meetings
(data referring to the time before 1990 are not complete due to reports not available, since in september 1990 the Austrian Academy of Sciences provoked a preliminary investigation by public prosecution taking recourse to the intelligence service of the ministry of the interior (Staatspolizeilicher Dienst) and locked out all employees of the Institute for Socio-Economic Development Research and Technology Assessment by means of police force – a measure that, finally, proved unjustified)
meetings
Chair, Emergent Systems Group, Plenum der Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Wiener-Schmidt-Preis Verleihung, Berlin-Friedrichshagen, 13.10.2022
Co-Chair, Workshop at the IS4SI Summit 2019, Digital Humanism – How to Shape Digitalisation in the Age of Global Challenges, online, 12.-19.9.2021
Scientific support (together with Werner Wintersteiner), 37th Summer Academy of the Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR), Peace policy in the anthropocene: Homeland Earth, 1.-4.9.2021
Member, Scientific Programme Committee, GIG-ARTS 2020 (Gouvernance Internet Globale: Acteurs, Régulations, Transactions et Stratégies), Vienna, 7.-8.5.2020
Member, Organizing Committee, EduSynergies-2019: Workshop on Education and Technology Synergies for Current and Future Societies, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 7.-9.11.2019 (within ICAI 2019)
Member, Organizing Committee, Program Committee, Second International Conference on Applied Informatics (ICAI 2019), Building up a Global Sustainable Information Society, Madrid, 7.-9.11.2019
Participant, Workshop, Human 2.0 Research Group, Institute for Advanced Studies Köszeg, Hungary, 29.10.2019
Participant, Member, Scientific Committee, 10th EUS–UES Congress 2018, Brussels, A systemic vision of the crises – From optimization to change strategy, 15.-17.10.2018
Chair, Workshop, Towards Common Process Understanding in Collective Welfare, S-BPM ONE 2018, JKU Linz, 5.-6.4.2018
Invited participant, Netzwerktreffen der Friedens- und Konfliktforschung in Österreich, Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR) Stadtschlaining, 18.-19.1.2018
Chair, Workshop, Digital Netizens at the crossroads of sharing and privatizing, and member, programme committee, Workshop, Transhumanism – the proper guide to a posthuman condition or a dangerous idea?, and Workshop, Possibility and Actuality: Towards a Manifesto on Evolutionary Systems, IS4SI Summit Gothenburg, 12.-16.6.2017
Co-organiser, BCSSS Research Group/LS Arbeitskreis/ISIS Special Interest Group “Emergent Systems, Information and Society”, Wien, 13.-14.4.2017
Organiser, Dialogue, “The Utopia of Universal Control: Critical Thoughts on Transhumanism” (Janina Loh), and “The Ghost of Transhumanism and the Sentience of Existence (Sarah Spiekermann), Wien, 12.4.2017
Co-organiser, BCSSS Research Group/LS Arbeitskreis/ISIS Special Interest Group “Emergent Systems, Information and Society”, Nürnberg, Germany, 7.-9.10.2016
Invited participant, panel discussion with C. Malaspina on “Epistemic plurality from a systems theoretical perspective”, DA TA rush SYMPOSIUM – Transposition not Exhibition, Lab für angewandte Innovation, Universität für angewandte Künste, Wien, 17.5.2016
Co-organiser, BCSSS Research Group/LS Arbeitskreis/ISIS Special Interest Group “Emergent Systems, Information and Society”, Sigmund Freud Privat Universität, Vienna, 1.4.2016
Programme committee, emcsr avantgarde 2016, “FutureVision?! Which life do we want?”, Sigmund Freud Privat Universität, Vienna, 30.3.-1.4.2016 (together with St. Blachfellner and Tess M. Werner)
Mitorganisator, Wissenschaftliches Kolloquium Theoria cum praxi et commune bonum, Emergente Systeme, Information und Gesellschaft, Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Berlin, 10.12.2015
Member, International Review Board, The Future of Information Sciences (INFuture 2015), University of Zagreb, Croatia, 11-13.11.2015
Chair, The Information Society at the Crossroads: Response and Responsibility of the Sciences of Information, ISIS Summit Vienna 2015, Vienna University of Technology, 3.-7.6.2015
Mitglied, Programmkomitee, Tagung “Informatik und Gesellschaft 2015“, zu Ehren von Prof. Dr. Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski aus Anlass seines 80. Geburtstages, HTW Berlin, 30.31.3.2015
Member, International Advisory Board, 50th Anniversary Conference of the American Society for Cybernetics, Washington DC, 3.-9.8.2014
Chair and Conference Organising Committee, European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR), Vienna, 22.-25.4.2014
Member, Scientific Committee, Freedom of Information Under Pressure, Vienna, 28.2.-1.3.2014
