When:
Friday, May 3, 2019
All day
Where: Harris Hall, 108 (Leopold Room), 1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Elzbieta Foeller-Pituch
(847) 467-0885
Group: Center for Historical Studies
Category: Academic
Graduate CONFERENCE on “Back to the Future: Visions of Tomorrow in History” (convened by Breen Fellow Kevin BAKER)
Friday, May 3—all day
• Keynote speaker: W. Patrick McCray (U of California, Santa Barbara), author of The Visioneers: How a Group of Elite Scientists Pursued Space Colonies, Nanotechnology, and a Limitless Future (2013)
• Keynote lecture: “Memories of the Future: Past Visions of Limitless Tomorrows (And Their Relevance Today)”
Sponsored by the Nicholas D. Chabraja Center for Historical Studies (CCHS)