MONDAY JULY 24: 13:30 15:30
- Joint Session 1: Sociology and Systems Theory
Chairs: Jeffrey Alexander (Yale University, USA, jeffrey.alexander@yale.edu), Raf Vanderstraeten (University of Bielefeld, Germany, raf.vanderstraeten@uni-bielefeld.de )
- Andreas Pickel, Trent University, Canada, apickel@trentu.ca
After General Systems Theory: Systemic Ontology, Epistemology, and Methodology for the Social Sciences
- Claudio Baraldi and Laura Gavioli, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italia, cbbp@iol.it
Interaction Analysis: Towards an Integration Between Social Systems Theory and Conversation Analysis
- Raf Vanderstraeten, University of Bielefeld, Germany, raf.vanderstraeten@uni-bielefeld.de
System and Environment: On the Evolution of Modern Society
- Jeffrey Alexander, Yale University, USA, <jeffrey.alexander@yale.edu>
Comments to the Papers Presented in the Session: Sociology and Social Systems Theory
MONDAY JULY 24: 15:45 17:45
- Joint Session 2: Sociology and Systems Theory
Chairs: Jeffrey Alexander (Yale University, USA, jeffrey.alexander@yale.edu), Raf Vanderstraeten (University of Bielefeld, Germany, raf.vanderstraeten@uni-bielefeld.de )
- Michael Paetau, Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous Intelligent Systems, Germany, paetau@ais.fraunhofer.de
Niklas Luhmann and Cybernetics
- Thomas M. Kemple, University of British Columbia, Canada,
Kemple@interchange.ubc.ca
Cybernetic Casings and Observational Systems: From Weber to Parsons to Luhmann
- Wolfgang Hofkirchner, University of Salzburg and Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science, Austria, Wolfgang.Hofkirchner@sbg.ac.at
Towards a Post-Luhmannian Social Systems View
- Zach Johnson, Bernard Scott, Cranfield University, United Kingdom,
z.johnson@cranfield.ac.uk
Learning Conversations in Higher Education
MONDAY JULY 24: 18:00 20:00
- Session 3: Sociocybernetic Concepts in Information Society
Chair: Czeslaw Mesjasz (Cracow University of Economics, Poland, mesjaszc@ae.krakow.pl )
- Czeslaw Mesjasz, Cracow University of Economics, Poland, mesjaszc@ae.krakow.pl
The Concept of Self-Reference and Theory of Information Society
- Lucio Biggiero, LAquila University, Italia, biggiero@ec.univaq.it
System Identity and Autonomy of an International Research Team: A Case Study in Self-Observation
- Leo M. Semashko, Russia, Public Institute of Strategic Sphere (Tetrasociological) Studies, Russia, semashko4444@mail.admiral.ru
The Tetrasociological Approach: Six Sociocybernetic Innovations for an Information Society
- Robert Bichler, Christian Fuchs, Celina Raffl, Advanced Studies and Research in Information and Communication Technologies & Society, Austria, robert.bichler@sbg.ac.at , christian.fuchs@sbg.ac.at , celina.raffl@sbg.ac.at
Ethics for a Sustainable Information Society
TUESDAY JULY 25: 13:30 15.30
- Roundtable Session 4: Luhmann Applied
Chair: Soeren Brier (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, sbr.lpf@cbs.dk)
- Eva Buchinger, ARC systems research, Austria, eva.buchinger@arcs.ac.at
Practical Relevance of Luhmanns Social System Theory: Governance of Autopoietic Social Systems
- Erkki Sevänen, University of Joensuu, Finland, erkki.sevanen@joensuu.fi
Niklas Luhmann and Critical Theory: Non-Critical System Theory vs. Critical Systemic Sociology?
