Last week's reading group session was on 'The Limits of the Future.' We had a brilliant discussion around 'the reparative turn,' educational racism, the problems with prophecy and utopianism, and the discourse around so-called "megacities." Our next session is on 'Protecting the Future' 🌎 🌌 ✨
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There's still to submit to our 'Languages of the Future' conference! 🌎 📚
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We would love to hear from you – whether you would like to suggest a panel discussion, you would like to present a 20 minute formal paper, or if you would like to suggest any other format to engage with!
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We are excited to announce that our conference 'Languages of the Future' will be held on 5th June (in person at UCL) and 6th June (online). 📚 🎤 🌏
If you are interested in presenting, please submit a 150-200 word abstract by April 28th and a short author-bio to languagesofthefuture@gmail.com
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In this week's session, 'Ethnography of the Future,' we discussed Pierre Bourdieu's 'The Forms of Capital' alongside work by @peterbrowning.bsky.social and Luisa Martín Rojo. The conversation was illuminating (as always!), ranging from the politics of taste to the utopianism of protest movements 🌏 📚
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Last week's reading group session was on 'Prologue and Prophecy.' Moving between Greek tragedy and the narratives of inaction that attend climate catastrophe, we discussed the comforts and dangers of certainty, the plurality of determining forces, and the power of hope as a future-oriented affect 🌏
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Depending on responses, we may repeat this call later in the academic year. This is not guaranteed,
however, so if you think you would like to contribute, add another publication to your CV, or work
with supportive editors to publish your very first piece of academic work, please get in touch! 📚
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Please email languagesofthefuture@gmail.com with a 200 word abstract, or 150 word proposal for a creative piece by 1st March. Final pieces due 10th April, and within the word count of 1,000-2,500 words, for those who are proposing written pieces (word count provisions do not apply to poetry). 💻
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CALL FOR PAPERS – We are inviting reviews, creative pieces, podcast proposals, and academic articles alike alike on the subject
of ‘Languages of the Future’ for a special issue of @ucl-ias.bsky.social's Think Pieces ✍️
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Last week we held the third session of our Languages of the Future reading group. Focusing on the theme of 'Spirits of the Future,' we discussed Jacques Derrida's notion of 'hauntology,' the vitality and persistence of indigenous ways of knowing, and the afterlives of waste 🌍 🌠 📖
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Professor Neil Vickers on the history of the health humanities
Professor Neil Vickers explores a subject that is seldom mentioned and often dismissed: the history of the medical humanities.
🚑 Professor Neil Vickers explores the history of the medical humanities: where they came from, their relation to other fields, their historical turning points, and whether they are likely to survive.
Sign-up now for this series by the Health Humanities Centre at @ucl-ias.bsky.social ⤵️
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Session two of our Languages of the Future reading group was just as inspiring and thought-provoking as the first! We discussed the roots and blindspots of archival imaginations, along with connected themes such as intergenerational memory and the role of art in excavating and conserving the past 🌎
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In the next session of our Languages of the Future reading group next Wednesday (29/01/25) we will be discussing 'The Futures of the Past' – specifically in relation to the creation and curation of archives. Derrida's ARCHIVE FEVER will be a key touchstone. What other texts would you like to see? 📚
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We had a fantastic first session of our Languages of the Future reading group @ucl-ias.bsky.social. Focusing on excerpts from David Farrier's FOOTPRINTS and Robert Macfarlane's UNDERLAND, we discussed 'future fossils,' interwoven temporalities and communicating across deep time 🪨💫👁️
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Welsh Indian South African Dutch Londoner. PhD in Philosophy of Education. Antiracist Dialogic Pedagogy. Children's Books. Teaching & Writing.
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Head of Policy & Pships, UCL European Institute, interested in Europe, politics, universities, science & culture - all views my own
Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
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Writer. Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils | Nature's Genius: Evolution's Lessons for a Changing Planet, shortlisted for the Wainwright Conservation Writing Prize 2025
Professor of Literature & the Environment, University of Edinburgh
Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies @UCL | Environmental Humanities | Utopia | Apocalypse | Anthropocene Studies | World Literature
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