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Reality+: A Conversation with David Chalmers
January 27, 2022
Into the Metaverse
October 7, 2021
Clarion Winter Writers Series
February 24, 2021
How To Astronaut, with Terry Virts
November 24, 2020
The Great Debate: The Nature of the Universe
November 10, 2020
The World in 2050 and Beyond, with Martin Rees
November 10, 2020
Speculative Futures Virtual Symposium
October 6–30, 2020
Design Lab: Student Opportunity
SDFutures: Imaginative Writing for Teens
Summer 2020
Post-Pandemic Futures
June 2, 2020
New Profiles of the Future: The Extended Pause
NASA Award to Advance Stem Cell Therapies in New Space Station Lab
April 8, 2020
XPRIZE Pandemic Alliance
March 26, 2020
An Evening with N.K. Jemisin
April 3, 2020
Chasing Einstein: The Dark Universe Event
March 2, 2020
Cultured Data Symposium
February 7, 2020
“What Is Imagination?” on January 15, 2020!
January 15, 2020
Is ET Lurking in Our Cosmic Backyard? with James Benford and Paul Davies
January 30, 2020
Speculative Futures of Ecologies and Climate Change Symposium
November 22, 2019
Art + Empathy Lab
Introducing Dr. Erik Viirre, New Director of the Clarke Center
2019: A Space Organoid
July 21, 2019
See Us at San Diego Comic-Con!
July 18–21, 2019
Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took On Silicon Valley with Bestelling Author Julian Guthrie
June 3, 2019
San Diego 2049: Closing Keynote with Kim Stanley Robinson and Team Project Competition
May 22, 2019
San Diego 2049: Your Dystopia Has Been Canceled
April 4, 2019
Speculative Futures Studies
Einstein’s Quantum Riddle: Special PBS NOVA Screening and Panel Discussion
March 4, 2019
San Diego 2049: Radical Economies
February 19, 2019
Dyson & Benford: Foreseeing the Next 35 Years—Where Will We Be in 2054?
January 30, 2019
San Diego 2049: Worldbuilding Hack-a-Thon
January 26, 2019
Sir Roger Penrose: Lecture on Hawking Points
December 14, 2018
An Evening with Cixin Liu and John Scalzi
November 12, 2018
Fred Adams: The Degree of Fine-Tuning in our Universe—and Possibly Others
November 8, 2018
San Diego 2049: The Future of Labor, Work and Industry
October 29, 2019
San Diego 2049: Opening Events
October 12 and 13, 2018
Clarke Center at Comic-Con
July 19, 2018
Why: What Makes Us Curious, with Mario Livio
June 11, 2018
Star Trek, the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE & the Future of Medicine
June 2, 2018
Imagination and Human Origins Symposium
June 1, 2018
Root Worlds: Intersectional Foundations for New Imaginations
May 19, 2018
Graphic Science: Comics Engage the Cosmos
May 8, 2018
Losing the Nobel Prize Event
April 25, 2018
Remembering Kate Wilhelm
March 8, 2018
Roger Penrose Lecture: New Cosmological View of Dark Matter
January 19, 2018
Into The Impossible Podcast
Imagining the Future of Climate Change
January 1, 2018
TASAT: A Database of What-If Scenarios
An Evening with Andy Weir
December 7, 2017
First Report: The Recent Solar Eclipse
October 10, 2017
TEAMS: Interdisciplinary Augmented Reality for Undergraduates
Tromper soi-même: Sight, Touch, and Augmented Reality
July 14, 2017
Science Fiction Meets Architecture: Designing for an Aging Population
June 29, 2017
Cosmology and Cocktails
June 25, 2017
2017 Clarion Workshop Write-a-Thon
June 25–August 5, 2017
Octavia Butler at the Huntington Library
June 23, 2017
Sir Roger Penrose: Fashion, Faith and Fantasy and the Big Questions in Modern Physics
June 5, 2017
George R. R. Martin in conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson
May 2, 2017
Share Festival, Turin, Italy
March 30 and 31, 2017
UC San Diego Expansion and the Clarke Center
March 26, 2017
Sally Ride Fellowship for Women in Physics
March 16, 2017
The Anorexic Brain
March 15, 2017
Entanglements: Rae Armantrout & the Poetry of Physics
April 13, 2017
TRAPPIST-1 Discovery
Hidden Figures, with Dr. Jedidah Isler and Dr. Yvonne Cagle
March 9, 2017
Ambivalent Designs with Tara McPherson
March 2, 2017
Innovation Explorer Forum
February 23, 2017
My Elegant Robot Freedom
Feb 10 - May 14, Vitra Design Museum
Harold Cohen, Creating Computational Creativity
January 19-February 17, 2017
FutureProofing on BBC Radio 4
January 18, 2017
Chasing Shadows: Visions of Our Coming Transparent World
