How do we live well with technology? And how do we talk with others across boundaries? The Faculty of Arts and Humanities is delighted to welcome you to the official launch of its new Digital Futures and Global Cultures Institutes.

The Digital Futures Institute aims to advance research and public understanding of the contexts, consequences and possibilities of technology by reframing what are usually thought of as technical challenges as human and social challenges that require other ways of responding. The Institute draws on a wide range of research expertise across King’s, bringing the critical perspectives of the arts and humanities into generative engagements with other disciplines.

The Global Cultures Institute unites interdisciplinary research, teaching, and impact across the whole College, by exploring the arts, media, and human culture on a global scale. The Institute explores the impacts of historical and contemporary global challenges on the literary, visual, performance and digital arts produced around the world. It also examines how the arts, media and human culture respond to, question, problematize, rethink, and offer new ways of engaging with and solving those global challenges. The Institute demonstrates how understanding human culture, media and the arts is essential both to enable us to make sense of a globalized world and to address the challenges that are presented by globalization.

The launch is in two parts, an afternoon of invited presentations and keynote talks, and an evening reception.

In the evening, please join us for a welcome from Marion Thain, Executive Dean of Arts and Humanities, refreshments and networking.

Programme

6pm Start/Relocate from Bush House Lecture Theatre 2 (S 4.04)

6.30pm Formal welcome, Marion Thain

6.45pm Taking offence, Linda Woodhead and DFI/GCI Directors

7pm Refreshments and networking

9pm End

View the full programme at this event's linktree.

This is the listing for the evening. To book the afternoon talks as well, please visit this page.

This event is wheelchair accessible. This event will be filmed and photographed, by attending you consent to appearing in any footage or stills of the event. Tickets are limited so if you book but cannot come, please kindly cancel asap. For further information and to inform the organiser of any dietary or access requirements, or to sign up to our waiting list, please email digitalfutures@kcl.ac.uk.

Digital Futures Institute & Global Cultures Institute Launch (Evening)