This presentation was made by GSIS Member Vangelis Papadimitropoulos in the 1st Crypto Commons Gathering 2021, which took place in Reichenau an der Rax, Austria, between 28-08 and 3-9. It examines the politics of cyber-physical commons that seek to scale the…
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[This event took place as announced below. Presenters came from 15 countries of 5 continents.] The workshop on Digital Humanism co-organised by GSIS’s and Leibniz Society’s Emergent Systems Group and Forum Computer Professionals for Peace and Social Responsibility (FIfF) at…
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The conference chair, Marja Nesterova, invited Werner Wintersteiner to speak about “Homeland Earth” – the idea, the book of Edgar Morin, and the campaign for planetary solidarity. The conference was about EU values, inclusion, and sustainable development and their relationship…
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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…
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We invite to a Zoom webinar on Monday, 10 May, 16:00 CEST. Located on the intersection of capitalist dynamics and public responsibility, Livia Regen’s thesis shines light on how selected cases of media companies in the landscape of the international…
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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…
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