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When

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Event

2008 Nov 17 UCSC Crown College, Santa Cruz, CA USA Hughes on “BioPolitics and the Technoprogressive Agenda: Yes We Can!”
2008 Nov 15-16 Mountain View, California Hughes, LaTorra, Fauve, Cascio, Treder @ Convergence 08
2008 Nov 13-15 Heidelberg, Germany Disorders and Coherence of the Embodied Self
2008 Nov 13-15 Research Triangle Park, NC, USA Autonomy Singularity Creativity: What Does “Human” Mean?
2008 Nov 14 Computer History Museum, Mountain View, CA GLOBAL CATASTROPHIC RISKS: Building a Resilient Civilization
2008 Nov 13-14 Washington, DC Neuroethics Society meeting
2008 Nov 11-14 Boulder, Colorado, USA 11th Annual Accessing Higher Ground: Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference for Education,
2008 Nov 10-12 London, England. Philosophy and Engineering
2008 Nov 10 London, UK de Grey, Miah, Warwick on Enhancing the Body
2008 Nov 7-9 Dubai, United Arab Emirates Aubrey @ Summit on the Global Agenda
2008 Nov 6-8 Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf, Germany Implanted Mind? The Neuroethics of Intracerebral Stem Cell Transplantation
2008 Nov 5 Amsterdam, The Netherlands Happiness and The Meaning of Life
2008 Nov 1-3 Chicago, IL USA H+ & Religion session at American Academy of Religion
2008 Oct 29-2 Portland, Maine Society for Utopian Studies
2008 Oct 30 Liverpool, UK Miah, Blackford @ Human Futures: Art in an Age of Uncertainty
2008 Oct 27 Lucerne, Switzerland Aubrey @ European Futurists’ Conf
2008 Oct 23-26 Cleveland, OH, USA Bioethics Futurism - Am Soc for Bioethics and Humanities
2008 Oct 25 Second Life Gender Freedom Day in Digital Worlds
2008 Oct 25 San Jose, CA, USA Brain, Goertzel @ Singularity Summit 2008
2008 Oct 24 San Jose, CA, USA Cascio @ SciVestor Emerging Technologies Workshop
2008 Oct 20-21 Blackstone, Virginia USA Hughes @ Science, Christianity & the New Frontiers of Human Life
2008 Oct 21 Stanford University, California Aubrey @ Stanford Transhumanist Association
2008 Oct 16-20 Hyderbad, India World Academy of Art And Science
2008 Oct 20 San Francisco, CA USA Aubrey at San Fran JCC
2008 Oct 16 Hartford, CT USA The Ethics of Human-Animal Chimera Research: Fact or Fiction
2008 Oct 14 London, UK Andy @ The Role of the Arts in Democratic Policy Making
2008 Oct 13 Nick on Enhancing the Brain
2008 Oct 9-10 Tallinn, Estonia Aubrey @ International Workshop on Postponing Ageing
2008 Oct 10 Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ USA Hughes on “Gene Therapy and Neurotechnologies to Enhance Human Virtues”
