President of the Senate at Kazimieras Simonavičius University Prof. Steffen Roth will held research workshop “Spaceship Earth: A Total Institution” on 25th of May in King’s College London.
About event:
Popularised in the 1960s, “Spaceship Earth” has become a metaphor for the vision turned imperative that all inhabitants of planet Earth be harmoniously united in the mission to preserve their planet. In this talk, I shall draw on works by Niklas Luhmann, Michel Foucault, and Friedrich August von Hayek to argue that fashionable “missionary theories” of economy, society, and environment converge, and complement one another, in the pathologisation of economic and social institutions as well as of the natural environment. If successfully applied, the “missionary therapies” proposed by the self-acclaimed officers of our planet might indeed turn it into a well-tempered, healthy, and totally institutionalised ‘Spaceship Earth’, a vessel with no mission other than orbiting another celestial body. The question for discussion is what can be done to avert this fate and develop more optimistic visions of the future.
About speaker:
Prof. Steffen Roth is Full Professor of Management at Excelia Business School, La Rochelle, France, and Full Professor of Social Sciences as well as President of the Senate at Kazimieras Simonavičius University, Vilnius, Lithuania. He is also Visiting Professor of Management and Organization at the University of Witten-Herdecke, Germany, and member of the Executive Committee of the Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik, Croatia.
One of his own favorite articles is ‘Digital transformation of social theory. A research update’, where he outlines the basic design of a universal social theory machine.
Steffen is the field editor for social systems theory of Systems Research and Behavioral Science and a member of the editorial board of Sociology. The journals his research has been published in include Journal of Business Ethics, Sociology of Health & Illness, Ecological Economics, Administration and Society, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, European Management Journal, Journal of Cleaner Production, and Futures. His ORCID profile is available at orcid.org/0000-0002-8502-601X and his Twitter profile at https://twitter.com/derrothdotcom.
Date and time: 6:00 pm, May 25th, 2023
Place: Bush House South East Wing 1.05, King’s College London
More information about the event here: Spaceship Earth: A Total Institution (Research Workshop with Prof. Steffen Roth) – Centre for the Study of Governance & Society (kcl.ac.uk)
We are excited to announce that 3rd international scientific conference “Challenges to Modern Law: An International Perspective” will be held next week. The conference will take place in Kazimieras Simonavicius University (KSU) and online on 24-25 of April.
Let us introduce our main conference keynotes from distinguished academics.
First keynote speaker: Ralf Rogowski Emeritus Academic at School of Law of Warwick University, United Kingdom.
Ralf Rogowski joined Warwick Law School in 1993, after having taught at Lancaster University and at the Free University in Berlin. For many years he was Director of the Law and Sociology Programme and Co-Director of Warwick University’s Social Theory Centre. He has been Visiting Professor at the Department of Law of the University of Florence, at the University of Torino, and the Marco Biagi Foundation of the University of Modena. He has been Senior Emile Noel Fellow at New York University School of Law in 2006 and a Visiting Fellow at the universities of Wisconsin, Madison; Konstanz; and Maastricht. He has also been a long-standing Research Associate at the Wissenschaftszentrum für Sozialforschung (WZB) in Berlin. Since 1996 he is general editor of the book series Studies in Modern Law and Policy and since 2012 with S. Karstedt and D. Taenzler of the book series Law, Crime and Culture.
Ralf Rogowski will give a conference report on the topic ”Challenges to Modern Law: An International Perspective”.
Second keynote speaker: Liliana Tymchenko Associate Professor at Department of Social Sciences of European Humanities University, Lithuania.
Liliana Tymchenko has many years of experience in teaching international law, the author of numerous publications on the problems of combating terrorism, recognition of states, human rights protection, existential issues of state development and the academic freedom. She was an expert of the Legal Reform Commission under the President of Ukraine (2019 – 2021), an expert of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Higher Administrative Court of Ukraine (2014 – 2017), a graduate of the programs of the American Bar Association, IREX, Coimbra Group Hospitality Scheme, Civic Education Project, etc. She defended her dissertation on “Political and Legal Aspects of International Terrorism” at the International Independent University of the Republic of Moldova and the Institute of State and Law of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. She has a wealth of experience in higher education administration and is passionate about teaching methodology and management in higher education.
Liliana Tymchenko will give a conference report on the topic ”Values, stereotypes, and realities of international law teaching in the second quarter of the 21st century”.
At “Challenges to Modern Law: An International Perspective” conference, we aim to serve as a forum for the critical examination of modern legal issues and of the law as it functions in the international community.
Conference program you can find here: Conference programme
Participation is free of charge, but the registration form must be filled in. Registration form: https://forms.office.com/e/XASA6a0TXi
Zoom meeting link will be sent day before conference.
Certificates will be issued to registered participants after the conference. They will be available to participants who have attended at least one of the conference days.
More information about the conference: Challenges to Modern Law: An International Perspective | KSU
Conference e-mail: mlconference@ksu.lt
International scientific conference “Challenges to Modern Law: An International Perspective” will be held on April 24-25 by Kazimieras Simonavicius University (KSU). During the conference 16 participants from 9 countries will critically examine modern legal issues and law as it functions in international community. Conference will be held at the Kazimieras Simonavicius University and online.
Conference program you can find here: Conference programme
Participation is free of charge, but the registration form must be filled in.
