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From: "J. Hughes" <>
Subject: Last chance to pre-register for Transvision 2003
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 23:21:04 -0500

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

P.O. Box 128, Willington, CT 06279 USA

Public Policy Studies 
Trinity College 
71 Vernon St., Hartford CT 06106 
860-297-2376,  

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