Global Foresight: News

2024-11-06 - Event
The Global Foresight: Anticipatory Governance and Future Aspirations conference is set for 10-11 December 2024 at SCAS. Read more >> External link, opens in new window.


2023-12-07 - Video Documentary

Video Documentary - future of the office WTF is Happening to the Office? Meet Our Experts - Work Design Magazine External link, opens in new window., Melissa Fisher, Author at Work Design Magazine External link, opens in new window.


2023-08 - Podcast

"What is an Anthropologist Doing in a Central Bank?’ A conversation with Anna-Riikki Kauppinen and Anthony Risk. External link, opens in new window. Episode 1: Centre for Finance and Development, Graduate Institute, Geneva.


2021-03-30 - Event

Failed Futures Workshop, Stockholm University, SCORE: Virtual event 15/4 - by invitation only


2021-01-12 – New Publication

New book by Anette Nyqvist and Susanne Wahlström. A new book by Global Foresight researcher Anette Nyqvist and photographer Susanne Wahlström is now out


2020-09-30 – Book Release

Getting Through Security - Cover new book by Mark Maguire and David A. Westbrook.
Global Foresight researchers Mark Maguire's and David A. Westbrook's new book Getting Through Security: Counterterrorism, Bureacracy and Sense of the Modern, will be soon be out on Routledge.


2018-12-20 – New Publication

New article by Global Foresight researchers David A. Westbrook and Mark Maguire. Global Foresight researchers David A. Westbrook and Mark Maguire have published a new article entitled "'Those People [May Yet Be] a Kind of Solution' Late Imperial Thoughts on the Humanization of Officialdom" in the Buffalo Law Review


2018-10-05 – Event

Research seminar with Jenny Andersson: What is futures studies? Jenny Andersson, member of the Global Foresight research team, researcher at Sciences Po and Co-Director of MaxPo in Paris will present her new book and hold a seminar on What is future studies?


2018-06-01 – News

Mikkel Flyverbom New Research Fellow at CITS. Mikkel Flyverbom has been named a Research Fellow at Center for Information Technology and Society (CITS) at University of California, Santa Barbara from 2018-2021


2017-05-26 - News

Mark Maguire with an interview on "Resilience in the face of terrorism" on the Afternoon Show, Midlands Radio in Scotland.


2017-05-25 – News

Mark Maguire with an interview on "Resilience in the face of terrorism" on The Matt Cooper Show, Today FM.


2016-10-12 - Event

How can the future be investigated? How do central banks fashion the future? That question was one of many that was discussed at the launch of the project "Global Foresight: Anticipatory Governance and the Making of Geo-cultural Scenarios".


2016-09-15 - Event

Melissa Fisher teaches course on practices of future foresight in global organization. This autumn Melissa Fisher is teaching an undergraduate course in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University entitled “Emerging Geographies of Governance, Development, and Mainstream Feminism”.


2016-09-15 - News

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond highlights project launch. The project “Global Foresight: Anticipatory Governance and the Making of Geo-cultural Scenarios” had its public launch on August 19. Riksbankens Jubileumsfond wrote about the event on its website.


2016-09-15 – News

Darcy Pan: A new associate researcher has joined the project. Darcy Pan joined the Department of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University in 2010 and is expected to receive her doctorate in December 2016. She has now joined the project Global Foresight.


2016-08-31 – Event

Public launch of the research program Global Foresight. Welcome to the public launch of the research program "Global Foresight: Anticipatory Governance and the Making of Geo-cultural Scenarios." Please register before August 10.


2016-05-23 – Event

Anticipatory knowledge: prognostics and prophecy in management and governance. Panel at the 14th EASA Biennial Conference, Anthropological Legacies and Human Futures, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan.


2016-02-02 – News

Douglas R. Holmes publishes an article in the New York Times: “How the Fed Learned to Talk: Communication is Now a Tool of Economic Policy” Sunday/Review: Opinion