BETWEEN THE HUMAN AND THE POST-HUMAN – TECHNOLOGY AND HUMANITY
Science Technology Culture Research Group
A one-day conference at the University of Nottingham
19 September 2007
Arts Lecture Theatre, University Park.
Programme
9.30-10.00: Arrival and registration
10.00-10.15
John Marks (Nottingham): Opening address
10.15-11.15
Robert Pepperell (Cardiff School of Art & Design)
‘The Human and the Posthuman'
11.15-11.30: Coffee/Tea (Angear Visitors Centre)
11.30-12.30
Lenny Moss (Exeter University)
‘Detachment and Compensation: Toward an Anthropology of Human Transformation'
12.45-14.00: Lunch (Angear Visitors Centre)
14.00-15.00
Bronwyn Parry (Queen Mary London)
‘Interrogating Posthumanism: Historical and contemporary adventures in the enhancement, legibility, and knowability of human bodies'
15.00-15.15: Coffee/Tea (Angear Visitors Centre)
15.15-16.15
Don Ihde (Stony Brook University)
‘Of which human are we post?'
16.15-17.00: Closing discussion
For further information, please contact conference organiser John Marks (French & Francophone Studies) john.marks@nottingham.ac.uk