Edinburgh International Book Festival
The 2024 Edinburgh International Book Festival returns from Saturday 10th to Sunday 25th August.
About Edinburgh International Book Festival
Edinburgh International Book Festival announces its 2024 programme with the theme Future Tense as it moves into a new era and home at Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI). Taking place from 10-25 August the Festival is the first to unfold under the innovative Directorship of Jenny Niven in the state of the art surrounds of what was Edinburgh’s Royal Infirmary.
The Edinburgh International Book Festival is a registered charity, a non-profit making organisation. It is a distinctive international showcase celebrating the written word, literature and ideas. It brings leading and emerging international, British and Scottish authors and thinkers together to inspire each other and audiences in an extensive programme of public events.
Discussion, performance and interactive events have become prominent features of the Festival, complementing the more traditional interview-style conversations and readings, and contributing to the Book Festival’s reputation as a powerful forum for the public to exchange views with writers and experts on a wide range of issues: social, ethical and political as well as literary and cultural. At the heart of the Book Festival’s activity is an integrated approach to creative learning and education, with the aim of expanding participation in democratic discussion, fostering a love of reading and developing engaged, knowledgeable audiences of all ages and backgrounds.
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Other Events at Edinburgh Futures Institute or Edinburgh International Book Festival
Jeanette Winterson in Conversation with Ameca
Artificial intelligence is advancing at an ever-increasing rate. Join novelist Jeanette Winterson on 7th October as she speaks with Ameca, the most advanced humanoid robot!
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Literature is not a Luxury with Bernardine Evaristo
Join Bernardine Evaristo at the Futures Institute on 8th October for this talk on arts provision in the education system and the importance of creativity in young people!
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Rooting Decolonial Education: Routes for Repair and Liberation
As part of Black History Month, the panellists will engage with Black presence and Black Studies in relation to education in different contexts around the world.
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AI.Soma: Wayne McGregor
Studio Wayne McGregor will deliver a creative residency culminating in a performance centred on McGregor’s AI.Soma at Edinburgh Futures Institute on 17th October.
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The Future of Education: Crisis
This is the first conversation in the series 'The Future of Education' and will focus on education through the crises of war, emergency, unrest and exclusion.
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The Future of Education: Utopia
The second in the series 'The Future of Education' brings together a group of high-profile academics, activists and creatives to debate what kind of alternative education futures are desirable.
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Video Games: Play and Pedagogy
In this panel event bridging video games and education, our guest speakers will the role of video games in shaping our world and human development, and the gamification of education.
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Entangled Singing with Rhubaba Choir
The Rhubaba Choir provides the opportunity for individuals to sing together in a welcoming, eclectic group and share singing experiences in this 3 hour workshop.
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Contesting Computing: Imagining Feminist Technofutures
This discussion at Edinburgh Futures Institute considers the role education has played in developing our technological landscape and how it can help work towards a fairer future.
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Utopia Lab: Seats at the Table
In this session, Dr Jimmy Turner and Francesca Vale will present their visions of a utopia in which everyone has an equal but individual seat at the table.
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Visitors to this exhibition will be invited to consider how the chairs interact with one another and what they represent for the world or worlds they inhabit.
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Technomoral Conversations: What the Majority World Can Teach Us about AI
In this Technomoral Conversations panel, hear from leading voices from the Majority World on what they have learned from and about AI, and the issues and visions they would like to see taken up.
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Future Library and Futures Literacy: Making Futures from Where We Are
Join us at Edinburgh Futures Institute for a panel event marking the 10-year anniversary of Katie Paterson’s 100-year artwork, Future Library!
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The Future of Education: AI
Artificial Intelligence is the latest in a long series of high-profile technology ‘disruptors’ of education. What futures for education does it promise, and are these desirable?
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Unco: LGBT+ Scots Glossar
This event marks the launch of the lexicon with a specially-commissioned spoken word and music performance from Harry Josephine Giles and Malin Lewis.
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The Future of AI at School
This event at Edinburgh Futures Institute will bring together key figures from the Scottish education landscape to talk about AI in schools and our education futures.
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Ex Silens: From the series ‘I Am Your Body’
Ex Silens is an experience into a radically alternative sensorium through the entanglement of multiple bodies, multiple agencies.
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