For you information.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
dear friends and colleagues,
The Heinz von Foerster Society, together with the Wiener Institute for Social Science Documentation and Methodology (WISDOM), the Department of Contemporary History and the American Society for Cybernetics (ASC), organizes the Fourth International Heinz von Foerster Conference which will take place from November 12 to November 14, 2009 at the University of Vienna. This year, the conference will have “Learning�? as its leading theme and will pursue a series of very ambitious goals.
� Learning, together with memory and perception, stood at the center of Heinz von Foerster’s holistic theory of cognition. Thus, Heinz von Foerster’s work on learning and cognition at the Biological Computer Laboratory (BCL) constitutes the first domain for this year’s conference.
� Additionally, Heinz von Foerster conducted several experiments on learning and was very much occupied with the organizational aspects of learning in higher education. Both these experiments and Foerster’s unconventional ways of teaching will be discussed at length in this year’s conference.
� Ernst von Glasersfeld, who will take part in this year’s conference, too, created the foundations for a paradigm change towards a constructivist science of education. Thus, current discussions and future challenges within a constructivist science of education will become another important focus of the conference.
� Humberto R. Maturana, who has been invited to the conference as well, has developed a comprehensive theory of living systems which will become another important domain of this year’s conference.
� Moreover, for decades bio-cybernetics was focused intensively on processes of machine learning. In the last two years the literary remains of the late Gordon Pask, one of the pioneers in computer assisted learning, has been transferred to Vienna. As a consequence, past and current approaches in machine learning will form another thematic domain for this year’s conference.
� Finally, the experimental and theoretical work of Jean Piaget and the relevance and impact of his school for a constructivist epistemology and science of education as well will become another focus for this year’s conference.
We are asking for contributions. Please send proposals (abstracts about half a page) to the conference's mail address
hvf09.zeitgeschichte@univie.ac.at
by end of June 2009. Proposals will be reviewed by an international committee. A final conference program will ready on 1.8.2009.
A conference website will be available then, too
www.univie.ac.at/hvfcongress
The conference will be accessible free of charge and will offer, once again, a framework for further discussions, contacts and network building. Registration is required.
Currently, the conference is sponsored by the Austrian ministry of Science and the City of Vienna.
Kind regards,
Albert Mueller
Karl H. Mueller
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