Monday, March 28, 2011

How will increasing cross-cultural interaction shape YOUR working and leisure lifestyle in the next several years – and your value system? What culture-based hidden assumptions limit YOUR thinking and your notion of personal identity? What can you learn from other peoples and cultures that can help humankind meet the challenges of the future? And what is the future of cultural diversity itself? These are among the topics to be explored at "Trans-Cultural Impacts on the Future," a special session at the World Future Society 2011 conference.

Sponsored by FUTUREtakes, an independent publication serving World Future Society chapters and members, this second session of its kind continues the dialog launched at the 2010 special session and complements the FUTUREtakes transcultural thematic issue series that has featured leading educators, think tank staff, and diplomatic staff.

World Future 2011 is scheduled for July 8-10, 2011 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and the "Trans-Cultural Impacts 2011" session is scheduled for 9:00-10:30 am on Sunday, July 10. Conference registration can be completed on the World Future Society website, www.wfs.org. For further information about the special session or about FUTUREtakes, write to info@futuretakes.org or visit the FUTUREtakes Website.