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RESEARCH COMMITTEE 51 ON SOCIOCYBERNETICS Honorary Presidents: Walter Buckley, USA; Felix Geyer, Netherlands |
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| International Scientific Coordinator: Vessela Misheva University of Uppsala, Sweden Fax:46 18 471 1170 E-mail: Vessela.Misheva@soc.uu.se |
President RC51: Bernd R. Hornung University of Marburg, Germany Fax: 49 6421-286-6572 E-mail: hornung@med.uni-arburg.de |
National Coordinator: Philippos Nikolopoulos University of Crete Fax: 30 210 729 1710 E-mail: nikolop@groovy.gr nikolop@phl.uoc.gr |
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SOCIOCYBERNETICS - THE FUTURE OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES - Society from Ancient Greece to Cyberspace and Beyond - Corfu, Greece, June 30-July 5, 2003
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| CONFERENCE THEME: Within the framework of this conference two major objectives are to be dealt with. The first part will concentrate on identifying and specifying the principles of sociocybernetics including their empirical foundations. This will encompass the perspectives of First Order Cybernetics in the tradition of General System Theory, non-Luhmannian Second Order Cybernetics as developed, e.g., by Heinz von Foerster and in the Cognitive Sciences, and the perspective of Luhmann´s autopoietic theory of social systems. The papers presented in this part are expected to serve as a basis for ample discussion leading to the specification of the outlines of an introductory text on the question “What is sociocybernetics?” and are expected to be revised as parts of such a text after the conference. The second part of the conference will turn towards the applications of such principles to the analysis of social history and development, in particular in the multicultural arena of the Mediterranean and Greece, hopefully with a particular look at Corfu. Of special interest are empirical and applied research and analyses of the interplay of social and cultural aspects in long-term development and the lessons which can be learned for community development in a local context like Corfu under the conditions of globalization, information society, and tourism as an expression of unlimited global mobility. Also welcome in this part, however, are papers showing sociocybernetics applied to other problems and geographical areas. read more... |
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Updated, June 17, 2003 |
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