Xi’an 2016 | Wolfgang Hofkirchner | Critical Theory as Methodology for Social Sciences
Another talk of Wolfgang Hofkirchner at the Jiaotong University in Xi’an, China, held on 5 April 2016, addressed the new challenges facing the methodology of social sciences. The lecture dealt with critical assets in social theory dating back to Karl Marx and how they can be adapted to fit the reality…
Relationality and information in Leibniz
Together with the Institut für Design Science München the Bertalanffy Center is represented with five papers for a panel at the X International Leibniz Congress, organised at the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hanover, July 18-23, 2016. The papers will discuss issues of organisation, structure, relations and information with Leibniz and assess his ideas as…
Vienna 2014 | Workshop | Current Problems of Systems Theory
The BCSSS organised a small workshop for invited guests with Rainer E. Zimmermann on May 30, 2014. Start of the workshop (photo: Wolfgang Hofkirchner) Zimmermann stayed during spring term as Researcher in Residence with the Bertalanffy Center. In the workshop he provided an overview of the studies he carried out when being…
Vienna 2013 | Ludwig von Bertalanffy Symposium
“Emergence: System – Evolution – Information” was the title of the second LvB Symposium held by our Center. It was organised in co-operation with the Austrian Computer Society Working Group Information Studies. About 25 guests attended the symposium which took place from 5 to 6 December. This time five experts…
León 2013 | Advanced Training Course | University in the face of a complex world
On 15 May 2013, the School of Education of the University of León, Spain, held a training course for faculty members interested in transgressing their disciplines. Research and teaching strategies for confronting complexity were discussed, in particular, the role of systems theory as transdisciplinary methodology for the integration of sciences. From the BCSSS José…
“Berliner November 2007”
BCSSS participates at the conference “Berliner November 2007” (7.-10.11.2007) The “Berliner November” is organized by, the Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kybernetik (GFK), the Leibniz-Sozietät, and the Gesellschaft für Pädagogik und Information (GPI) and takes place in Berlin from Wednesday 7.11. to Saturday 10.11.2007. Venue on Wednesday and Thursday is the Humboldt-Universität…
IFSR Congress, Kobe
Wolfgang Hofkirchner is a member of the Program Committee of The New Roles of Systems Sciences – The First International Congress of the International Federation of Systems Research in Kobe, Japan, 14. – 19.11.2005 Hofkirchner gives a lecture on “Ludwig von Bertalanffy – Forerunner of Evolutionary Systems Theory” at the…
Evolutionary Systems Theory
Wolfgang Hofkirchner gives a Keynote Lecture on “Evolutionary Systems Theory as transdisciplinary methodology. The legacy of Ludwig von Bertalanffy” at the International Botanical Congress 2005 in Vienna.
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