Invited member, Cómpeta Conversation 2013, Unifying systems praxis by taking the wicked wild to be the general case, Cómpeta (Malaga), 2.-10.11.2013
Committee member, Programme Committee, ICT, Society and Human Beings 2013, IADIS Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS), Prague, 24.-26.7.2013
Chair, Parallel Session 4B, Philosophy and Ethics of Information: The Good and the Evil in the Information Society, 4th ICTS and Society Conference 2012, Uppsala, 3.5.2012
Chair, Symposium J, How to Integrate Language, Meaning and Mind with Cybernetic-Systemic Theories of Information?, EMCSR, Vienna, 12.4.2012
Chair and Local Organising Committee, European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR), Vienna, 10.-13.4.2012
Committee member, Programme Committee, ICT, Society and Human Beings 2012, IADIS Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS), Lisbon, 21.-23.7.2012
Participant, Mitgliederversammlung, Institut für Design Science München, Berlin, 18.11.2011
Participant, Seminar „Vladimir Ivanovic Vernadskij und sein Beitrag zur Weltwissenschaft“, Leibniz-Sozietät und Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft bei der Jüdischen Gemeinde zu Berlin, 17.11.2011
Organisation, Symposium “Systems thinking: what’s it for?”, Ludwig von Bertalanffy 110, Event on the occasion of the anniversary of Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s birthday, Vienna, 10.11.2011
Organisation, Public Lecture, David Pouvreau: General systemology as founded and developed by Ludwig von Bertalanffy – An hermeneutical system, Ludwig von Bertalanffy 110, Event on the occasion of the anniversary of Ludwig von Bertalanffy’s birthday, University of Vienna, 9.11.2011
Member, Conference Board and Organization Committee, 4Th ICTs and Society Conference, “Critique, Democracy and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society. Towards Critical Theories of Social Media”, Uppsala University, Department of Informatics and Media, Sweden, 2.-4.5.2012
Invited participant, kick-off meeting, Systems in Biology, University of Vienna, 27.-28.10.2011
Participant, Approche Systémique de la Diversité, 8ème Congrès de l’Union Européenne de Systemique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 20.-22.10.2011
Chair, European Meetings on Cybernetics and Systems Research (EMCSR), Vienna, 2011-
Committee member, Programme Committee, ICT, Society and Human Beings 2011, IADIS Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS), Rome, 24.-26.7.2011
Organisation, DBL Interactive – A new on-line tool for Bringing Bayesian Networks to the world, BCSSS lecture by Carl Smith (University of Queensland), TU Wien, 11.11.2010
Organizing Committee Member, participant, General Assembly of International Academy of Systems and Cybernetic Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China, 25.-27.10.2010
Invited participant, The Bradley Fest Conference, Teleborg Castle, Linnæus University, Växjö, Sweden, 3.-5.8.2010
Programme Committee Member, ICT and Sustainable Development, Human Choice and Computers International Conference (HCC9 2010), World Computer Congress (WCC 2010), Brisbane, 20.-23.9.2010
Organisation and Co-Chair, Towards a New Science of Information, Foundations of Information Science (FIS) 2010, Beijing, 21.-24.8.2010
Committee Member, Programme Committee, ICT, Society and Human Beings 2010, IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (MCCSIS) 2010, Freiburg, 26.-31.7.2010
Co-organisation, Towards Criteria of Sustainability and Social Meaningfulness in Development, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 19.-20.12.2009
Organisation and co-chair, ICTs-and-Society Network Annual Meeting, in3, UOC, Barcelona, 29.6.-2.7.2010
Discussant, Colloquium BITae, En torno a 20 cuestiones relativas al concepto de información, Fundación Sierra-Pambley, Texto base: Hofkirchner, W., Esbozo de una Teoría Unificada de Información, Proyecto BITrum, Universidad de León, UTI Research Group Vienna, Universität Salzburg, Science of Information Institute Washington, León, Spain, 4., 11., 18., 25.11., 2., 9., 16.12.2009
Panel Chair, Towards a Critical Internet Theory, IR 10.0, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 7.-10.10.2009
Co-organisation, Preconference Workshop, Critical Internet Theory, IR 10.0, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 7.10.2009
Panel Chair, Approaches towards ICTs and Society – Theories and Methodologies, ICT, Society and Human Beings 2009, IADIS International Conference, Algarve, 22.6.2009
Invited participant, Symposium Von Boten und Botschaften, Steinbeis-Transfer-Institut Information Ethics, ZKM, Karlsruhe, 26.-27.3.2009
