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Technoprogressive? BioConservative? Huh?
Quick overview of biopolitical points of view

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Miah on Art-Science-Ethics

Russell Blackford: Freedom of Religion

‪Jason Silva on Psychedelic Rapture, Ecstatic Awe‬ and Technology

Must the Rich be Lured into Investing? Who are the Real “Job Creators?”

I Want a God-Like Brain

SENS5 - Collective advantages of Life Extension

Malcolm Gladwell on Income Inequality: We’re Off the Rails

Facebook’s Brave New World

Vitology is Life

Rick Falkvinge, founder of Swedish Pirate Party


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Smart Mice, Not-So-Smart People: An Interesting and Amusing Guide to Bioethics
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by Arthur Caplan

From Transgender to Transhuman: A Manifesto On the Freedom Of Form
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Freedom of Religion and the Secular State
by Russell Blackford

The Olympics: The Basics
by Andy Miah and Beatriz Garcia


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Peter Wicks on 'We Are All Pirates' (Feb 8, 2012)






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When

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Event
2012 Feb 8 Liverpool, UK Miah on Art-Science-Ethics
2012 Feb 2 Melbourne, Australia Blackford on “Freedom of Religion and the Secular State”
2012 Jan 23-30 Aalto University, Finland Vita-More and Miah @ Design for Evolution
2012 Jan 24 Southampton Solent University, UK Miah @ Sport & Politics Group, Political Studies Association
2012 Jan 13 Tel Aviv, Israel Against Deathism and For Life-extension Demonstration
2011 Dec 3-4 Hong Kong Humanity+ @ Hong Kong: Living Forever
2011 Nov 15 University of Ottawa, Canada Our Post-Human Future
2011 Nov 12 Holborn Bars, 138-142 Holborn, London, UK Apocalyptic patterns of thought: 2012 and other prophecies
2011 Nov 7-10 Tempe, Arizona S.NET Third Annual Meeting
2011 Oct 30 London, UK Designer people: is technology making us less human?
2011 Oct 30 London, UK Smart drugs: magic bullet or cheating ourselves?
2011 Oct 22-23 Mountain View, CA Open Science Summit 2011
2011 Oct 20-23 State College, Pennsylvania, United States Society for Utopian Studies
2011 Oct 21-23 Dublin, Ireland Transforming Human Nature
2011 Oct 20 Angel Orensanz Center, New York City, NY USA Rushkoff @ Contact Summit 2011
2011 Oct 15-16 NYC 6th Annual Singularity Summit
2011 Oct 13-16 Portland, OR Animals in Crisis: Using The Laws We Have, Getting The Laws We Need
2011 Oct 15-16 New York, US Singularity Summit 11
2011 Oct 8 London, UK Beyond Human: Rethinking the Technological Extension of the Human Condition
2011 Oct 6 RSA, London UK Andy Miah @ Humanity 2.0 Book Launch
2011 Sep 28-1 Liverpool, UK Andy Miah @ RE:wire Conference 2011
2011 Aug 26-28 University of Winchester, UK The Science of Empathy and the Spirit of Compassion
2011 Aug 20-21 Melbourne, Australia Goertzel @ Singularity Summit @Melbourne
2011 Aug 8-12 Provo, UT 11th International Conference on Persons
2011 Jul 30-4 Indianapolis, IN 45th Congress of the International Society for Applied Ethology (ISAE)
2011 Jul 30-31 Washington, DC No Kill Conference
2011 Jul 21-25 Los Angeles, CA Animal Rights National Conference 2011
2011 Jul 22-24 Los Angeles, California Natasha Vita-More @ Extreme Futurist Fest 2011
2011 Jul 20-21 Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom Alien Nation: A Conference on British Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy Television
2011 Sep 15-16 Groningen, the Netherlands Design and Use of Neurodevices in Neurosocieties
2011 Jul 12-14 Oxford, United Kingdom Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace and Science Fiction
2011 Jul 8-10 Vancouver Canada Naam @ World Future Society
2011 Jul 3-5 Montreal, Qc., Canada Nonhuman Minds: Animal, Artificial or Other Minds
2011 Jun 27-29 Portsmouth, England UFAW International Symposium 2011
