Rethinking Tomorrow: Emerging Research for Social Change
| Date: | Monday 1 Dec, 9am - Tuesday 2 Dec, 5pm |
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| Location: | AUT City Campus WG Building, WG126 Auckland New Zealand |
| Cost: | From $50 |
| Contact: | cfsc@aut.ac.nz |
| Website: | Event website |
We live in a time of precarity, uncertainty and unrest: the climate emergency is escalating, far-right ideologies are mainstream, political and social systems and society is becoming increasingly post-digital and artificially intelligent. How are we – as researchers, professionals, advocates, activists – responding to the challenges of our time?
What innovations could enable a more equitable and sustainable society for younger generations? How might we imagine, foster, and enable social changes that are lasting, resilient, and sustainable? How might we share and collaborate to build what Pierre A. Lévy calls our collective intelligence, that is our capacity as human communities, to cooperate in creation, innovation, invention and we should add, interventions? And importantly, how might we communicate our creation, innovation, invention and interventions? Rethinking tomorrow: Emerging research for social change provides a platform to tackle these questions and have robust discussions.
Call for abstracts
Call for abstracts is now open. We invite submissions focusing on the following themes:
- Artificial Intelligence & Social Change
- Technologies & Everyday Life
- Gender, Sexual Diversity & Social In/tolerance
- Race, Racism & Cultural Differences
- Structural Inequalities
- Migrants, Refugees & Lived experiences
- Indigeneity in Aotearoa and the Pacific
- Climate emergency
- Social Policy & Governance
- Advocacy & Education
- Wicked problems in Aotearoa and beyond
Abstracts (between 300-350 words) and a 100-word bio can be submitted to cfsc@aut.ac.nz. Please also indicate which theme your abstract relates to. Successful applicants will be allocated 15 minutes for their presentations along with 5 minutes for Q&A.
Important dates
- Abstract submission: 1 August 2025
- Notification of abstract acceptance/decline: 1 September 2025
Conference registration
- The cost of attending in-person is $170. This includes registration for the event as well as food and refreshments throughout both days. Please note: the conference dinner (held Monday 1 December) is yet to be confirmed and will be an additional charge.
- Online attendees can register for $50 (inclusive of both days)