BCSSS Online Konferenz ‚Homo Digitalis und die Conditio Humana‘
Homo Digitalis und die CONDITIO HUMANA: Mensch und Menschenbild im Zeitalter der Digitalisierung BCSSS Online Konferenz 19th March 2020 Felix Tretter und Stefan Blachfellner von der BCSSS waren für die Organisation dieser Veranstaltung verantwortlich, die ursprünglich als Direkttreffen geplant war. Dieses Format musste aufgrund der Corona-Krise abgesagt werden und konnte…
Enrique G. Herrscher. In Erinnerung an einen großartigen Denker!
Zu Beginn dieses Jahres erreichte uns die traurige Nachricht vom Ableben unseres geschätzten Kollegen Prof. Enrique G. Herrscher. Er verstarb friedlich in seinem Haus in Buenos Aires, Argentinien, am 30. Dezember 2019, zehn Tage nachdem er am 20. Dezember seinen 90. Geburtstag gefeiert hatte. „Er war einer meiner ersten Mentoren,…
The ISSS Conference 2019 – A buzzing hub for the BCSSS and scientists throughout the systems sciences
After both deep conversations and playful workshops at the American Society for Cybernetics Conference, Ray Ison (BCSSS Board member) and Angelika Schanda (BCSSS Program Manager) traveled south, from Vancouver, British Columbia to Corvallis, Oregon to attend the 63rd Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS). This…
UES2018 Brussels – Dead Line Extension for Individual Contributions: May 31th 2018!
UES2018 A Systemic Vision of the Crises – From optimization to change strategy? 10th congress of the European Union for Systemics 15 -17 October 2018 Brussels, Belgium DEADLINE EXTENSION Call for Individual Contributions Submissions before May 31th 2018 Further information please find here!
Young Researchers in Cybernetics and System Sciences! UES2018 CALL!
The International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences IASCYS calls for Excellent Contributions by Young Scientists in the Fields of Cybernetics & System Sciences! Join us & the European Community of System Science and Design in Brussels in October 2018! Participate in the 10th congress of the European Union for…
Rational and Irrational Discourses in the Age of Digitalisation
The BCSSS Research Group „Emergent Systems, Information and Society“ held a meeting to discuss how populism is reinforced, and how it could be fought, by the use of social media. (Photo: Ralph-Miklas Dobler) In the aftermath of a meeting at the BCSSS on „Populism in the perspective of information processes“ before Easter 2017…
May 30th 2017. Book Launch! Social Morphogenesis: Five Years of Inquiring Into Social Change
We are pleased to announce the presentation of the Springer book series „Social Morphogenesis“ on May 30th 2017 at the the British Library in London. The Centre for Social Ontology (CSO) carried out five workshops of experts from different fields in a yearly interval, starting in January 2012 and ending…
Information from Physics to Social Science
Members of the Emergent systems, information and society Research Group have, among others, contributed to a special issue of the European Physical Journal Special Topics on „Information in Physics and Beyond“. Information as basic phenomenon in our world needs a transdisciplinary account, in which physics and other disciplines can add…