8th International Conference on Sociocybernetics
COMPLEX SOCIAL SYSTEMS, INTERDISCIPLINARITY AND WORLD FUTURES Ciudad de México, MÉXICO, 23-27 June, 2008MUSEO FRANZ MAYER
Hidalgo # 45 Centro Histórico
metro station Hidalgo ó Bellas Artes
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
MONDAY JUNE 23
8:00 – 9:00 Registration
9:00 – 9:30 OPENING
DRA. NORMA BLÁZQUEZ, Directora del Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
DR. JOSÉ NARRO ROBLES, Rector, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
DRA. ESTELA MORALES, Coordinadora de Humanidades de la UNAM
DR. BERNARD SCOTT, President of the ISA Research Committee 51 on Sociocybernetics
DRA. MARGARITA MAASS, Chair of the Local Organising Committee
9:30– 10:00 Lecture by Rolando García
10:00– 10:50 Rolando García UNAM Award
DRA. NORMA BLÁZQUEZ, Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades (CEIICH), UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO.
DR. LUIS FELIPE BOJALIL, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Xochimilco
DR. JULIO MUÑOZ, Centro de Investigaciones de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional.
VÍCTOR TOLEDO, Centro de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas de la UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO, Morelia Michoacán.
DR. JORGE GONZÁLEZ, Programa de Epistemología de las Ciencias y Cibercultur@, CEIICH, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
10:50-11:50 COCKTAIL
SESSION 1 12:10 – 17:40 Chair: Jorge González
12:10 – 12:50 Paper 1. Héctor Zamorano, zamorano@citynet.net.ar “Applying interdisciplinary studies to social systems”
12:10 – 13:30 Paper 2. Octavio González, ogc@xanum.uam.mx “Conceptual referenced systems: an interdisciplinary coordinating instrument”
13:30 – 15:00 LUNCH
15:00 – 15:40 Paper 3. Jesús Marcelo Ramírez Arias mramar@leibniz.iimas.unam.mx “The use of information technologies from a complex systems perspective
15:40 – 16:20 Paper 4. José Amozurrutia, mamoz@labcomplex.ne “Genetic epistemology, basic mathematics and systemic thinking as essential disciplines for social research”
16:20 – 17:00 COFFEE BREAK
17:00 – 17:40 Paper 5. Danie Strauss, dfms@cknet.co.za “The integrating challenge of multidisciplinary perspectives on social systems and a future world”
19:30 Centro Histórico tour
TUESDAY JUNE 24
SESSION 2 9:00 – 13:30 Chair: Bernard Hornung
9:00 – 9:40 Paper 6. José Luis Piñuel, pinuel@ccinf.ucm.es y Carlos Lozano Ascencio carlos.lozano@urjc.es “The hegemonic discourse about the truth and communication: what mass media say about social communication”
9:40 – 10:20 Paper 7. Silvia Almanza Márquez, silvia.almanza@ccadet.unam.mx “Learning system for innovation: a complex systems framework for less innovating countries”
10:20 – 11:00 Paper 8. Fabio Giglietto, fabio.giglietto@uniurb.it “Analyzing user generated content for social science: generational we sense in the Italian blogosphere”
11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 – 12:10 Paper 9 Felipe Lara-Rosano, lararf@servidor.unam.mx “A cybernetic model to prevent chaos after rural roads construction”.
12:10 – 12:50 Paper 10. Scott,Bernard, B.C.E.Scott@cranfield.ac.uk “The role of sociocybernetics in understanding world futures”
12:50 – 13:30 Paper 11. Zach Jonson, zach.johnson@mac.com “Micro/macro decisions in university leadership and governance: Luhmann in action”
13:30 – 15:00 LUNCH
SESSION 3 15:00-17:40 Chair: Octavio Islas
15:00 – 15:40 Paper 12. Michael Paetau, michael.paetau@sociocybernetics.eu “Transition of knowledge formation: complexity, difference and emancipation” e
15:40 – 16:20 Paper 13. Jason Jixuan Hu, Ph.D. jjh@wintopgroup.com “Cognitive Tools for Understanding and Action Strategies for Improving Organizations: A Sociocybernetic Approach in Organizational Development”.
