September 11th - 14th 2013, University of Roma 3*, Rome, Italy
Keynote Speakers
Kevin Warwick
Gianni Vattimo
This is a remarkable meeting for scholars, artists, as well as for people who are interested in the topic of the posthuman.
If you want to be part of it, you can register now.
*11-13 September 2013
The first three days be held at the Department of Philosophy, Universita' di Roma Tre
(click here for the directions on how to get there).
During the Conference, there will be a photo exhibition inspired by the topic of the posthuman.
*14 September 2013
The last day (Sept. 14th 2013) will be held at the Department of Architecture, Universita' di Roma Tre.
The lunch plus the afternoon activities will be held at the Citta' dell'Altra Economia, specifically at Cafe' Boario.
PROGRAM
Wednesday 11
9-10 Registration
10-10.45 - Greetings by Francesca Brezzi, Paolo D'Angelo, Giacomo Marramao
10.45-11.30 - Introduction by Francesca Ferrando, Evi Sampanikou, Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
11.30-12 - Coffee Break offered to all the participants
ROOM 1
METAHUMANISM
Moderator: Francesca Ferrando
12-12.30 -Stefan Lorenz Sorgner: Beyond Trans- and Posthumanism
12.30-1 -Jaime del Val: The Human: A Failed Evolution
1-1.30 -Michael Hauskeller: 'Erotic pleasure of an intoxicating intensity that mortal flesh has never known' - the Glorious Sex Life of the Posthuman
Lunch Break
ENHANCING LIFE SPAN & BECOMING CYBORGS
Moderator: Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
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 -Giuseppe Vatinno: Politics and Transhumanism: My Experience as the First Transhumanist Deputate
5-5.15 Break
NEW MEDIA
Moderator: Evi Sampanikou
5.15-5.45 -Nicoletta Iacobacci: Perceptive Media: The alterable digital landscape
5.45-6.15 –Sven Stollfuß: A Cybernetic Mind Meld? Media Epistemology of the Posthuman Brain
6.15-6.45 - Daniele Sartori/Alessandro Ferrante: Toward a sociomaterialistic turn in Italian educational debate:
Riccardo Massa and Actor-Network Theory
ROOM 2
US, THE MACHINES
Moderator: Evi Sampanikou
12-12.30 -Jelena Guga: In the Machine We Trust
12.30-1 -Panagiota Georgopoulou: The anthropocentric treatment of the issue of chance and its neglect in sociological explanations1-1.30 -Maciej Czerniakowski: Is this machine alive? Machine-like, biotic, autopoietic systems in contemporary cinema
Lunch Break
THE BODY
Moderator: Francesca Ferrando
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 Cristina Iuli: What is a cultural system? A modest proposal for a post-humanist description of culture
5-5.15 Break
LIFE ITSELF?
Moderator: Francesca Ferrando
5.15-5.45 -Jami Weinstein: Wildlife: Toward a Posthumous In/difference Ethics
5.45-6.15 Marietta Radomska: As the Non/Living Twitches: Bioart, Movement, and the Question of Life
6.15-6.45 Malin Jogmark: Posthuman sk-interfaces
ROOM 3
POSTHUMAN PERFORMATIVITY I
Moderator: Francesca Ferrando
7-7.30 Inauguration of the Photo Exhibition "The Posthuman".
Presentation of Selected Artists:
Gisella Sorrentino: Bodies in Space
Patrick Millard: Formatting Gaia
Angelo Marino: The Real Key to Virtuality
Thursday 12
ROOM 1
THE PAST OF THE POSTHUMAN
Moderator: Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
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.
11-11.30 -Robin L. Zebrowski: Emerging Technologies and the Not-New Ethics: Always Already Posthuman
11.30-12 Break
HUMAN BEINGS –ANIMALS – OTHER ENTITIES
Moderator: Francesca Ferrando
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
Moderator: Francesca Ferrando
3-3.30 -Pieter Lemmens: The posthuman condition as the misapprehended concretization of the danger of technology?
