The Jacksonville University College of Arts & Sciences will host a free panel discussion entitled “Our Future Has a History.”
The event is scheduled 6:30-8 p.m. Feb. 23 in the Terry Concert Hall on the JU campus. A reception will precede the discussion from 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Six JU faculty members will participate in the panel to represent academic disciplines ranging from economics to literature.
“Panelists will converse on topics associated with each discipline and remind us that the future is not random, that its peculiarly American idealization is often dangerously ill-conceived, and that different disciplines have approached the future very differently, both for society at large and for the Jacksonville community,” stated a news release from the university.
The panel will consist of:
• John Buck, economics professor, “Are Modern Economic Policies Congruent with Reality?”
• Nisse Goldberg, assistant professor of biology/marine science,”Science-A Ticket to Utopia?”
•Patrick McLeod, professor of English, “Soylent Green is People! Food for Thought about the Future in Science Fiction”
• Keith Saliba, assistant professor of communications, “A Creeping Cycle: The Coarsening of American Media
Content”
• Heather Downs, assistant professor of sociology, “You’re putting that online?: An Analysis of Facebook Culture”
• Jesse Hingson, assistant professor of history, “Best Laid Plans: Visions of Jacksonville’s Future since the Early 20th-Century”
The moderator will be College of Arts & Sciences Dean Douglas Hazzard.
To register for the event, contact [email protected] or call 256-7095 by Feb. 17.