News
2024-11-06 - Event
The Global Foresight: Anticipatory Governance and Future Aspirations conference is set for
10-11
December
2024 at SCAS. Read more >>
2023-12-07 - Video Documentary
Video Documentary - future of the office WTF is Happening to the Office? Meet Our Experts - Work
Design Magazine, Melissa Fisher, Author at Work Design Magazine
2023-08 - Podcast
"What is an Anthropologist Doing in a Central Bank?’ A conversation with Anna-Riikki Kauppinen and
Anthony Risk. Episode 1: Centre for Finance and Development, Graduate Institute, Geneva.
2021-03-30 - Event
Failed Futures Workshop, Stockholm University, SCORE: Virtual event 15/4 - by invitation only
2021-01-12 – New Publication
New book by Anette Nyqvist and Susanne Wahlström. A new book by Global Foresight researcher
Anette Nyqvist and photographer Susanne Wahlström is now out
2020-09-30 – Book Release
Getting Through Security - Cover new book by Mark Maguire and David A. Westbrook.
Global Foresight researchers Mark Maguire's and David A. Westbrook's new book Getting Through
Security: Counterterrorism, Bureacracy and Sense of the Modern, will be soon be out on Routledge.
2018-12-20 – New Publication
New article by Global Foresight researchers David A. Westbrook and Mark Maguire. Global
Foresight researchers David A. Westbrook and Mark Maguire have published a new article entitled
"'Those People [May Yet Be] a Kind of Solution' Late Imperial Thoughts on the Humanization of
Officialdom" in the Buffalo Law Review
2018-10-05 – Event
Research seminar with Jenny Andersson: What is futures studies? Jenny Andersson, member
of the Global Foresight research team, researcher at Sciences Po and Co-Director of MaxPo in Paris
will present her new book and hold a seminar on What is future studies?
2018-06-01 – News
Mikkel Flyverbom New Research Fellow at CITS. Mikkel Flyverbom has been named a Research
Fellow at Center for Information Technology and Society (CITS) at University of California, Santa
Barbara from 2018-2021
2017-05-26 - News
Mark Maguire with an interview on "Resilience in the face of terrorism" on the Afternoon Show,
Midlands Radio in Scotland.
2017-05-25 – News
Mark Maguire with an interview on "Resilience in the face of terrorism" on The Matt Cooper Show,
Today FM.
2016-10-12 - Event
How can the future be investigated? How do central banks fashion the future? That question was
one
of
many that was discussed at the launch of the project Global Foresight: Anticipatory Governance
and the
Making of Geo-cultural Scenarios.
2016-09-15 - Event
Melissa Fisher teaches course on practices of future foresight in global organization. This autumn
Melissa Fisher is teaching an undergraduate course in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at
New York University entitled “Emerging Geographies of Governance, Development, and Mainstream
Feminism”.
2016-09-15 - News
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond highlights project launch. The project “Global Foresight: Anticipatory
Governance and the Making of Geo-cultural Scenarios” had its public launch on August 19. Riksbankens
Jubileumsfond wrote about the event on its website.
2016-09-15 – News
Darcy Pan: A new associate researcher has joined the project. Darcy Pan joined the Department
of
Social Anthropology at Stockholm University in 2010 and is expected to receive her doctorate in
December
2016. She has now joined the project Global Foresight.
2016-08-31 – Event
Public launch of the research program Global Foresight. Welcome to the public launch of the
research
program Global Foresight: Anticipatory Governance and the Making of Geo-cultural Scenarios.
Please register
before August 10.
2016-05-23 – Event
Anticipatory knowledge: prognostics and prophecy in management and governance. Panel at the
14th
EASA Biennial Conference, Anthropological Legacies and Human Futures, University of Milano-
Bicocca, Milan.
2016-02-02 – News
Douglas R. Holmes publishes an article in the New York Times: “How the Fed Learned to Talk: Communi-
cation
is Now a Tool of Economic Policy” Sunday/Review: Opinion