The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce the launch of a limited podcast series. In collaboration with Art Gallery of York University (AGYU) curators Lillian O'Brien Davis and Clara Halpern, Dr. Zulfikar Hirji developed 'Speculative Futures of Objects' as part of the AGYU's Uncontainable Collections Research Project.

The joint project emerged from Dr. Hirji's winter 2023 undergraduate course, 'Speculative futures: The Anthropology of What Might Be'.

In this limited podcast series, scholars, curators, and artists engage with articulations, expressions, and representations of the (im)possible, (extra)ordinary, and (un)imaginable—i.e., speculative—futures that diverse individuals, groups, communities, and societies are envisaging, dreaming, composing, conjuring, imagining, and bringing into being. 

The first episode, 'Vessels and Voyages' features Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Ayana V. Jackson, and Camille Turner.