Emerge 2026: Contested Futures

EMERGE: Contested Futures, raises pressing questions about power and agency in the age of AI. Rather than treating technological change as inevitable or neutral, the conference invites critical reflection on how emerging technologies are developed, governed, narrated, and contested, and how they reshape democratic processes, social relations, environmental conditions, education, media, and cultural production. Whether you are a researcher, practitioner, or policy professional, EMERGE offers a rare interdisciplinary space to interrogate the futures being built around us, and to imagine alternatives. More information at https://emerge.ifdt.bg.ac.rs/