- Vessela Misheva, Uppsala University, Sweden, Vessela.Misheva@soc.uu.se
Sociological Systems Theory and its Philosophical Problems: The Theory of Medium from Kant to Heider and Luhmann
- Lars Qvortrup, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark,
larsq@knowledgelab.sdu.dk
The Concept of Knowledge in the Knowledge Society and Religion as 4th Order Knowledge
- Soeren Brier, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, sbr.lpf@cbs.dk
The Missing Person Problems in Reflecting Luhmannian Empirical Systemic Research Results: Back into a Democratic Society of Embodied, Juridical, Political and Ethical Responsible Subjects
- Morten Knudsen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, mk.ioa@cbs.dk
Autolysis An Operation-Analytical Observation of Noise out of Order
- Ole Thyssen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, ot.lpf@cbs.dk
The Three Tempi of Globalisation
TUESDAY JULY 25: 15.45 17:45
- Session 5: Participatory Sustainable Development
Chair: Philippos Nicolopoulos (University of Crete and University of Indianapolis, Athens Campus, Greece, <nicolop@otenet.gr>
- Philippos Nicolopoulos, University of Crete and University of Indianapolis, Athens Campus, Greece, <mailto:nicolop@otenet.gr>
INTRODUCTION: Sustainable Touristic Development in Rural Areas: The Issue of Carrying Capacity and Applications of Systems Theory
- Cestmir Halbich, Czech University of Agriculture, Czech Republic, <halbich@pef.czu.cz>)
Participatory Sustainable Development in Rural Areas: Case Study Internet in the Czech Countryside
- Jorge A. González, LabCOMplex-UNAM- México, Jorge@labcomplex.net
Research and Development of Cyberculture@ in Displaced Communities
- Sonja Treven, Matja_ Mulej, University of Maribor, Slovenia, mulej@uni-mb.si
Systemic Approach to the Encouragement of Innovativeness Through Employee Diversity Management
TUESDAY JULY 25: 18:00 - 20:00
- Session 6: Applications of Sociocybernetics
Chair: Danièle Bourcier (Centre detudes et de recherches science administrative, France, bourcier@cmb.hu-berlin.de)
- Karl-Heinz Simon, University of Kassel, Germany, simon@usf.uni-kassel.de
Transitions Management An Issue for Sociocybernetics?
- Jane Davis, North Carolina A&T State University, USA, janeds@ncat.edu
A New Theory: The Nonlinear Dynamic Theory of Teaching and Learning
- Jose A. Amozurrutia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico, amoz@labcomplex.net
Sociocybernetics Applied in Cultural Activity Analysis
- Francisco Parra-Luna, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain,
parraluna@cps.ucm.es
Cervantes Novel Don Quixote as a System: The Emergence of the Place of La Mancha
WEDNESDAY JULY 26: 13:30 15:30
- Portuguese Session 7: Equality and Inequality
Chair: Manuel Lisboa (Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, m.lisboa@fcsh.unl.pt)
- Manuel Lisboa, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, m.lisboa@fcsh.unl.pt
Desigualdade de género e teoria da acção social - o público e o privado no caso português
- Marzia Grassi, University of Lisbon, Portugal, marzia.grassi@ics.ul.pt
Género, Economia informal e transnacionalismo em contextos multiculturais: Cabo Verde, Angola e países da diáspora
- Armando de Melo Lisboa, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brasil, alisboa@matrix.com.br
A construção da identidade: caminho para superação da desigualdade
- Maria José Arthur, WLSA Mozambique, chico@tropical.co.mz
Between Law and Social Morals: the functioning of the Advice Bureau for Women and Children victims of domestic violence
WEDNESDAY JULY 26: 15:45 17:45
- Spanish Session 8: Social Capital and Social Networks
Chairs: Juan D. Gomez Quintero (University of Zaragoza, Spain, jdgomez@unizar.es), Chaime Marcuello-Servós (University of Zaragoza, Spain, chaime@unizar.es), Dario Menanteau-Horta (University of Minnesota, USA, dmenante@umn.edu)
- Antonio Eito Mateo, University of Zaragoza, Spain, antoni@unizar.es
Inmigración, integración y capital social: El caso de la Ciudad de Huesca
(presence not confirmed)
- Margarita Maass Moreno, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico, maass@labcomplex.net
Análisis del volumen y composición social del capital de tres generaciones de mexicanos del siglo XX: Reflexiones de segundo orden desde una metodología sociocibernética
- Iosu Lizarralde Aiastui, Mondragon Unibertsitatea, Spain,
<ilizarra@eteo.mondragon.edu>
Building up an Entrepreneurial Region by Means of Social Capital
