X-Message-Number: 21487 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. ------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------- 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) ------------ 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 ------------- 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, Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=21487