Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

Join Professor Shannon Dawdy (University of Chicago) for this interactive workshop.  The past has a tenuous, often contentious, relationship with the future. We fragment and sequester the past, drawing memory from only those things we have at hand and rupturing continuities with the present by forgetting. Futures discounting exacerbates this myopic condition by playing on uncertainties to diminish the wisdom of looking too far ahead. How can digital technologies help bridge the past with the future? Examples from digital storytelling, augmented and virtual reality, and spatialized archives enable us to explore the potential for hetereotemporality, nonlinear histories, and the power of ruins and artifacts to experience other times and places. Workshop participants are invited to share their own efforts with digital technologies for repurposing the past for the future.

This event is open to all UF faculty, staff, and enrolled students. For more information, contact Prof. Ken Sassaman (sassaman@ufl.edu).

This event is organized by the UF Mellon Intersections Group on Imagineering and the Technosphere, with additional support from the Hyatt and Cici Brown Endowment for Florida Archaeology.