Exploring Futurisms - Mini Symposium
Organised by Edinburgh Napier university and The University of Glasgow.
Dr Ita Jansen (Edinburgh Napier University) and Dr Anna McFarlane (University of Glasgow) invite you to join them for a Futurisms Symposium at the Royal Society of Edinburgh. We are bringing together researchers interested in some of the key issues facing us today: the climate crisis, the rise of artificial intelligence, and the future of reproduction. Our goal is to foster future interdisciplinary collaboration and to build a network of academics in Scotland with an interest in ideas of the future, and how these have a bearing on our present behaviour.
The event will be held at The Royal Society of Edinburgh, from 9:00 to 13:00
Coffee, Tea and Pastries will be served.
PROGRAMME
9:00 - 9:20 UPPER GALLERY
Arrival and Coffee & Tea in Upper Gallery
LECTURE THEATRE
9:20 - 9:30
WELCOME by Dr Anna McFarlane and Dr Ita Jansen
9:30 - 10:20
PANEL - Exploring New Technologies and Ethics
- Professor Shannon Vallor (The University of Edinburgh)
The AI Mirror: How AI Does, and Does Not, Endanger the Future
- Paul Gray (Edinburgh Napier University)
Skerry & May: Collaborating with Artificial Intelligence in the writing of a film script
- Respondent Dr Anna McFarlane (The University of Glasgow)
- Respondent Dr Lynda Clark (The University of Edinburgh)
10:20 -11:00
CONVERSATION with the Audience
Moderated by Dr Pascal Cicchetti (Edinburgh Napier University)
11:00 -11:30 BREAK in UPPER GALLERY
with Coffee, Tea & Pastries
LECTURE THEATRE
11:30- 12:20
PANEL - Exploring Planetary Futures
- Professor Jarita Holbrook (The University of Edinburgh)
Exploring [AFRO]Futurisms
- Dr Ita Jansen (Edinburgh University Napier)
The Making of Indigenous Futurist film Ñuuyii (Earth)
Respondent Dr Daniel M. Knight (University of St Andrews)
- Respondent Dr Gavin Miller (The University of Glasgow)
12:20 - 13:00 CONVERSATION
CONVERSATION with the Audience
Moderated by Dr Pascal Cicchetti (Edinburgh Napier University)
Bios will be added shortly
