Cultural Futures Conference 2025

I’m delighted to say that I’ll be taking part in the Cultural Futures Conference 2025, organised by Dee Chainey-Jones, who some of you may know as one of the co-founders of the #FolkloreThursday global hashtag day community project.

The conference is online at 11am-3pm GMT on March 1^st and 2^nd 2025, and while it is free-to-attend you need to book tickets as virtual space there is limited.

I’ll be taking part in a Panel Q&A called Storytelling in the 21^st-century on Sunday 2^nd March from 12:15 to 1pm along with fellow panellists historical novelist Helen Lundström Erwin and comics writer John Reppion.

The Schedule for the Saturday is:

• Presentation: Folklore Without Borders. (Dr Paul Cowdell and Dr Matthew Cheeseman.)
• Presentation: Folklore and communities of violence. (Dr Andrew Fergus Wilson.)
• Group discussion: What are cultural futures? (Dee Chainey-Jones.)
• Panel Q&A: Inclusive community engagement. (Dr Caroline Oates, Mark Norman and Joana Varanda.)

And for the Sunday:

• Presentation: Toothy Terrors: An archetype of the sexually dangerous woman. (Dr Emma Woods.)
• Panel Q&A: Storytelling in the 21^st-century. (Helen Lundström Erwin, John Reppion and Paul Watson.)
• Presentation: Ecological Kinematics: How to create climate narrative using game engine, and to create a dialogue between art and science. (Dongni Liang.)
• Panel Q&A: Inclusive storytelling. (Dr Corey Hartley, Elizabeth Hopkinson, Beth O’Brien and Suresh Ariaratnam.)

More information can be found on the Conference website and the Eventbrite ticket booking page.