Rethinking Our Futures in an Age of Planetary Crisis
Oct 15, 2025 — 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Join us for a conversation exploring how cities, technology, and media can create better possibilities and help reimagine our futures in an age of crisis.
The Canada Research Chair in Critical Surveillance and Security Studies presents, in collaboration with the , and the Research Centre on the Future of Cities:
Rethinking Our Futures in an Age of Planetary Crisis
About this event
In an age where we seem to be facing an age of multiple and compounding crisis 鈥搈assive inequality and poverty, climate breakdown, growing authoritarianism, war and genocide鈥 how do we find hope and rethink the possibilities for solidarity, community and better futures? How can we build better cities, make better use of new technologies, and create better media beyond what is offered to us by powerful corporations and short-sighted governments? Four leading contemporary international thinkers will address these questions in conversation.
About the speakers
Quinn Slobodian
Speaker
Professor of International History at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, USA. Author of Globalists, Crack-Up Capitalism and Hayek鈥檚 Bastards.
Orit Halpern
Speaker
Full Professor and Chair of Digital Cultures at the Technical University of Dresden, Germany. Author of Beautiful Data and The Smartness Mandate.
Ayona Datta
Speaker
Professor of Human Geography at University College London, UK. Author of Informational Peripheries, The Illegal City and the forthcoming, Control, Shift, Govern.
Nick Couldry
Speaker
Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory Emeritus at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. Author of Data Grab, The Costs of Connection, and The Space of the World, the first part of a trilogy on 'Humanizing the Future.'
David Murakami Wood
Moderator
Canada Research Chair in Critical Surveillance and Security Studies, Faculty Member at the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, and Full Professor in the Department of Criminology of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ottawa.
Perfect Books will offer the latest works from the speakers.
This event is presented in collaboration with the and with the support of the .
This is a free event, but registration is required.
This event will be in English only.
The event may be recorded, and photos may be taken.