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Official announcement: new members of the CHAOS International Scientific Committee.

In recent weeks, our International Scientific Committee has been further enriched with authoritative and distinguished scholars and scientists, as always, from all scientific-disciplinary fields. In the tradition of CHAOS, these are, once again, important figures from the world of academia - science and international research. At the same time, new scientific partnerships have been defined, again international, which will bring new projects and initiatives with a global scope, in addition - evidently - to the response to international research calls. [...]

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IETI: new important international appointment for our Scientific Director

🎓🌐 It's official. We are pleased to share the news of this new important international appointment for our Scientific Director Professor Piero Dominici: he has been appointed 'Executive President of Board of Directors' at the International Engineering and Technology Institute. Another significant milestone in his now 30-year academic and research career, always spent for the advancement of a truly transdisciplinary knowledge and for the common good. The International Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI) is a prestigious international non-profit academic-scientific organisation th

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Youth and Legality: presentation of the Research and Conference

We receive from our Scientific Director, Professor Piero Dominici, and gladly point out the poster for the presentation day of the Research on Youth and Legality, organised by the Association ‘Libera contro le mafie’ and some social scientists from the University of Perugia.

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Apheleia 2025 conference series - https://apheleiaproject.org/

Origin Between 2014 nd 2017, a network of 17 partners from 8 European countries, with the collaboration of several other global and national institutions from Europe, South America, Africa and Asia, undertook the project “Apheleia – Cultural Integrated Landscape Management”, based on a strategic partnership led by universities, with research centres, local authorities, enterprises and NGOs. This project was endorsed by the International Council for the Philosphy and Human sciences (CIPSH), the International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) and in collaboration with UNESCO programme MOST.

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Istituto Luigi Sturzo - Presentazione del libro:

Martedì 21 gennaio (ore 15:30-18:30), a Roma, in via delle Coppelle 35, presso il prestigioso Istituto Luigi Sturzo - Sala Perin del Vaga - si terrà la presentazione del libro "Proprietà emergenti Emergent Properties: dimensioni qualitative del Sociale e sfide epistemologiche dell’Intelligenza Artificiale"

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New prestigious appointment and professional position for Prof. Piero Dominici, scientific director and founder of CHAOS

New prestigious appointment and professional position is official for our Scientific Director (and new scientific partnership): Advisory Board Member at Interidisciplinary Social Sciences Research Network! Here is the ISSRN Official Website: https://thesocialsciences.com/about/advisory-board/piero-dominici ISSRN: Founded in 2006, the Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Research Network is brought together by a common interest in disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches, within and across the various social sciences, and between the social, natural and applied sciences.

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Emergent Properties: dimensioni qualitative del Sociale e sfide epistemologiche dell’Intelligenza Artificiale

Le straordinarie scoperte scientifiche e innovazioni tecnologiche degli ultimi decenni, oltre ad averci dato la possibilità di controllare sempre meglio i meccanismi della nostra evoluzione biologica, ci hanno fatto entrare nel tempo della massima imprevedibilità, obsolescenza e incertezza. Dimensioni, ormai, anche esistenziali. Questa volta, il cambio di paradigma è così profondo e irreversibile da costringerci a ripensare/ridefinire tutto, anche il concetto stesso di scienza; una Scienza che non può che aprirsi allo studio e alla comprensione del non osservabile e dell’indeterminato.

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II International Expert Conference : AI, Ethics and Society: Media, Information & Technology Literacy for the Public Good

We gladly report. The 2nd International Expert Conference “AI, Ethics and Society: Media, Information & Technology Literacy for the Public Good,” organized by Moulay Ismail University of Meknes with the prestigious collaboration of UNESCO as Lead Partner, will kick off tomorrow. The important conference in Morocco will be attended by leading scholars and researchers from all continents and nations.

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7th International Conference on Future Education

We very gladly report. Tomorrow will kick off the 7th global conference on “Future Education,” organized by the prestigious World Academy of Art and Science, the World University Consortium and Istinye University in Istanbul. The important conference will be attended by leading scholars and researchers from all continents and nations.

