Anticipation Conference 2024

Anticipation 24 is a unique, radically interdisciplinary conference for exploring how ideas of the future inform action in the present. Foregrounding the significance of context, the conference invites us to locate ourselves in the first quarter of the 21st century to explore new understandings, framings, skills, imaginaries and means of instigating positive change for future generations. We invite reflection on how anticipations emerge from and are shaped in particular places at particular times, however globally interdependent connections might be across individuals, groups, institutions, systems and cultures.

Anticipation 24

5th Annual conference on Anticipation

11-14th September 2024, Lancaster University, UK

Consolidating an open, convivial and interdisciplinary forum for scholars, practitioners, researchers, and citizens in the field of anticipation and future studies, the 5th International Conference on Anticipation seeks to deepen and widen the exchange of new ideas, and possible future directions, and to debate key issues of relevance to reflecting on and acting upon better futures. This conference builds on prior conferences in Trento, Italy (2015), London, England (2017), Oslo, Norway (2019), and Tempe, Arizona (2022).

Venue

Lancaster University is set in a beautiful campus near the Lake District, which is one of the main tourist destinations in the UK and World Heritage Site since 2018. Details of how to reach us and additional relevant information will be shared via the website nearer the conference date. The conference will be hosted by the Centre for Social Futures in collaboration with several departments and other centres across the university.

The in-person conference will be held at Arizona State University, at the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory, located in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona. The area offers a wide range of accommodation options, from budget to five star facilities and is easily accessible from Phoenix’s Sky Harbor airport.

Summer school

For more details please follow the link.

Taking advantage of the spectacular desert location, with enough interest, we will organize field trips to Biosphere 2 11/15/2022 (fee for shared transport and tour) Emerge Festival in Mesa 11/19/2022 (no fee, participants self-organize local transport)

Place-Based & Virtual Options

In lieu of a complex hybrid event, we have decided to offer this event as hybrid. Due to concerns ranging from carbon, convenience, cost, and/or COVID-19, some will prefer to attend virtually. This offering also aligns with our goals to create an accessible and inclusive international event.

In lieu of a complex hybrid event, we have decided to offer an all-virtual event and an in-person event. Due to concerns ranging from carbon, convenience, cost, and/or COVID-19, some folks prefer to attend virtually and thus we are planning to create a virtual conference on November 4, 2022. This offering also aligns with our goals to create an accessible and inclusive international event.

Conference Organizing Committee

Local Organizing Committee is composed of Yekta Bakirlioglu, Kwamou Feukeu, Derek Gatherer, Carlos López Galviz, Louise Mullagh, Jennifer Thompson, Felipe Sanchez Burgos, Natasa Lackovic ,and Megan Blakeley,

Sponsoring

If you are interested in sponsoring an element of the conference or if you are able to assist with travel bursaries, please contact us at: anticipation2024@lancaster.ac.uk