Under this very title, our Emergent Systems Group calls for papers to be presented at an online workshop at the online International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI) 2021 Summit that will be held 12-19 September 2021. The link…
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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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GSIS joins as partner the new campaign of the Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR). This campaign will recall the theses Edgar Morin formulated in the 1990s for the new millennium and will culminate in next year’s…
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GSIS’s partner organisation, the Netzwerk Kritische Kommunikationswissenschaft, a scholarly network that tries to push critical communication and media studies in the German speaking countries, in cooperation with the Institute for Heterodox Economis, WU Vienna, hosts a conference on “Property, the…
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The topic: Strategies for a Humanistic Digital Future On Thursday, 19 November 2020, and Friday, 20 November 2020, from 16:00 to 18:30 CET, you can join international experts and policy-makers in online discussions or watch them via YouTube LiveStream. Programme:…
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The academic network Kritische Kommunikationswissenschaft (KriKoWi) calls for a summer school at Paderborn University, 25 – 26 September 2020. Deadline for registering is 2 August 2020. Contact: Sebastian Sevignani, Interim Professor, Media Systems and Media Organisation, Institute of Media Studies,…
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Renate C.-Z.-Quehenberger created the video art work GAIA 5.0 – A holographic Image Ambience (the picture above shows the so-called hyper sphere of planet Earth) with Lydia Lunch (Sound & narration) in collaboration with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather…
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Shima Beigi, in charge of the Resilience for VUCA World 2020 Initiative at the Center Leo Apostel for Multidisciplinary Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, invites to an online round table on what societies ought to learn from the experience of the…
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The German Forum Computer Scientists for Peace and Social Responsibility (FIfF) published number 1/2020 of their quarterly journal FIfF Kommunikation. The focus is on the yearly conference 2019 on Artificial Intelligence as Wonderland. See here. Videos of presentations and the…
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This is lifeWhat a fucked up thing we doWhat a nightmare come trueOr a playground if we chooseAnd I choose I Choose, The Offspring This is the motto of a dissertation thesis written by Evo Busseniers for the Doctor of…
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