An important lecture on typifying the era humankind has entered was held by Frank Adloff on 14 April 2021 in the framework of a lecture series at the University of Basel on capitalism and critique of capitalism. Adloff is professor…
Based upon a project on Society After Money – A Simulation, funded by Volkswagen Foundation, the interdisciplinary research group will hold an online workshop on “envisioning post-capitalist societies via simulation“. The workshop will be held on 18-19 February, 2021, and…
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The S-BPM ONE 2020, the 12th International Conference on Subject-Oriented Business Process Management, originally planned at BIBA Bremen Institute for Production and Logistics, Bremen, Germany, took place from December 2–3, 2020 in an online format. Accordingly, emergence became evident throughout preparation leading to the novel format of…
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Julian Nida-Rümelin, philosopher and political theorist at the LMU (University of Munich), author of Digitaler Humanismus 2018 together with his wife, literary scholar and film theorist Nathalie Weidenfeld, is the speaker at the next DigHum Lectures on 15 December 2020,…
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Researcher Shima Beigi is selected as one of the speakers at TEDWomen under this year’s theme fearless. That’s what she is happy to speak about: Fearless living for all human beings around the world. Liberation, self-actualisation, and fearlessly facing dogmas…
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Wolfgang Hofkirchner held a lecture at the online November plenary session of the Leibniz society of scholars (Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin) on 12 November 2020. The talk was in German and so are the slides. The Information Age Imperative…
David Braunstein, member of GSIS, writes his philosophical dissertation on the emergent system of economy in the Luhmannian sense. That conception can be understood as a criticism of the assumptions of homo economicus that is still en vogue in mainstream…
4 to 6 September 2020, the Institut für Design Science München organised its traditional face-to-face event in Wittenberg (2018, 2019), this time without co-organisers and under the conditions of restrictions according to the COVID-19 pandemic. The GSIS Emergent Systems Group…
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On the occasion of the opening of the Western China Science and Technology Innovation Harbour in Xi’an jang in Xi’an, Shaanxi, five international experts were invited to present their views via online Teams connection in a Senior Forum on The…
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Irena Mostowicz gave on 28 August 2020 a public talk on the significance of the Russian dacha. She is GSIS Member and researcher at the Institute. In times of the current pandemic, humanity faces many challenges. A healthy lifestyle, decent…
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