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When

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Event
2010 Mar 1-31 Amsterdam, The Netherlands Natasha Vita-More presents “Transhuman Difference” @ Niet Normal Difference on Display
2010 Mar 1-23 Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland Andy Miah on “Posthuman Lifestyles: Has the future arrived?”
2010 Mar 12-21 Austin, TX Natasha Vita-More @ SXSW 2010
2010 Mar 5-8 Lugano, Switzerland Goertzel @ Artificial General Intelligence Conference
2010 Mar 3-4 Cincinnati, Ohio USA Ethical Guidance for Research and Application of Pervasive and Autonomous Information Technology
2010 Feb 18-22 San Diego, CA USA American Association for the Advancement of Science Meeting
2010 Feb 18 Farmington, Connecticut J. Hughes on “Don’t Fear the Future: Democratic Transhumanism and Empowerment through Technology”
2010 Feb 10-13 Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States Science Fiction and Popular Culture
2010 Feb 11 New York City, NY USA Aubrey de Grey @ Nationwide Premiere of TO AGE OR NOT TO AGE
2010 Feb 2 PBS Premiere of Doug Rushkoff’s Digital Nation
2010 Jan 7 Washington DC USA Unveiling of “Progress in Bioethics”
2009 Dec 21 global Natasha Vita-More on “Future of Humans”
2009 Dec 15 Science Channel Mike Treder in “SCI-FI SCIENCE: Physics of the Impossible”
2009 Dec 7 CCSU, New Britain, Connecticut, USA J. Hughes on “Can We Live Forever in Robot Bodies? and Other Ethical Challenges Posed by H+”
2009 Dec 5-6 Eon Reality, Irvine, CA USA Humanity+ Summit
2009 Dec 4 EON Reality, Irvine, CA, USA Biopolitics of Popular Culture Seminar
2009 Dec 2 Philadelphia, PA USA Nick Bostrom on “The State of the Enhancement Debate”
2009 Nov 26-29 Melbourne, Australia Vita-More on “Transformative Human: radically enhancing/extending life”
2009 Nov 23 Melbourne, Australia Natasha Vita-More on “The Sciences and Technologies of Human Enhancement” at Superhuman
2009 Nov 21 Munich, Germany Natasha Vita-More at Experiencing Design, Behaving Media
2009 Nov 9-14 Colorado, US 12th Annual Accessing Higher Ground
2009 Nov 8 Phoenix, Arizona SustainaBIL
2009 Nov 8 Phoenix, Arizona, USA SustainaBIL 2009
2009 Nov 5 Las Cruces, NM Mark Walker on Biohappiness
2009 Oct 30-31 San Diego, CA USA Aubrey de Grey, Ben Goertzel @ BIL:PIL 2009 Healthcare Innovation Conference
2009 Oct 22-25 Potomac, Maryland, USA Inaugural Conference of American Society for Nanomedicine
2009 Oct 25 Philadelphia, PA Treder on “Humanism and Transhumanism”
2009 Oct 20-21 Geneva, Switzerland Andy Miah, Aubrey de Grey @ Human Enhancement: What should be permitted?
2009 Oct 9-13 Scandic Linköping Väst, Sweden The Perfect Body: Between Normativity and Consumerism
2009 Oct 9-11 Minneapolis, MN, USA Gaylaxicon 2009
2009 Oct 10 Lisbon, Portugal Natasha Vita-More on Human Enhancement at Ciencia Viva
2009 Oct 10 Lisbon, Portugal Natasha on Cognitive Enhancement @ Inside Art and Science
2009 Oct 7 Yale University, New Haven, CT USA Hughes on “Virtue Engineering”
2009 Oct 1-4 San Francisco, CA USA Arse Elektronika 2009
2009 Oct 3-4 New York, NY, USA Aubrey de Grey, Ben Goertzel @ Singularity Summit
2009 Oct 3 New York City, NY USA Jamais Cascio on Futurism vs. Singularitarianism
2009 Oct 2 Woodstock, NY USA J. Hughes, Martine Rothblatt, Kurzweil @ Transbeman Screening @ Woodstock Film Festival
2009 Oct 1-2 Tokyo, Japan Asia-Pacific Computing and Philosophy
2009 Sep 30-1 NYC, NY USA Aubrey de Grey debates Olshansky @ Life Settlements & Longevity Summit
2009 Oct 1 London, UK Andy Miah @ Bionic Health
2009 Sep 24-26 Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada New Directions in Neuroethics
2009 Sep 25 Liverpool, UK Natasha Vita-More, Andy Miah @ Abandon Normal Devices
2009 Sep 24-25 Charlottesville, Virginia, USA Technology, Democracy, and Citizenship
