A SECOND 2nd Renaissance Conference???  Yes.  Sort of.  You might remember the Metacrisis conference at Harvard in the Spring.  Now there is a three-day online event called:

Second Renaissance Conference 2025: Transformation in a Time of Metacrisis.  A three-day online gathering for transformative ideas, practice, and collective renewal in the context of escalating (meta)crisis.

It is Dec 5–7th.  Find out more here or just buy tickets. 

And if you are not totally sure what a Metacrisis is? 

I like Nate Hagens from The Great Simplification, who says that we are not just facing a bunch of problems (polycrisis) but a predicament (meta-crisis).  So how do we, as a species, as individuals, as teams, discern and deal with the common drivers that are creating and re-creating our multifaceted civilizational predicament?  Why do a lot of our best tactics seem to regenerate the very problems they are trying to solve?  What are the emotional, cognitive and ideological blocks toward implementing intelligent and regenerative solutions?  This is metacrisis thinking.   

Here's an official blurb:

>>> The Second Renaissance Conference Online, Dec 5–7th http://2rcon.org/  brings together those who sense the challenges of our time run deeper than any individual crisis. Many now speak of a metacrisis: the way ecological strain, social fragmentation, and technological acceleration together point to a deeper breakdown at the very roots of our civilization.  Over three days, we’ll explore how we can meet this moment with wisdom and imagination—and perhaps even gesture toward a new renaissance. Through keynote dialogues and participatory sessions, the event weaves together voices from philosophy, cognitive science, regenerative culture, governance innovation, and contemplative practice.  If this speaks to you, please join us.

They also say:

>>> Through keynote dialogues, interactive sessions, and interdisciplinary panels, the gathering weaves voices from contemplative practice, governance innovation, cognitive science and regenerative culture. The intention is not only to understand but to cultivate the capacities, relationships, and imaginations that make real transformation possible. It is an invitation for those who feel a new paradigm stirring, and wish to help midwife its emergence.

You can read their substack article about it for more flesh on the concept and the event.  Get tickets and see who's going to be there at www.2rcon.org.

And go deeper into the theory, vibe, alliances (and even art manifestos) of the Second Renaissance here.