Dear Colleague:

The Havana Instituto de Filosofia is pleased to invite you to participate in the

4^th. Biennial International Seminar on the Philosophical, Epistemological and Methodological Implications of Complexity Theory

 COMPLEXITY-2008

 January 15-18th, 2008

This International Congress is organized by the Complexity Cathedra of the Havana Instituto de Filosofia and is co-sponsored by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment (CITMA, according to the Spanish acronym); the Academy of Sciences of Cuba; the Complexity Cathedrae at Camaguey and Holguin Universities; the Complexity Cathedra at `N. Guillen´ Cultural Center in Camagüey; the Cathedra for Nonlinear Dynamical Systems `H. Poincare´ at Havana University and the Center for Medicine and Complexity in Camagüey.

 The  Congress will be an appropriate place to discuss the most transcendental challenges in this important new field of Knowledge. After very successful  Biennial Seminars on January 2002, 2004,and 2006, that hosted participants from more than 20 countries of 5 continents, including such relevant figures as Fritjof Capra, Isabelle Stengers, Gregoire Nicolis, John Casti, Edgar Morin among others, we shall meet again to exchange ideas on a wide variety of aspects of this trans-disciplinary field. This scientific meeting has among other objectives that of encouraging thinking on the scope and range of this promising  Complexity approach. And in its Parallel Symposia and Workshops on Complex Educational, Organizational, Environmental, Art and Aesthetics, Biological, Biomedical  and Linguistic  Systems we will analyze their most significant characteristics.

It will be a great pleasure to have you with us during our Congress, and to  welcome you cordially and warmly in our hospitable country.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE OF THE EVENT

President:

Dr. Pedro Luis Sotolongo Codina.

Head of Complexity Cathedra.

Instituto de Filosofía de La Habana

pedro.sotolongo@infomed.sld.cu

Vice Presidents:

Dr. Raimundo Franco Parellada franco@citma.cu or rfrancop@yahoo.com;

Dra. Mayra Espina Prieto cauto@ceniai.inf.cu;

Dr. Ovidio D´Angelo Hernández danteangelus@yahoo.com ;

Members of the Cathedra Board.

Also Members of the Organizing Committee are the rest of the Board of the Cathedra for the Study of Complexity (complejidad@filosofia.cu):

-          MsC. Mabel Menéndez Moraguez blancar@infomed.sld.cu ;

-          MsC. Antonio Correa Iglesias: ancoiglesias@yahoo.es

-           Dr. Avelino Suárez: ecologia.ies@ama.cu;

-          Dr. Ana Luna Moliner: analuna@filosofia.cu  or  ana_luna2003@yahoo.com.mx

as well as the rest of the Coordinators of the Parallel Symposia and Workshops (see below), Gladys Yedra from the Colaboration Dept. of the Instituto de Filosofía de La Habana and Virginia García of the Digital Services Area of the Complexity Cathedra organizing the Event.   

SCIENTIFIC EVENTS IN PARALLEL TO THE SEMINAR

                             Symposium on Complex Educational Systems.

                        For contacts: Coordinator:  Ovidio D`Angelo : danteangelus@yahoo.com

                           Symposium on Complex Organizational Systems.

                 For contacts: Coordinators: Raimundo Franco Parellada: franco@citma.cu or                                                                                      rfrancop@yahoo.com

Mabel Menéndez Moraguez : blancar@infomed.sld.cu

MSc. Elena María Pérez Campos:  elenama@electrica.cujae.edu.cu

MSc. Miriam Lourdes Filgueriras: miriaml@electrica.cujae.edu.cu

                           Symposium on Complex Environmental Systems.

The Symposium on Complex Environmental Systems is co-sponsored by the Ecology and Systematics Institute, Cuba´s Zoological and Botanic Societies, and by the Cuban Committee for MAB-UNESCO.

                        For contacts: Coordinators:  Ana Luna Moliner: analuna@filosofia.cu  or                                                                                                                        ana_luna2003@yahoo.com.mx  

                                                                   Avelino Suárez  ecologia.ies@ama.cu  

 Workshop on Complexity in Biology and Biomedicine..

            The Parallel Workshop on Complexity in Biology and Biomedicine is Co-sponsored by Cuba´s Center for Molecular Inmunology, Cuba´s Neurosciences Center, the Institute for Vaccines Research, Development and Production `Carlos J. Finlay´, the Institute for the Research of Tropical Fruits, Cuba´s Zoological and Botanic Societies, and by the Cuban Committee for MAB-UNESCO.

                      For Contacts: Coordinator: Eloisa LeRiverend lochy@infomed.sld.cu

                        Workshop on Complexity, Art, Aesthetics.

The  Parallel Workshop on Complexity, Art, Aesthetics is Co-sponsored by the Havana University of Arts (ISA).

                       For contacts: Coordinators: Antonio Correa Iglesias: ancoiglesias@yahoo.es                                                

                                                                Alicia Pino Rodríguez:   aliciapino@yahoo.com

                      Workshop on Complexity and Languages.

                        For contacts: Coordinator:  Raquel García Riverón:  egarcia@infomed.sld.cu