Last chance to register for Transvision 2003

From: J. Hughes (jhughes@changesurfer.com)
Date: Thu Mar 27 2003 - 21:24:28 MST

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    TRANSVISION 2003 USA

    "The Adaptable Human Body:
    Transhumanism and Bioethics in the 21st Century"

    http://www.transvision.org/tv/2003usa/

    June 27-29, 2003

    Yale University, New Haven, CT USA

    What will the body be like in 50 years? How will changes to our
    bodies change our lived experience? How will we adapt the body to our
    needs and to the environments in which we live? Will we have
    conquered sickness, aging and death for all or only for the lucky
    few? Will people migrate to silicon, build superbodies, or both or
    neither? This conference, the first Transvision conference to be
    sponsored by the World Transhumanist Association in North America,
    will explore the future of the body from the transhumanist
    perspective. TV03USA is co-sponsored by the Yale Interdisciplinary
    Bioethics Program's Working Group on Artificial Intelligence,
    Nanotechnology and Transhumanism.

    Transhumanism is a new approach to bioethics which argues that
    technology can be used to overcome the limitations of the human body,
    and that individuals should be allowed to enhance their own bodies.
    This conference will begin the discussion between the transhumanist
    movement and communities with which transhumanists have rarely been
    in dialogue: professional bioethicists, anti-technology activists,
    and critical social theorists of science and technology.

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    Schedule

    Thursday, June 26, 2003 Intensive Seminar on Transhumanism

    Friday, June 27, 2003

    8pm Debate: "Should Humans Accept or Reject the Genetic Path to the
    Post-Human?"
    Accept: Greg Stock Ph.D., UCLA, author of Redesigning Humans
    Reject: George Annas J.D., Director of Health Law, Boston University

    Saturday, June 28, 2003

    9am Opening Keynote: "Why Not Re-Invent Humans? Is This The Best We
    Can Do?" Greg Pence PhD, author of Whose Afraid of Human Cloning?

    9am-5pm Dozens of Panels, Papers, Performances and Videos
    See some of the speakers at:
    http://www.transhumanism.org/tv/2003usa/speakers.htm

    7pm First Annual JBS Haldane Award Banquet

    Sunday, June 29, 2003

    9am-1pm Dozens of Panels, Papers, Performances and Videos

    12:30pm Closing Keynote: "Who's Afraid of PostHumanity?:
    The Politics and Ethics of Genetically Engineering People"
    Ron Bailey, Science Writer, Reason Magazine

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    REGISTER ONLINE at:

    http://www.transhumanism.org/tv/2003usa/registration.htm

    or REGISTER BY SNAILMAIL:
    Checks to "WTA," 9508 Fourth Ave, Suite
    319, Brooklyn, NY, 11209, USA

    Conference Registration
    Before April 1, 2003

    Regular $95
    WTA Full Members $75
    Student/Retired $65
    Student or Retired WTA Full members $55

    (Prices go up after April 1)
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    Full Membership in the World Transhumanist Association
    (For more info: http://www.transhumanism.org/join.htm)

    Employed and in a developed country $25

    Unemployed, students, retired or
    in a less developed country $10

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    For more information:

    James J. Hughes Ph.D.
    Secretary, World Transhumanist Association
    http://www.transhumanism.org
    jhughes@changesurfer.com
    P.O. Box 128, Willington, CT 06279 USA

    Public Policy Studies
    Trinity College
    71 Vernon St., Hartford CT 06106
    860-297-2376, james.hughes@trincoll.edu



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