Please see here a message from Paul Stokes:

Dear Members,
Further down find the draft programme for the Dublin Metaphorum (details from www.metaphorum.org).
Registration will be on the morning of the 5th May. Conference fee will be €70 for members and €130 for non-members, payable in cash (€).
I look forward to seeing you all.
Any queries do not hesitate to get in touch: paul.stokes@ucd.ie.
Best wishes,
Paul

Dublin Metaphorum Draft Programme

Wednesday 4th May

7:00 -9:00 Senior Common Room, UCD Belfied: Salon Philosophique with Margeret Heath and Ruth ? Dinner at 9:30 at Donnybrook Fayre.

Thursday 5th May

9:00-9:30: Registration at the Institute for the Study of Social Change/Geary Institute, Ground Floor Seminar Room.

Chair: A. Moscardini 9:30 – 12:30
Session 1 Governance
Paul Stokes: Designing Governance
Steve Wright: Looming struggles over border control
Raul Espejo: Towards Inclusive Governance
Luc Hoebeke: Representative democracy vs. participation: system 3 and system 5 characteristics
Angela Espinosa: Designing self governed communities with the VSM

Lunch 12:30 – 2:30 in the Norah Green Room, UCD Belfield

Chair: P. Stokes 2:30 – 5:30
Session 2 Applications
Betty Scheper: State - NGO
relations in Asia and their organisational integrity
Leonie Solomons & Alfredo Moscardini: Reflecting Sri Lanka’s peace quest in VSM iconographic language
Andrey Sergeyev: Using the VSM to Understand an Emergent Post-Soviet Economy
Leonid Ototsky: Stafford Beer’s work in Russia and beyond
Rod Thomas: Plans for reform versus utopian blueprints: On the difference between diagnosis and design

Dinner in Eden, Temple Bar, Dublin City from 7:30PM

Friday 6th May

Chair: A. Leonard 9:30 – 12:30
Session 3 Epistemology
Maurice Yolles: Knowledge Cybernetics
Ern Reynolds: Political Physics: or, How Westerners Think
Margeret Heath: Cybernetics and Utopia: The Role of Imagination (??)

Lunch on Campus at a variety of venues

Chair: M. Yolles 2:30 – 4:30
Session 4: Issues of Organization
Allenna Leonard: Accountability, Risk and the Systems Approach
Stephanie Heuer: Somebodies and Nobodies, overcoming the abuse of rank
Stefan M. Wasilewski: Rationalising Communication & Decision-Making as an Enterprise Risk Metric

4:30 – 5:15: Metaphorum Wrap-Up

Dinner in Ragazzi, 6.00 PM, Dalkey, County Dublin