The UCI Humanities Center Invites you to envision the time yet to come…
- How does it alter the way we understand our past and our possibilities?
- What persists or changes?
- In ourselves, our communities, and our environment?
- What are our hopes and fears?
For 2024-2025, the UCI Humanities Center will explore past and present visions of the future and how these imaginings shape our understandings of the past. How have human beings hoped what might be different or remain the same about the time yet to come? How have we engaged in thought experiments about the possibilities of altered human bodies and psyches, social structures and technological development, as well as natural and built environments? What do utopian and dystopian visions reveal to us about human “nature?” What is possible to change and what is not?
These are some of the key questions that the UCI Humanities Center will be exploring. We also hope to highlight programming that is taking place across the UCs as well. Please join us!
For more information, contact Professor Judy Wu (j.wu@uci.edu)
Imagining Futures, Revisioning Pasts Panel, Oct 3, 2024
A scholar, author, pedagogue, and visual artist, Jonathan works in the fields of writing studies, sexuality studies, life writing and memoir. He is the director of Humanities Core
Allison works primarily in the philosophy of language, and its intersections with socially-minded issues in ontology, philosophy of mind, and epistemology.
Viviane works on modern and contemporary Latin America, with an interest in early 20th century avant-gardes, the genre of the chronicle and feminist activism in Mexico.
Tyrus is a scholar of 20th-century art, literature, and culture, with a specialization in the modernist and avant-garde literary and artistic movements of Europe and the US.
Associate Dean, School of Humanities; Professor, Departments of History and Asian American Studies