2008 Oct 6-8 Dallas, Texas USA Psychiatry and Freedom
2008 Sep 30-1 Glasgow, Scotland Andy on ET Ethics @ The Futures of Space Exploration
2008 Oct 1 Brussels, Belgium Aubrey on SENS
2008 Sep 25-26 Bogotá, Colombia International Congress of AI & Nano
2008 Sep 26 Toronto, Canada Dvorsky on “Should science shape the modern athlete?”
2008 Sep 22-25 Oxford, UK Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil
2008 Sep 25 Phoenix, AZ USA Aubrey @ Kronos Longevity Research Institute
2008 Sep 22 Cambridge, MA USA Aubrey on Strategy for the Future
2008 Sep 19-21 NYC, NY USA Psychedelics Forum
2008 Sep 18 Hartford, CT USA Creating Ethically Sensitive Machines for Medical Use
2008 Sep 8-12 Waterloo, Ontario Canada Science in the 21st Century
2008 Sep 3-8 Rijeka and Opatija, Croatia 9th World Congress of Bioethics
2008 Sep 7 Menlo Park, CA Goertzel on “OpenCog Prime: Design for an Open-Source Thinking Machine”
2008 Sep 3-5 San Sebastian, Spain Treder @ Basque Country Program on Globalization
2008 Sep 1-3 Oxford University, Oxford, UK Building Resilience
2008 Sep 2 National Geographic Channel Hughes on The Future of Death
2008 Aug 28 Paris, France Giulio on Nano @ Nano Veritas
2008 Aug 23 Torrington Square, London, UK Heather Bradshaw @ Enhancing minds: the pros and cons of hi-tech methods for improving cognition
2008 Aug 17-22 Big Sky, MT Governing Emerging Technologies
2008 Aug 2-7 Montreal, Canada Augmentative and Alternative Communication
2008 Jul 30-5 Seoul, South Korea International Philosophical Congress
2008 Jul 26-28 Washington, DC Goertzel, Treder @ World Future Society
2008 Jul 18-22 Barcelona, Spain EuroScience Open Forum
2008 Jul 20 Terasem Island in SecondLife Geoethical Nanotechnology Workshop
2008 Jul 20 Terasem Island, Second Life Geoethical Nanotechnology Workshop
2008 Jul 17-20 Oxford University, Oxford, UK Hughes, Bostrom, Treder, Cirkovic @ Global Catastrophic Risks Conference
2008 Jul 12 Birkbeck College, London, UK Aubrey on Living longer and longer yet healthier and healthier
2008 Jul 1-3 Oxford UK Kristi Scott @ Visions of the Human in Cyberculture, Cyberspace and Science Fiction
2008 Jun 26-29 Berkeley, CA USA Online Deliberation and Advanced Computing
2008 Jun 27-29 UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA Aubrey @ Aging 2008
2008 Jun 18-20 Delft, Netherlands Ethics, Technology and Identity
2008 Jun 15-18 Cleveland Neural Interfaces Conference
2008 Jun 14 Toronto, Canada Mark Walker on “Apocalyptic Threats and Happy Pills”
2008 Jun 6-8 Washington, DC Hughes @ World Humanist Congress
2008 Jun 4-5 Second Life Hughes, Bainbridge @ The Future of Religions/Religions of the Future
2008 May 26-28 Cape Town, South Africa Reproductive Ethics
2008 May 22 New York City Treder, Cascio @ SciVestor Disruptive Technologies Conference
2008 May 9-11 World of Warcraft Bainbridge @ Convergence of the Real and the Virtual: First Scientific Conf in World of Warcraft
2008 May 9-10 Brussels, Belgium Miah @ Enhancement Medicine
2008 May 8-9 London, UK Miah @ Olympic Legacy Conference
2008 May 6-8 Brussels, Belgium Knowledge Politics and Converging Technologies
2008 May 1-3 Cleveland, Ohio, United States Ethical, Legal, Social Implications of Genomics
2008 Apr 29 Thousand Oaks, CA Jamais on Technologies, Social Transformation, Resillience and the Open Future
2008 Apr 29 Palo Alto, CA USA Max More on Emerging Technologies
2008 Apr 23-26 Barcelona, Spain Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
2008 Apr 18 Toronto, Canada George on Transhumanism and Life Extension
2008 Apr 17-18 Madison, Wisconsin, USA Hughes @ Evolution in the 21st Century
2008 Apr 16-18 Baltimore, Maryland, USA Assistive Technologies
2008 Apr 13-16 Cambridge, UK Universal Access and Assistive Technology
2008 Apr 10-14 Paris, France Aubrey @ Anti-Aging Medicine World Congress
2008 Apr 10-14 Atlanta, Georgia, USA Cognitive Aging
2008 Apr 8-12 Tucson, Arizona Science of Consciousness 2008
2008 Mar 11 London, UK Is cognitive enhancement a human right?
2008 Apr 9-11 Ås, Norway In Vitro Meat Symposium
2008 Apr 2-3 Sheffield, UK Surveillance in Everyday Life
2008 Mar 26 Yale, New Haven, CT USA Bainbridge on Ethics in Virtual Worlds
