Beyond Books: History for Tomorrow with Roman Krznaric
Schedule
Wed Oct 02 2024 at 01:00 pm to 08:30 pm
UTC+01:00Location
10X by Spacemade | Birmingham, EN
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Join us for a day of provocations and conversations exploring what we can learn from our history about the changes we can make today.About this Event
"The insights of history are a shared treasury for the future of humanity."
—Roman Krznaric
On Wednesday 2nd October, we invite you to join us to explore a central call to action alongside Roman Krznaric, author of History for Tomorrow, and Indy Johar: what can we learn from our history about the change/s we can make today?
With an afternoon of interactive workshops with Aliyah Hasinah of Black Curatorial, historian and academic Dr Nathaniel Adam Tobias C------ and Khadijah Carberry founder of Generous Waste, we invite you to share your histories to help us shape our futures. Can we look backwards to find a way forwards?
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SCHEDULE
Workshops: Lessons From History
with Aliyah Hasinah, Dr Nathaniel Adam Tobias C------ and Khadijah Carberry
1pm - 5pm
How far back in history are our imaginations able to reach? Bringing wider perspectives to the histories we know and those we don't, Aliyah Hasinah, Dr Nathaniel Adam Tobias C------ and Khadijah Carberry will be exploring what we can learn from our history about the change/s we can make today.
We invite you to bring the lessons of history from your community, your work and culture and help shape how we can apply these to future generations.
1pm | Reform Ain’t Abolition: Lessons from Birmingham’s Struggle Against Slavery with Dr Nathaniel Adam Tobias C------
2.30pm | Surfacing Lessons From Our Histories with Aliyah Hasinah
3.30pm | Consumed by Connection: Unpacking The Stories Embedded in the Supply Chains Around Us with Khadijah Carberry
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6pm - 7.30pm
History For Tomorrow: In Conversation with Roman Krznaric and Indy Johar
In this conversation with Indy Johar of Dark Matter Labs, Roman Krznaric will be introducing some of tenements of History for `Tomorrow to share how we can draw on history for tomorrow and turn radical hope into action.
Copies of History for Tomorrow will also be available to buy on the day thanks to local independent Bear Bookshop, and Roman will be happy to sign your copy.
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7.30pm - 8.30pm
Dinner
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ABOUT HISTORY FOR TOMORROW
What can we learn from our shared history that could inspire solutions to the most urgent challenges facing humanity today?
In this anticipated new book, leading social philosopher and author of unearths fascinating insights from the last 1000 years of our collective history.
We live in an era dominated by the present tense, which vastly undervalues the accumulated experience of the past as a guide for where we go next. But there is good reason to look back. In , Roman Krznaric takes a dual approach to delve into our global history – combining insight from what went right, alongside cautionary tales of what went wrong.
Each of the book’s ten chapters addresses a core global challenge – water scarcity, widening inequality, our growing distrust in democracy, risks from genetic engineering, threats of AI – and then asks what we can learn from the last one thousand years of history, across multiple cultures and continents, to approach these challenges in more innovative and effective ways.
How might understanding the origins of capitalism spark ideas for bringing AI under control? What could we learn from eighteenth century Japan for creating regenerative economies today, or from the coffee houses of Georgian London for taming social media?
With a unique focus on social innovation as opposed to technological innovation, History for Tomorrow is a fascinating exploration of how we can better understand who we are, to survive and thrive in the turbulent decades ahead.
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ABOUT ROMAN KRZNARIC
Roman Krznaric is a social philosopher and the author of works such as , , , and , which have been published in more than twenty-five languages. His TED talk 'How to be a Good Ancestor' has been viewed over 1.5 million times. Roman is Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University's Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing and founder of the world's first Empathy Museum.
After growing up in Sydney and Hong Kong, Roman studied at the universities of Oxford, London and Essex, where he gained his PhD in political science. His writings have been widely influential amongst political and ecological campaigners, education reformers, social entrepreneurs and designers. An acclaimed public speaker, his talks and workshops have taken him from a London Pr*son to the Googleplex in California.
Roman is on X at @romankrznaric and you can find out more on his website.
