PROGRAMFRIDAY, APRIL 27TH
Morning Sessions 09:30 Registration & Breakfast (Coffee, tea and pastries will be served) 10:00-10:15 Introduction: Welcome & Acknowledgments Dean of Liberal Studies: Julie Mostov The Organizers: Francesca Ferrando, Jim McBride, Kevin LaGrandeur, Yunus Tuncel 10:15-10:30 Featured Artist: Yasue Maetake 10:45-11:45 Panel 1: Dignity Chair: Mahnaz Yousefzadeh Magda Romanska On Dignity David Doat Should People with Disabilities Embrace a Transhumanist Model of Disability? Apolline Taillandier Cyborgs, Selfish Genes, Moral machines: Posthuman Beings and Transhumanist Desires 12:00-1:15 Keynote Speaker Chair: Francesca Ferrando Kevin Warwick Cyborg Ethics (connecting live) 1:15-2:15 Lunch Break Afternoon Sessions 2:30-3:30 Panel 2: Drones Chair: Emily Bauman Peter Diamond Robots and the Temptations of Risk-Free War Melanie Swan Ethical Machine Consciousness: A Social Theory of Dignity per Hegel and Simondon Jim McBride On the Desirability and Dangers of Autonomous Warrior Robots 3:30-4:50 Panel 3: Superintelligence Chair: Kevin Lagrandeur Wolfhart Totschnig The Problem of Superintelligence: Political, not Technological Mitra Azar POV as Figure of Surveillance-assemblage, or POV-opticon Natasha Lushetich Is Big Data a New Medium? Carlos Lavagnino Autoculture, Organic AI and Posthuman Praxis 4:50-5:20 Book Panel Chair: Jim McBride Kevin Lagrandeur Surviving the Machine Age (Palgrave) Francesca Ferrando Philosophical Posthumanism (Bloomsbury) Journal "Posthuman Studies" (Penn State University Press) Yunus Tuncel Nietzsche and Transhumanism (Cambridge Scholars) 5:20-5:40 Video Screening Chair: Magda Vicini Marc Johnson Collaborative Survival 5:40-6:00 Reflections: Open debate (Light Refreshments will be served) *** Optional Dinner: If you would like to join other attendees for dinner, we have reserved a table for 7:15 pm at the "Caravan of Dreams" (the same location where we are going to hold our ethical dinner on Saturday). Please, note that dinner is not covered by the Conference and is on your budget. Enjoy! *** SATURDAY, APRIL 28TH Morning Sessions 10:00-11:00 Panel 4: Psychoanalysis Chair: Kevin Lagrandeur Rodrigo Ferreira Post-humanism, History, and Trauma Jared Russell Clinical Anti-Humanism as Resistance to Global Hyper-Consumption Yunus Tuncel The Unconscious and Posthuman Ethics 11:00-11:30 Student Panel 1 Chair: Yuming Lu Nadianita Iriska Audiantary Human Enhancement: A Solution to this Technological/AI Era Joan Kivuze Mukogosi Posthumanism and the Fate of Marginalized People Aidan Hoffman Humans are Technological Quentin Turner Examining Why We Fear Innovation 11:30-12:50 Panel 5: The Arts Chair: Carole Guesse Orna Raviv, Cinematic Modalities of Post-Human Activity Kevin LaGrandeur, Game-ification of Art in the Posthuman Era Magda Vicini, Mural Art as Reflection on Diversity and Shared Production of Knowledge in a Posthuman Conception Agathe François The Fictionalization of Posthuman Bodies 12:50-2:10 pm Lunch Afternoon Sessions 2:10-2:40 Student Panel 2 Chair: Jenny Zheng Apoorva Nori Neural Networks Parker Hollingsworth The (Bio?)ethics of Artificial Intelligence Elena Maestripieri Fertility Tourism & Sex-selection: An Examination of its Law & Ethics Alexis Egazarian The Great Barrier Reef: A Story of Indifference 2:40-4:00 Panel 6: Ethics Chair: Heather Masri Roberto Marchesini Ethics of Robots According to Posthumanism Francesca Ferrando, Posthuman Ethics, that is, Onto-ethics Anna Blume, Levinas and Posthuman Ethics Dongshin Yi, With Nothing but Humiliation: Ethics of Losing for Posthumans 4:00-5:20 Panel 6: Embodiment Chair: Yunus Tuncel Ellen Pearlman World's First Co-Lab On Cyborg Senses Philippe Baldwin The Work of the Expressive Body in the Age of CRISPR Bio-Reproduction Pablo Brescia Latin American Technobodies Susan Driver Posthuman Youth 5:20-5:30 Performance Chair: Francesca Ferrando Mahnaz Yousefzadeh Animating the Archive: Medusa's corpse as Political Ground 5:30-5:40 Experiential Workshop Anita Boeninger Techno-Social Entrainment & Haptic Reciprocity 5:40-5:55 Reflections: Open Debate (Light Refreshments will be served) 5:55-6:00 Conclusions The Organizers: Francesca Ferrando, Jim McBride, Kevin LaGrandeur, Yunus Tuncel *** Optional: 7:15 pm Ethical Dinner at the "Caravan of Dreams" (Organic, Vegan, Raw, Vegetarian, Kosher) If you would like to continue the posthuman conversation and celebrate ethically, we have reserved a table for 7:15 pm at the "Caravan of Dreams". Please, note that dinner is not covered by the Conference and is on your budget. Some of the organizers will be attending. |