Registration form: https://forms.office.com/e/XASA6a0TXi
Certificates will be issued for registered participants after the conference. They will be available to participants who have attended at least one of the conference days.
Zoom meeting link will be sent day before conference.
More information about the conference: Challenges to Modern Law: An International Perspective | KSU
Conference e-mail: mlconference@ksu.lt
The Center of IP, Media and Innovation Law (University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria) hosts the first DDM4SME Conference on Data Economy Law (DELCON) on June 26, 2023 in Krems (Austria).
The conference is jointly organized by the ERASMUS+ Strategic Partnership consortium consisting of the University for Continuing Education Krems (Austria), Masaryk University (Czech Republic), Georg-August-University Goettingen (Germany) and Kazimieras Simonavicius University (Lithuania).
The Organizing Committee would like to invite papers on this topic. Possible subthemes include, but are not limited to:
- Risks and challenges of AI applications in businesses.
- Data related business models.
- Potential changes in legal structures due to ongoing digitization.
For innovative papers the DDM4SME project may grant scholarships for travel and accommodation.
To submit a paper (abstract, up to 500 words) for presentation at DELCON 1, please submit your proposal to ta.ca.inu-uanod@impi by May 22, 2023.
More information about conditions: DDM4SME Conference on Data Economy Law (DELCON 1) – DDM4SME
From Monday 27 March until Friday the 31th Businet Moot Court Competition will be organized by the Businet Law Group in cooperation with Kazimieras Simonavicius University.
A Moot court is an extra curricular activity in which Law students take part in simulated court proceedings, which usually involves drafting briefs (or memorials) and oral argumentation.
12 teams of law students from different countries will take part in this competition. Special guest Irmantas Jarukaitis (Judge at the EU Court of Justice) will talk about the role and the impact of the EU CoJ.
Main competition will be held in Kazimieras Simonavicius University. The semi-finals and the final battle will take place at the Vilnius District Court.
Event date: March 27-31, 2023.
We are happy to announce virtual KSU OPEN DAY 2022 for international students!
When: March 22, 2023 at 13:00-15:00 (GMT +2)
Where: Open Day will be held on-line on Zoom platform.
Register: HERE
It’s a great opportunity to learn about KSU university, Bachelor and Master study programmes, meet International office staff and to know about admission process.
Questions: admission@ksu.lt
We are happy to have 22 Erasmus exchange students from Spain, Italy, France, and Turkey in spring semester. Foreign students got to know each other and KSU Erasmus mentors as well, introduced their home countries, got to know the study process at KSU and traditionally visited Trakai.
In frame of ERASMUS+ project SECUREU Kazimieras Simonavicius University together with 6 partners from 5 countries is doing survey on security. With this survey we would like to ask opinion of students and teachers about security situation in their countries. If you are student or teacher, you are welcome to participate in survey and help us to gather valuable data which we will use to implement our project.
In frame of the project we will develop different study materials in security risk management field, will prepare recommendations on how and what to teach security students. And it is very important to gather data and feedback about security awareness and knowledge among our students and teachers. No matter –you are studying or teaching security related subjects or any other subjects – your opinion is important to us!
Full report will be available in our webpage provisionally in January 2023.
There are only 12 simple questions to answer, it will take you not more than 5 minutes.
Questionnaire is available till 20 November on the following link.
Partners:
Turība University (Latvia)
Kazimieras Simonavičius University (Lithuania)
Laurea University of Applied Sciences (Finland)
Nord University (Norway)
Avans University of Applied Sciences (the Netherlands)
Fundació Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (FUAB) (Spain)
Biedrība “Drošības profesionāļu asociācija” (Latvia)
More information about the project is available here.
We are happy to announce virtual KSU OPEN DAY 2022 for international students!
When: November 9, 2022 at 13:00-15:00 (GMT+2)
Where: Open Day will be held on-line on Zoom platform.
It’s a great opportunity to learn about KSU university, Bachelor and Master study programmes, Summer School courses, meet International office staff and to know about admission process.
Questions: admission@ksu.lt
Kazimieras Simonavicius University joined one of the biggest global higher education networks Businet which unites more than 140 institutions in 37 countries in Europe, Australia, Asia, South America. Network provides an environment that encourages the sharing of good practice and encourages co-operation between like-minded individuals and like-minded organisations.
The international conference “Scientific Communication. Observed with Social System Theory” organized by the Next Society Institute of Kazimieras Simonavičius University and the Inter-University Center in Dubrovnik (Croatia) took place on September 13-16, 2022.
During the conference, speakers from around the world presented the latest interdisciplinary theoretical and empirical researches on the past, present and future challenges of scientific communication. Here, the COVID-19 pandemic, the communication of climate change research in social media, as well as the relationship between science and political and economic systems have received a lot of attention.
Jan Inge Jönhill’s (Sweden) contribution “Scietific Knowledge and Political Communication” was announced as the best conference paper and awarded the prize established by the Next Society Institute of Kazimieras Simonavičius University for theoretical excellence and inspiration for new research perspectives.
The next conference dedicated to N. Luhmann’s theory “Environments. Observed with Social System Theory” will be held on September 12-15, 2023. Detailed information will be published on the conference website: https://luhmannconference.com.
Dear members of KSU academic community,
We kindly invite you to the Science and Knowledge Day celebration on the 1st September 2022, 1:00 PM at Kazimieras Simonavicius University. (Darius ir Girėnas str. 21, Vilnius). Let’s start the new academic year together!
