THE DISCOVERY OF THE FUTURE IN THE SOCIAL AND HUMAN SCIENCES

Samuel Collins is a full Professor of Anthropology in the Dept of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminal Justice at Towson University, Maryland, USA. He is a cultural anthropologist interested in information society and globalization, primarily in the United States and Korea. He has a M.A. and Ph.D. from American University in Washington, D.C. He taught at Dongseo University in Pusan, Kookmin University in Seoul and at Hanyang University in Gyeonggi-do, South Corea.

Giovanni Emanuele Corazza is a Full Professor at Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, President of the Fondazione Guglielmo Marconi, founder of the Marconi Institute for Creativity, Member of the Marconi Society Board of Directors. He holds a PhD in Telecommunications and Microelectronics (Università di Roma Tor Vergata) and a PhD in Psychology (Université Paris Cité). He was Member of the Board of Directors of the University of Bologna (2012-2018)

Jayne Fleener is Professor of Educational Leadership, Policy and Human Development & Former Dean at the Colleges of Education at North Carolina State University and Louisiana State University.
Dr. Fleener focuses her futures work on facilitating and supporting organizational, community and individual learning and leadership.

Vlad Glaveanu, PhD, is Full Professor of psychology in the School of Psychology, Dublin City University, and Professor II at the Centre for the Science of Learning and Technology, University of Bergen. He is the founder and president of the Possibility Studies Network (PSN)and editor of the journal Possibility Studies & Society (Sage). His work focuses on creativity, imagination, culture, collaboration, wonder, possibility, and societal challenges.

Cornelius Holtorf is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Linnaeus Univeristy, Sweden. He is Director of the Graduate School in Contract Archaeology (GRASCA). Since 2017 he has been holding a UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures at Linnaeus University. He also directs the Graduate School in Contract Archaeology (GRASCA) at his University. Having collaborated for many years with the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Company (SKB) and other major stakeholders in the nuclear waste sector, he is currently directing the project “Memory across Generations”. His research interests lie in contemporary archaeology, heritage theory and heritage futures. Cornelius was a Co-Investigator and led the Uncertainty theme of the Heritage Futures research programme.

Geci Karuri-Sebina is an Associate Professor at the Wits School of Governance where she is hosting the Civic Tech Innovation Network and establishing an African Centre of Excellence in Digital Governance. She is a Johannesburg-based scholar-practitioner working in the intersection between people, place, time and technological change with a focus on the Global South. Karuri-Sebina is currently associated with South African Cities Network, the African Centre for Cities, the Millennium Project, the School of International Futures, and AfricaLICS.

Roberto Poli is Full Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Trento and the Head of the UNESCO Chair in Anticipatory Systems. He is the Director of the Master course in Social Foresight at Univeristy of Trento. He has published more than 20 books, its last work is "Woking with the Future", Egea Press.

Adrian Pop is Professor of International Relations at the National University of Political Science and Public Administration (SNSPA/NUPSA) in Bucharest, Ph.D. supervisor at the Doctoral School of SNSPA/NUPSA, a member of the Advisory Board of the European Network Remembrance and Solidarity, and Co-chair of the Romania Node of the Millennium Project. He is a former Visiting Fellow with the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo, Visiting Fulbright Scholar with the University of Maryland, College Park, and International Research Fellow with the NATO Defence College in Rome.

Peter Railton is University Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan, USA. His main research has been in ethics and the philosophy of science, focusing especially on questions about the nature of objectivity, value, norms, and explanation. He has also worked in aesthetics, moral psychology, and theory of action, and, in collaboration with colleagues in psychology, neuroscience, and computer science, he has recently been working on mental architecture and artificial intelligence. Professor Railton has been a visiting professor at Berkeley and Princeton, and he has received fellowships from the Society for the Humanities (Cornell), the American Council of Learned Societies, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Humanities Center, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has been associated with CREA (Paris) and CSMN (Oslo).

David Staley is an Associate Professor in the Departments of History, Design and Educational Studies at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Alternative Universities: Speculative Design for Innovation in Higher Education, the co-author of Knowledge Towns: Colleges and Universities as Talent Magnets, the author of History and Future: Using Historical Thinking to Imagine the Future, and author of Visionary Histories, a collection of futures essays. He is an Honorary Faculty Fellow at the Center for Higher Education Leadership and Innovative Practice (CHELIP) at Bay Path University, and a fellow at the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University. In 2022 he was awarded "Best Freelance Writer" by the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists for his "Next" futures column.

Richard Tutton is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Univeristy of York, UK. He is co-Director of SATSU, Science and Technology Studies Unit, University of York. He is also the co-editor of the Taylor and Francis journal New Genetics and Society.