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Speculative Authenticity

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Speculative Authenticity

Speculative Authenticity

// Presented by the Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts

This seminar explores how speculative logic has become a key research method across disciplines, countering rational empiricism and opening new space for hypotheticals, imagination, and futures thinking. Rather than defaulting to a binary between “truth” and “fantasy” or “fiction,” we explore how speculative thought is authentic and is now a primary, if oxymoronic, path to creative innovation and “truth” in the sciences, data sciences, arts, humanities, and social sciences.

Core Team:

  • Emily Ward Bivens, School of Art
  • Tova Holmes, Department of Physics and Astronomy (Physics)
  • Sean Lindsay, Department of Physics and Astronomy (Astronomy)
  • Lawrence Lee, Department of Physics and Astronomy (Physics)
  • Julie Lohnes, School of Art
  • Andrew Madl, School of Landscape Architecture
  • Faye Nixon, School of Landscape Architecture
  • Eleni Palis, Departments of English and Cinema Studies
  • Maria Stehle, Departments of Film Studies and World Languages and Cultures (German)

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