Transcultural Roundtable Presentations

This annual series of features speakers from various nations who share their perspectives on the ways in which today’s cultures, and resurgent interest in cultures of the past, will shape tomorrow’s lifestyles and value systems.  As a convenience to people who have been unable to attend these special sessions at the annual World Future Society conferences, the presentations are posted here.

• Challenges to Identity in an Age of Boundary Meltdown and Increasing Global Interdependence, by Linda Groff
• Transcultural Foresight: Multiple Horizons of Challenge & Application, by Jack Smith
• The Future of World Culture and the Role of Business, by Juanita Hardy
• Transcultural Discourse on Disaster Reduction, by Tiffany Pressler

• Transcultural Impacts on the Future, by Dave Stein
• The Bottom-up Sustainability Shift, by Cornelia Daheim
• Cultural Mindsets in Association with Globalization, by Shoji Mitarai
• National Negotiating Style Differences, by Linda Groff
• The East and the West: Global & Intercultural Perspectives on Wisdom & Enlightenment, by Tom Lombardo

World Future 2010, Boston, Massachusetts (Dave Stein, Moderator)

• Transcultural Perspectives – Series Introduction, by Dave Stein
• The New Nationalism – the Ebbing of Globalisation, by Stephen Aguilar-Millan
• Future Lifestyles, by Alphan Manas
• Transcultural Openness and Tolerance – Evolving Role of Technology, by Anthony W. Au

To participate in next year’s session, write to president@transforesight.org or info@futuretakes.org.