16:20 – 17:00 COFFEE BREAK
17:00 – 17:40 Paper 14. Eliezer Morales, eliezermorales@prodigy.net.mx “Worldwide future: a world plagued with slums”
18:00 Board Meeting
20:00 Centro Histórico tour
WEDNESDAY JUNE 25 (Spanish session with alternating translation)
SESSION 4 9:00 – 13:30 Chair: Michael Paetau
9:00 – 9:40 Paper 15. Jesús Galindo Cáceres arewara@yahoo.com “Comunicología y Sociocibernética. Más allá de la disciplinariedad y la interdisciplinariedad”
9:40 – 10:20 Paper 16. Marta Rizo García, mrizog@yahoo.com “Comunicología e Interacción. Una lectura de la interacción y la comunicación desde el enfoque sistémico-cibernético de la Escuela de Palo Alto”
10:20 – 11:00 Paper 17. Javier Maisterrena, javierisa@labcomplex.net “Inflexiones y potencialidades de cibercultura@. En torno a la construcción de redes emergentes para transformaciones sistémicas de la realidad”
11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 – 12:10 Paper 18. José Amozurrutia, Lucía Barragán y Graciela Flores “El Análisis del discurso como un reto interdisciplinario: una perspectiva desde la Sociocibernética”
12:10 – 12:50 Paper 19. Laura González, thezin@prodigy.net.mx “Cibercultur@, sistemas complejos e interdisciplina. La experiencia de organización y trabajo colectivo del Labcomplex
12:50 – 13:30 Paper 20. Margarita Maass, maass@labcomplex.net “La epistemología genética, la interdisciplina y los sistemas complejos de Piaget y García como base para las Comunidades Emergentes de Conocimiento Local”
13:30 – 15:00 LUNCH
SESSION 5 15:00-17:40 Chair: Laura González
15:00 – 15:40 Paper 21. Andrés Gómez Seguel, agseguel@gmail.com “El conflicto como sistema y sus especiales formas de complejidad social”
15:40 – 16:20 Paper 22. Martha Patricia Castañeda Salgado y Karime Suri Salvatierra mpcs05@yahoo.com.mx “El feminismo en el ciberespacio: fortalecimiento de sus propuestas a través de las redes virtuales”
16:20 – 17:00 COFFEE BREAK
18:00 Business Meeting
20:00 Centro Histórico tour
THURSDAY JUNE 26
SESSION 6 9:00 – 13:30 Chair: Eva Buchinger
9:00 – 9:40 Paper 23. Reiko Sekiguchi , sekiguch@ulis.ac.jp “A framework to consider a social system: derived from research experience of education and learning system in Japan”
9:40 – 10:20 Paper 24. Francisco Parra Luna, parraluna@cps.ucm.es “The “social sin” of sociology: a systemic-axiologiocal approach applied to the enterprise”
10:20 – 11:00 Paper 25. Chaime Marcuello, chaime@unizar.es “Applying sociocybernetics in complex social issues: water management and water conflicts in Spain
11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 – 12:10 Paper 26. Álvaro Quijano y Guadalupe Vega, quijano@colmex.mx “A theoretical model in order to represent academic libraries as information systems”
12:10 – 12:50 Paper 27. Hernando Gutiérrez Prieto, hergutie@javeriana.edu.co “Legal dynamics far from equilibrium”
12:50 – 13:30 Paper 28. Bernd Hornung, hornung@med.uni-marburg.de "Sociocybernetics, arts, and aesthetics: an information theoretic approach"
13:30 – 15:00 LUNCH
SESSION 7 15:00-17:40 Chair: José Amozurrutia
15:00 – 15:40 Paper 29. Nelly Rigaud, nerigaud@yahoo.com “Towards a conceptual framework for the interdisciplinary human resources management research”
15:40 – 16:20 Paper 30. Eva Buchinger, eva.buchinger@arcs.ac.at “Governance as a macro-micro phenomenon: The role of institutions
16:20 – 17:00 COFFEE BREAK
17:00 – 17:40 Paper 31. Ivan Vardanyan, ivvard@yahoo.com “Culture as a noointerface and computer-aided system of control with minimum waste or morality”
18:00 Business Meeting
20:00 Centro Histórico tour
FRIDAY JUNE 27
SESSION 8 9:00 – 13:30 Chair: Margarita Maass
9:00 – 9:40 Paper 32. Jorge A. González Sánchez, jorge@labcomplex.net
“Cybercultur@, sociocybernetics and complex systems: the growing challenge between “associationism” and “constructivism”
9:40 – 10:20 Paper 33. Alf Masing, amasingmjn@yahoo.com “Paul the Apostle – Paul the Saint: sociocybernetic insights to developments in early christianity and the future of christianity”
10:20 – 11:00 Paper 34. Steve Olweean, Solweean@aol.com “Engaging the other: psycho-social formation of enemy images”11:00 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:30 – 12:10 Paper 35. Santosh Kumar Patra “Paradigm Shift of “Space and Identity”: A Sociological Study of On line Behaviour”
12:10 – 12:50 Paper 36. Karl-Heinz Simon, Kassel, Germany simon@usf.uni-kassel.de “On the complexity of change models: Aulin and Banathy”
12:50 – 13:30 Paper 37. Cor Van Dijkum, c.vandijkum@fss.uu.nl “Non linear models for the feedback between GP and patients”
13:30 – 15:00 LUNCH
19:00 Close of Conference Museo Franz Mayer
20:00 Conference Dinner
USEFUL INFORMATION:
1. Coffee breaks are in the Fiesta Inn Hotel.
2. Conference registration includes free coffee, pastry and juice, as well as the Conference Dinner on June, 27
3. Lunch is recommended at the same hotel, or in the Hotel Sheraton. Other cafeterias and restaurants close to the Museum are available as well, with different menus at different prices.
4. Further information for excursions will be provided as an annex here.
