Posthuman Ethics, NYU 2018
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PROGRAM

FRIDAY, 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

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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
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Chair: Magda Vicini

Marc Johnson
Collaborative Survival

5:40-6:00
Reflections: 
Open debate
(Light Refreshments will be served)

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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! 
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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

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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.
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