WEDNESDAY JULY 26: 18:00 20:00
- Session 9: Sociocybernetics and Cyberethics
Chair: Vessela Misheva (Uppsala University, Sweden, Vessela.Misheva@soc.uu.se)
- Diane Laflamme, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
ad.laflamme@sympatico.ca
The Emergence of Ethical Programmes and Moral Conditionings in Meaning-Constituting Systems
- Christopher Kindblad, University of Halmstad, Sweden
christopher.kindblad@hos.hh.se
The Importance of the Moravian Ethics for the Miskitu Culture: A Matriztic Perspective on the Role of Emotions in Cultural Change
- Barry Gibson, King's College London, United Kingdom, barry.gibson@kcl.ac.uk
The Codification of quality of life in medicine and dentistry: a systems theoretical study
- Louis Klein and Alexander Kiehne, Systemic Consulting Group, Germany, Louis.Klein@scgroup.de
Being a Post-modern Organisation
THURSDAY JULY 27: 13:30 15.30
- Special Topic Session 10:
The System of Mass Media and Social Transformation
Chairs: Juan M. Aguado (Universidad de Murcia, Spain, jmaguado@um.es), Vessela Misheva (Uppsala University, Sweden, Vessela.Misheva@soc.uu.se)
- Vessela Misheva, Uppsala University, Sweden, Vessela.Misheva@soc.uu.se
The Mass Media as a Social System
- Isabel Kusche, University of Bielefeld, Germany, isabel.kusche@uni-bielefeld.de
Media Democracy as Description of the Relation Between Media and Politics: Self-observation of the Media System and its Consequences
- Bob Hodge, University of Western Sydney, Australia, b.hodge@uws.edu.au
Foucault's Discursive Machine and the Cybernetics of Truth
- Juan Miguel Aguado, Universidad de Murcia, Spain, jmaguado@um.es
Self-observation, Self-reference and Operational Coupling in Social Systems: Steps Towards a Coherent Epistemology of Mass Media
- Ana Thereza Nogueira Soares, Catholic University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, anatsoares@gmail.com
The Information is not Necessary Anymore: The Codes of Mass Media Systems in Brazil
THURSDAY JULY 27: 15:45 17:45
- Session 11: Analyzing and Estimating Feedback Relationships
Chairs: Han Oud (University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, j.oud@ped.kun.nl, Cor van Dijkum (Utrecht University, The Netherlands, c.vandijkum@fss.uu.nl )
- Georg P. Mueller, University of Fribourg, Switzerland, Georg.Mueller@unifr.ch
The Dynamics of Social Inequality as an Iterated Game with Feedbacks on the Payoff-Structure
- Han Oud, Toni Toharudin, Jaak Billiet, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, j.oud@ped.kun.nl
Three Standard Procedures for Assessing Feedback Relationships in Social Science: A Comparison Illustrated by Ethnocentrism, Individualism and Nationalism in Flanders
- Kees van Montfort, Frits Bijleveld, Siem-Jan Koopman, Jacques Commandeur, Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands, kvmontfort@feweb.vu.nl
Nonlinear and Feedback Time Series Aspects of Road Safety Research
- Eldad Davidov, Peter Schmidt, Han Oud, University of Basel, Switzerland, e_davidov@gmx.de
Anomia and Authoritarianism in Germany: Analyzing Feedback by Means of an Autoregressive Cross-Lagged Model and a Stochastic Differential Equation Model on Three Wave Panel Data
- Johannes A. Landsheer, Cor van Dijkum, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands, j.a.landsheer@fss.uu.nl
Modeling Feedback Relations in the Development of Delinquency During Adolescence and Early Adulthood with an Auto-regressive Growth Curve
THURSDAY JULY 27: 18:00 20:00
- Joint Session Session 12: Causality Revised
Chairs: Cor van Dijkum (Utrecht University, The Netherlands, <c.vandijkum@fss.uu.nl> ) Hans van der Zouwen (Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, j.van.der.zouwen@fsw.vu.nl)
- Cor van Dijkum, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, <c.vandijkum@fss.uu.nl>
Causality in the Social Sciences Revised: A Short History and Outlook to the Future
- Johannes van der Zouwen, Johannes H. Smit, Free University, of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, j.van.der.zouwen@fsw.vu.nl
Bidirectional Causality in Methods Research of Interviews with Standardized Questionnaires: Anticipation and Repair as Sources of Interviewer Effects
- Loet Leydesdorff, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, loet@leydesdorff.net
Modelling Anticipation, Codification, and Husserls Horizon of Meanings
- David Byrne, Durham University, United Kingdom, dave.byrne@durham.ac.uk
What is an effect?
