Inaugural Imagining Futures Conference
- Topics
- November
- Online
Inaugural Imagining Futures Conference
Each of the themes covers one of the Research Networks.
December 4, 2020
"Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age"
Founding Editor of UbuWeb and Senior Editor of PennSound at the University of Pennsylvania
December 11, 2020
"Phenomenology and Data"
Professor, Anthropology, New School for Social Research, New York, USA
December 18, 2020
"Prototype Nation: China & the Contested Promise of Innovation"
Associate Professor, University of Michigan in the School of Information and Associate Director of the Center for Ethics, Society, and Computing (ESC), Ann Arbor, USA
January 8, 2021
"The New American Farmer: Immigration, Race and the Struggle for Sustainability"
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Food Studies, Dept. of Nutrition and Food Studies; Affiliated Faculty, Departments of Geography and Women's and Gender Studies; Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion, Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA
January 22, 2021
"How To: Play Like a Feminist"
(Why Feminists Need Video Games and Why Video Games Need Feminism)
Associate Professor, Entertainment & Media Studies, University of Georgia, Athens, USA
February 5, 2021
"Slab City: Dispatches from the Last Free Place"
February 12, 2021
"Technobiophilia: Nature in the Digital"
Writer and a Visiting Fellow, Media School, Bournemouth University, UK
February 26, 2021
"Streams of Revenue: The Restoration Economy and the Ecosystems it Creates"
Full Professor and Chair, Department of Geography, Indiana University
March 5, 2021
"The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope"
Assistant Professor, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
March 25 - 19:00PM Chicago CST // March 26 - 11:00AM Melbourne
"Imagining Educational Futures"
Professor Emeritus, University of Melbourne, Australia
May 27 - 18:00PM Chicago CST // May 28 - 9:00AM Sydney AEST
"‘We are not machines': Creating a Research and Development Centre that focuses on the qualities of Human creativity, imagination and empathy in solving societal problems at a time of chaos and the rise of machine intelligence"
Co-Director and founder, ‘Future Arts Science and Technology Laboratory’ (FASTLAB), University of Newcastle, Australia
(Non Common Ground Research Network Member)
| Early | DATE | $100 |
| Regular | DATE | $150 |
| Late | DATE | $200 |
(Common Ground Research Network Member)
(Non Common Ground Research Network Member)
(Common Ground Research Network Member)