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ABOUT INDY JOHAR
Indy is co-founder of Dark Matter Labs and of the RIBA award winning architecture and urban practice Architecture00. He is also a founding director of Open Systems Lab, seeded WikiHouse (open source housing) and Open Desk (open source furniture company).
Indy is a non-executive international Director of the BloxHub, the Nordic Hub for sustainable urbanization. He is on the advisory board for the Future Observatory and is part of the committee for the London Festival of Architecture. He is also a fellow of the London Interdisciplinary School.
Indy was 2016-17 Graham Willis Visiting Professorship at Sheffield University. He was Studio Master at the Architectural Association - 2019-2020, UNDP Innovation Facility Advisory Board Member 2016-20 and RIBA Trustee 2017-20.
He has taught and lectured at various institutions from the University of Bath, TU-Berlin; University College London, Princeton, Harvard, MIT and New School. He is currently a professor at RMIT University. He was awarded the London Design Medal for Innovation in 2022 and an MBE for Services to Architecture in 2023.
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ABOUT DR NATHANIEL ADAM TOBIAS C------
Dr Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman is an historian of abolitionist ideas and currently research fellow at the University of Birmingham. Having mobilised global movements such as ‘Why Isn’t My Professor Black?’ and ‘Why Is My Curriculum White?’, their anti-colonial archival research, which treats colonial slavery as a disciplinary/educational institution, asks ‘Why Isn’t Our Apprenticeship Abolished?’
A co-ordinating member, in both 2015 and 2020, of Rhodes Must Fall in Oxford, a Cast in Stone research fellow interviewing Bristolians about the contestation of the statue of Edward Colston, and a Henry Moore Institute podcaster explaining Britain’s neglected memorials to abolition, they are a critic of what Frantz Fanon has denounced as Britain’s colonial ‘World of Statues’—obstinately retained and deceitfully explained.
Their recent work includes convening ‘Undoing 2007; Preparing for 2038’—a game-changing public conversation, reviewed in and , about Abolition, Birmingham, and Commemoration, and co-hosting, as member of the Mayor of London’s Community Advisory Group, the 2024 annual ceremony for the UNESCO Day for Remembering the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its Abolition. In November 2024, they will respond to the book Britain’s Black Debt, by the Vice-Chancellor of the University of the West Indies, during the University of Oxford’s Seminar on Reparations. Their research-informed public engagement is the basis of a book, which they are writing, titled The House by The Rivers of Blood: Birmingham’s Hidden History of British Anti-Slavery, in which they reimagine the story we should teach the next generation, of how we got free—if we got free.
You can follow Nathaniel on X here.
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ABOUT ALIYAH HASINAH
Aliyah Hasinah is an independent curator, writer, and documentary director who founded Black Curatorial, a consultancy that offers services such as educational programme development, curatorial labs, research funding, events and exhibitions centering nuanced Black cultural production and anti-colonial epistemology across the UK and Caribbean.
You can follow Aliyah on X here.
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ABOUT KHADIJAH CARBERRY
Khadijah is a multidisciplinary artist committed to empowering you to reimagine possibilities, discover your transformative potential and to ask searching questions about our colonial legacies. Khadijah founded Generous Waste to create space for you to reshape your world by transforming waste into creative opportunities. In our historical narratives we may discover future possibilities, and this encourages you to explore and redefine your place in the world, her work focuses upon enabling you to do this.
Khadijah’s present focus is on unpacking how our colonial, economic, social and ecological stories embed stories within our supply chains, and learning to listen to these dark legacies as a call for our transformation. Join Khadijah for a transformative journey thinking about your waste and the incredible potential it holds for building new transformative worlds.
You can follow Khadijah on Instagram here.
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ABOUT BEYOND BOOKS
Beyond Books acknowledges and treasures space for reading, lending, purchasing and discussing what books are, have been and could be to us. Bringing forward voices that encourage and cultivate conversations, offering narratives and ideas informed by our identities, lived experiences and dreams.
Beyond Books is a platform where books and other means of sharing stories are used to democratise knowledge, imagination, and enjoyment. Beyond Books is a means of enabling agency through literacy.
We envisage Beyond Books will be key to unlock the dream matter in all of us, strengthening our infrastructure to unleash the capacity to engage, learn, grow and delve into many possibilities for ourselves and our places.
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