3.30-4 -David Roden: From Accounting to Excision: the Politics of the Disconnection Thesis
4-4.30 -Debra Benita Shaw: Streets for Cyborgs: The Electronic Flaneur and the Posthuman City
4.30-4.45 Break
TRANSHUMANISM
Moderator: Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
4.45-5.15 - Agnieszka Małek: Posthumanism as a Form of Utopia in Poul Anderson’s ‘Call Me Joe’
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
Moderator: Francesca Ferrando
6.30-7 – Debika Saha: The Posthuman Conditions: Affinity between Nietzsche and Das
7-7.30 -Elaine Després: Posthumans without limbs: Bernard Wolfe’s Limbo
7.30-8 Ronald Perlwitz: Bruno Latour
8.30-22 Dinner offered to all the registered participants
ROOM 2
ETHICAL ISSUES
Moderator: Evi Sampanikou
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
11-11.30 -Krzysztof Solarewicz: Shoot Faster, Jump Higher. Moral Implications of Human Enhancement in Video Games
11.30-12 Break
POSTHUMAN GENES
Moderator: Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
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
ETHICAL ISSUES 2
Moderator: Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
3-3.30 -Johann Roduit: Examining underlying perfectionist assumptions found in the debate about the ethics of human enhancement
3.30-4 -Stuart Calimport: The Human Memome Project
4-4.30 -Amy DeBaets: How to Build a Moral Agent: Machines and the Future of Moral Action
4.30-4.45 Break
ETHICAL ISSUES 3
Moderator: Francesca Ferrando
4.45-5.15- Jonas Ingvarsson: The posthuman use of posthuman be/things: towards a model for cultural analysis
5.15-5.45 –Malia Womack: The Politics of Freedom: When State Interest Takes Precedence Over Women’s Human Rights
5.45-6.15-Margaux Portron: War and Biopower
6.15-6.30 Break
FILMS AND NOVELS
Moderator: Evi Sampanikou
6.30-7 -Tracey-Lynn Clough: A Posthumanist Consideration of Sleep Dealer and Rango
7-7.30 -Sandor Klapcsik: Approaches to Posthumanism in Philip K. Dick’s Oeuvre
7.30-8 -Benedetta Liorsi: Emptied Bodies: Posthumanism and Anorexia in David Mitchell and Douglas Coupland
8.30-22 Dinner offered to all the registered participants
Friday 13
ROOM 1
ANIMAL ETHICS
Moderator: Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
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
Moderator: Evi Sampanikou
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
Lunch Break
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Moderator: Francesca Ferrando
3-4 - Kevin Warwick: I, Cyborg
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Moderator: Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
4-5 - Gianni Vattimo: Posthuman and Post-Progress
5-5.30 - Coffee Break offered to all the participants
POSTHUMAN ONTOLOGY
Moderator: Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
5.30-6 - Thomas Philbeck: Machine Epistemologies and the Posthuman Turn
6-6.30 - Francesca Ferrando: From the Eternal Recurrence to the Posthuman Multiverse
6.30-7 -Marija Selak: Do Haraway's cyborg metaphors have metaphysical foundations?