2011 Jun 25-26 Melbourne, Australia Humanity Summit @Melbourne
2011 Jun 18 Liverpool, UK Speculative Fiction
2011 Jun 16 Sorbonne, Paris, France Aubrey de Grey, Natasha Vita-More @ Technoprog! Summer 2011
2011 Mar 29-1 Online Call for Papers: Expanding Human Boundaries: Cognitive Enhancement, AI and Mind Machine Mergers
2011 May 26-29 Denton, TX Society for Philosophy and Technology 2011: Technology and Security Conference
2011 May 24-27 Oregon, US Douglas Rushkoff keynotes Webvisions
2011 May 26 Texas, US 17th international conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology
2011 May 19-22 Luxembourg International Animal Rights Conference 2011
2011 May 20-22 Lucerne, Switzerland European Futurists
2011 May 19-20 Ottawa, Canada GRIDA: Does the Law Consider Animal Suffering?
2011 May 14-15 New York, US Ben Goertzel, Natasha Vita-More, J. Hughes @ HumanityPlus Summit
2011 May 12-14 Hamburg, Germany Andy Miah @ Pulp Fiction and the Undead
2011 May 11-12 Seville, Spain The 4th International Seville Conference on Future-Oriented Technology Analysis
2011 May 4-6 Budapest, Hungary European Future Technologies (FET) Conference
2011 Apr 14-21 Shanghai and Yangzhou, China Linda MacDonald Glenn @ EPS Global Yangzhou International Biomedicine Forum
2011 Apr 15-16 Washington, DC Kristi Scott @ STGlobal’s 11th Annual Conference
2011 Apr 12 Canterbury University, New Zealand Andy Miah on “The Role of Social Media in Disaster Zones”
2011 Apr 10-11 Tilburg, The Netherlands Wallach @ Technologies on the stand: legal and ethical questions in neuroscience and robotics.
2011 Apr 8-9 Mount Berry, GA Virtue and Modern Technological Society
2011 Apr 8-9 Richardson, TX Natasha Vita-More @ Human Enhancement Symposium
2011 Apr 7-8 Baltimore, MD Conversations for Change: Improving Civic Society for Animals
2011 Apr 4-5 Brocher Foundation, Hermance, Switzerland Disaster Bioethics Symposium
2011 Apr 1-3 New York, US Linda Glenn @  Sixth International Conference on Ethical Issues in Biomedical Engineering
2011 Mar 31 Ontario, Canada Thinking About Animals Conference
2011 Mar 29-31 College Park, Maryland, United States Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, & Prediction
2011 Mar 29 NYC, NY Rushkoff on Broadway
2011 Mar 28 NYC, NY Rushkoff @ NYC Future Salon
2011 Mar 25 Wanaka, New Zealand Andy Miah on “Humanity 2.0”
2011 Mar 23-24 Glasgow, UK Advanced Technologies for an Ageing Population
2011 Mar 21-23 Stanford, United States Artificial Intelligence and Health Communication
2011 Mar 22 Otago, New Zealand Andy MIah on “Genetically Modified Athletes: Is this the end of sport?”
2011 Mar 21 Otago, New Zealand Andy Miah on “Life isn’t fair, but should it be?”
2011 Mar 20 Online Goertzel @ The Emerging Global Brain
2011 Mar 18-19 Otago, New Zealand Andy Miah on “Are You Interested in Stranger Chat & Facebook Porn?”
2011 Mar 16 Otago, New Zealand Andy Miah on “Is Transhumanism All Too Transhuman?”
2011 Mar 12-14 Tokyo, Japan Augmented Human International Conference 2011
2011 Mar 3 Plymouth, UK Andy Miah @ Neuroarts conference
2011 Feb 24-27 New York, NY Tenth Annual North American Basic Income Congress
2011 Feb 27 London UK Andy Miah @ London 2012 Cultural Olympiad
2011 Feb 8 london UK Andy Miah @ PODIUM’s 2011 annual conference
2011 Feb 5 New York, NY Conference on Ethics of Assisted Reproductive Technologies
2011 Feb 3-4 Washington, DC New America Foundation: Here Be Dragons
2011 Feb 1 Melbourne Australia Blackford on “Thomas Pynchon?” to Existentialist Society
2011 Jan 28-29 London, UK Humanity+ UK 2011 conference
2011 Jan 26 Bristol, UK Andy Miah: Media Citizenship and the Olympic Games
2011 Jan 24 London UK Miah @ The First Transhuman Games
2011 Jan 21 Boston, US Linda Glenn @ From Seed to Stomach: Food and Farming Law
2010 Dec 16 Andy Miah: #wikileaks was a MMORPG (but I don’t want to talk about that)
2010 Dec 11 London, UK Apocalypse Culture Conference