FRIDAY JULY 28: 13:30 15.30
- Session 13 Causes and Consequences of Innovation
Chairs: Matjaz Mulej (University of Maribor, Slovenia, mulej@uni-mb.si), Eva Buchinger (ARC systems research, Austria, eva.buchinger@arcs.ac.at)
- Eva Buchinger, ARC systems research, Austria, eva.buchinger@arcs.ac.at
Public Governance of Innovation: From Legal to Monetary to Knowledge-based Policy Instruments
- Vojko Potocan, Matjaz Mulej, University of Maribor, Slovenia, mulej@uni-mb.si
Systemic Understanding of Trust and Ethics of Interdependence in Innovative Business
- Chaime Marcuello-Servós, University of Zaragoza, Spain, chaime@posta.unizar.es
The 3rd Generation Innovation Policy of the European Union: A Critical and Systemic Reading (presence not confirmed)
- MatjaÏ Mulej, Zdenka Îenko, Vojko Potoãan, Nastja Mulej, University of Maribor, Slovenia, mulej@uni-mb.si
The Capacity of Companies to Absorb Suggestions from Government: The Case of Inventions of Research Organizations in Europe, e.g. in Slovenia
- Gerald Steiner, University of Graz, Austria, gerald.steiner@uni-graz.at
Innovative Performance of Organizations in Dependency on Workplace and Interior Design
FRIDAY JULY 28: 15:45 17:45
- Session 14: Advances in Sociocybernetics I
Chair: Bernard Scott (Royal Military College of Science, Cranfield University, UK,
B.C.E.Scott@cranfield.ac.uk
- Daniel F.M. Strauss, University of the Free State, South Africa, <dfms@cknet.co.za>
The Basic Concepts of Sociology Involved in System Theory
- Hellmut Löckenhoff, Research Consulting, Germany, Loeckenhoff.HellK@t-online.de
Transdisciplinarity Grounding Transcultural Dialogue: An Approach to Intercultural Discourse
- Felix Geyer, Laren, The Netherlands, geyer@xs4all.nl
The War on Terror and The Future of an Illusion: Regression to Fundamentalist Religion as an Inadequate Defense Against Growing Complexity ===> 15
- Janet McIntyre, Flinders University, Australia, janet.mcintyre@flinders.edu.au
Healing Pathways - Rescuing the Enlightenment from Itself: Implications for Addressing Democracy Through Improved Collaboration and Knowlledge Management
FRIDAY JULY 28: 18:00 20:00
- Session 15: Advances in Sociocybernetics II
Chair: Marie-Noelle Sarget (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France, Marie-Noelle.Sarget@ehess.fr)
- Marie-Noelle Sarget, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France, Marie-Noelle.Sarget@ehess.fr
Systemic Approach of Art: The Example of Painting
- Bernd R. Hornung, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg GmbH, hornung@med.uni-marburg.de
Bits, Bytes, and Other Distinctions which make a Difference: From the Laws of Form to a Sociocybernetic Concept of Information
- Kathleen S. Long, OptimaConsulting, USA, Kathy@OptimaConsulting.com
Dancing With Demons: Pathogenic Problem Solving Systems
- Lauren Langman, Saher Salod, Loyola University of Chicago, USA
llang944@aol.com ,
Papyrus, Paper and the Public Sphere: CMC and the Means of Social Transformation
SATURDAY JULY 29: 13:30 15:30
- Session 16: Emergence in Social Systems and Sociocybernetic Theory
Chairs: Bernd R. Hornung (University Hospital Giessen and Marburg GmbH, hornung@med.uni-marburg.de), Francisco Parra-Luna (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, parraluna@cps.ucm.es)
- Ken Bailey, UCLA, USA, Kbailey@soc.ucla.edu
A Typology of Emergence in Social Systems and Sociocybernetic Theory
- Dave Elder-Vass, University of London, United Kingdom, mailto:d.eldervass@ntlworld.com
Emergence and Functionalism: Friends or Foes?
- Michael Jonas, Institute of Advanced Studies Vienna, Austria, jonas@ihs.ac.at
Towards an Explanation of Emergence Processes in Regional High-tech Clusters: Development of Structural Complexity vs. Creativity in Situational Practices of Action?
- J. David Flynn, James Hay, Madeline Lennon, University of Western Ontario, Canada, pdflynn@rogers.com
The Emergence of Art Systems - Cycles of Change in Art Styles Before and After the Renaissance
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