ROOM 2
THE POSTHUMAN 2
Moderator: Evi Sampanikou
10-10.30 -Vincent Billard: Everyday life cyborg: the case of my implanted daughter
10.30-11 -Sunghee Kim: Breaking the Spell of Posthuman: Self-biohacktivism 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
Moderator: Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
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
Moderator: Francesca Ferrando
3-4 - Kevin Warwick: I, Cyborg
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Moderator: Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
4-5 - Gianni Vattimo: Posthuman and Post-Progress
5-5.30 - Coffee Break offered to all the participants
POSTHUMAN ENVIRONMENTS
Moderator: Evi Sampanikou
5.30-6 -Tarsh Bates: HumanThrush entanglements: Homo sapiens as a multi-species ecology
6-6.30 -Theresa Schubert: Chroma+Phy – A Living Wearable Connecting Humans and Their Environment
6.30-7 -Harald Stelzer - Climate Engineering and Human Enhancement
ROOM 3
POSTHUMAN PERFORMATIVITY II
Moderator: Francesca Ferrando
7-7.30 Performance by Isabel De Lorenzo: Posthuman Frida Khalo
Saturday 14
ROOM 1
POSTHUMANIST CULTURE
Moderator: Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
10-10.30 -Valentina Menesatti: Perturbing Glass Bees: meditation on human and technological perfection
10.30-11 -Evi Sampanikou: Political Embodiment and Posthumanism in Comics and Graphic Novels.
11-11.30 -Gabriele Proglio e Gaia Giuliani: Fears of disaster and (post-)human raciologies in European popular culture (2001-2013)
11.30-12 Break
POSTHUMANIST EDUCATION
Moderator: Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
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
Moderator: Francesca Ferrando
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 Culture
11-11.30 -Kaisa Kortekallio: Figurations in Fiction - An Approach to Speculative Subjectivities
11.30-12 Break
THE ARTS AND AESTHETICS 2
Moderator: Evi Sampanikou
12-12.30 –Tim Stott: Fluxus: Systems at Play
12.30-1. -Magda Vicini: The Communicative Dimensions in the Concept of Social Sculpture of Joseph Beuys: a process of creative translation
1-1.30 - Luna Dolezal: Posthuman Failure in the Breyer P-Orridge Project
1.30-2 - Concluding Remarks by Francesca Brezzi, Francesca Ferrando, Evi Sampanikou, Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
2-3.30 Lunch offered to all the registered participants
3.30-4.45 Sharing visions: Meeting for general feedback and future projects
4.45-5.15 Merenda (Coffee/tea and home-made sweets) offered to all the registered participants
5.15-5.30 Fashion Show by Shakhmara Iki Om: Dressing Futures
Kevin Warwick
Gianni Vattimo
This is a remarkable meeting for scholars, artists, as well as for people who are interested in the topic of the posthuman.
If you want to be part of it, you can register now.
*11-13 September 2013
The first three days be held at the Department of Philosophy, Universita' di Roma Tre
(click here for the directions on how to get there).
During the Conference, there will be a photo exhibition inspired by the topic of the posthuman.
*14 September 2013
The last day (Sept. 14th 2013) will be held at the Department of Architecture, Universita' di Roma Tre.
The lunch plus the afternoon activities will be held at the Citta' dell'Altra Economia, specifically at Cafe' Boario.
PROGRAM
Wednesday 11
9-10 Registration
10-10.45 - Greetings by Francesca Brezzi, Paolo D'Angelo, Giacomo Marramao
10.45-11.30 - Introduction by Francesca Ferrando, Evi Sampanikou, Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
11.30-12 - Coffee Break offered to all the participants
ROOM 1
METAHUMANISM
Moderator: Francesca Ferrando
12-12.30 -Stefan Lorenz Sorgner: Beyond Trans- and Posthumanism
12.30-1 -Jaime del Val: The Human: A Failed Evolution
1-1.30 -Michael Hauskeller: 'Erotic pleasure of an intoxicating intensity that mortal flesh has never known' - the Glorious Sex Life of the Posthuman
Lunch Break
ENHANCING LIFE SPAN & BECOMING CYBORGS
Moderator: Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
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 -Giuseppe Vatinno: Politics and Transhumanism: My Experience as the First Transhumanist Deputate
5-5.15 Break
NEW MEDIA
Moderator: Evi Sampanikou
5.15-5.45 -Nicoletta Iacobacci: Perceptive Media: The alterable digital landscape
5.45-6.15 –Sven Stollfuß: A Cybernetic Mind Meld? Media Epistemology of the Posthuman Brain
6.15-6.45 - Daniele Sartori/Alessandro Ferrante: Toward a sociomaterialistic turn in Italian educational debate:
Riccardo Massa and Actor-Network Theory
ROOM 2
US, THE MACHINES
Moderator: Evi Sampanikou
12-12.30 -Jelena Guga: In the Machine We Trust
12.30-1 -Panagiota Georgopoulou: The anthropocentric treatment of the issue of chance and its neglect in sociological explanations1-1.30 -Maciej Czerniakowski: Is this machine alive? Machine-like, biotic, autopoietic systems in contemporary cinema
Lunch Break
THE BODY
Moderator: Francesca Ferrando
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 Cristina Iuli: What is a cultural system? A modest proposal for a post-humanist description of culture
5-5.15 Break
LIFE ITSELF?
