Jeanette Winterson in Conversation with Ameca
A panel event featuring author Jeanette Winterson, robotics expert Ingo Keller, and advanced humanoid robot Ameca.
Literature is not a Luxury with Bernardine Evaristo
A conversation with award-winning novelist Bernardine Evaristo about arts provision in the education system, the importance of creativity in young people, and how creativity positively impacts society as a whole.
Rooting Decolonial Education: Routes for Repair and Liberation
As part of Black History Month, this event will engage with Black presence and Black Studies in relation to education.
AISOMA: Wayne McGregor x Edinburgh Futures Institute
A new performance from Studio Wayne McGregor and composer Chris Lyons.
The Future of Education: Crisis
The intersecting, planetary-scale crises we face bring new urgency to the debate about the purpose of education. Climate catastrophe, widening inequalities, conflict, pathogen spillovers, new diseases, failures of governance and technology acceleration all challenge us to ask again what education might be, and what we need it to do.
The Future of Education: Utopia
Part of the University of Edinburgh’s Edinburgh Futures Conversations series.
Video Games: Play and Pedagogy
This event will discuss topics such as the role of video games in shaping our world and human development, and the gamification of education.
Entanglements: Studies in falling, flowing, following
This event will entangle human and aquatic worlds, moving between freshwater and the deep ocean, learning through performance, video, music, poetry and song.
Contesting Computing: Imagining Feminist Technofutures
This discussion considers the role education has played in developing our technological landscape and how it can help work towards a fairer future.
Technomoral Conversations: What the Majority World Can Teach Us about AI
In this Technomoral Conversations panel, we will hear from leading voices from the Majority World on what they have learned from and about AI, and the issues and visions they would like to see taken up.
