• Read more about Remaking the Human: Technoscience, Dignity and the Meaning of Progress

Ideas of the human—of what humanity is and what it can be—have long been bound up with narratives of progress.

The universal human, defined by reason, was at the core of the Enlightenment project. In the 20th century, projects of global development ushered in new figures of the human as the subject of universal rights and agent of economic transformation. The 21st century has, in turn, ushered in a figure of humanity as author of the Anthropocene and the subject of its own projects of technoscientific transformation—biological, cognitive and social.

• Read more about ASU Family Weekend 2021

Spirit, Pride, Sun Devil Family Tradition

• Read more about An Evening with Zadie Smith

The Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies invites you to an evening with award-winning author Zadie Smith. This dialogue will interrogate the ways we teach and write about English literature. In what ways can we adapt and appropriate the canon to imagine different and more inclusive futures?

About Zadie Smith

• Read more about Japanese Breakfast

The ASU 365 Community Union presents Japanese Breakfast as part of the Fall 2021 Coca-Cola Sun Deck Concert Series at Sun Devil Stadium. 

• Read more about Imagining Our Climate Futures

If we hope to achieve the global will and cooperation needed to meet the challenges of the climate crisis, we need stories of hope and transformation, not just disaster and deprivation. These stories should be rooted both in local realities and scientific insights. If we can inspire communities around the world to imagine their own positive climate futures, we can begin to imagine and undertake the work necessary to rebuild our economies and cultures on more sustainable foundations.

• Read more about D Smoke with special guest Jean Dawson

The ASU 365 Community Union presents D Smoke with special guest Jean Dawson as part of the Fall 2021 Coca-Cola Sun Deck Concert Series at Sun Devil Stadium. 

• Read more about Seize the Moment Variety Show

Come one, come all! Blending the knowledge and rigor of academic presentations with the energy and liveliness of talk shows and open mics, the Seize the Moment Variety Show is an hour of pop-up talks, interviews, presentations and more celebrating the dynamic, interdisciplinary work of the Humanities Lab and Leonardo Labs at Arizona State University.

• Read more about ASU Mariachi Fall Concert

Join the ASU Mariachi as they presents their fall semester culmination concert.

• Read more about ASU Maroon and Gold Band and the ASU Wind Symphony

The ASU Maroon and Gold Band and the ASU Wind Symphony perform their final concert of 2021. The concert will feature the works of Grainger, Himes, Greenaway and others.

Sally Greenaway: Aurora Musis Amica
Kristen Zelenak, guest conductor
Williams Himes: Amazing Grace
Percy Grainger: Lincolnshire Posy

• Read more about Neal Stephenson, Termination Shock

With his string of bestselling novels, Neal Stephenson has carved out a space at the forefront of contemporary fiction, exploring and shaping our cultural imaginary about the future and how it might feel to inhabit it. In his latest novel, Termination Shock, Stephenson explores one of the most pressing global issues of our time—climate change. Frustrated by the inaction of the world’s nations and international institutions, billionaire restaurant chain magnate T.R.