Moderator: Francesca Ferrando
5.15-5.45 -Jami Weinstein: Wildlife: Toward a Posthumous In/difference Ethics
5.45-6.15 Marietta Radomska: As the Non/Living Twitches: Bioart, Movement, and the Question of Life
6.15-6.45 Malin Jogmark: Posthuman sk-interfaces
ROOM 3
POSTHUMAN PERFORMATIVITY I
Moderator: Francesca Ferrando
7-7.30 Inauguration of the Photo Exhibition "The Posthuman".
Presentation of Selected Artists:
Gisella Sorrentino: Bodies in Space
Patrick Millard: Formatting Gaia
Angelo Marino: The Real Key to Virtuality
Thursday 12
ROOM 1
THE PAST OF THE POSTHUMAN
Moderator: Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
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.
11-11.30 -Robin L. Zebrowski: Emerging Technologies and the Not-New Ethics: Always Already Posthuman
11.30-12 Break
HUMAN BEINGS –ANIMALS – OTHER ENTITIES
Moderator: Francesca Ferrando
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
Moderator: Francesca Ferrando
3-3.30 -Pieter Lemmens: The posthuman condition as the misapprehended concretization of the danger of technology?
3.30-4 -David Roden: From Accounting to Excision: the Politics of the Disconnection Thesis
4-4.30 -Debra Benita Shaw: Streets for Cyborgs: The Electronic Flaneur and the Posthuman City
4.30-4.45 Break
TRANSHUMANISM
Moderator: Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
4.45-5.15 - Agnieszka Małek: Posthumanism as a Form of Utopia in Poul Anderson’s ‘Call Me Joe’
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
Moderator: Francesca Ferrando
6.30-7 – Debika Saha: The Posthuman Conditions: Affinity between Nietzsche and Das
7-7.30 -Elaine Després: Posthumans without limbs: Bernard Wolfe’s Limbo
7.30-8 Ronald Perlwitz: Bruno Latour
8.30-22 Dinner offered to all the registered participants
ROOM 2
ETHICAL ISSUES
Moderator: Evi Sampanikou
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
11-11.30 -Krzysztof Solarewicz: Shoot Faster, Jump Higher. Moral Implications of Human Enhancement in Video Games
11.30-12 Break
POSTHUMAN GENES
Moderator: Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
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
ETHICAL ISSUES 2
Moderator: Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
3-3.30 -Johann Roduit: Examining underlying perfectionist assumptions found in the debate about the ethics of human enhancement
3.30-4 -Stuart Calimport: The Human Memome Project
4-4.30 -Amy DeBaets: How to Build a Moral Agent: Machines and the Future of Moral Action
4.30-4.45 Break
ETHICAL ISSUES 3
Moderator: Francesca Ferrando
4.45-5.15- Jonas Ingvarsson: The posthuman use of posthuman be/things: towards a model for cultural analysis
5.15-5.45 –Malia Womack: The Politics of Freedom: When State Interest Takes Precedence Over Women’s Human Rights
5.45-6.15-Margaux Portron: War and Biopower
6.15-6.30 Break
FILMS AND NOVELS
Moderator: Evi Sampanikou
6.30-7 -Tracey-Lynn Clough: A Posthumanist Consideration of Sleep Dealer and Rango
7-7.30 -Sandor Klapcsik: Approaches to Posthumanism in Philip K. Dick’s Oeuvre
7.30-8 -Benedetta Liorsi: Emptied Bodies: Posthumanism and Anorexia in David Mitchell and Douglas Coupland
8.30-22 Dinner offered to all the registered participants
Friday 13
ROOM 1
ANIMAL ETHICS
Moderator: Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
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
