Scheduled Time	Agenda Item
February 22
9.00	Welcome – Paul Cilliers (South Africa)
9.10	What is there in a word?: Heterarchy, homoarchy, and the difference in understanding ‘complexity’ in the social sciences and complexity studies Dmitri M. Bondarenko
9.30	To catch a falling star: Opening the middle path’s hands of humility to science Graham Schliebs
9.50	Roundtable discussion – Status, limits and legitimacy of knowledge regarding complex systems
10.50	Tea Break
11:20	Foucault, complexity, and myth: Toward a complexity-based approach to social evolution (a.k.a. history) Ken Baskin
11.50	Roundtable Discussion – Complexity and the social sciences
12.50	Lunch
13.50	The complex face of God Jean Boulton & Peter Allen
14.20	Roundtable Discussion – Complex limits to theories of everything
15.20	Poster Session Part 1 (Drinks and snacks will be made available)
16.50	Poster Session Part 2
18.20	Close
19.00	Stellenbosch Night – Workshop Dinner
February 23
9.00	An epistemology of learning through life Aliki Nicolaides & Lyle Yorks
9.30	Roundtable Discussion – Complexity and human subjectivity
10.30	Complexity-based ethics: Martin Buber and dynamic self-organization Deborah P. Bloch & Terrence Nordstrom
11.00	Roundtable Discussions – Complexity-based ethics
12.30	Lunch
	Panel Session
1.30	Non-quantitative modeling as a framework for the analysis of complex systems Jan H. S. Roodt
1.50	Measuring complexity: Things that go wrong and how to get it right Vincent Vesterby
2.10	Roundtable Discussions – Frameworks for the analysis of complex systems
2.30	Roundtable Discussions – General
4.30	Closing remarks – Paul Cilliers (South Africa)

Poster Session Papers

Session 1

1. Foucault, complexity, and myth: Toward a complexity-based approach to social evolution (a.k.a. history)
Ken Baskin

2. Complexity-based ethics: Martin Buber and dynamic self-organization
Deborah P. Bloch & Terrence Nordstrom

3. Gaia, complexity, and American Indian Tribes: Common ground for compatible theories
Nicholas C. Peroff

4. What is there in a word?: Heterarchy, homoarchy, and the difference in understanding ‘complexity’ in the social sciences and complexity studies
Dmitri M. Bondarenko

5. Wittgenstein’s Ladder in Prigogine’s Universe
Tapio Muhonen

6. To catch a falling star: Opening the middle path’s hands of humility to science
Graham Schliebs

7. Rhythmic entrainment, symmetry and power
John Collier

8. The complexity of design as a wavefunction
Johann van der Merwe

9. A-causality: A quantum ontology for complex systems
Walter Baets

10. Modeling rationality and emergence in dynamic networks
Remo Pareschi

Session 2

11. Homeostasis, complexity, and the problem of biological design
Scott Turner

12. Bios theory of physical, biological and human evolution
Hector Sabelli

13. Two ways of reducing linguistic complexity
Josef Zelger

14. The discrete challenge to theories of the continuum
Tony Smith

15. The role of information ‘barriers’ in complex dynamical systems behavior
Kurt A. Richardson

16. Non-quantitative modeling as a framework for the analysis of complex systems
Jan H. S. Roodt

17. An epistemology of learning through life
Aliki Nicolaides & Lyle Yorks

18. Towards a dialectic complexity framework: Philosophical reflections
Fredrik Nilsson

19. Measuring complexity: Things that go wrong and how to get it right
Vincent Vesterby

20. The complex face of God
Jean Boulton & Peter Allen