35.395, Calls: Imagining Possible Futures: Multidisciplinary Engagements with Access, Agency and Participation

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Subject: 35.395, Calls: Imagining Possible Futures: Multidisciplinary Engagements with Access, Agency and Participation

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Date: 02-Feb-2024
From: Maija Lappalainen [multileap at jyu.fi]
Subject: Imagining Possible Futures: Multidisciplinary Engagements with Access, Agency and Participation


Full Title: Imagining possible futures: Multidisciplinary engagements
with access, agency and participation

Date: 17-Jun-2024 - 19-Jun-2024
Location: University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Contact Person: Maija Lappalainen
Meeting Email: multileap at jyu.fi
Web Site: https://www.jyu.fi/en/events/imagining-possible-futures-2024

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Call Deadline: 16-Feb-2024

Meeting Description:

Keynote speakers: Luci Pangrazio (Deakin University, Melbourne),
Kaarina Nikunen (University of Tampere) and Veli-Matti Karhulahti
(University of Jyväskylä)

 “When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me.
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.”

It is hard to think of a more appropriate term than "times of trouble"
to describe the current era of uncertainties, environmental crises,
pandemic, wars, uncontrolled technological disruption, and political
radicalization. Paul McCartney apparently had a clear plan for
turbulent times: just let it be. Such a stance, however, is not the
only possible one – neither the recommended default choice.

The future is not fixed nor predetermined. Instead, it is something
created through political choices on both micro and macro levels.
While the decision not to act (or let things just be) leaves the space
open for other agents to push forward their imaginaries, desires, and
ambitions, sometimes doing nothing is doing a lot. That said,
imagining alone is not enough, and not all people share equal
opportunities for forging their futures. Indeed, there have been
cautions against the magic of voluntarism, that is, the imaginary
belief that we can solve all our problems through acts of individual
will, casting aside any collective critique of the system in which we
find ourselves. However, the ability to imagine – think differently –
is a prerequisite for seeing and seeking alternatives.

2nd Call for Papers:

Please notice the extended deadline 16 February 2024

“When I find myself in times of trouble, Mother Mary comes to me.
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.”

It is hard to think of a more appropriate term than times of trouble
to describe the current era of uncertainties, environmental crises,
pandemic, wars, uncontrolled technological disruption, and political
radicalization. Paul McCartney apparently had a clear plan for
turbulent times: just let it be. Such a stance, however, is not the
only possible one – neither the recommended default choice. The future
is not fixed nor predetermined. Instead, it is something created
through political choices on both micro and macro levels. While the
decision not to act (or let things just be) leaves the space open for
other agents to push forward their imaginaries, desires, and
ambitions, sometimes doing nothing is doing a lot. That said,
imagining alone is not enough, and not all people share equal
opportunities for forging their futures. Indeed, there have been
cautions against the magic of voluntarism, that is, the imaginary
belief that we can solve all our problems through acts of individual
will, casting aside any collective critique of the system in which we
find ourselves. However, the ability to imagine – think differently –
is a prerequisite for seeing and seeking alternatives.In your
contribution you may consider the following questions but are not
limited to them:

How are you currently positioned to cultivate hope and to imagine
possible futures at your work?
What kinds of engagement with multimodal realities do we envisage for
tomorrow’s communication?
How could (multi)literacy be connected to hope and imagining?
How to reach those who choose to “let it be”?
Who has the right and power to imagine and forge their futures?
How to shake structures to create space for hope?
The conference is organized by MultiLEAP, a multidisciplinary
researcher community at the University of Jyväskylä. MultiLEAP
examines the uses, practices and modes of multiliteracies, emerging at
the interfaces of the contexts of education, free time and working
life with particular emphasis on access, participation, equity,
agency, and well-being.

For more information, please check the website:
https://www.jyu.fi/en/events/imagining-possible-futures-2024



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