GREEN STREAM Tuesday, 30 May 1995 11:30 - 11:50 Michat Tempczyk Poland Creative thinking and brain dynamics 11:50 - 12:10 J.T.Cullen United Kingdom WHAT iS LIFE?A CRITIQUE OF AUTOPOIESIS IN THE LIGHT OF NON-DEVELOPMENTAL APOPTOSIS 12:10 - 12:30 Jozef Kelemen Czech Republic Grammatically on life and rationality 12:30 - 12:50 Myrdene Anderson USA Still-life-moving-death -------------------- 14:30 - 14:50 Arnold De Loof Belgium Communication: the key to defining "life", "death" and the force driving evolution 14:50 - 15:10 James A.Cusumano USA Genesis to ???----The role of catalysts in creating our future 15:10 - 15:30 C.W.Rietdijk The Netherlands Coherence and its enemies: on the key concept in science and life 15:30 - 15:50 F.Elders The Netherlands Life and death are each other's friends 15:50 - 16:10 Leonce Bekemans Belgium Paradigma shift in economics and society 16:10 - 16:30 16:30 - 16:50 16:50 - 17:10 Hans Verstraeten Belgium The media and the transformation of the public sphere 17:10 - 17:30 17:30 - 17:50 Marilia Bernardes Marques Brasil Confronting health transition complexity ------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday 31 May 1995 09:00 - 09:20 Borisz Szanto Hungary Barriers of human evolution 09:20 - 09:40 Jarva Vuokko Finland Carelian female studies challenge Western male science 09:40 - 10:00 Francis Dominic O'Reilly United Kingdom Rural development knowledge : indigenous, necessary, appropriate 10:00 - 10:20 10:20 - 10:40 Rui B. Marques Japan Europe-Japan technological partnership in the pacific century 10:40 - 11:00 Jan Fenema The Netherlands And you, my mountain, will you never walk towards me? 11:00 - 11:20 Dimitri Spivak Russia Altered states of society : a tentative approach 11:20 - 11:40 M.Goussakov Russia An innovational line of post-modern industrial society 11:40 - 12:00 Bhattacharya Sudipto Spain Bargaining and knowledge sharing 12:00 - 12:20 Willy Winkelmans Belgium Transport is civilization: in search for a sustainable mobility for achieving the global economy 12:20 - 12:40 Anatoly A.Chumak Ukraine Chernobyl disaster as a problem of synthesis 12:40 - 13:00 ------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, 1 June 1995 09:00 - 09:20 Willy Weyns Belgium Strength and weakness (SWOT) analysis of the potentialities of humankind to overcome the ecological challenge 09:20 - 09:40 K.M.Kaiser USA Hunger strikes: the dramaturgy of biopolitics 09:40 - 10:00 H.T.R.Mark Sweden The predicament of ecological-economic valuation and the need for linkage through an institutional framework 10:00 - 10:20 A.I.Pougatcheva Russia The system of technology transfer in the post-communist countries: reforming or self-organization? 10:20 - 10:40 10:40 - 11:00 Nadia Repenning USA The information super highway: The atom bomb of the 90ies? 11:00 - 11:20 Munawar A.Anees Malaysia Science--Searching for the soul? 11:20 - 11:40 Czeslaw Mesjasz Poland Stability, turbulence, chaos? Systems analogies and metaphors, and change in contemporary world politics 11:40 - 12:00 Irina A. Lomazova Russia Teaching to live and function in the global world 12:00 - 12:20 Paul Smith USA Essays system regarding global integration 12:20 - 12:40 Mark Tamthai Thailand Introducing science into traditional societies 12:40 - 13:00 Hu Bicheng China (P.R.) New type of moral relation between man and nature ------------------------------------------------------------ Friday, 2 June 1995 09:00 - 09:20 Ruggero Rapparini Italy Science as the best hope for humanity? 09:20 - 09:40 C.Filippino USA Dialectic nature of heart 09:40 - 10:00 Zikai Yun China (PR) New views of science: the conversation between modern people and nature 10:00 - 10:20 Dimitris Vassiliadis USA Self-organization in space plasmas: the case of the terrestrial magnetosphere 10:20 - 10:40 Peng Fuyang China (PR) On philosophical aspects of alienation of science and technology 10:40 - 11:00 N.Kacergiene and Sokolovskiene Lithuania The relation of electro-phonocardiography, peripheral reography indices of children with acute respiratory diseases to solar activity and meteorological factors 11:00 - 11:20 R.Vernickaite and N.Kacergiene Lithuania The relation of certain homeostatic indices to environmental factors in pregnant women 11:20 - 11:40 Philip L.Peterson USA Non-natural cultural universals exist 11:40 - 12:00 Jasmina Rosicka Poland Scarcity versus fertility. Two discourses of economics 12:00 - 12:20 Matthias Braeunig Germany Science and peace - A Western Buddhist perspective 12:20 - 12:40 Jozef Kelemen Czech Republic On an interplay between life and rationality 12:40 - 13:00 Dirk Siefkes Germany Turing meets Thoreau: an ecological approach to computer science