Conferences

Conference Website At least since the 1980s, the digital has been the occasion for enthusiastic, often utopian, dreams. In almost every area of human and nonhuman endeavor—finance, consumer culture, technoscience, education, medicine, communication, or the arts—digital technologies have been heralded... Read more

Coined by Nobel Prize-winning atmospheric chemist Paul Crutzen at the inception of the 21st century, the concept of the Anthropocene postulates a new geological epoch defined by overwhelming human influence upon the earth beginning with the Industrial Revolution in the... Read more

What comes after extinction? In ongoing debates about the Anthropocene, the question of extinction is very much present, in relation both to the anthropogenic Sixth Extinction and to the premediated extinction of humans. Our predominant understanding of extinction today relates... Read more

The C21 conference landbody considers the implications of Native ontologies and epistemologies, emphasizing the animate, living nature of place and the conceptual primacy of connection and locale. Despite colonial incursions, Native communities continue tribal lifeways, constructing and reconstructing systems of... Read more

The Center for 21st Century Studies Spring 2017 conference, The Big No, was held April 27-29, 2017. Plenary speakers included Joshua Clover, Katerina Kolozova, François Laruelle, Ariana Reines, and Frank B. Wilderson III. You can find more about the conference, including... Read more

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Curtin 175 Deadline for submissions: ASAP                 APPROXIMATELY 800cm3 OF PLA is an exhibition project surveying the current state of 3D imaging by making it as tangible as possible. It... Read more

The Center for 21st Century Studies' Spring 2018 conference, "Ends of Cinema," took place on May 3-5. Plenary speakers included Caetlin Benson-Allott (Georgetown), James Leo Cahill (Toronto), Francesco Casetti (Yale), Mary Ann Doane (Berkeley), André Gaudreault (Montreal), Michael Gillespie (City College),... Read more

NOTE: THE CFP DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO TUESDAY, JANUARY 15. We are pleased to announce that we are now accepting proposals for our spring 2019 conference! This year's conference theme is "Insecurity." We are currently seeking papers that address... Read more