Transdisciplinary Conference in Honour of IMH
- Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
- When: November 11, 2021, 09:00 – 16:00
When Ivan M. Havel died this year those of us who knew him and collaborated with him in some way were fully aware of what an extraordinary personality we had lost. “What he enjoyed most, I think, was to sit and listen as respected academics argued. And how out of that dispute an important theme would arise, an idea would be born,” wrote David Storch, who succeeded him as director of the Centre for Theoretical Study after many years, in a tribute. In order to honour the memory of Ivan M. Havel and to remember his unique role, we decided to hold the kind of academic conference that he would no doubt have attended –meaning an informal debate on issues he held dear in a location where he would have likely enjoyed sitting and with people from various fields with whom he liked to converse.
He was fascinated by potential links between various scientific fields, which among other things sparked repeated radical scientific self-reflection. The conference will take in four fields that Ivan M. Havel was long focused on, or to which he recently made a significant contribution:
I Consciousness, natural and artificial intelligence
Radek Schuster (9.40–9.50)
II At the interface of language, science and art
III Anthropocene
Petr Pokorný, Radan Haluzík, Eliška Fulínová, chaired by Anna Kvíčalová
IV Meeting at a point of transition
Kateřina Trlifajová, Roman Kotecký, Martin Palouš, chaired by Jan Palouš
Closing: Petr Pokorný and Ivan Chvatík
In these blocks short opening remarks will give way to a moderated debate among the invited speakers, later involving also the public.
Organised by the Václav Havel Library in cooperation with the Centre for Theoretical Study.