First International Conference on ANTICIPATION

5 November 2015

6 November 2015

7 November 2015

5-7 November 2015

Contatti:

Staff for Communication – City - Communication and Events Office - General Management – University of Trento

via Calepina 14 - 38122 Trento, Italy

Tel.

+39 0461 281809-1133

Fax

+39 0461 282899

comunicazione-citta@unitn.it

Venue: Department of Sociology and Social Research, via Verdi, 26 - Trento

Welcome Cocktail on Wednesday November 4th from 5.30 to 7.30 p.m. at the courtyard of the Dep. of Sociology
The Conference will start at 8.00 a.m. (registration), 8.30 a.m. (welcome) on Thursday November 5th.
The Conference will end at 6.30 p.m. on Saturday November 7th.

Anticipation is coming to the fore as an emerging field of study that is influencing a wide variety of disciplines.

This international conference will explore the interaction among anticipation, uncertainty and complexity.
Some questions that we intend to raise are these: When does anticipation occur in behavior and life? What types of anticipation can be distinguished? What structures and processes are necessary for anticipatory action? How can anticipation be modeled?

A better and more complete understanding of anticipation and its effects will improve theories and models of individual and collective human behavior and its consequences.

The ability to anticipate in complex environments may improve the resilience of societies facing threats from a global proliferation of agents and forces by articulating uncertainties through anticipatory processes.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Anticipation in the human and social sciences;
Anticipation and decision-making;
Anticipation and global social challenges;
Anticipatory governance and the resilience of societies;
Anticipation and Futures Studies;
Anticipation in fiction, the arts, design and gaming;
Modeling anticipation.

The Conference's Program Committee invites proposals for sessions to be held in conjunction with the main conference.

Further information is available from http://www.projectanticipation.org, the website of the UNESCO Chair in Anticipatory Systems.

Recognising the importance of Anticipation, Special Issues of the Journals Axiomathes, Cadmus, European Journal of Futures Research, and Futures will be published from peer reviewed conference contributions.

Conference fee: