in hybrid form. The FIfF regional group Munich is host. The date is: 12–14 November,…
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As announced, the plans are still to have that conference in a face-to-face format at the Department of Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) from 18 to 20 November 2021. Click here for the programme. More information here.…
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This manifesto (launched by an online event) is now available in several languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, German. You can sign here. See the full list of the signatories here (at the end of the english version). Today, 880 signatories are…
Gerhard Chroust is Professor emeritus at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. He belongs to the first people in Austria that have been educated in informatics (as different from computer science in the wake of the influential Austrian pioneer Heinz Zemanek).…
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This is an invitation to join lectures of the IPT. The IPT team writes: This year’s IPT Online Lecture Series is part of the ASPR’s campaign on “Homeland Earth – Terre Patrie”, where we engage with the polcy-crises humanity encounters in…
This online event launches “The Public Service Media and Public Service Internet Manifesto”. The Internet and the media landscape are broken. The dominant commercial Internet platforms endanger democracy. The Manifesto stresses the importance of public service media and the creation…
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The 37th Summer Academy of the Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution will be held online from 1 to 4 September. It is devoted to be part of the international “Homeland Earth” campaign for planetary awareness. The language…
