The 31st Interdisciplinary Information Management Talks (IDIMT) took place 6–8 September 2023 in Hradec Králové, Czech Republic, under the title “New Challenges for ICT and Management” (see announcement here). The proceedings of this annual conference have been published. The editors…
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The World Logic Day is an international day promoted by Professor Jean-Yves Beziau, proclaimed by UNESCO in association with the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH) in November 2019 to be celebrated on January 14 every year. WLD…
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Science, activism and the techno-eco-social transformation Date: 26-28 October 2023 Venue: 4lthangrund, Augasse 2-6, 1090 Wien Organisation GSIS in co-operation with partners:Club of ViennaDegrowth ViennaDFG-Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe “Zukünfte der Nachhaltigkeit”, Universität Hamburg (DFG-KFG)Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung (FIfF)Fridays for Future…
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The purpose of the talks about “Utopia(s) reloaded: Science, activism and the techno-eco-social transformation” we are preparing for 26-28 October 2023 is to raise awareness of the scientific basis on which action can be effective in overcoming the current polycrisis.…
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Vangelis Papadimitropoulos and Haris Malamidis held a lecture at the 21st Annual STS Conference Graz 2023 – Critical Issues in Science, Technology and Society Studies, 8-10 May 2023. The title was: The Model of Open Cooperativism. The Case of Open…
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On 23 April 2023, our Institute has resumed its in-person discussion meetings in Vienna (which were paused due to the pandemic) with a small roundtable. Wolfgang Hofkirchner introduced his recent book publication “The Logic of the Third”. A handout showed…
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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The befriended Ernst-Bloch-Assoziation held an open conference on the topic of Bloch’s “Naturallianz/Allianztechnik”. Philosopher Bloch coined these terms to call for a new relationship of humans with nature to be practised by a new kind of technology. The venue was…
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