2009 Sep 23 Harvard Medical School, Cambridge MA USA Aging and Healthy Lifespan Conference
2009 Sep 22 New York City, NY USA Aubrey de Grey on “The End of Aging”
2009 Sep 15-20 Beijing, China Workshop on Biopolitics
2009 Sep 16-18 London, UK Politics of the Life Sciences in an ‘Age of Biological Control’
2009 Sep 14-17 Oxford University, Oxford, UK Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil
2009 Sep 16 New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico USA Mark Walker on “Why the uninsured ought to be permitted to self-medicate”
2009 Sep 15 University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Russell Blackford on “The Problem of Evil”
2009 Sep 11 The United Nations, New York City, NY USA Foundations for a Common Morality
2009 Sep 8-11 Seattle, WA USA Society for the Study of Nanoscience and Emerging Technologies
2009 Sep 10 London, UK Re-Imagining the Human Body Through Literature
2009 Sep 4-7 Cambridge, UK de Grey @ SENS4
2009 Aug 26-29 Ulster, Northern Ireland Andy Miah @ International Symposium of Electronic Art
2009 Aug 20-23 Daejeon, South Korea Andy Miah on Climate Change and Nanotechology
2009 Aug 21 University of Geneva, Switzerland Emotions and Machines
2009 Aug 6-10 Montreal, Canada Blackford @ Anticipation, the 67th Worldcon
2009 Aug 5-7 Cambridge University, United Kingdom Science in Society
2009 Jul 1-31 Oxford University, Oxford, UK The Paradox of Neurotechnology II
2009 Jul 18-22 Veronda, VR. Italy Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
2009 Jul 22 Florida, US Natasha Vita-More on Human Enhancement at Singularity University
2009 Jul 18-21 Phoenix, AZ Vita-More, de Grey on “Cosmos, Nature, Culture”
2009 Jul 17-19 Chicago, Illinois USA Art Caplan on H+ at World Future Society
2009 Jul 9-12 Burlington, Massachusetts USA Readercon
2009 Jul 8-10 Enschede, The Netherlands Bostrom @ Converging Tech and Philosophy
2009 Jul 6-8 Oxford, UK Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace and Science Fiction
2009 Jul 3-5 Melbourne, Australia Metaphysics of Science
2009 Jul 2-4 Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain 7th European Conference on Computing And Philosophy
2009 Jul 2-4 Barcelona, Spain Technological Singularity and Acceleration Studies
2009 Jul 2-4 Edinburgh, Scotland Ethics for the 21st Century
2009 Jun 27-28 Oxford University, Oxford, UK Cognitive Enhancement Workshop and Symposium`
2009 Jun 26 Leicester, UK Andy @ Social Media
2009 Jun 26 Chicago, Illinois USA Hughes on “Science & Technology for Liberation” @ Think Galacticon
2009 Jun 23-25 Cambridge, UK Aubrey @ FutureFest 2009
2009 Jun 24 Sydney, Australia Jamais on “What if we really COULD change the future for the better?”
2009 Jun 22-24 Belfast, Northern Ireland Andy on “Bioart as Bioethics”
2009 Jun 23 Everywhere Vita-More on FastFoward Radio 7:30 PST / 10:30 EST
2009 Jun 21-23 Lago Maggiore, Verbania-Intra, Italy CyberTherapy and CyberPsychology Conference (CT14)
2009 Jun 18-21 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA First World Congress on Positive Psychology
2009 Jun 17-19 Toronto, Canada Aubrey @ IdeaCity
2009 Jun 15 Hong Kong, China Goertzel @ Workshop on Machine Consciousness
2009 Jun 11-14 Hong Kong, China Goertzel @ Toward a Science of Consciousness 2009
2009 Jun 13 NYU, NYC, NY USA Bostrom on Infinite Worlds
2009 Jun 12 92nd Street Y, NYC, NY USA Bostrom, Warwick, BSG Cast on Battlestar Galactica: Cyborgs on the Horizon
2009 Jun 10 London, UK Andy Miah on Human Evolution
2009 Jun 9 Sheffield, UK Andy Miah on “Nanotechnology and Postmodern Culture”
2009 Jun 8-9 Detroit, Michigan, USA Aubrey @ HealthQuake summit
2009 Jun 1-2 Washington D.C. Humanitarian Technology Challenge Conference
2009 Jun 1 Amsterdam Netherlands Jamais @ Mobile Monday
2009 May 22-23 New York City, NY USA Food, Famine and Future Technologies: Ethical Dilemmas in a Hungry World
