https:\/\/grapplingwiththefutures.com\/<\/a><\/p>\nKeynote Lectures, Sunday 29th 9:00am-12:30pm<\/strong>
\nScience Center Building, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
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Tempting Futures<\/p>\n
Cynthia Selin, <\/strong>Arizona State University, School for the Future of Innovation in Society<\/p>\n<\/li>\n- \n
The Buried Past of the Far Future: Scenario Thought in the Nuclear Age<\/p>\n
Peter Galison, <\/strong>Harvard University, History of Science, Physics<\/p>\n<\/li>\n- \n
Anticipation the Philosophy of the Future<\/p>\n
Roberto Poli, <\/strong>Trento University (Italy), Philosophy of Science<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\nSunday 2:00pm – 3:30pm<\/strong>
\n Session 1: Plausible Futures (Philosophy)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
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Troping Futures: Applying philosophy of language to examine the prefiguration of continuity and disruption<\/p>\n
Nele Fischer and Sascha Dannenberg, <\/strong>Freie Universitat Berlin, Future Studies<\/p>\n<\/li>\n- \n
How do we get from now to then? On the merits and limits of explanatory pluralism in future scenarios<\/p>\n
Yashar Saghai, <\/strong>Johns Hopkins University, Berman Institute of Bioethics<\/p>\n<\/li>\n- \n
A critical realist approach to scenario modeling practice<\/p>\n
Eric Kemp-Benedic, <\/strong>Stockholm Environment Institute<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\nSunday 2:00pm – 3:30pm<\/strong>
\n Session 2: Global Histories of Futures Studies (History)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
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Cold War futures? Political epistemologies and flows of knowledge in transnational futures studies, 1950-1990<\/p>\n
Elke Seefried, <\/strong>University of Augsburg, Modern History<\/p>\n<\/li>\n- \n
How Cold War anthropology tried (and failed) to decolonize \u2018Third World\u2019 futures<\/p>\n
Joanna Radin, <\/strong>Yale University, History of Medicine<\/p>\n<\/li>\n- \n
Futures as global expertise<\/p>\n
Jenny Andersson, <\/strong>Paris Institute of Political Studies<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\nSunday 2:00pm – 3:30pm<\/strong>
\n Session 3: Anticipation and Visioning (Interdisciplinary)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
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Anticipatory process and social research: going beyond a prescriptive and policy-oriented view of anticipation<\/p>\n
Luciano d\u2019Andrea<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n- \n
Distorting mirrors of the present: Future visions as socio-epistemic practices<\/p>\n
Dirk Hommrich and Paulina Dobroc <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\nSunday 2:00pm – 3:30pm<\/strong>
\n Session 4: Health and Futures Studies (STS)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
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Managing the future: Planning cancer virus research at the National Cancer Institute<\/p>\n
Robin Wolfe Scheffler, <\/strong>Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Science Technology and Society<\/p>\n<\/li>\n- \n
Critical reflections on \u201cfuturing\u201d in responsible research and innovation:
\nthe case of Alzheimer\u2019s research<\/p>\n
Karen Dam Nielsen and Mariane Boenink, <\/strong> University of Twente (Netherlands), Philosophy<\/p>\n<\/li>\n- \n
Understanding the past and rethinking the future of anticipatory bioethics<\/p>\n
Ari Schick, <\/strong>Harvard University, Edmond J. Saftra Center for Ethics<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"58th Annual Program 2017\u20132018 For the 58th Annual BCPS program the Center will be co-sponsoring the 2017-2018 Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar on \u201cHumanities and Technology at the Crossroads\u201d You can learn more about their full program here: MellonPhilEmerge.com Grappling with the Futures: Insights from Philosophy, History, and Science, Technology and Society April 29th – 30th, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6868,"featured_media":0,"parent":101,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6868"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3662"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3672,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3662\/revisions\/3672"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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