Cathedra of Complexity Studies

Complexity 2002

Tuesday, January 8, 2002

09:30 SEMINAR OPENING

10:00 Opening Lecture: Fritjof Capra  “Complexity and Life”

12:00 Snack Lunch

13:00 Papers:

• Robert Ulanowicz - “Ecology, A Dialogue between the “quick” and the “dead” (USA)
• George Kampis - “Theory of Implicit Variables” (Hungary)
• William Bechtel - “Neural Networks and Dynamical Systems”
• Adele Abrahamsen (USA)
• Paul Cilliers - “Limits, Boundaries and Complexity” (South Africa)
• Pedro Sotolongo - “Complexity, Society, and Everyday Life” (Cuba)
• Paul Moran - “Complexity Methodology in Entrepreneurship and Ted Fuller (UK) Small Business”
• Carlos Delgado - “Complexity and Environmental Education” (Cuba)
• Denise Najmanovich - “Complexity: from Paradigms to Figures of Thought” (Argentina)
• Eric Dent - “An Alternative to the Sovereign Power of Causality” (USA)
• Roger Strand - “Crazy Theory” (Norway)
• Regina Leite - “The Complex Process of Becoming a Researcher” (Brazil)

Wednesday, January

9: 09:00 Panel/Round Table “Complexity and Subjectivity”

• Adele Abrahamsen (USA)
• Alicia Juarrero (Cuba-USA)
• Denise Najmanovich (Argentina)
• Ovidio D’Angelo (Cuba)

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Papers

• Patrice Renaud - “Perceptual Complexity Analysis and Virtual Reality”
• Stephanie Bouchard (Canada)
• Carl Rubino - “The Consolations of Uncertainty” (USA)
• Enrique Dussel - “Complexity in Ethics” (Mexico)
• Ovidio D’Angelo - “Social Subjectivity, Development, and the Challenges of “Complexity”

14:00 Snack-Lunch

14:30 Papers Ian Wilkinson - “On Cooperating: Films, Relations, and Networks”

• Louise Young - (Australia) Raimundo Franco - “Modelling on Social Organizations: Necessity Possibility” (Cuba)
• Alicia Juarrero - “Identity and Individuation in Complex Adaptive Systems” (Cuba-USA)
• Alvaro Moreno - “Key Issues regarding the Origin, Nature, and Evolution Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo of Complexity in Nature” (Spain)
• Jim Falconer - “Emergence Happens! Misguided Paradigms regarding (Canada) "
• Organizational Change and the role of Complexity”

Thursday, January

10 09:00 Special Lecture:

• William Bechtel (USA)  “Mechanism, Dynamics, and Cognition”

11:00 Papers Elina Dabas - “Networks: Interplot of the non-Simultaneous” (Argentina)

• Ken Cole - “Globalisation: Understanding Complexity” (England)
• Jaime Lagunez - “Complexity, Emergence and Globalisation” (Mexico)
• Mayra Espino - “Complexity and epistemological reconstruction in Social (Cuba) Thinking”
• Juan Manuel Valderas - “Epistemological and Methodological Implications of (Spain) Deterministic Chaos in the Economy”
• Leonardo Lavanderos - “Complexity and Organization of Culture-Nature Units: Alejandro Malpartida Relational Cognition”
• Sergio Prince Ricardo Acevedo (Chile)
• Carmen Vallarino - “Research and Transdisciplinarity Mediation” (Venezuela)

14:00 Snack Lunch

14:30 Panel/Round Table “Complexity and Society”

• Paul Cilliers (South Africa)
• Carl Rubino (USA)
• Pedro Sotolongo (Cuba)
• Mayra Espina (Cuba)
• Raimundo Franco (Cuba)

Friday, January

11 09:00 Special Lecture:

• Paul Cilliers (South Africa) “Complexity and Post-Modernism”

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Papers Carlos Puente - “The Hypotenuse: the path to Peace. Lessons in (USA) Complexity for Turbulent Times”

• Stephanie Hamm - “Complex Theories in Biology” (Norway)
• Dominique Grass - “The Creation of Novelty in Artificial Chemistries” (Ireland)
• Jose Manuel Nieto - “Entropy and Complexity” (Cuba)
• Greta Goldberg - “Complexity paradigms and the Generational Transmission (Australia) of Dyadic Trauma”
• Maria Gregori - “The Multiconnector: A model for Teaching Science”
• Henri Alegria (Venezuela)
• Darren Stanley - “Pedagogy and Playfulness” Learning on the Fly” Brent Davis (Canada)
• Maria Teresa Esteban - “Educational Evaluation in Complex Contexts” (Brazil)

14:00 Snack Lunch

14:30 Panel/Round Table “Complexity, Ecology, Environment”

• Robert Ulanowicz (USA)
• Carlos Delgado (Cuba)
• George Kampis (Hungary)
• Pedro Marino Pruna (Cuba)