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