Creative Futures Seminar in association with TULCA Festival of Visual Arts

The Creative Futures Research Group in collaboration with the TULCA Festival of Visual Arts invites you to participate in a Creative Futures Seminar.

Drawing together academics and artists, this seminar explores how creative practitioners and thinkers can work together to prepare for future challenges, imagine future possibilities, and reflect on future forms of art-making, thinking, and living. The session draws together scholars from the University of Galway and Queen’s University Belfast, who will engage in discussion of three readings (details below). The seminar will be followed by a public event at 16.00 as part of the TULCA Festival of Visual Art, which will include a special improvised performance from the ­-ence collaborative project.

We will be discussing the following readings as part of the seminar:

• Braun, Rebecca, ‘Literary Futures. How Fiction can Help Policy-Makers’, in: Routledge Handbook of Social Futures, ed. Carlos López Galviz and Emily Spiers (Routledge, 2021), pp. 189-197.
• Grosz, Elizabeth, ‘Thinking the New: Of Futures Yet Unthought’, Symplokē6, no. 1/2 (1998): 38–55.
• Grosz, Elizabeth, ‘Feminist Futures?’ Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature21, no. 1 (2002): 13–20.

Registration

We invite you to participate in the seminar by signing up via the link provided below. Spaces are limited and will be assigned on a first come first served basis. Registration is essential: https://forms.office.com/r/L13gQKytyU

We will be circulating more details in due course. In the meantime, if you have any questions please contact patrick.lonergan@universityofgalway.ie.