Dear colleagues,

There are only 10 days left to submit to the 3rd International Conference of Possibility Studies ‘Cultivating the Possible: Reimagining Education and Society’.

This conference is co-organised by the Possibility Studies Network and the School of Psychology at DCU and it will take place between the 17th and 21st of July on the All Hallows campus.

If you don’t need any more convincing, the please submit using the button below. If you would like more information about the conference, then please carry on reading this email.

Possibility Studies is a trans-disciplinary, emergent area of study that concerns itself with how we, as individuals and societies, become aware of, explore and enact (or choose not to enact) what is possible. It brings together a variety of existing literatures and forms of practice centred around agency, imagination, creativity, serendipity, wonder, counterfactual thinking, anticipation, utopias and dystopias, among others.

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The conference will feature distinguished keynotes from across social sciences and the humanities, including the special participation of Prof. Robert Sternberg (Cornell University, USA), a leading author on intelligence, creativity, and wisdom, and Prof. Kenneth Gergen (Swarthmore College, USA), who made significant contributions to social constructionism, narratives, and the self. They will be joined by Prof. Ron Beghetto (Arizona State University, USA), Prof. Roni Reiter-Palmon (University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA), Prof. Kim Wilkins (University of Queensland, Australia) and Prof. Barbara Kerr (University of Kansas, USA), Prof. Thomas C. Ormerod (University of Sussex, UK) and by Irish colleagues who made seminal contributions in the area of reimagining higher education, Prof. Rebecca Braun (University of Galway) and Dr. Ciaran Dunne (Dublin City University). The Young Scholar Keynote will be offered by Luciana Dantas de Paula (University of Brasilia, Brazil).

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The call for submissions is now open. We invite contributions from across disciplines in the form of oral presentations, symposia and short / lightning talks.

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More details and the link to the submissions portal can be found here:

possibilitystudies.net
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The page also includes other useful information about fees, registration (to open early April) and options for accommodation. Do note that accommodation in Dublin goes fast in the summer and you are advised to make bookings early.
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For any questions please contact us using the form on the website.
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We look forward to seeing you in at DCU in July!
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Kind regards,

Prof. Vlad Glaveanu (School of Psychology, DCU) & The Possibility Studies Network

P.S. we are currently moving our website to a new .net domain, all the links in the email point there, but we just wanted to let you know