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

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.