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Professor Ferrarotti, an internationally renowned sociologist and extraordinary person, has left us all... more alone.

A serious, very serious, loss not only for the Academy and social research. Social scientist and Master for generations of researchers, internationally. In addition to his many prestigious international positions and awards, he was Professor Emeritus at Sapienza Università di Roma 🎓🌐 Not to mention his extraordinary humanity, his commitment, not only in the University, in the fight against inequality, his irrepressible search for knowledge and, even more, for confrontation with the Other.

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CNR - The study days on the topic 'Artificial Intelligence and New Literacies: Cultural Responses to Digital Challenges

The study days on the topic 'Artificial Intelligence and New Literacies: Cultural Responses to Digital Challenges' offer an opportunity to reflect on the impact of digital innovation and artificial intelligence in the field of education and training. Experts on anticipatory systems, generative AI, education and learning, neuro- sciences, anthropology of education and sociology of media will discuss the challenges posed by digital innovation in the age of AI, developing a multi-perspective reflection aimed at identifying priorities and courses of action.

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Congress II FUTURES LITERACY and Strategic Foresight Conference - UNESCO Chair

7-8 October 2024 FLSF 2024 is an acronym of 2nd Futures Literacy and Strategic Foresight Conference which will take place between 7 and 8 October 2024 at Karabuk University, Safranbolu/Karabuk, TURKEY. The conference will be held under the UNESCO Chair on Anticipation Studies, Futures Literacy, and Strategic Foresight and will focus on the titles of Agile and Resilient Management, Sustainable Management, The Role of Creativity in Management,The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Corporate Management and Futures Literacy in Corporate Management. 👉🏻 https://flsf2024.karabuk.edu.tr/index.aspx

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WOSC 19th Congress 2024 Shaping collaborative ecosystems for tomorrow

Increasingly, people and institutions are recognising the systemic nature of our world and the relevance of systemic thinking as a foundation to deal with the complexity of technological, social, environmental, and economic issues. World Organization of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC) is organising the WOSC 19th Congress 2024, planned for the 11th to the 13th of September 2024, in Oxford, UK, at the Premises of Lady Margaret Hall*.

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End-of-term Conference Crossing gender. Sociology meets other disciplines

End-of-term Conference Crossing gender. Sociology meets other disciplines University of Perugia (Narni branch) December 6th – 7th 2024 by CHAOS Staff At the end of its mandate, the Scientific Council of the Gender Studies Section of the Italian Sociology Association (AIS) is organizing a conference on the theme of transdisciplinarity to be analysed by assuming gender as a key factor in a scientific and intellectual approach that aims to fully understand the complexity of contemporary society.

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Hard Times: The Thinking Crisis in the No-Knowledge Society

The “new” digital (hyper) velocity, in its complex interaction with the human factor and with social relations, preserves the original ambivalence common to any “factor” of change and to any social and cultural process. The complexity of this interaction, apart from representing an extraordinary opportunity, also evades any kind of algorithm or other artificial intelligence systems. The ambivalence and complexity that expose our limits and inadequacies [...]

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The weak link of democracy and the challenges of educating toward global citizenship

Before discussing the prospects for educating young people toward becoming global citizens, we must ask ourselves: is global citizenship reality or illusion? What can be stated is that plain citizenship itself can no longer be considered merely a legal or judicial question. Today, citizenship is only partially linked to rights and duties deriving from the recognition of an individual as belonging to a community (local, national or international). Future citizens of the digitally hyper-connected global village face two dangers: simulation of participation and the illusion [...]

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Oltre i cigni neri. L'urgenza di aprirsi all'indeterminato, FrancoAngeli (2023) - con la prefazione di Edgar Morin

La civiltà ipertecnologica e ipercomplessa è una civiltà della razionalità e del controllo totale che continua a rappresentarsi e ad essere rappresentata come in grado di semplificare tutto, di eliminare l’Errore e l’imprevedibilità dalle nostre vite. Tuttavia, l’Umano, il Sociale, il Vitale e, più in generale, i “sistemi complessi” non sono riducibili né semplificabili, misurabili, prevedibili, gestibili fino in fondo. Occorre dunque un ripensamento profondo delle epistemologie e delle metodologie che caratterizzano insegnamento, educazione, formazione, ricerca, superando [...]

