About

What is a Future Café? It is an experiment. It is an open-ended conversation. It is a chance to brainstorm and share ideas without evaluation. It is a place to eat cake. Based loosely on both 3CT’s successful Book Salon series and the global Death Café movement, the objective of this new recurring event is to provide opportunity and space for undergraduates to collectively imagine utopian possibilities and long-term futures. What sort of ideas appeal in the present moment? What projects are already underway? What is neo-futurism, or futurology? What is the role of imagination in shaping politics, the environment, and social life? How might radical futures be brought into being? Each café will have a loose theme linked to an optional discussion piece such as a podcast, a piece of fiction or journalism, a film, or a museum exhibit.

Sponsor: 3CT (Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, University of Chicago)

When: First Thursdays of the Month (Winter-Spring 2018), 4:30-6:00 pm

Location: Wilder House, 5811 S. Kenwood

Participants: Open to students in the College of the University of Chicago

Facilitators: Prof. Shannon Lee Dawdy (Anthropology, 3CT), Prof. Bill Brown (English, 3CT, Office of the Provost) and guests