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6th November 2024
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Below you will find information about events and other news that may be of interest. This will be regularly updated.

The next event, Complexity in Action, is online, on November 11th, and is hosted by Henley Business School Africa. This event will bring together myself with Sharon Varney, author of Leadership in Complexity and Change. We will be hosted by Jon Foster-Pedley, Dean of Henley Business School, Africa. The discussion will focus on what complexity means leadership, strategy and change.

Then the next event, hosted by the Schumacher Institute will be held both in Bristol and online on November 28th. This talk will take explore the implications of embracing complexity when considering the global challenges of climate change, inequality, political polarisation and increasing conflict and unrest in what is being named an emerging polycrisis. Sign up here – note you will need to email the organiser to register.

Here is a link to the recording of a discussion about The Dao of Complexity, which took place at the Institute of Physics, on October 21st 2024. This talk took a more physics-y flavour, as well as introducing the themes of the book. The questions however took us into discussions of the importance of values, and of the broad ontological stance in which process complexity is situated. This talk joins a series of discussions and interviews with many key thinkers in the field of complexity applied to the social world that can be found here.

The celebratory book launch in my hometown was a great success. As well as discussing key themes of The Dao of Complexity, I discussed, with the key illustrator Simon Blakeman, how we worked together to create images, which conveyed the sense of the ideas the book explores. You can watch it here.

In June 2024, I took part as a discussant to Yuen Yuen Ang’s presentation at SOAS on her challenges to economic orthodoxy.