{"id":86,"date":"2025-12-17T15:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T15:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/?p=86"},"modified":"2025-12-17T15:27:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T15:27:59","slug":"our-inaugural-nucusp-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/2025\/12\/17\/our-inaugural-nucusp-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Our inaugural NUCUSP event!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thanks to everyone who came along and contributed to a fantastic conversation about utopian, speculative and prefigurative thinking and methods on Mon 8th December. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We were lucky to have talks from Tom Schofield on AI future imaginaries; Ruth Houghton on utopia and constitutionalism; Oscar Horton Chandler on grief and hope in the Jeremy Corbyn wave. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oscar and Ruth in action:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"733\" height=\"579\" data-id=\"88\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2025\/12\/Oscar-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-88\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2025\/12\/Oscar-1.jpg 733w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2025\/12\/Oscar-1-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2025\/12\/Oscar-1-380x300.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 733px) 100vw, 733px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"599\" data-id=\"89\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2025\/12\/Ruth-1024x599.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-89\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2025\/12\/Ruth-1024x599.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2025\/12\/Ruth-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2025\/12\/Ruth-768x450.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2025\/12\/Ruth-500x293.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/files\/2025\/12\/Ruth.jpg 1184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to the Law School for their support. We also had a couple of inventive round table discussions about our shared theoretical resources, methodologies and analytical approaches that we&#8217;ll be sharing here soon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to everyone who came along and contributed to a fantastic conversation about utopian, speculative and prefigurative thinking and methods on Mon 8th December. We were lucky to have talks from Tom Schofield on AI future imaginaries; Ruth Houghton on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/2025\/12\/17\/our-inaugural-nucusp-event\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7558,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/nu-cusp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}