28.356, Calls: General Linguistics/UK

Tue Jan 17 21:11:59 UTC 2017

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Subject: 28.356, Calls: General Linguistics/UK

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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 16:11:45
From: Katherine Dunleavy [clkad at bristol.ac.uk]
Subject: Anticipation 2017

Full Title: Anticipation 2017 

Date: 08-Nov-2017 - 10-Nov-2017
Location: London, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Katherine Dunleavy
Meeting Email: clkad at bristol.ac.uk
Web Site: http://anticipation2017.org/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 27-Jan-2017 

Meeting Description:

Anticipation 2017 is a unique, radically interdisciplinary forum for exploring
how ideas of the future inform action in the present. It brings together
researchers, policy makers, scholars and practitioners to push forward
thinking on issues ranging from modelling, temporality and the present to the
design, ethics and power of the future.

The overarching aim of the conference and of the emerging field of
Anticipation Studies is to create new understandings of how individuals,
groups, institutions, systems and cultures use ideas of the future to act in
the present. This conference will build on the 1st Conference of Anticipation,
held in Trento, Italy in 2015 which saw over 350 delegates gather to explore
topics ranging from design futures, to anticipatory economics and the
philosophy of the present.

This second conference aims to put into dialogue the empirical, practical and
theoretical insights that are emerging in highly diverse fields ranging from
biology to psychology, cultural geography to linguistics, physics to design,
history to mathematics, urban theory to engineering.

Call for Papers:

Organised around a set of sensitising questions designed to push forward
interdisciplinary understanding the conference will intentionally create real
opportunities for dialogue, learning and exploration; it will actively enable
participants both to deepen their understanding of anticipation in their own
fields while encountering the new ideas emerging elsewhere.

To that end, we are inviting proposals for the conference that speak to the
following questions which are intended to encourage conversations between
researchers, practitioners and scholars addressing anticipatory phenomena and
practices in different ways.

How do we understand anticipatory differences?

How do different cultures, religions and traditions anticipate? How do
implicit and explicit forms of anticipation compare? How do individual and
systemic forms of anticipation relate to each other? What are the history and
geography and cultural studies of anticipation? How/do mathematical and
narrative traditions of framing the future inform action differently?

What are the affective and embodied aspects of Anticipation?

Anticipation as anxiety; the role of joy, desire and pleasure; Embodied
emotion and affect; what is this need to talk about the future at all, where
does it come from? What is the work of hope and fear? What do these emotions
do? (Psycho)analysing anticipation.

How do we live in time?

What is the present? How soon is now? How is temporality understood at
different scales and by different disciplines? What are the instruments for
measuring time? What are the different forms of time that we live within? The
grammar of living in time – the subjunctive.

How does the future get made?

What is the nature of anticipatory work? Where is it being made that ‘we’
don’t know about? Who are the actors making and shaping futures? What are the
undercurrents of future making? Who/how is the future being hacked? How are
automatic systems and technologies making their own futures? What is the role
of complexity, non linearity, indeterminacy? What are the conditions and
practices for Design and Engineering to influence futures.

Who owns and governs the future?

How do anticipatory regimes produce governance? Who is telling the story of
the future? What media and systems are being used to govern future narratives?
What are the political economies of anticipation? New economic models new
anticipatory imaginaries? Democracy and anticipation. How/is the future being
colonised?

How to keep the future open?

How does the imagination colonise or keep open future possibilities ? How are
we to care for the future? What processes, practices and techniques might we
use to pluralise and keep open the future? How do we work with risk? What is
our responsibility in designing and embedding futures? Which conditions and
what contexts are important for educating or legislating for open futures?

What is the relationship between an idea of the future and action in the
present?

How do mathematical and statistical models, futures scenarios and plans relate
and translate (or not) into action in the present? How do ideational and
material elements of anticipation relate to each other?

Please submit through our website:
http://anticipation2017.org/call-for-papers/

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