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…
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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…
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…
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.…
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. –––––––––– Updates: Here is the link to the ZOOM…
Chinese papers voicing ethical problems with Artificial Intelligence and robots
Our Member, Liang Wang, Associate Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, P.R. China, deals with ethics concerning robots and Artificial Intelligence. Recently he published a paper in a Chinese journal in which he argues in favour of virtue ethics over…
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…
AI and Nature
The Advanced Imaging International Festival held a conference from 3 to 6 November 2022 at Chung-Ang University in Seoul, Republic of Korea, on “AI – Variation of an Art”. They invited researchers to diagnose the present and the blueprint of…
On the sociogenesis of norms
Franz Ofner, retired professor at University of Klagenfurt, Austria (also known as Alpen-Adria-Universität), sociologist, Member of our Institute, did research on the emergence of norms following George Herbert Mead (see here) and Jürgen Habermas. His latest article has been published…