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The UCI Humanities Center invites you to explore past and present visions of the future in our theme: 

Imagining Futures, Revisioning Pasts

In envisioning 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?

Please join us for the fall kick-off event for the UCI Humanities Center. For 2024-2025, we explore past and present visions of the future and how these imaginings shape our understandings of the past. 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?

 

Kick-Off Roundtable Reception
October 3, 2024, 12-1:30 p.m., Humanities Gateway 1030
Please RSVP by Monday, September 30, 2024:

 https://bit.ly/2024ImaginingFuturesRevisioningPasts

 

Moderator:
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Associate Dean in SOH and Faculty Director of the Humanities Center

 

Speakers:

  • Jonathan Alexander, Director of Humanities Core and Chancellor’s Professor of English and Informatics
  • Allison Koslow, Assistant Professor of Philosophy
  • Viviane Mahieux, Associate Professor of Spanish & Portuguese
  • Tyrus Miller, Dean of SOH and Professor of Art History and English