Future Café is a student-organized series that provides the opportunity and space for undergraduates to collectively imagine utopian possibilities and long-term futures. University of Chicago College students, please join us for our next meeting to discuss the future of the humanities over pizza, guacamole, and chips.
As the very foundations of the humanities come under attack, we are at a crucial juncture to reconfigure our visions of the future of these disciplines. Do we have reason to be hopeful for the survival of the humanities? If not, what would a future without them (if that is even possible) look like?
Moreover, as paradigms of the humanities continue to shift and transform with the continuous evolution of the internet, political ideology, and cultural trends, what can we imagine about what threads of humanistic inquiry will exist in the future? Will the “Digital Humanities” become the center of humanistic discourse? Will the social sciences and the humanities become more integrated? Will the humanities become more interdisciplinary? Less? What subjects and methods will come to define “the humanities” in the long-term future?
Future Café is free and open to all UChicago undergraduate students. Join us for our next meeting to imagine together what the humanities will look like 100, 500, or 5,000 years from now.
This event is free and open to all University of Chicago undergraduate students; registration is recommended.
