Lectures

DATE
SPEAKER  TITLE 
Beginning in 2008 a series of seminars on "complex systems", later "reflexive systems", were arranged.
October 29, 2007

Jixuan Hu
Wenjun Du

Three Dimensions of “Guanxi” Revealing Covert Self-Organization
(Slides 2006 | Slides 2007)
October 15th, 2007 Wajeha Al Huwaidar Woman's Leadership Forum Saudi Women: The Invisible Creatures
April 19, 2007 Stuart Umpleby
Chair
April 4, 2007 David Apgar Risk Intelligence: Learning to Manage What We Don’t Know
February 21, 2007 Oleksiy Gorovyy Time Distance Analysis: Comparing Ukraine with Selected European Countries
November 3, 2006 Alfred Inselberg Multidimensional Visualization And Its Applications
September 18, 2006 Gerard Endenburg A New Vision For The Way We Work Together
May 2, 2006 George Soros Reflexivity and Fallibility: Guiding Principles for Understanding and Acting within Social Systems
April 26, 2006
Stuart Umpleby Two Epistemologies and Their Implications for Administrative Research
April 24, 2006 Jerry Block Should a CEO go to Jail Because an Employee Polluted the Environment?
March 20, 2006 Julius Genachowski

The Past and Future of Electronic Commerce

February 16, 2006 Paul Ballonoff The Building of Government Regulatory Systems
September 13, 2005 Sanjar Umarov

Paths to Attain Peace and Consent in Uzbekistan's Society

April 8, 2005

Mark Notturno

Open Society, Democracy and Globalization
March 11, 2005 Leon Fuerth

U.S. Foreign Relations and Globalization

December 10, 2004
David Campbell Measuring the Quality of Democracy: 
A Global Comparison
In 1999 and 2000 several lectures, panel discussions, and conferences were arranged on
The Year 2000 Computer Crisis.
October 22, 1999
John Warfield The Evolution of Thought About Thought (Second Order thought): From Aristotle to Foucault
November 4,  1998
Markus Schwaninger Systems Theory and Cybernetics: A Solid Basis for Transdisciplinarity in Management Education and Research
October 30, 1998
Matjaz Mulej The Evolution of the Social Systems of the Post-Communist Countries of Central and Eastern Europe
October 13, 1998
Lawrence de Bivort Creating Homo Poietikos: The Crafting of Our Evolutionary Future
March 18, 1998 Wladimir Sachs The Year 2000 Bug: A Radical's View
March 5, 1998 Matjaz Mulej The Special Appeal of System Theory to Europeans
December 10, 1997 
Elin Whitney-Smith The Rise And Fall of the Nation State
September 18, 1997
Jeff Long The Evolution of Abstractions
September 1997 Karl Mueller Redoing Epigenesis
June 18, 1997 Stuart Umpleby The Design of Intellectual Movements
May 21, 1997
Deborah V. Duong Symbolic Interactionist Modelling: Emerging Institutions from the Interpretation of Signs
May 1, 1997
Matjaz Mulej Preconditions of Innovation and the Central European Economies
April 16, 1997 Robert Artigiani The Dynamics of Social Change
April 9, 1997 Paul Ballonoff Theory and Practice of Rule Bound Systems Analysis
March 19, 1997 Gary Nelson Self-Organizing Network Models and Planning
February 26, 1997 
Bill Smith The Quiet Revolution in Development Strategies
June 5, 1996
Francis Heylighen Why Does Complexity Grow During Evolution?
June 5, 1996
Valentin Turchin What Metasystem Transition Can Predict About the Future of Society
April 17, 1996
Wladimir M. Sachs Government Regulation and Litigation Reform: A Systems and Cybernetics Perspective
March 27, 1996 Michael Flaschka The St. Gallen Management Concept
March 20, 1996 Ranulph Glanville Some Consequences of Second Order Cybernetics
October 10, 1995
John Warfield Diving in the Sea of Knowledge: Surfers, Scuba Divers, Pearl Divers, and Deep-sea Divers
September 12, 1995
Cliff Joslyn A Synthetic Concept of Variety and Constraint in Systems
January 21, 1995
Pavel Makeyenko A Multidimensional Approach to Socio-Economic Reforms: The Case of Russia
November 9, 1994
Boris A. Milner

Management of Reform and Reform of Management

November 1, 1993 Matjaz Mulej Beyond private Ownership in Central and Eastern Europe
April 2, 1993
Richard Van Atta

Technology Innovation: Lessons from a History of DARPA

March 22, 1993
Eric Nappelbaum The Russian Economy: A “Crisis of Over-Production” in the Perception of Shortage
November 20, 1992

Stuart Umpleby

Psychological Adjustment to Economic Change in Central and Eastern Europe

December 13, 1991

Pavel Makeyenko

Back to the Future: Determining the Direction for the Soviet Union Today