2009 May 20 Russell Senate Office Building, Washington, DC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ADVICE FOR DECISION MAKERS: U.S. Congressional Briefing
2009 May 18 Oxford University, Oxford, UK Bostrom on “Transhumanism: A Critical Look”
2009 May 14-16 University of Oregon Philosophical Inquiry into Pregnancy, Childbirth and Mothering
2009 May 13-16 Manchester UK Jamais @ Futuresonic
2009 May 14 Hartford, CT USA The Case for Perfection
2009 May 9 New York, New York Mike Treder Liveblogs “Two Cultures in the 21st Century”
2009 May 7 Oxford University, Oxford, UK Bostrom on “Uncertainty, Lags, and Nonlinearity: Challenges to Governance in a Turbulent World”
2009 May 6 New Haven, Connecticut, USA Goertzel on “The Ethics of Creating Human-Level AI”
2009 Apr 30-2 Zero Arrow Theatre, Cambridge, MA, USA The Future of Human Life in the Universe
2009 Apr 24-25 Laval, France Physical and Cognitive Mutations in Humans and Machines
2009 Apr 24-25 Valencia, Spain Natasha on “Human Enhancement of Extreme Life: Co-Evolving on the BRINC”
2009 Apr 23-25 Miami, US Ninth International Conference on Preimplantation Genetics
2009 Apr 16-18 New South Wales, Australia Somatechnics: The Technologisation of Bodies and Selves
2009 Apr 18 Toronto, Canada Dvorsky @ Science vs. Faith Debate
2009 Apr 11 Vancouver, Canada Natasha @ American Philosophical Association
2009 Apr 9-11 ASU, Tempe, Arizona USA Transhumanism and the Future of Democracy
2009 Apr 1-5 Portland, Oregon Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness
2009 Apr 1-2 Monmouth University, New Jersey, USA Treder @ Monmouth Junior Science Symposium
2009 Apr 25-1 Tribeca Film Festival, New York City, NY USA Transcendent Man, a documentary on Ray Kurzweil
2009 Mar 27-29 Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan Hughes, Glenn @ Human Enhancement & Nanotechnology
2009 Mar 23-24 New Haven, Connecticut, USA StemCONN 09
2009 Mar 22 Menlo Park, CA Cascio on “Building Intelligence in an Uncertain World”
2009 Mar 19-20 Hsinchu, Taiwan Conference on Neuroprosthetic Devices
2009 Mar 16 Austin, Texas USA Natasha @ SXSW 2009
2009 Mar 13-15 Salzburg, Austria Kristi @ Cybercultures: Exploring Critical Issues
2009 Mar 13-14 Harvard University, Cambridge MA USA Bioethics: The New Issues
2009 Mar 6-9 Arlington, Virginia Goertzel @ Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-09.org)
2009 Mar 6-7 Ghent, Belgium Tickle Your Catastrophe!
2009 Feb 27-1 New York City, NY USA US Basic Income Guarantee Congress
2009 Feb 24 Brussels, Belgium Andy @ A European Approach to Human Enhancement
2009 Feb 19 Hartford, CT USA Hughes, Scarlato on “The Ethics of Battlestar Galactica”
2009 Feb 18-19 Art Center College of Design, Pasadena California Jamais @ Expanding the Vision of Sustainable Mobility
2009 Feb 12-16 Chicago, Illinois USA American Association for the Advancement of Science
2009 Jan 13-15 Santa Ana Pueblo (Albuquerque), New Mexico Decade of the Mind
2009 Jan 15 Trinity College, Hartford CT USA Wallach on the role of reason in moral decisions
2008 Dec 10-12 Rotterdam, the Netherlands Human Rights & Biomedicine
2008 Dec 10-11 Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands Regulating technologies
2008 Dec 8-10 Washington, DC World Healthcare Innovation and Technology Congress
2008 Dec 6 Portland, Oregon USA Cyborg Camp
2008 Dec 2 Houston, TX Hughes on Ethics in Business and the Health Care Industry
2008 Nov 30-1 Aarhus, Denmark Our Brains, Our Selves - Aarhus Mirror Workshop
2008 Nov 24-25 San Francisco, CA USA Happiness and its Causes
2008 Nov 20 Hartford, CT USA Hughes on “The Problems with Happiness”
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 Dec 10 Tempe AZ USA Mehlman on Improved Humans
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

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