Forseeable Futures

Foreseeable Futures are a series of position papers drawing from keynote addresses delivered at Imagining America’s annual conferences and addressing debates about the public and democratic dimensions of the humanities, arts, and design and of higher education in general.

  • Carol Bebelle, The World as It Is … The World as It Could Be: A Cultural Continuum for Consideration

    By Imagining America

    October 27, 2023

    ForeseeableFutures #12 Position Papers from Imagining America Foreseeable Futures became an Imagining America (IA) position paper series in 2000, publishing keynote addresses from…

  • David Scobey, Civic Engagement and the Copernican Moment

    By Imagining America

    March 26, 2012

    ForeseeableFutures #11 Position Papers from Imagining America We are pleased to announce the publication of our most recent Foreseeable Future, the IA series featuring…

  • Diana Taylor, Save As… Knowledge and Transmission in the Age of Digital Technologies

    By Imagining America

    November 15, 2010

    ForeseeableFutures #10 Position Papers from Imagining America Diana Taylor’s address provides a rich entry point into these complex questions about digital media and…

  • Dr. Michael White, Traditional New Orleans Jazz as a Metaphor for American Life

    By Imagining America

    November 8, 2009

    ForeseeableFutures #9 Position Papers from Imagining America In this essay, originally presented as the keynote address for Imagining America’s 2009 conference in New…

  • Judith F. Baca, La Memoria de Nuestra Tierra: Sites of Public Memory

    By Imagining America

    November 18, 2008

    ForeseeableFutures #8 Position Papers from Imagining America “Collaborative art brings a range of people into conversations about their visions for their neighborhoods and…

  • James T. Campbell, Navigating the Past: Brown University and the Voyage of the Slave Ship Sally, 1764-65

    By Imagining America

    November 24, 2007

    ForeseeableFutures #7 Position Papers from Imagining America “What happens if we see our past whole?, How might we take full ownership of our…

  • Scott Peters, Changing the Story About Higher Education’s Public Purposes and Work: Land-Grants, Liberty, and the Little Country Theater

    By Imagining America

    November 24, 2006

    ForeseeableFutures #6 Position Papers from Imagining America We are delighted to announce the publication of Foreseeable Futures #6, Scott Peters’ Changing the Story…

  • John Kuo Wei Tchen, Homeland Insecurities: Teaching and the Intercultural Imagination

    By Imagining America

    November 22, 2005

    ForeseeableFutures #5 Position Papers from Imagining America John Kuo Wei (Jack) Tchen is the founding director of the A/P/A (Asian/Pacific/American) Studies Program and…

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