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Friends of Havana's Jan Complexity Seminars

Complejidad 2002

Tuesday, January 8, 2002:
09:30 SEMINAR OPENING

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

13:00 Papers:
Robert Ulanowicz (USA)
“Ecology, A Dialogue between the “quick”
and the 'dead'"

George Kampis (Hungary)
"Theory of Implicit Variables"

William Bechtel
Adele Abrahamsen (USA)

"Neural Networks & Dynamical Systems"

Paul Cilliers (South Africa)
"Limits, Boundaries and Complexity"

Pedro Sotolongo (Cuba)
"Complexity, Science & Everyday Life"

Paul Moran & Ted Fuller (UK)
"Complexity Methodology in Entrepreneurship
and Small Business"

Carlos Delgado (Cuba)
"Complexity & Environmental Education"

Denise Najmanovich (Argentina)
"Complexity: From Paradigms
to Figures of Thought"

Eric Dent (USA)
“An Alternative to the Sovereign Power of Causality”

Roger Strand (Norway)
“Crazy Theory”

Regina
Leite (Brazil)\
“The Complex Process of Becoming a Researcher”

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 & Stephanie Bouchard (Canada)
“Perceptual Complexity Analysis and Virtual Reality”

Carl Rubino (USA)
“The Consolations of Uncertainty”

Enrique Dussel (Mexico)
“Complexity in Ethics”

Ovidio D’Angelo (Cuba)
“Social Subjectivity, Development, and
the Challenges of  Complexity”

14:30 Papers

Ian Wilkinson & Louise Young (Australia)
“On Cooperating: Films, Relations, and Networks”
(Australia)

Raimundo Franco (Cuba)
“Modelling on Social Organizations: Necessity Possibility”

Alicia Juarrero (Cuba-USA)
“Identity and Individuation in Complex Adaptive Systems”

Alvaro Moreno & Kepa Ruiz-MIrazo (Spain)
“Key Issues regarding the Origin, Nature, and Evolution
of Complexity in Nature”

Jim Falconer (Canada)
“Emergence Happens! Misguided Paradigms regarding
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 (Argentina)
“Networks: Interplot of the non-Simultaneous”

Ken Cole (England)
“Globalisation: Understanding Complexity”

Jaime Lagunez (Mexico)
“Complexity, Emergence and Globalisation”

Mayra Espino (Cuba)
“Complexity and epistemological reconstruction
in Social Thinking”

Juan Manuel Valderas (Spain)
“Epistemological and Methodological Implications
of Deterministic Chaos in the Economy”

Leonardo Lavanderos, Alejandro Malpartida,
Sergio Prince & Ricardo Acevedo (Chile)
“Complexity and Organization of
Culture-Nature Units: Relational Cognition”

Carmen Vallarino (Venezuela)
“Research and Transdisciplinarity Mediation”

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 Afriica)
“Complexity and Post-Modernism”

10:30 Coffee Break


11:00 Papers

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

Stephanie Hamm (Norway)
“Complex Theories in Biology”

Dominique Grass (Ireland)
“The Creation of Novelty in Artificial Chemistries”

Jose Manuel Nieto (Cuba)
“Entropy and Complexity”

Greta Goldberg (Australia)
“Complexity paradigms and the Generational
Transmission of Dyadic Trauma"

Maria Gregori & Henri Alegria (Venezuela)
“The Multiconnector: A model for Teaching Science”

Darren Stanley & Brent Davis (Canada)
“Pedagogy and Playfulness” Learning on the Fly”

Maria Teresa Esteban (Brazil)'
“Educational Evaluation in Complex Contexts”

14:30 Panel/Round Table “Complexity, Ecology, Environment”
Robert Ulanowicz (USA)
Carlos Delgado (Cuba)
George Kampis (Hungary)
Pedro Marino Pruna (Cuba)


FriFriends of Havana's January Complexity Seminars supports and encourages the ongoing and future study of Complexity Theory in Cuba by encouraging and supporting graduate and professional-level research and written publications in Complexity Theory. The organization purchases and collects donations of books and other informational materials on Complexity Theory for delivery to the six Cathedrae of Complexity Studies located throughout the island. The organization also publishes research results presented at biennial January seminars sponsored by Havana's Instituto de Filosofia's Chair of Complexity Studies, an academic program dedicated to the study of the philosophical, methodological, and epistemological implications of Complexity Theory.