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Saturday, July 17th
All Day -- 10 am to 5 pm Workshops
Helping to make Systems Mainstream: Bringing Bayesian Networks to the World - Ockie Bosch and Carl Smith, University of Queensland, Australia. Please bring your own laptop to fully participate in this workshop.
1 pm to 4 pm
System Theory and the Mind - The concentration and purification technique for our mind as taught by Buddha, a mental healthcare protection program for the harmonic governance for a resilient planet. Led by Thomas Wong
Sunday, July 18th
ISSS Roundtable 7:45 am to 9 am, Bricker Residence Lounge, ground floor
All Day -- 10 am to 4 pm Workshops
Modeling Support for Disaster Prevention and Recovery - Systemic Challenges for First Responders - Gerhard Chroust
Vester Sensitivity Modeling - Gabriele Harrar, Fredmund Malik Management Centre. Bring your own laptop to fully participate in this workshop.
Helping to make Systems Mainstream: Bringing Bayesian Networks to the World - as above - (finishes at 12:30 pm)
1 pm to 4 pm
Global Governance and a World Without War, Ken Burkhardt, Global Issues Project of Science for Peace, and Pugwash Canada
Traditional Chinese Medicine Healthcare Protection Program, Thomas Wong
6 pm to 9 pm
ISSS 2010 Welcome Reception and SIG Activities
Facilitated by Alexander and Kathia Castro Laszlo
Monday, July 19th - Conference Opens
All tea and coffee breaks will be held in the Bricker Academic Building, ground floor.
ISSS Roundtable 7:45 am to 8:45 am, Bricker Residence Lounge, ground floor
9 AM - Morning plenary talks, Bricker Academic Bldg, Room 101
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Allenna Leonard, President ISSS 2010: Governance in the Relative When
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Javier Livas: Accosting the Governance Challenge
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Alan Willis: and Mark van Clieaf: Governance and Finance for a Sustainable Planet
12:30 Lunch
1:30 - 5:30 pm: Paper sessions and workshops
Special Evening Open Lecture - 7 pm to 8:30 pm
Michael Ben-Eli: Rethinking Everything
Tuesday, July 20th
ISSS Roundtable 7:45 am to 8:45 am, Bricker Residence Lounge, ground floor
9 AM - Morning plenary talks, Bricker Academic Bldg, Room 101
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Thomas Homer-Dixon: Exploring the Adjacent Possible: Scenario Development for a Resilient Future
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Stephen Haines: The Ludwig von Bertalanffy Lecture: Systems Thinking Research Rediscovered: Ludwig von Bertalanffy and the Society for General System's Research's Relevance in the 21st Century
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Fredmund Malik: Advanced Syntegration for Meeting the Challenges of the Great Societal Transformation 21 – As Illustrated by the Practical Example of an Austrian Province
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Ron Wiseman: Measuring Citizen Satisfaction
1:30 - 5:30 pm: Paper sessions and workshops
Special Evening Open Lecture - 7 pm to 8:30 pm
Pille Bunnell: Resilience and Robustness: A Dynamic View of Conservation and Change
Wednesday, July 21st
ISSS Roundtable 7:45 am to 8:45 am, Bricker Residence Lounge, ground floor
9 AM - Morning plenary talks, Bricker Academic Bldg, Room 101
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Debora Hammond: Food Policy for a Resilient Future
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David Waltner-Toews: Surfing the Pandemic Wave: Poise, Passion and Managing Insoluble Problems
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Ron Cottam: Rights, Responsibilities and Resilience, or, Auntie Phyllis and the Bloody Great Fork
1:30 - 5:30 pm: Paper sessions and workshops
Evening Activities
7 - 8 pm, EcoPolicy Game Demonstration, It's a cyberbetic world -- play your way to a new understanding of our complex world! Room 110, Bricker Academic Bldg
7 - 8 pm, ISSS Council, Room TBA
8:15 - onwards, Past President's Fireside Chat, Campus Pub
Thursday, July 22nd
ISSS Roundtable 7:45 am to 8:45 am, Bricker Residence Lounge, ground floor
9 AM - Morning plenary talks, Bricker Academic Bldg, Room 101
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Panel: Fear for Sustainability: A Transdisciplinary Approach
- Jacob Sperber, Restoring the Positive Functions of Fear
- Jeremy Coplan: Have Genetically Fearless Agents Led us Astray?
- Markus Schwaninger: Reframing Fear as a Trigger for Restoring Sustainability
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Ranulph Glanville: Design, Systems and Cybernetics
1:30 - 5:30 pm: Paper sessions and workshops
7 pm to 10 pm
ISSS Conference Dinner - Turret Room, Wilfrid Laurier University
Friday, July 23rd
ISSS Roundtable 7:45 am to 8:45 am, Bricker Residence Lounge, ground floor
9 AM - Morning plenary talks, ISSS AGM, Bricker Academic Bldg, Room 101
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The ISSS Roundtable at 10 Years, Susan Farr Gabriele
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Systems Thinkers Think about Systems Education under the Austrian (Ash) Clouds, Ockie Bosch, Report of the Systems Education Workshops 2008-2010
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Report and Feedback Presentations by Student SIG, Nicholas Magliocca
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Invitation and Incoming President Presentation for ISSS2011, Jennifer Wilby
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Feedback on SIG Conversations, Alexander and Kathia Laszlo
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ISSS AGM Meeting