2008 Mar 21-24 Basel, Switzerland World Psychedelic Forum 2008
2008 Mar 23 Second Life David Pearce in Second Life on Utopian Neuroscience
2008 Mar 16 Jerusalem, Israel Ilia Stambler @ History and Philosophy of Science
2008 Mar 10-15 Northridge, California Technology and Persons with Disabilities
2008 Mar 3-8 Phoenix, Arizona Aubrey @ BioCon Conf Contra Life Extension
2008 Mar 3-6 San Diego, California O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
2008 Mar 1-3 Memphis, US First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence
2008 Mar 1-2 Monterey, California Aubrey @ BIL Uncoference
2008 Feb 29 Minneapolis, MN Neurogenomics
2008 Feb 28 Palo Alto, CA USA Jamais on Green Tomorrows @ Future Salon
2008 Feb 22-23 Orlando, Florida Hughes @ Center for Inquiry
2008 Feb 20-23 St. Petersburg, Florida Advancing Technology and Services to Promote Quality of Life
2008 Feb 12 London, UK Miah on “A Case for Human Enhancement”
2008 Feb 12 San Francisco, CA The Emerging Brain Fitness Market:  Building Better Brains
2008 Feb 10-11 San Diego, CA USA Jamais @ Green Campus Energy Efficiency Summit 2008
2008 Feb 9 San Francisco, CA USA Jamais @ Writers with Drinks
2008 Feb 5 Berkeley, California USA Jamais on Futurism and its Discontents
2008 Jan 31 Mississauga, Canada George on “Cyborgs of the Past, Present and Future”
2008 Jan 29 Doug on Why Things Are Good and Getting Better - Edge.org
2008 Jan 26 Stanford University Law School Technology in Wartime Conference
2008 Jan 9 Marlborough, CT Hughes on Future Neurotech for Future Problem Solvers
2007 Dec 23 Global/Virtual Hughes on FastForward Radio
2007 Dec 20 Virtual/Global Green Tomorrows Webinar with Jamais
2007 Dec 10 Virtual Rothblatt, Bainbridge & Glenn @ Terasem Colloquium on Transbeman Rights
2007 Dec 6-8 Bangalore, Karnataka, India Second Indian Bioethics Conference
2007 Dec 6-7 Berlin, Germany Jamais@Metaverse Summit 2007
2007 Dec 3 London, UK RSA Conf on Human Enhancement
2007 Dec 3 London, UK Miah on Enhancement @ RSA
2007 Dec 2 Virtual Chat With Jay Olshansky at the Immortality Institute
2007 Nov 30-1 Ghent, Belgium Stem Cells and Artificial Reproductive Technologies
2007 Nov 30 Washington D.C. Nanopolicy Conference
2007 Nov 29 Stanford, CA, USA and Spaceport Bravo, Second Life Jamais on Metaverse Roadmap Overview
2007 Nov 19-21 Lucerne, Switzerland European Futurists Conference
2007 Nov 16-20 San Francisco, CA, USA Aubrey @ Era of Global Aging
2007 Nov 18 Virtual Chat with George Dvorsky at ImmINst
2007 Nov 15-17 U of Calgary, Canada Genetics, Human Rights and the Next Phase of Human Evolution
2007 Nov 16-17 Chicago, Illinois USA Biocultures Graduate Student Conf
2007 Nov 15-17 Madrid, Spain Miah @ WADA conf on sports doping
2007 Nov 15 St. Paul, Minnesota Hughes @ Macalester College
2007 Nov 12-13 London, UK Miah @ Launch of EuroNeuroSociety Launch
2007 Nov 8-10 Edmonton, Canada Visions - National Health Law Conference
2007 Nov 6 Oxford, UK Bostrom on Human Enhancement, Status Quo Bias, and the Reversal Test
2007 Nov 3-4 Sunnyvale, California, USA Foresight Unconference on emerging tech
2007 Nov 2-3 Heidelberg, Germany Hughes @ The Future of our Species - evolution, disease and sustainable development
2007 Nov 1-2 Berlin, Germany Science and Ethics of ART
2007 Oct 30-2 Chicago Film and Science: Fictions, Documentaries and Beyond
2007 Nov 1 London, UK Reproducing Regulation
2007 Oct 27 NY Contemporary perspectives on psychedelics
2007 Oct 25 Oxford, UK The Future of Humanity
2007 Oct 21-25 Beijing, China Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics
2007 Oct 24 Paris, France Hughes & François Berger on Human Enhancement
2007 Oct 24 Orlando, Florida Ethics of of augmented cognition
2007 Oct 11-13 Deauville, France Bostrom @ Women’s Forum
2007 Oct 12 Appleton, WI USA Hughes @ Lawrence University
2007 Oct 4-6 Wash DC, USA Global Well-Being Forum
2007 Oct 5 Liverpool, UK Performance enhancing drugs
2007 Oct 3 Boston, MA USA Hughes @ Stem Cell Summit
2007 Sep 28-29 London, UK H. G. Wells, Science and Philosophy
2007 Sep 19 Nottingham, UK Between the Human and the Post-Human: Technology and Humanity
2007 Sep 15-18 Cardiff, UK Ethics, philosophy and public health