Member, Program Committee, Cognitive Technologies: Interdisciplinarity and Convergence, EBICC 2009 – Brazilian International Meeting of Cognitive Science, Campinas, São Paolo, 2-4 September 2009
Member, Program Committee, ICT, Society and Human Beings 2009, IADIS (International Association for Development of the Information Society) Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, Algarve, Portugal, 17-23 June 2009
Invited participation, Kickoff meeting, BITrum (Interdisciplinary Elucidation of the Information Concept), INTECO, León, 7.11.2008
Member, Programme Committee, IT and the Climate Change, 2nd International Conference IT for Empowerment, Berlin, 25.-26.9.2008, 2008
Invited participation, 14th Fuschl Conversation, IFSR, Fuschl am See, Austria, 30.3.-3.4.2008
Organisation, ICTs-and-Society Network Kickoff Meeting, Salzburg, 20.-21.6.2008
Member, Program Committee, ICT, Society and Human Beings 2008, IADIS (International Association for Development of the Information Society) Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, Amsterdam, 22-27 July 2008
Co-organisation of (together with Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart; IBI, Institut für Business Intelligence, Stuttgart; icv, Internationaler Controller Verein e.V., Ideenwerkstatt, Innsbruck; Salzburg Global Seminar; INDABA Corporate Consulting, Salzburg) Professionals Round Table, Business Intelligence meets Moral Intelligence, Initial Round Table, Haus der Wirtschaft, Stuttgart, 14.12.2007
Member, Program Review Committee, ICTs bridging cultures? Theories, obstacles and best practices, CATaC’08 (Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication), Nimes, France, 24.-27.6.2008
Member, Program Review Committee, Bridging the Gulf: Learning Across Organizations, Sectors, and Cultures, 3rd SoL (Society for Organisational Learning) Global Forum, Muscat, Oman, 13.-16.4.2008
Session chairs, Reframing Knowledge Management, and Enabling Knowledge Creation, Innovation & Creativity, ICKM-2007 Vienna, International Conference on Knowledge Management, 27.-28.8.2007
Organisation, Cybernetics, evolutionary system theory and dialectics, BCSSS and Ernst-Bloch-Gesellschaft (Berliner November 2007, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kybernetik, Leibniz-Sozietät, Gesellschaft für Pädagogik und Information), 7.-10.11.2007
Organisation, Raumkonstruktion und Raumerfahrung, Öffentliche Tagung der Ernst-Bloch-Assoziation (EBA) in Kooperation mit dem ICT&S Center, Universität Salzburg, 27.-29.10.2006
Panelchair, ICTs and society research: Transdisciplinarity as a paradigm, IR 7.0: Internet Convergences, Presented by the Association of Internet Researchers, Brisbane, 27.-30.9.2006
Member, Programmkomitee, KOIN2007 (Methoden und Konzepte zur Entwicklung kollektiver Intelligenz aus personengebundenem Wissen), WM 2007 Potsdam, 4. Konferenz Professionelles Wissensmanagement, Erfahrungen und Visionen, 28.-30.3.2007
Organisation of, and introduction to, the PreProgramme BioSemiotics in Transdisciplinary Contexts, Gatherings in Biosemiotics, Salzburg, 4.7.2006
Preparation and organisation, 6th Gatherings in Biosemiotics, Salzburg, 5.7.-9.7.2006
Invited participation, 13th Fuschl Conversation, IFSR, Fuschl am See, Austria, 22.-27.4.2006
Member, Program committee, MEDICHI 2007, Methodic and Didactic Challenges of the History of Informatics, Workshop, Klagenfurt University, 12.-13.4.2007
Invited speaker, Round Table Achievements and Projects, 25 Year Celebration of the International Federation for Systems Research, EMCSR 2006, University of Vienna, 19.4.2006
Organisation, Die Stellung der organismischen Auffassung Bertalanffys in der Geschichte der mathematischen Biologie, lecture by David Pouvreau (EHESS, Paris), together with the Department of Molecular Biology, Department of Cell Biology, Department of Organismic Biology, Department of Mathematics, Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science, in co-operation with the ICT&S Center at the University Salzburg, 10.4.2006
Member, Organisation Committee, ICKM-2007 Vienna, International Conference on Knowledge Management, 27.-28.8.2007
Invited Participant, Podium Universitäre und außeruniversitäre Technik- und Wissenschaftssoziologie in Österreich: Standortbestimmung und zukünftige Entwicklung am Kongress der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (Austrian Society for Sociology) 2005 Den Stillstand bewegen, Praxis der Soziologie, Wien, 23.9.2005
Member, Program Committee of The New Roles of Systems Sciences – The First International Congress of the International Federation of Systems Research in Kobe, 14.–17.11.2005
Invited Intervention, INTAS Science Policy Workshop, Uppsala, Sweden, 10.-11.7.2005