January 10, 2017
Raw Science Film Festival
December 10, 2016
The 2016 Arthur C. Clarke Awards
November 29, 2016 5-8pm
Accelerating Human Imagination Workshop at the University of Liverpool in London
November 24-25, 2016
Sheldon Brown at Goldsmiths
November 23, 2016
PLENARY TALK: Creating the Perfect Human? The Ethics of Enhancement
November 10, 1pm-3pm
Lab at the Google Cultural Institute: Arts and Machine Learning Summit in Paris
November 3 & 4, 2016
Arrival Premiere, with Writer Ted Chiang
November 7, 2016
How to Make a Spaceship, with Peter Diamandis, Julian Guthrie, and Brian Binnie
Greg Tate at UCSD
October 18, 2016
Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop 2017
June 25 – August 5, 2017
Brown at Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture Conference
September 22, 2016
Adam Burgasser at Griffith Observatory
September 19, 2016
Bruce Sterling and Jasmina Tešanović Residency
August 19 to September 15, 2016
Tricorder XPRIZE and Star Trek: Beyond
Assembly in Science of the Unseen: Digital Art Perspectives
Time, Mathematics, and the Mind of God
August 10, 2016
Assembly at Design Forward
June 16 + 17, 2016
Sci Fi Meets Architecture in the News
May 24, 2016
Shaping Change: Remembering Octavia E. Butler Through Archives, Art, and Worldmaking Conference
June 3-5, 2016
Assembly Cognogenesis at Filmatic Festival
May 7, 2016
Three Potentially Habitable Earth-Sized Worlds Discovered
Science Fiction Meets Architecture: London 2080
The Future is Here 2016
Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop Graduates Nominated for the 2015 Nebula Awards
An Evening with Freeman Dyson
Childhood’s End on SyFy Channel
December 14, 2015
The Nature of Creativity at the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center
Clarion Foundation President Karen Joy Fowler visiting UC San Diego
November 17, 2015
2015 Arthur C. Clarke Awards
October 28, 2015
Matt Kaplan and the “Science of the Magical”
November 10, 2015
Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop, 2016
June 19-July 30, 2016
Beach Physics and BE WiSE Overnight
October 2, 2015
Mozart and the Mind
September 25-27, 2015
IBM Donation
The Physics of Free Will
Thursday, August 6, 6:00PM
Who’s the Muse? Science or Science Fiction
Sunday, July 12 • 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Comic-Con 2015, San Diego Convention Center
Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Workshop 2015
Beach Physics with Physics Girl
Latina/o Science Fiction Now!
Thursday, May 28, 3:00 PM
Are We Alone Are You Alien
Wednesday, June 3, 5:00 PM
Sleep Dealer Discussion and Screening
Wednesday, May 27, 6:00 PM
Discussion with Architect, Liam Young
April 21, 12:30 PM
Woman in the Moon Screening and Discussion
May 21, 6:00 PM
Filmatic Festival by ArtPower!
April 30-May 3
The Future is Here 2015
May 14 - 17th, 2015 in Washington DC
Are We Alone?
Close Encounters of the Third Kind Discussion & Screening
April 1, 6:00 PM
Clarke Center Undergraduate Imagination Research Grants Awardees
Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop Graduates nominated for the 2014 Nebula Awards
UC San Diego Frontiers of Innovation Scholars Program
Creative Catalysts: SoCal Innovators Meet Up
Thursday, February 26, 6:00-8:00 PM
Degrees of Freedom Public Lecture Series
Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m. in the Great Hall of International House
Clarke Center Director Sheldon Brown receives John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Endowed Chair in Digital Media and Learning
from UCSD News
Cosmology Prize Recognizes ‘Inventive’ Proposed Test of Fundamental Physics
Abramovic Method Workshop and 3015/Work in Progress/in collaboration with Kim Stanley Robinson
January 2015
Portrait of Marina Abramovic, 2012
© 24 ORE Cultura S.r.l. and © Laura Ferrari
Courtesy of The Marina Abramovic Archives
Going to the Ends of the Earth to Discover the Beginning of Time | Brian Keating | TEDxSanDiego
from UCSD News and TEDxSanDiego
David Brin consults for new SyFy Series, “Ascension”
December 15, 9pm
Clarke Center Undergraduate Imagination Research Grants
Clarke Center Awarded Two Grants
Science Fiction and genre publishing. And, what is Literary Science Fiction / Speculative Fiction anyway?
