October 20-21, 2023
Madison, WI
This event is sponsored by Front Porch Republic and hosted by CSLD at UW-Madison.
The conference is fully booked, so we’ve closed registration. Thanks to Plough for sponsoring the first 25 student registrations.
The conference theme this year is Living as Humans in a Machine Age. We’ll gather in Madison, WI on October 20th and 21st for a lively time of talks, conversation, and food.
All registered attendees are welcome to attend our Friday evening conversation with Paul Kingsnorth and the full day of sessions on Saturday. Saturday lunch will be provided as well. You can see more information about the speakers at the speaker bio page.
The Friday and Saturday talks will take place in the Plenary Room of Grainger Hall (Business School). The address is 975 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706.
Timetable:
Friday, October 20
- 7:00 p.m. Paul Kingsnorth, “People, Place, Prayer”
Saturday, October 21
- 8:30 Light breakfast
- 9:00 Welcome
- 9:15-10:15 Imagining Life Beyond the Machine
- Eric Miller, “The Instructed Imagination”
- Jason Peters, “Imagination: Not Whimsical but Fatal”
- 10:30-11:45 Human Responses to Technology
- Jeffrey Bilbro, “Where Now Are Wayland’s Bones?”
- Cassandra Nelson, “Median Humans and the Life That Really is Life”
- Tessa Carman, “The Joy of Tech Resistance”
- 12-1:00 Lunch
- 1:00-2:15 Paul Kingsnorth Keynote Address, “The Blizzard of the World”
- 2:30-3:45 Humane Politics
- Adam Smith, “The Politics of Reenchantment”
- Mark Mitchell, “Politics in Babel”
- John Murdock, “Back to the Future of the Religious Right”
- 4:00-5:00 Living Outside the Machine
- Ashley Colby, “Doomer Optimism: Life Adjacent to the Machine”
- Bill Kauffman, “Off the Empire, On Wisconsin”
- Adjourn to Smitty’s Study Pub at the Fluno Center