September 11th - 14th 2013, University of Roma 3, Rome ... - GINA

September 11th - 14th 2013, University of Roma 3, Rome, Italy

11-11.30 -Robin L. Zebrowski: Emerging Technologies and the Not-New Ethics: Always Already Posthuman

Wednesday 11 11.30-12 Break 10-10.30 Registration 10.30-11 Introduction 11.00-12.00 Break ROOM 1 METAHUMANISM 12-12.30 -Michael Hauskeller: 'Erotic pleasure of an intoxicating intensity that mortal flesh has never known' - the Glorious Sex Life of the Posthuman 12.30-1 -Stefan Lorenz Sorgner: Beyond Trans- and Posthumanism 1-1.30 -Jaime del Val: The Human: A Failed Evolution Lunch Break ENHANCING LIFE SPAN & BECOMING CYBORGS 3-3.30 –Luke Robert Mason: Synesthetic Cyborg Bodies 3.30-4 -Didier Coeurnelle: Collective consequences of a very long life. The right to life extension considered a human right. 4-4.30 -Jeremy Proulx: Revisiting the Freedom-Nature Distinction: Kant on the Prolongation of Life 4.30-5 Break NEW MEDIA 5-5.30 -Nicoletta Iacobacci: Perceptive Media: The alterable digital landscape 5.30-6 -Krzysztof Solarewicz: Shoot Faster, Jump Higher. Moral Implications of Human Enhancement in Video Games 6-6.30 –Sven Stollfuß: A Cybernetic Mind Meld? Media Epistemology of the Posthuman Brain 6.30-7.00 - Daniele Sartori/Alessandro Ferrante: Toward a sociomaterialistic turn in Italian educational debate: Riccardo Massa and Actor-Network Theory ROOM 2 US, THE MACHINES 12-12.30 -Jelena Guga: In the Machine We Trust 12.30-1 -Valentina Menesatti: Perturbing Glass Bees: meditation on human and technological perfection 1-1.30 -Maciej Czerniakowski: Is this machine alive? Machine-like, biotic, autopoietic systems in contemporary cinema Lunch Break THE BODY 3-3.30 -Bárbara N. Duarte: Hacking the body: towards a new understand of the humanity 3.30-4 -Aline Ferreira: Beyond the Womb? Posthuman Parturitions and the Postnatal Self 4-4.30 -Nora S. Vaage: Human Hybrids as Extended Bodies? 4.30-5 Break LIFE ITSELF? 5-5.30 -Jami Weinstein: Wildlife: Toward a Posthumous In/difference Ethics 5.30-6 Marietta Radomska: As the Non/Living Twitches: Bioart, Movement, and the Question of Life 6-6.30 - Malin Jogmark: Posthuman sk-interfaces 6.30-7.00 Cristina Iuli: What is a cultural system? A modest proposal for a post-humanist description of culture

Thursday 12 ROOM 1 THE PAST OF THE POSTHUMAN 10-10.30 -Ike Sharpless: Politics and Animal Life: A Posthumanist Animal Reconstruction of Aristotle's Political Teleology 10.30-11 -Kaya Uzel: They have always been Posthuman.

HUMAN BEINGS –ANIMALS – OTHER ENTITIES 12-12.30 -Roberto Marchesini: Hybridization: At The Roots of the Anthropopoietic Process 12.30-1 -Jan Stasienko: ‘Unusual marriages’ – weddings as a form of legitimation of intimate relationships with non-human objects 1-1.30 -Matthew Lerberg: The Presence and Absence of Place: A(e)s(th)et(ics) in Animal Art Lunch Break THE POSTHUMAN CONDITION 3-3.30 -Pieter Lemmens: The posthuman condition as the misapprehended concretization of the danger of technology? 3.30-4 -David Roden: Excision Ethics: Justifying the Illegitimate 4-4.30 -Debra Benita Shaw: Streets for Cyborgs: The Electronic Flaneur and the Posthuman City 4.30-4.45 Break TRANSHUMANISM 4.45-5.15 -Darko Polsek: What sorts of heuristics can we use in transhumanist studies? 5.15-5.45 -Chris Bessemans: The transhumanist problem 5.45-6.15 -Christopher Coenen: The Empire to End All Empires: Towards a Postcolonial Genealogy of the Transhuman 6.15-6-30 Break THE POSTHUMAN 1 6.30-7.00 – Debika Saha: The Posthuman Conditions: Affinity between Nietzsche and Das 7.00-7.30 -Elaine Després: Posthumans without limbs: Bernard Wolfe’s Limbo 7.30-8 Ronald Perlwitz: Bruno Latour ROOM 2 ETHICAL ISSUES 10-10.30 -David Meeler: Posthumans Have No Human Rights,But it’s Wrong to Kill them Anyway 10.30-11 -Toni Pustovrh/Franc Mali: Posthuman Enhancement Technologies and European Ethical Advisory Bodies: An Examination of Technology and Public Policy Recommendations 11.00-11.30 -Devendra Jatav: The idea of Posthumanism and the Practice of Meditation 11.30-12 Break POSTHUMAN GENES 12-12.30 -Anaise Irvine: The Genetic Posthuman in Service of the Unmodified Human in Speculative Narratives 12.30-1 -John K. Grandy: The Three Neurogenetic Phases of Human Consciousness and Posthumanism 1-1.30 -Noela Davis: Epigenetics and the posthuman body Lunch Break FILMS AND NOVELS 3-3.30 -Tracey-Lynn Clough: A Posthumanist Consideration of Sleep Dealer and Rango 3.30-4 -Agnieszka Małek: Posthumanism as a Form of Utopia in Poul Anderson’s ‘Call Me Joe’ 4-4.30 -Benedetta Liorsi: Posthuman Emptied Bodies: the Anorexic Shadow over a Changing Humanity in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas and Douglas Coupland’s Microserfs 4.30-4.45 Break ETHICAL ISSUES 2 4.45-5.15 -Johann Roduit: Examining underlying perfectionist assumptions found in the debate about the ethics of human enhancement 5.15-5.45 -Stuart Calimport: The Human Memome Project