Chair, Trends in Information and Communication Sciences, Open Access and the Information Society, Economic, Social and Philosophical Aspects, Third Conference on the Foundations of Information Science, École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées, Paris, 7.7.2005
Teilnahme am Round Table, Third Conference on the Foundations of Information Science, École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées, Paris, 6.7.2005
Member, Organizing Committee, and member, International Scientific Advisory Board, Third Conference on the Foundations of Information Science in Paris, 4.–7.7.2005
Organisation der Veranstaltung Genes in Ecosystems: Mechanism and/or Semiosis?, Konrad-Lorenz-Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Altenberg, 1.7.2005
Organisation der Veranstaltung Three Perspectives of Biosemiotics, Universität Salzburg, 30.6.2005
Projektanbahnungstreffen Collective Intelligence, Salzburg, 4.3.2005
Organisation eines internationalen Workshops im Rahmen des Projekts Human Strategies in Complexity, München, 20.–21.9.2004
Organisation der International Conference The Information Wars in the Balkans since 1991, The War in the Former-Yugoslavian Media: a Comparative Analysis of the Reporting from Belgrade, Zagreb, Sarajevo, Ljubljana, Skopje and Podgorica, TU Wien, zus.m. der Unified Theory of Information Research Group Vienna u. Jörg Becker und Mira Beham, 19.–20.7.2004
Organisation der Lernwerkstatt Die Informationskriege am und um den Balkan, TU Wien, zus.m. Jörg Becker und Mira Beham, 23.–24.3.2004
Organisation eines internationalen Workshops im Rahmen des Projekts Human Strategies in Complexity, Wien/Berlin, 5.–11.3.2004
Projektanbahnungstreffen THINK zum Thema Understanding Knowledge, Wien, 10.11..2003
Organisation eines Workshops mit Pierre Lévy The Collective Intelligence Network, Wien, 12.9.2003
Co-convenor, Symposium Foundations of Self-Organisation, International Nonlinear Sciences Conference, Wien, 7.–9.2.2003
Organisation eines internationalen Workshops im Rahmen des Projekts Human Strategies in Complexity, Wien, 6.–10.2.2003
Organisation eines internationalen Workshops im Rahmen des Projekts Human Strategies in Complexity, Wien, 7.–9.11.2002
Organisation eines Intensivseminars im Rahmen des Projekts Human Strategies in Complexity, Jalta, 1.–8.7.2002
Scientific Secretariat der Electronic Conference on Foundations of Information Science The Nature of Information: Conceptions, Misconceptions, and Paradoxes, http://www.mdpi.net/fis2002/, 6.-10.5.2002
Organisation der Round-Table-Exhibition get us connected!, TU Wien, 10.12.2001
Organisation eines Workshops im Rahmen des Projekts Human Strategies in Complexity, Kiew, 21.-22.9.2001
Organisation des Workshops Civilisational Knowledge and Informatisation for Sustainable Development in Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam, Solingen, 18.6.2001
Organisation eines Workshops mit WACRA zum Thema Sustainable Development through Research and Learning, 5–9/2001
Organisation der Diskussionsveranstaltung Nachhaltige lokale Lebensräume in Entwicklungsländern – Computer nach Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika?, 8.1.2001, TU Wien, m. GIVE
Vorbereitung und Durchführung der internationalen Ludwig von Bertalanffy Anniversary Conference 2001 “Unity through Diversity“, Wien, 2001
Organisation der Second Conference on the Foundations of Information Science FIS 96 “The Quest for a Unified Theory of Information“ an der TU Wien, 1995–1996
Organisation eines Intensiv-Seminars im Rahmen des Projekts Zur Genese von Informationsstrukturen, Belém, Brasilien, 30.3.–4.4.1994
Organisation eines Workshops im Rahmen des Projekts Zur Genese von Informationsstrukturen, Prein a.d. Rax, 11.–14.3.1994
Organisation eines Workshops im Rahmen des Projekts Zur Genese von Informationsstrukturen, Krumpendorf, 2.-4.7.1993
Vorbereitung und Organisation des Workshops Options for humanity in a fragile and finite world für den Kongreß “Challenges“ gemeinsam mit G. Knies, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg, 1990–1991
Leitung des Arbeitskreises Kriegsunfähigkeit moderner Industriegesellschaften auf der “Ersten Österreichischen Versammlung für Gewaltfreiheit, für soziale Verteidigung und für eine umfassende Friedenspolitik “ in Graz, 26.–28.10.1990
Leitung der Arbeitsgruppe Verwundbarkeit der industriellen Zivilisation an der Sommerakademie des Österreichischen Instituts für Friedensforschung (ÖIFF) in Schlaining, Juli 1990
Organisation des Workshops Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten von Wissenschaft und Technik – Ansätze zu einer sozial- und umweltverträglichen Politik in Ost und West mit internationaler Beteiligung in Velm (mit Unterstützung der GPA), 1988