2007 Sep 14 Manchester CT USA Hughes addresses CT Assoc of Biology Teachers
2007 Sep 9-13 Tucson, Arizona, USA CRNano Conference
2007 Sep 6-10 Cambridge, UK Third Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence Conference
2007 Sep 8-9 San Francisco, CA USA Hughes, Cascio @ Singularity Summit II
2007 Jul 29-31 Minneapolis, Minnesota USA Treder@WorldFuture 2007
2007 Jul 24-27 Washington, D.C., USA Generations United 14th International Conference
2007 Jul 24-26 Chicago, IL USA Hughes, de Grey, Bostrom and more @ Transvision 2007
2007 Jul 23-26 Budapest, Hungary Toward a Science of Consciousness 2007
2007 Jul 23 Chicago, Illinois Securing the Longevity Dividend: Building the Campaign for Anti-Aging Science
2007 Jul 20 Palo Alto, CA USA de Grey v. Hurlbut on Life-Extension Ethics
2007 Jul 18-20 St. Julian's, Malta International Association for Homes and Services for the Ageing 7th International Conference
2007 Jul 20 Bryant University |Smithfield, RI, USA Hughes @ Global Biotechnology Governance: Ethical and Political Challenges
2007 Jul 16-18 Bannockburn, IL USA Remaking Humanity course at CBHD
2007 Jul 12-13 Washington D.C. Hughes, Bostrom @ Progressive Bioethics Summit
2007 Jul 5-8 Kansas City, Missouri SFRA 2007 Celebrating the Golden Age of Science Fiction
2007 Jul 5-8 St. Petersburg, Russia VI European Congress of IAGG
2007 Jul 2-3 Oxford, UK Aubrey @ Genetics and Justice
2007 Jul 3 London, UK Aubrey @ the National Council for Palliative Care
2007 Jun 24-28 Italy Intl Conf on Intelligent Processing & Manufacturing of Materials
2007 Jun 24-26 Zurich, Switzerland Synthetic Biology 3.0
2007 Jun 22-25 Las Vegas, Nevada USA Assoc for the Scientific Study of Consciousness
2007 Jun 21-24 Hiram, Ohio, USA Politics & Economics of Global Poverty & Health Care
2007 Jun 16-19 Toronto, Canada Festival of International Conferences on Caregiving, Disability, Aging and Technology
2007 Jun 3-9 Garrison, New York, USA Mind and Life Summer Research Institute
2007 Jun 6 Chicago, Illinois Who Gets To Live? Genetic Engineering and Human Diversity7
2007 Jun 1-3 Netanya, Israel Reprotech & Parenthood Conference
2007 May 26-27 Oxford, UK Whole Brain Emulation Workshop
2007 May 24-26 Nanaimo, Canada Conf on Repro & Genetic Tech
2007 May 20-24 Greece Intl Assoc of Biomedical Gerontology
2007 Jun 18-21 Montréal, Canada 11th Int. Conf. on Mobility and Transport for Elderly and Disabled Persons
2007 May 17 Amherst, US Nanotechnology and Society
2007 May 14-15 Paris, France OECD Forum 2007
2007 May 11-13 NYC, NY USA 21st CENTURY RIGHTS
2007 May 9 Boston, MA USA Human2.0: new minds, new bodies, new identities
2007 Apr 29 Uvvy Island, Second Life Seminar on Transhumanism and Religion in Second Life
2007 Apr 26-28 Orlando, FL 15th Annual International Congress On Anti-Aging Medicine & Regenerative Biomedical Technologies
2007 Apr 25-26 Port Elgin, Ontario, Canada Treder @ Canadian Auto Workers Annual Tech Conf
2007 Apr 24 Tempe AZ USA Enhancement & Underrepresented Populations
2007 Apr 22-24 Washington, DC, USA 4th Annual World Health Care Congress
2007 Apr 23 Uvvy Island, Second Life Kevin Warwick: “Upgrading Humans: Why Not?” in Second Life
2007 Apr 20-22 Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass, USA The New Humanism: Multi-Cultural and Multi-National
2007 Apr 20-22 Brooklyn, NY, USA Ethical Issues in Biomedical Engineering
2007 Apr 19-21 Sydney, Australia Somatechnics Conference
2007 Apr 19-20 Fitchburg, Wisconsin From Therapy to Enhancement
2007 Apr 19-20 Liverpool, UK Global Health and Human Rights: Theoretical Perspectives
2007 Apr 18-20 Univ of Warwick, UK Applied Positive Psychology Conference
2007 Apr 19 London, UK Aubrey @ UBS Global Investors’ Forum
2007 Apr 16 Tempe, Arizona USA Hughes on H+ & Human Nature
2007 Apr 11-15 Jerusalem, Israel Advanced Tech in Medicine Conf
2007 Apr 14-15 Dartmouth, NH, USA Hughes,Glenn @ Nano & Human Enhancement
2007 Apr 14 Farmington, CT Transgender Lives
2007 Apr 13 Phoenix, Arizona The Law and Ethics of Brain Scanning
2007 Apr 12 Aubrey @ Will Science Cure Aging?
2007 Mar 30-31 Edmonton AB, Canada Aubrey et al @ Edmonton Aging Symposium
2007 Mar 30 Storrs, CT USA Redesigning the Human

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