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
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
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
(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