5.45-6.15 -Amy DeBaets: How to Build a Moral Agent: Machines and the Future of Moral Action 6.15-6.30 Break ETHICAL ISSUES 3 6.30-7.00- Gabriele Proglio e Gaia Giuliani: Fears of disaster and (post-)human raciologies in European popular culture (2001-2013) 7.00-7.30 –Malia Womack: The Politics of Freedom: When State Interest Takes Precedence Over Women’s Human Rights 7.30-8 -Margaux Portron: War and Biopower

Friday 13 ROOM 1 ANIMAL ETHICS 10-10.30 – Federica Giardini: The “Animal” as political operator 10.30-11 – Lene Koch: The Moral Landscape of Danish Research Monkeys 11-11.30 – Arianna Ferrari: Animal Enhancement: From emancipation to colonization 11.30-12 Break EMBODIMENT 12-12.30 -Lissa Holloway-Attaway: Performing Embodiment and Thinking With... (Moby-Dick) 12.30-1 - Kevin LaGrandeur: Robots and Emotions: Theories, Prescriptions, and Ethical Implications 1-1.30 - Elizabeth Leake: Cesare Pavese, Posthumanism and the Maternal Symbolic

5.30-6 -Theresa Schubert: Chroma+Phy – A Living Wearable Connecting Humans and Their Environment 6-6.30 -Harald Stelzer - Climate Engineering and Human Enhancement

Saturday 14 ROOM 1 POSTHUMANIST CULTURE 10-10.30 -Panagiota Georgopoulou: The anthropocentric treatment of the issue of chance and its neglect in sociological explanations 10.30-11 -Evi Sampanikou 11-11.30 -Jonas Ingvarsson: The posthuman use of posthuman be/things: towards a model for cultural analysis 11.30-12 Break POSTHUMANIST EDUCATION 12-12.30 -Hanna Sjögren: Who is Literate in Sustainability Education? Literacy and Posthumanist Concerns 12.30-1 - Anna Boswell: Pedagogy and the Post-Humanities 1-1.30 -Lesley Gourlay: Authorship, voice and embodied virtuality: a posthuman reading of higher education practices ROOM 2 THE ARTS AND AESTHETICS 1 10-10.30 -Anna Gargiulo/Giorgia Margherita: From the Body Art to Contemporary Symptoms: what kind of Gender Performance? 10.30-11 -Lindsay Tarnowetzki: HAL, GLaDOS, and Dren: Discursive Influences on the Construction of Popular Cultures 11-11.30 -Kaisa Kortekallio: Figurations in Fiction - An Approach to Speculative Subjectivities

Lunch Break

11.30-12 Break

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION 3-4.30 Kevin Warwick

THE ARTS AND AESTHETICS 2 12-12.30 -Gisella Sorrentino: Bodies in Space 12.30-1 –Tim Stott: Fluxus: Systems at Play 1.-1.30 -Luna Dolezal: Posthuman Failure in the Breyer P-Orridge Project 1.30-2.00 – Sandor Klapcsik: Approaches to Posthumanism in Philip K. Dick’s Oeuvre

4.30-5 Break POSTHUMAN ONTOLOGY 5-5.30 - Thomas Philbeck: Machine Epistemologies and the Posthuman Turn 5.30-6 Francesca Ferrando: The Posthuman Multiverse 6.-6.30 -Marija Selak: Do Haraway's cyborg metaphors have metaphysical foundations? ROOM 2 THE POSTHUMAN 2 10-10.30 -Vincent Billard: Everyday life cyborg: the case of my implanted daughter 10.30-11 -Sunghee Kim: Breaking the Spell of Posthuman: Selfbiohacktivism and Post-industrial Crisis of Subjectivity 11-11.30 -Scott Midson: The Human Remains(?): Extensions and Dissolutions of the Human in Post/ and Trans/humanism 11.30-12 Break THE POSTHUMAN TURN 12-12.30 -Mariano Rodríguez: Posthuman Personal Identity (A Nietzschean View) 12.30-1 -Daryl Wennemann: Posthuman Personhood 1-1.30 -Trijsje Franssen: Creating the Posthuman Lunch Break KEYNOTE PRESENTATION 3-4.30 Kevin Warwick 4.30-5 Break POSTHUMAN ENVIRONMENTS 5-5.30 -Tarsh Bates: HumanThrush entanglements: Homo sapiens as a multi-species ecology