On 18 December 2024 Annette Grathoff, Tomáš Sigmund and Liang Wang organised together with Lianfu Yan, Dean of the School of Marxism at the Xi’an Jiaotong University, China, a symposium on that topic. Annette and Tomáš were connected online, Liang…
GSIS Utopia(s) Conversations on a Convivial Society for All & on a Sustainable Planet Annette Grathoff (Dr. rer. nat. Biology) (GSIS, IS4SI) Presentation in English:13 November 2024, 13:00 CETOnline only Pre-recorded video(Join the meeting via ZOOM: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85680041500?pwd=cZTBHaFuUW3BakrsrQJwKQ1GmjQ4zX.1Meeting-ID: 856 8004 1500…
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Bei der 7. Herbsttagung des Institut für Design Science in Wittenberg 2024 vom 30.08. bis 01.09., in der geschichtsträchtigen Leucorea, ging es im weitesten Sinne um die Naturphilosophie Schellings und Blochs. Im engeren Sinne gab es eine Vielfalt an Themen,…
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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…
The book is out. Find it here. Let me announce it: I finished the manuscript of my book before the new cold war turned hot, pushing humanity to the brink of a World War III. The heating of the planet,…
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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…
The evolution of humanity faces a Great Bifurcation: either a breakthrough to a regime of global governance in which the self-made global challenges in the social, ecological and technological realm can be kept under control or a breakdown threatening with…
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Mark Burgin, GSIS Chief Information Scientist, Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Member of the Emergent Systems Group, and Marcin Schroeder, President of the International Society for Information Studies (IS4SI), published the proceedings of the IS4SI Berkeley Summit on AI in 2019. They collected…
Wolfgang Hofkirchner made a contribution to the project on systems thinking origins. At a talk given at the IS4SI Summit Berkeley 2019 he provided a work-in-progress insight into his preoccupation with the topic. He contends that thinking in hierarchical levels…
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The International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI) Summit – held every second year – took place at the University of California, Berkeley, June 2-6, 2019. It was organised by neuro-anthropologist Terrence W. Deacon from UC Berkeley. Keynote speakers…