Moderator: Evi Sampanikou
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
Lunch Break
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Moderator: Francesca Ferrando
3-4 - Kevin Warwick: I, Cyborg
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Moderator: Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
4-5 - Gianni Vattimo: Posthuman and Post-Progress
5-5.30 - Coffee Break offered to all the participants
POSTHUMAN ONTOLOGY
Moderator: Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
5.30-6 - Thomas Philbeck: Machine Epistemologies and the Posthuman Turn
6-6.30 - Francesca Ferrando: From the Eternal Recurrence to the Posthuman Multiverse
6.30-7 -Marija Selak: Do Haraway's cyborg metaphors have metaphysical foundations?
ROOM 2
THE POSTHUMAN 2
Moderator: Evi Sampanikou
10-10.30 -Vincent Billard: Everyday life cyborg: the case of my implanted daughter
10.30-11 -Sunghee Kim: Breaking the Spell of Posthuman: Self-biohacktivism 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
Moderator: Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
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
Moderator: Francesca Ferrando
3-4 - Kevin Warwick: I, Cyborg
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Moderator: Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
4-5 - Gianni Vattimo: Posthuman and Post-Progress
5-5.30 - Coffee Break offered to all the participants
POSTHUMAN ENVIRONMENTS
Moderator: Evi Sampanikou
5.30-6 -Tarsh Bates: HumanThrush entanglements: Homo sapiens as a multi-species ecology
6-6.30 -Theresa Schubert: Chroma+Phy – A Living Wearable Connecting Humans and Their Environment
6.30-7 -Harald Stelzer - Climate Engineering and Human Enhancement
ROOM 3
POSTHUMAN PERFORMATIVITY II
Moderator: Francesca Ferrando
7-7.30 Performance by Isabel De Lorenzo: Posthuman Frida Khalo
Saturday 14
ROOM 1
POSTHUMANIST CULTURE
Moderator: Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
10-10.30 -Valentina Menesatti: Perturbing Glass Bees: meditation on human and technological perfection
10.30-11 -Evi Sampanikou: Political Embodiment and Posthumanism in Comics and Graphic Novels.
11-11.30 -Gabriele Proglio e Gaia Giuliani: Fears of disaster and (post-)human raciologies in European popular culture (2001-2013)
11.30-12 Break
POSTHUMANIST EDUCATION
Moderator: Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
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
Moderator: Francesca Ferrando
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 Culture
11-11.30 -Kaisa Kortekallio: Figurations in Fiction - An Approach to Speculative Subjectivities
11.30-12 Break
THE ARTS AND AESTHETICS 2
Moderator: Evi Sampanikou
12-12.30 –Tim Stott: Fluxus: Systems at Play
12.30-1. -Magda Vicini: The Communicative Dimensions in the Concept of Social Sculpture of Joseph Beuys: a process of creative translation
1-1.30 - Luna Dolezal: Posthuman Failure in the Breyer P-Orridge Project
1.30-2 - Concluding Remarks by Francesca Brezzi, Francesca Ferrando, Evi Sampanikou, Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
2-3.30 Lunch offered to all the registered participants
3.30-4.45 Sharing visions: Meeting for general feedback and future projects
4.45-5.15 Merenda (Coffee/tea and home-made sweets) offered to all the registered participants
5.15-5.30 Fashion Show by Shakhmara Iki Om: Dressing Futures