Engaging Social Futures

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, we might have expected an event focussed on ‘Engaging Social Futures’ to be dominated by the call to urgent action on climate change - represented, most dramatically, by Extinction Rebellion.  By the time we came to hold the event in June, we were in the middle of the shock waves created by the pandemic, and in the week after the murder of George Floyd that was followed by an outpouring of anger and frustration and eruption of protests and debates.

As well as a window into some of the thinking of each programme convenor, then, the recording is very much a document of a moment in time: in its ‘home-made’ qualities of presentation and recording from the lockdown; and in its different ways of imagining the future, which is so precarious, sad and wearying in many ways, and at the same time so enlivening, energising, even hopeful in others.  

If you have questions about a programme, please email the person who directs it – you will find their names and email address on the relevant programme or me, the Director of the MA and MSc programmes in Sociology, Kate Nash.