1281 México, 8th International Conference on Sociocybernetics COMPLEX SOCIAL SYSTEMS, INTERDISCIPLINARITY AND WORLD FUTURES, 23 de junio de 2008

8th International Conference on Sociocybernetics
COMPLEX SOCIAL SYSTEMS, INTERDISCIPLINARITY AND WORLD FUTURES

Ciudad de México , MÉXICO, 23-27 June, 2008

• • • MUSEO 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. BERNARD SCOTT, President of the ISA Research Committee 51 on Sociocybernetics

9:30– 10:00  Lecture by Rolando García

10:00– 10:50  Rolando García UNAM Award

• 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 ramar@leibniz.iimas.unam.mx

“The use of information technologies from a complex systems p perspective”

15:40 – 16:20  Paper 4. José Amozurrutia, amoz@labcomplex.net

• • “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 s 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. José Amozurrutia, Lucía Barragán y Graciela Flores

• • “Social analysis as an inerdisciplinary challenge: a perspective     from Sociocybernetics”

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. Bernard Scott, 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 e emancipation”

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. Santosh Kumar Patra

• • • “Paradigm Shift of “Space and Identity”: A Sociological Study of On line Behaviour”

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 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 c comunicación desde el enfoque sistémico-cibernético de la Escuela de P 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 s sistémicas de la realidad”

• 11:00 – 11:30   COFFEE BREAK

11:30 – 12:10   Paper 18. Laura González, thezin@prodigy.net.mx

• • • “Cibercultur@, sistemas complejos e interdisciplina. La experiencia                              de organización y trabajo colectivo del Labcomplex

12:10 – 12:50   Paper 19.   Andrés Gómez Seguel, agseguel@gmail.com

• • • “El conflicto como sistema y sus especiales formas de complejidad social”

13:30 – 15:00  LUNCH

SESSION 5    15:00-17:40   Chair: Laura González

15:00 – 15:40  Paper 20. 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”

• • 15:40 – 16:20  Paper 21. Margarita Maass,   maass@labcomplex.net “La epistemología genética de Piaget y García, la interdisciplina y los             sistemas complejos como base para las Comunidades Emergentes de Conocimiento Local”

16:20 – 17:00 COFFEE BREAK

17:00     Franz Mayer guided tour

20:00 Franz Mayer Invitation to the inauguration of the temporary exhibition (coctail)

THURSDAY JUNE 26

SESSION 6    9:00 – 13:30 Chair: Eva Buchinger

9:00 –   9:40   Paper 22.  Reiko Sekiguchi , sekiguch@otsuma.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 23. Felix Geyer

• • “Reflections about the future of sociocybernetics”

• • 10:20 – 11:00 Paper 24.  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 25. 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 26.  Hernando Gutiérrez Prieto, hergutie@javeriana.edu.co

“Legal dynamics far from equilibrium”

12:50 – 13:30   Paper 27. 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 28. Nelly Rigaud, nerigaud@yahoo.com “Towards a conceptual framework for the interdisciplinary human        resources management research”

15:40 – 16:20  Paper 29. 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 30. 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 31.   Jorge A. González Sánchez,  jorge@labcomplex.net

• • “Cybercultur@, sociocybernetics and complex systems: the growing              challenge between “associationism” and “constructivism”

9:40 – 10:20   Paper 32.   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 33.  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 34. Eliezer Morales, eliezermorales@prodigy.net.mx “Worldwide future: a world plagued with slums”

12:10 – 12:50   Paper 35.  Karl-Heinz Simon, Kassel, Germany  simon@usf.uni-kassel.de

• “On the complexity of change models: Aulin and Banathy”

• • 12:50 – 13:30   Paper 36.  Francisco Parra Luna, parraluna3495@yahoo.es Universidad Complutense de Madrid,  España

• • “The “social sin” of sociology: a systemic-axiologiocal approach            applied to  the enterprise”

13:30  Special academic event

Closing COCKTAIL

20:00               Conference Dinner