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PROGRAM

Please, note that the program may be subject to slight changes.

FRIDAY, APRIL 22ND

Morning Sessions

10:00
Registration & Breakfast

10:30-11:00
Introduction: Welcome & Acknowledgments

The Organizers:
Francesca Ferrando
Farzad Mahootian
Jim McBride
Yunus Tuncel
Advisor:
Carmel Vaisman


11:00-12:00 
Panel 1: Ethics in a Posthuman Context
Chair: Peter Diamond

Boaz Miller and Isaac Record 
Web Responsibilities in a Transhuman Age Analyzed through the Prism of Technological Possibility
Carmel Vaisman
Transcend or Include? Locating the Human in Posthuman Politics
Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes 
Prophecy as an Occult of the Present: A Poethics of Being Human


12:15-12:30
Performance 1
Chair: Farzad Mahootian

Baptiste and Phillip Baldwin
A posthuman performance


12:30-2:00
Lunch Break

Afternoon Sessions

2:00-2:30
Showcase
Chair:  
Yunus Tuncel

Danny Daniel  
(The Museum of Interesting Things)
Objects of the Futures

2:30-3:30
Panel 2: Posthuman Futures Speak to Us
Chair: Francesca Ferrando

David Roden 
Letters from the Ocean Terminus
Melanie Swan 

Future Now: Theory of Posthuman Temporality
Jim McBride
 Humanoid Robots and the Next Political Revolution


3:45-4:45
​Panel 3:  Posthumanism and the Human Body
Chair: Carmel Vaisman


Laura Forlano 
Posthuman Subjectivites

Debika Saha
Real and the Virtual: The Posthuman Futuristic Vision
Sumaya Babamia
Communication Interventions and Dis/ability—Towards a Posthuman Future


5:00-6:00
Book Panel
Chair:  Yunus Tuncel
Francesca Ferrando "Philosophical Posthumanism and its Others"
Roberto Marchesini "The Philosophical Ethology"
David Roden "Posthuman Life"


6:15-6:30
Performance 2
Chair: Farzad Mahootian

Roman Kalinovski & Christopher Palmer
Miku Forever​​

6:30-7:15
Reception​

SATURDAY, APRIL 23RD

Morning Sessions

10:00-11:00
Panel 4: Philosophical Encounters
Chair: Farzad Mahootian

Adam T. Kingsmith
A Metamaterialist Manifesto
Kiki Benzon
Virtual Reality and Empathy in a Posthuman Future
Mitra Azar/Emanuele Andreoli
Gaze Disembodiment and New Technologies of Vision as a Political Battlefield

11:15-11:30
Performance 4
Chair: Jim McBride

Aixa Kendrick
i-sis soul-our sis-dem &​ tek noh tronix noir

​11:30-12:30
Student Panel
Introduction: Amber Celedonio
Chair: Jenny Yang and Alexander Lim


Presentations:
(11:30-11:55):

Jin Kong

Plastic Surgery in South Korea
Luis Rivera-Nesrala and Jane Wells
Syrian Refugees: The Other Does Not Exist

Performances 5

Chabelly Pacheco and Sonia Jasmin Contreras Martinez
Post-Latina

Workshop
(11:55-12:30):

Elizabeth Hegarty, Larkin Caitlin, McKown Khalei
Near and Far Futures


12:30-1:45

Lunch  Reception
(Vegetarian, Vegan and Gluten Free options available)


Afternoon Sessions

2:00-3:00
Panel 5: Liminality and Otherness
Chair: Francesca Ferrando

Roberto Marchesini 
Praising Hybridization: Techne as Openness to Otherness
Jeffrey Bussolini 
The Posthumanism of Vinciane Despret, Dominique Lestel, and Roberto Marchesini
Mark Doerksen
The Sensible Beyond the Senses: Designing Bodies, Designing Words


3:15-4:15
Panel 6: Images/Objects of the Posthuman
Chair: Jim McBride

Jane Caputi 
"Color Nature Gone"? Shiny Whiteness in Posthuman iconography
Katherine Connell 
Flat Ontological Erotics and Object-Oriented Sex Spaces
Jessica Ruzek 
Through the Looking Glass:' Mastery and Personhood in Ex Machina


4:30-5:15
Keynote Speaker

Natasha Vita-More
Chair: Francesca Ferrando

5:15 – 5:30

Performance 3
Chair: Farzad Mahootian

Cara Francis 
Happy to See you


5:30-6:15
Brainstorming Conclusive Workshop
"Envisioning the Futures"
Chairs: Francesca Ferrando and Carmel Vaisman

6:15-6.30
Conclusions
​

EXTRA ACTIVITES

Saturday night, April 23rd
​
(optional)

7:30 pm
Dinner at the "Caravan 
of Dreams"
Organic Vegan Vegetarian Kosher Restaurant

(optional)
10:30 pm
Show  by the Neo-Futurists
"Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind"
​Kraine Theater

​The locations for each day and activity are listed on our "Locations" page.
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