The year-long IHGC lecture series features humanists, scientists, writers, artists, and policy experts who explore burning questions about our unfolding futures.
Watch our Futurities Lectures from last semester here:
Spring 2023 Futurities Events:
2/16, 12-1:30 PM - "Depth Figures: Oceanic Futures, Submarine Remains,"
Killian Quigley, Austrialian Catholic University
In person, Wilson 142 (Hybrid event, Zoom registration here)
2/23, 12:00-1:30 PM - “Frameworks for the Future: the Environment, Climate Change and the Anthropocene”
Julia Adeney Thomas, University of Notre Dame
Julia Adeney Thomas, University of Notre Dame
In person - Wilson 142 (Hybrid event, Zoom registration here)
3/16, 12:00-1:30 PM - "The Future Claimant’s Representative: Or, What is the University ‘For’?"
Ian Baucom, University of Viginia
In person - Wilson 142 (Hybrid event, Zoom registration here)
4/20, 12:00-1:30 PM - "Planetary Figures"
Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago
In person - Wilson 142 (Hybrid event, Zoom registration here)
Fall 2022 Futuries Events:
9/23, 12-1:30PM - “Technology Eats History: Techno-metabolism and Time in the Anthropocene”
Paul Edwards, Stanford University
Online - Register here.
10/28, 12-1:30PM - “Climate Leviathan: A Political Theory of our Planetary Future"
Geoff Mann, Simon Fraser University
Online - Register here.