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Anatomies and Dynamics of the Society-Mechanism: Among Myths of Simplification, Facilitation, and Disintermediation

It was post-modernity that first told us that facts were now to be considered interpretations, whereupon the value of theorization diminished to the point where theories became little more than opinions. As a reaction, the reductionisms and determinisms that had previously been dismantled by a novel, non-Newtonian perspective returned as a “tyranny of concreteness,” foreshadowing tomorrow’s post-normality. So, what then is “normality”?

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XXV World Congress of Philosophy

Welcome message from the President of FISP "It is particularly auspicious for the 25th World Congress of Philosophy to take place in Rome. Few other places would as strikingly illustrate the theme of the Congress, “Philosophy across Boundaries”, as this city does through its unique historical heritage. Rome is not just a spectacular setting: it embodies a distinctive cosmopolitan ideal, the spirit of a civilization that remarkably chose the story of a refugee, Aeneas, drifting on a raft in the Mediterranean to seek asylum on the coast of Latium, as its founding myth. TO BE CONTINUED

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WOSC 19th Congress 2024

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New prestigious Scientific Partnership for CHAOS with "The Earth-Humanity Coalition"

New prestigious Scientific Partnership for CHAOS with The Earth Humanity Coalition. New transnational projects and the establishment of a global network of scientific and non-scientific actors and institutions to promote all the Sciences for an Equitable Well-being on a Healthy Planet are in the offing. STAY TUNED

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International Conference on “Non-Linear Science and Complexity” (August 5-10, 2024, Yibin, Sichuan, China)

We receive from Prof. Yeliz Karaca (University of Massachusetts, UMASS), an authoritative member of our International Scientific Committee, and gladly publish the news of this important International Conference, within which a scientific and multidisciplinary Symposium will also be held, in which our Scientific Director Prof. Dominici will also give a speech. Finally, we publish the call for papers also received from Prof. Karaca.

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Digital Learning Week -The second edition of Digital Learning Week will take place on 2-5 September 2024 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris

Digital Learning Week is UNESCO's annual flagship event on ⁠digital learning and the transformation of education. Launched in 2023, building on the foundation of UNESCO’s Mobile Learning Week over the past decade, the event aims to convene the community of digital education leaders, policy-makers, researchers and practitioners from various organizations, including UN agencies, governments, NGOs and the private sector to steer technology for education. TO BE CONTINUED

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Conference on Complex Systems 2024 - #CSS2024

Welcome to the 20th Conference on Complex Systems, CCS2024! The CCS is the flagship annual meeting for the complex systems research community, operating within the framework of the Complex Systems Society. This special 20th anniversary conference is jointly organised by Northeastern University London and the University of Exeter. We welcome participants looking to appreciate the connection with the multidisciplinary community that CCS brings together. In this 20th edition of the conference we welcome young researchers for a warm-up session in beautiful London, followed by the main conference

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Scientific Committee of the ‘CRiSiCo - Centre for Research on Complex Systems’

A new prestigious appointment for our Scientific Director, Professor Piero Dominici: he has been invited - and officially appointed by Rectoral Decree - to join the Scientific Committee of the ‘CRiSiCo - Centre for Research on Complex Systems’, directed by Prof. Mauro Ceruti, at IULM University.

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Anatomies and Dynamics of the Society-Mechanism

It was post-modernity that first told us that facts were now to be considered interpretations, whereupon the value of theorization diminished to the point where theories became little more than opinions. As a reaction, the reductionisms and determinisms that had previously been dismantled by a novel, non-Newtonian perspective returned as a “tyranny of concreteness,” foreshadowing tomorrow's post-normality. So, what then is “normality”? Human societies have always been wrapped in chaos, complexity, and contradictions: this is normal for all living beings and for all living systems [...]

