Mihály Hoppál will report on his encounters with shamans in Siberia and the Far East. He will intend to show one of his films which has been made during his fieldwork. Shamanism is a living cultural phenomena today. Moreover, there is a tendency of its further development as a substitute of religious faith, a form of social and spiritual medicine, and a neo-paganic ritual. Shamans go global, which is a characteristic feature of the post-modern world.
What do diseases, the World Wide Web, the electric power grid, Al Queda terrorists, and a cocktail party have in common? They are all networks.
The HCC would like to invite you to the next lecture of the scientific series Future Talks
The simple rules of complexity by Dr József Baranyi.
Dr József Baranyi, mathematician will reveal how everything is connected in our world. He will talk about network science, a new, emerging scientific discipline that with its thought provoking ideas has turned the scientific world upside-down.
Budapest and the World Science Forum provided a platform for discussion on today's burning issues affecting science on three occasions up to now. The first World Science Forum took place between 8-10 November 2003, focusing on "Knowledge and Society", with the main objective of raising awareness world-wide toward the increasing and novel roles of knowledge and their societal impact.
In convening a World Conference on Science for the Twenty-First Century: a New Commitment, from 26 June to 1 July 1999 in Budapest, Hungary, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the International Council for Science (ICSU), in co-operation with other partners, provided a unique forum for this much-needed debate between the scientific community and society.
The Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS) has traditionally been involved in supporting contacts among Hungarian scientists home and abroad, thus promoting the integrity of Hungarian science.
After several decades of one-on-one ties among Hungarian scientists active in Hungary, in the neighbouring countries, and overseas respectively, a major step towards strengthening those ties was taken in 1990 with the introduction of external membership of HAS, a recognition for distinguished scholars and scientists of non-Hungarian citizenship who considered themselves fully or partly Hungarian.
Besides its elected members, HAS has a Public Body which was created in 1994. Scholars and scientists in Hungary with a scientific degree can apply for admission to the Public Body of the Academy. The members of the Public Body have various rights, e.g. they can send representatives to the General Assembly of HAS.
Since 2000, according to the resolution of the General Assembly, Public Body membership has been extended to Hungarian researchers first in the neighbouring countries, later to Hungarian researchers from any country. The present database of the names with some of the most important information of the External Public Body members can be found here.
To handle issues related to Hungarian science abroad, the’Hungarian Science Abroad’ Presidential Committee was set up in 1996. To assist the activities of this Committee, the Academic Council on Hungarian Science in the West was set up in 2003, to better involve Hungarian scientists living in Western Europe and overseas into Hungarian-Hungarian scientific cooperation.
The ’Hungarian Science Abroad’ Presidential Committee supervises the Domus Hungarica Scientiarum et Artium Programme, which was launched in 1997 on the initiative of HAS and is jointly administered by the Academy and the Ministry of Education. Within this framework junior and senior Hungarian scholars and scientists can visit university departments, research institutes and archives in Hungary to do research for a maximum period of three months at present. Furthermore, the programme also provides support to fund participation at scientific conferences in Hungary.