SHAUN OF THE DEAD Discussion and Screening
December 3, 6:00 PM
MIT Enterprise Forum: Boldly Explore Where No Enterprise Has Gone Before
Kim Stanley Robinson on John Muir
2014 Arthur C. Clarke Awards
Digital Materiality at Urban Scale: Increased Resolution Fabrics of Architecture, Alisa Andrasek
Finalists named for Qualcomm Tricorder XPrize
Clarion Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers’ Workshop, 2014
THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN Discussion & Screening, September 25, 2014
GATTACA Screening & Discussion, August 11, 2014
How Big is the World?: Exploring the Multiverse in Modern Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Beyond
FREDERICK ORDWAY III, 1927-2014
Edgeland Futurism
Friday, June 7th 5PM - 8PM, San Diego
“2001: A Space Odyssey” Screening and Discussion
Atkinson Auditorium, June 12 6:00pm
Mozart and the Mind
Saturdays, May 10, 17, and 31
“Contact” Screening and discussion with SETI Institute Trustee Jill Tarter and author David Brin
May 8th, Atkinson Hall Auditorium
“Embodied cognition and the magical future of interaction design” named Notable Article
from Computing Reviews
Gregory Benford and Larry Niven book signing
April 12 at Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore San Diego
Ayse Saygin, Jordan Crandall speaking at Robots and New Media
April 4th 2014, Berkeley Center for New Media Symposium
Peter Diamandis named one of the world’s 50 greatest leaders
from cnn.com
Scalable City opens at the Galeries du Forum
from meyrinculture.ch
The Future is Here 2014
May 16-18th at Washington DC
BICEP 2 Telescope, co-created by Brian Keating, show scientists ‘fingerprint’ of Big Bang
from UCSD News and UT San Diego
Random Dance: Mind and Movement by Wayne McGregor, with David Kirsh
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 @ 7:30 pm at Guggenheim Museum
Galileo and the Music of the Spheres
Friday, February 21 at UCSD Atkinson Hall
2014: Year of Pivotal Change
on Coast to Coast AM radio, January 12, 2014
Imagination Gets a Boost with $1 Million Gift
ViaSat named Founding Partner of Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination in recognition of donation
Galaxy Garden Workshop
Saturday, December 7, 2013 from 10am to 4pm at UC San Diego, Price Center East ballroom
UC Working Group in the Philoshopy of Perception: Awareness of Space
Fall Workshop, December 7, 2013
Sheldon Brown Presents at Cinematic Innovation Summit
December 5-6, Dubai
Becoming Galactic: Citizens of the Galaxy
December 3, 2013, 5:30 to 7:30 PM at UC San Diego's Atkinson Hall Auditorium
Robots, the ‘uncanny valley’ and learning to love the alien
Can we rewire our human distrust of robots that look like us?
The Arts of Piranesi: Architect, Etcher, Antiquarian, Vedutista, Designer
review by Sheldon Brown
New UC President Janet Napolitano visits the Clarke Center
Photos inside
Erik Viirre, Clarke Center Neuroscientist, discusses renewed interest in virtual reality
from kpbs.com
2013 Arthur C. Clarke Awards
Tuesday, October 22, 6:30 to 9:30 pm at Intelsat Headquarters
$10 Million Qualcomm Tricorder Competition
from startrek.com
Sony Scholar Awards
Submit applications by Monday 10/21 at Noon
Math and The Body and The Mind
October 16, 2013 5:30pm to 7:30pm at UC San Diego's Atkinson Hall Auditorium
“Our Star Will Die Alone” at the Without Walls Festival
Oct 4-5 at 10:30pm, south patio of Galbraith Hall
The Once and Future Kepler Mission / Directed Energy Planetary Defense
August 26, 2013, 5:30pm to 7:30pm at UC San Diego's Atkinson Hall Auditorium
VIDEO: The Literary Imagination with Jonathan Lethem and Kim Stanley Robinson
on UCSD TV
‘Space Odyssey’ Author Inspires Imagination Research Center
from space.com
Creativity in the Arts: A Neuronal Hypothesis
June 6 at 4 pm, UC San Diego, Structural and Materials Engineering (SME) Building, Room 149
Starship Century
May 21 - 22 at UC San Diego Qualcomm Institute, Atkinson Hall Auditorium
Symposium: Visions Of The Future
May 14, 2013 from 1pm - 5pm, UC San Diego, Qualcomm Institute, Atkinson Hall Auditorium
The Literary Imagination
May 14, 2013 at 7pm, UC San Diego, Price Center Ballroom
Remembering Arthur C. Clarke
Exhibit: May 1 - 30, 2013; Public Reception: May 21, 6pm - 8pm
Creativity and Imagination: Views of their cultural and neuroscientific basis
Wednesday evenings @ 8pm, February 6 - March 6, 2013, UC San Diego campus, Applied Physics and Math Building, Room 1882
Mars Curiosity Landing Seminar
November 2, 2012
Structural and Materials Engineering (SME) Building Grand Opening
September 14, 2012