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16th ESA Conference 2024 - Call for Papers

We gladly share and report from the official ESA website: "The 16th ESA Conference will be a place to tackle tensions and trust and to discuss alternatives for social transformation. Sociologists and social scientists are welcome to submit their proposals and to join this important international scientific event. The ESA looks forward to receiving your submission! Here's the link to the official ESA website: https://www.europeansociology.org/conference/2024/article/173bdace-e2de-44f6-aab6-b81b2a77c06b CHAOS Staff

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New prestigious (double) Scientific Partnership with WCSA LATAM - Latin America area - and with SFAI Global

We announce, with particular pleasure and mutual satisfaction, that we have defined a new prestigious (double) scientific partnership with the WCSA LATAM - Latin America area - and with SFAI Global that will lead to the design and realisation of studies and research, which will have a transnational scope and will be based on the fundamental systemic and multi/inter/transdisciplinary approach. The Scientific Director of CHAOS, Prof. Piero Dominici, The President of WCSA, Professor Andrea Pitasi. The President of WCSA LATAM and Chairman Executive Board of SFAI, Lord Alfredo Spilzinger

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New prestigious member in the CHAOS International Scientific Committee and new scientific partnership with The Jena Declaration

CHAOS – International Research and Education Programme on “Complex Human Adaptive Organizations and Systems”, University of Perugia - warmly welcomes Prof. Dr. Benno Werlen, the new prestigious member of its international Scientific Committee. A warm welcome also from our Scientific Director Piero Dominici. At the same time, an important scientific - and mutually supportive - collaboration has been established between the UNESCO-Chair on Global Understanding for Sustainability, the Jena Declaration and CHAOS. New scientific projects and collaborations are already emerging and being defined.

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APHELIA 2023 ADAPTATION AND TRANSFORMATION: COMMUNITY -BASED PRACTICES - #APHELEJA2023 #UNESCO #BRIDGES

In the past 10 years, over 100 scholars and 200 research students have been involved in the APHELIA seminars, also preparing publications. APHELIA started as an EU funded project, becoming an International Association in 2018, that eventually became a member of the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH).

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WAAS International Conference on

This conference examines the relevance and applicability of the human security approach to different fields of higher education. It seeks to generate awareness and initiate active discussion among educators and universities on the central importance of the Human Security Approach as an integral component of higher education. The conference will be followed by publication of papers for widespread free dissemination, preparation of a report on Education for Human Security, and development of new course materials on this subject.

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Internet for Trust Towards Guidelines for Regulating Digital Platforms for Information as a Public Good

A global dialogue to guide regulation worldwide 21-23 February 2023, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris

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CHAOS – International Research and Education Programme on “Complex Human Adaptive Organizations and Systems”, University of Perugia - warmly welcomes Dr. Steven Hartman, the new prestigious member of its international Scientific Committee

CHAOS – International Research and Education Programme on “Complex Human Adaptive Organizations and Systems”, University of Perugia - warmly welcomes Dr. Steven Hartman, the new prestigious member of its international Scientific Committee. A warm welcome also from our Scientific Director Piero Dominici. New scientific projects and collaborations are already emerging and being defined.

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The Digital Mockingbird: Anthropological Transformation and the “New Nature

Within a world-system characterized by processes and dynamics whose interconnections and interdependencies increase exponentially each day, we are passing through an extremely delicate and complex phase of global mutation. What we are witnessing is a radical overturn of the complex interaction between natural (biological) and cultural evolution. The ongoing paradigm shift and profound anthropological transformation create new dimensions, openings, epistemological implications that require new thinking and new thought, as well as differentapproaches and methods.

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CHAOS
Complex Human Adaptive Organizations & Systems

The first International Research and Education Programme on "Human Complex Systems" was founded in 2011 by Piero Dominici, who is also Scientific Director of the Centre, at the University of Perugia. In 2017, the Centre became part of the Department of Philosophy, Social, Human and Educational Sciences (FiSSUF), directed by Prof. Massimiliano Marianelli. Today, the programme has been renamed “CHAOS”, which stands for Complex Human Adaptive Organisations and Systems, and forms part of a number of prestigious international networks of universities and research centres studying complexity and complex systems, with particular reference to issues related to education, training and scientific research.

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