Historical Meetings

Annual Meetings of the International Society for the Systems Sciences
 
| 2024 | 68 | USA | Washington D.C. |
| 2023 | 67 | South Africa | Kruger National Park |
| 2022 | 66 | (online) |  |
| 2021 | 65 | (online) |  |
| 2020 | 64 | (cancelled) |  |
| 2019 | 63 | USA | Corvallis |
| 2018 | 62 | USA | Corvallis |
| 2017 | 61 | Austria |Vienna |
| 2016 | 60 | USA | Boulder |
| 2015 | 59 | Germany | Berlin |
| 2014 | 58 | USA | Washington DC |
| 2013 | 57 | Vietnam | Hai Phong |
| 2012 | 56 | USA |San Jose |
| 2011 | 55 | UK | Hull |
| 2010 | 54 | Canada | Waterloo, Ontario |
| 2009 | 53 | Australia | Brisbane  |
| 2008 | 52 | USA |Madison  |
| 2007 | 51 | Japan |Tokyo  |
| 2006 | 50 | USA | Sonoma (Rohnert Park, CA) |
| 2005 | 49 | Mexico | Cancun |
| 2004 | 48 | USA | Asilomar (Pacific Grove, CA) |
| 2003 | 47 | Greece | Crete (Hersonissos) |
| 2002 | 46 | China | Shanghai (PuDong) |
| 2001 | 45 | USA | Asilomar (Pacific Grove, CA) |
| 2000 | 44 | Canada | Toronto, ON |  2000 Video YouTube Playlist
| 1999 | 43 | USA | Asilomar (Pacific Grove, CA) |
| 1998 | 42 | USA | Atlanta, GA |
| 1997 | 41 | Korea | Seoul |
| 1996 | 40 | USA and Hungary | Louisville, KY (July) and Budapest (Sept) |
| 1995 | 39 | Netherlands | Amsterdam |
| 1994 | 38 | USA | Asilomar (Pacific Grove, CA) |
| 1993 | 37 | Australia | Hawkesbury, NSW |
| 1992 | 36 | USA | Denver, CO |
| 1991 | 35 | Sweden | Ostersund |
| 1990 | 34 | USA | Portland, OR |
| 1989 | 33 | Scotland | Edinburgh, Scotland |
| 1988 | 32 | USA | St Louis, MO |
| 1987 | 31 | Hungary | Budapest |
 
Annual Meetings of the International Society for General Systems Research (not with AAAS now on)

| 1986 | 30 | USA | Philadelphia, PA |
| 1985 | 29 | USA | Los Angeles, CA |
| 1984 | 28 | USA | New York, NY |
| 1983 | 27 | USA | Detroit, MI |
| 1982 | 26 (Jan 5-9) | USA | Washington, DC |
| 1981 | 25 (Jan 6-10) | Canada | Toronto, ON |
 
Annual Meetings of the International Society for General Systems Research

| 1980 | 24 (Jan 7-10) | USA | San Francisco, CA | 
| 1979 | 23 (Jan 3-8), with AAAS (25th) | USA | Houston, TX
| 1979 | SP (August) | England | London | 25th "Silver" anniversary of the society's founding in 1954 | First International meeting |
| 1978 | 22 Feb 13-15 with AAAS | USA | Washington, DC |
| 1977 | 21 (Feb 20-26) | USA | Denver, CO |
| 1976 | 20 | USA | Boston, MA |
| 1975 | 19 (February 18-21) with AAAS | USA | Boston, MA |
| 1974 | 18 (February 25-March 2) with AAAS | USA | San Francisco, CA |
| 1973 | 17 (Apr 14) Mid-Atlantic | USA | The American University, Washington, DC |
| 1972 | 16 (Sep 30) Mid-Atlantic | USA | Washington, DC |
| 1971 | 15 (December 27-30), with AAAS | USA | Philadelphia, PA | The World System
| 1970 | 14 (December 26-30), with AAAS (16th) | USA | Chicago, IL | World Cities of the Future
| 1969 | 13 (December 27-30), with AAAS (15th) | USA | Boston, MA | (various themes)
| 1968 | 12 (December 26-30), with AAAS (14th) | USA | Dallas, TX | Man in Systems
| 1967 | 11 (December 26-30), with AAAS (13th) | USA | New York | (various themes)
| 1966 | 10 (December 26-30), with AAAS (12th) | USA | Washington | (various themes, particularly: Symbolism)
| 1965 | 9 (December 27-31), with AAAS (11th) | USA | Berkeley, CA | various themes
| 1964 | 8 (December 26-31), with AAAS (10th) | Canada | Montreal, Quebec | Positive feedback
| 1963 | 7 (December 27), with AAAS (9th) | USA | Cleveland, OH | General Systems and the Two Cultures
| 1962 | 6 (December 26-31), with AAAS (8th) | USA | Philadelphia, PA |
| 1961 | 5 (December 29), with AAAS (7th) | USA | Denver, CO | The Teaching of Systems Thinking
| 1960 | 4 (December 29-30), with AAAS (6th) | USA | New York | The Boundaries of Systems
| 1959 | 3 (December 29-30), with AAAS (5th) | USA | Chicago, IL | The Synthesis of Organization
| 1958 | 2 (December 29), with AAAS (4th) | USA | Washington, DC | Population Dynamics
| 1957 | 1 (December 26-31), with AAAS (3rd AAAS meeting) | USA | Indianapolis, IN | Organization for Humans, Cells and Artifacts
 
Formation as the Society for the Advancement of General Systems Theory 

| 1956 | -1 (Dec 29-30), founding meeting as a chapter in AAAS | USA | New York | Systems under stress
| 1955 | -2 (Dec 27) founding meetings and papers, with AAAS | USA | Atlanta, GA | Entropy
| 1954 | -3 (Dec 27) organizational meeting, in AAAS | USA | Berkeley, CA |
 
In December of 1954, under the auspices of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a meeting of some seventy people was held in Berkeley to form a society for the exploration and development of the ideas that von Bertalanffy, Boulding, Rapoport, and Gerard had come together to discuss earlier that year in Palo Alto at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (a newly established Ford Foundation enterprise).
 
History of Annual Meetings
 
The Society began as the Society for the Advancement of General Systems Theory, which was then changed to the Society for General Systems Research in the fall of 1955.
 
The name was changed again in 1986 to the International Society for General Systems Research, and then finally, in 1988, to the International Society for the Systems Sciences.