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Generated/-ive Futures

DIGSUM Symposium · 6–7 October 2026 · P5 Conference Centre, Umeå University

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Programme

Opening

  • Moa Eriksson Krutrök
     
    Chair
  • Simon Lindgren
     
    Chair
  • Thomas Olofsson
    Umeå University · Deputy Vice-Chancellor
    Welcome
  • Xavier de Luna
    Umeå University · Faculty Research Dean
    Welcome

Keynotes

  • Moa Eriksson Krutrök
     
    Chair
  • Simon Lindgren
     
    Chair
  • Sarah Pink
    Monash University
    “Generative / Emerging / Tech / Futures”
    Keynote
  • Gabriele de Seta
    University of Bergen
    “Slop futures: Viscous media as infrastructural vernacular”
    Keynote
  • Helen Kennedy
    University of Sheffield
    “For a better, generative-in-a-good-way, digital present and future”
    Keynote
  • Martin Berg
    Malmö University
    Chair

01Information, Truth, and Moderation

  • Felicia Lundstedt
     
    Chair
  • Olof Sundin
    Lund University
    “The AI-Infused Information Landscape”
    Speaker
  • Chiao-I Tseng
    University of Gothenburg
    “AI as Target and Method in Social Media News Research”
    Speaker
  • Therese Enarsson
    Umeå University
    “Regulating content moderation”
    Speaker

02Imaginaries, Anticipation, and Aesthetics

  • Salla-Maaria Laaksonen
     
    Chair
  • Dimitri Coelho Mollo
    Umeå University
    “Predicting AI futures”
    Speaker
  • Pasko Kisić-Merino
    Lund University
    “Fantasies of Technofascist Futurity”
    Speaker
  • Cornelia Brantner
    Karlstad University
    “Aesthetics of the Possible”
    Speaker
  • Tina Askanius
    Malmö University
    “Far-right futures”
    Speaker

03Political Economy and Infrastructures of AI

  • Petter Ericsson
     
    Chair
  • Pieter Verdegem
    University of Westminster
    “Untangling the Political Economy of AI”
    Speaker
  • Laurens Naudts
    KU Leuven
    “Sharing Opacity? Data Infrastructure Governance”
    Speaker
  • Heather Wiltse
    Umeå University
    “Regenerating platformed relations”
    Speaker

04Memory, Death, and Time

  • Samuel Merrill
     
    Chair
  • Rik Smit
    University of Groningen
    “The promise of a generated past”
    Speaker
  • Johanna Sumiala
    University of Helsinki
    “The Social Lives of the AI Dead”
    Speaker
  • Mykola Makhortykh
    University of Bern
    “Generating the past to project the future”
    Speaker

05Governing AI: Law, Rights, and Accountability

  • Markus Naarttijärvi
     
    Chair
  • Adrian Solitander
    European Commission
    “The Impact of GenAI on Regulating Systemic Risk under the DSA”
    Speaker
  • Michel Rouleau-Dick
    Umeå University
    “AI mediated international law”
    Speaker
  • Sue Anne Teo
    Lund University
    “AI Chatbots and the Slow Violence of Digital Interaction”
    Speaker

06AI, Work, and Bureaucracy

  • Agnes Liminga
     
    Chair
  • Martin Berg
    Malmö University
    “Choreographing socio-digital futures”
    Speaker
  • Anne Kaun
    Södertörn University
    “AI bureaucracy: Re-enchantment in the algorithmic black box”
    Speaker
  • Stine Lomborg
    University of Copenhagen
    “Aspirational Control in the Datafied Workplace”
    Speaker

07Queer Futures of AI

  • Mia Liinason
     
    Chair
  • Evelina Liliequist
    Umeå University
    “Networking and collective resistance”
    Speaker
  • Matilda Tudor
    Uppsala University
    “The Queer Phenomenology of Everyday Automation”
    Speaker
  • Onur Kilic
    Umeå University
    “Bodies that “Glitch”: Binary AI systems and queer resistances”
    Speaker

Names, institutions, roles and talk titles from the published programme at genfutures.net.