From: Hughes, James (james.hughes@trincoll.edu)
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TRANSVISION 2003
"The Adaptable Human Body:
Transhumanism and Bioethics in the 21st Century"
June 27-29, 2003
Yale University, New Haven, CT USA
What will the body be like in 50 years? Will people with disabilities be
fully integrated by new cures and adaptive technologies, or further
marginalized in a eugenic society? Will gender modification,
psycho-pharmaceuticals, cyber-implants, genetic enhancement and life
extension be commonplace, and with what consequences? 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. TV03 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 individuals
should be allowed to use new technologies to enhance their bodies. This
conference will begin the discussion between the transhumanist movement and
communities with which transhumanists have rarely been in dialogue:
professional bioethicists, disability and transgender rights advocates,
anti-technology activists, and critical 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., Director of the Program on Medicine, Technology,
and Society, UCLA, author of Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic
Future
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, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Alabama at Birmingham,
and author of Whose Afraid of Human Cloning?
10am-5pm Dozens of Panels, Papers, Performances and Videos
See some of the speakers at:
http://www.transhumanism.org/tv/2003usa/program.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
Regular $135
WTA Full Members $125
Student/Retired $115
Student or Retired WTA Full members $105
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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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Buffet tickets
Friday night buffet: $30
Saturday night buffet: $35
(Saturday night's buffet will fete the winner of the 2003 JBS Haldane Award)
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HOUSING
There are two housing options, inexpensive on-campus suites in the Swing
building, and local hotels. For more information and to reserve a room:
http://www.transhumanism.org/tv/2003usa/registration.htm#housing
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For more information:
James J. Hughes Ph.D.
Conference Chair, Transvision 2003
Public Policy Studies
Trinity College
71 Vernon St., Hartford CT 06106
860-297-2376, james.hughes@trincoll.edu
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