Stephen Heintz and Kim Stanley Robinson say we live in an “Age of Turbulence.” Looking around our geopolitical situation, it’s easy to see what they mean. Faced with the ever-growing threat of climate change, the looming potential breakdown of the post-01945 international order, and the ambiguous prospects of rapid technological changes in fields like AI, […]

Kim Stanley Robinson on “The Ministry for the Future” Global Studies Speaker Series welcomes Kim Stanley Robinson for a Lecture and Book Signing Thursday, April 17, 2025 4:00 pm Graham Chapel Washington University in St. Louis Event page Report from the event Additional photo from the event

Kim Stanley Robinson, science fiction writer of more than 20 novels, will present a public lecture titled “Imagining the Green Transition” this April at Missouri University of Science and Technology. Robinson’s presentation will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, April 21, in Leach Theatre of Castleman Hall, located on the Missouri S&T campus at 10th […]

IPI and Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania, in partnership with the Permanent Missions of Jamaica and the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United Nations, cohosted a roundtable discussion on The Declaration on Future Generations: Moving from Vision to Reality, on April 25th. On September 22, 2024, the United Nations adopted the Declaration on […]