2010 Dec 9-10 Broadcast from terasemcentral.org Kristi Scott @ Terasem Colloquium
2010 Dec 7 San Francisco, US Breakthrough Philanthropy
2010 Dec 4-5 CalTech, Pasadena, CA, USA Goertzel, Vita-More @ Humanity Summit
2010 Dec 3-4 UPenn, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Art Caplan et al. @ Transforming Humanity: Fantasy? Dream? Nightmare?
2010 Dec 2-3 Rome, Italy Translational Issues in BCI Development: User Needs, Ethics, and Technology Transfer
2010 Nov 22 Germany Andy Miah: Ethical Design in a Posthuman World
2010 Nov 19 London, UK Andy Miah: The Virtual Society in a Big Society: Ethics, Education and Digital Technology
2010 Nov 18 Glasgow, UK Andy Miah: Posthumanity: The Impermanence of Humanity
2010 Nov 15-16 Bangalore, India Linda Glenn @  Conference on Human Genome Research
2010 Nov 16 Washington DC, USA de Grey @ How Radical will Radical Life Extension Be?
2010 Nov 13-14 Virginia, US First International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures
2010 Nov 11-14 Milwaukee, WI USA Kristi Scott @ Film and History Conference
2010 Nov 10 Brussels, Belgium Making Perfect Life: Bio-engineering in the 21st century
2010 Nov 9 Oxford, UK Andy Miah: #media2012: The Games as a Media Festival
2010 Nov 8 Oxford, UK J. Hughes & Aubrey de Grey on the Ethics of Life Extension @ Oxford Union
2010 Nov 4-6 Boulder, CO Wisdom 2.0 Boulder
2010 Nov 3 Science Channel Marshall Brain and Ben Goertzel on the “AI Uprising”
2010 Nov 1 Atlanta, Georgia USA Hopkins on “Transhumanism as a Theological Process”
2010 Oct 26-30 Romania and Ukraine PHEADE 2010 conference: THE ENGINEERED SINGULARITY
2010 Oct 26 Manchester, UK Andy Miah: The Pursuit of Perfection
2010 Oct 22-25 Milan, Italy Cascio, de Grey, Goertzel, Prisco, Rothblatt, Treder, Vita-More @ Transvision 2010
2010 Oct 23-24 Michigan, US Commodification, Technoculture, and the Human: Rethinking Technology
2010 Oct 21-24 San Diego, CA USA Linda Glenn on “Expert Witnessing” @ American Society for Bioethics and Humanities
2010 Oct 22-23 Bard College, Red Hook, NY USA Hughes @ Human Being in an Inhuman Age
2010 Oct 15-17 Aalborg, Denmark Natasha Vita-More @ PORT 20:10 International Conference / BIOTOPIA
2010 Oct 10-17 NY, NY - The Bahamas - NY, NY “Future of Medicine” Cruise to the Bahamas
2010 Oct 13 Oxford University, UK Milan Cirkovic on SETI @ Oxford
2010 Oct 11-12 Princeton University, Princeton NJ USA Hughes on Life Extension & H+ with Peter Singer &  Lee Silver @ Princeton University
2010 Oct 8-10 Brussels, Belgium Immortality Institute International Conference 2010
2010 Oct 9-10 Brussels, Belgium International Imminst Conference 2010
2010 Oct 4-6 Garching, Germany Technological Singularity and Acceleration Studies: Call for Papers
2010 Oct 4-5 Buckinghamshire, UK Milan Cirkovic on SETI @ Royal Society
2010 Oct 4 Manchester, UK #media2012: Creating a Citizen Journalism Legacy for London 2012
2010 Oct 1 University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah USA Hughes, Vita-More @ Transhumanism and Spirituality
2010 Oct 1 San Diego, CA Linda Glenn @ American Society of Bioethics and Humanities
2010 Sep 30-1 Cartagena, Colombia Natasha Vita-More @ Nanotechnology & Mechatronics International Forum
2010 Sep 30 Barranquilla, Colombia Vita-More @ Bionics and Nanotech International Forum
2010 Sep 30 Woodstock, NY “The Singularity Is Near” panel at the Woodstock Film Festival
2010 Sep 23-25 Aspen, CO Building Better Brains: Neural Prosthetics and Beyond
2010 Oct 23 San Rafael, CA Technological Singularity and Spiritual Enlightenment
2010 Sep 18 Cyberspace Martine Rothblatt on Reconstructing Minds from Software Mindfiles
2010 Sep 17 Washington DC The National Nanotechnology Initiative after 10 years @ Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies
2010 Sep 9-12 Enschede, Netherlands Natasha Vita-More Keynotes @ GOGBOT Festival
2010 Sep 12 Cyberspace Ben Goertzel on The Cosmist Manifesto in Teleplace
2010 Sep 11 Melbourne, Australia Russell Blackford on uploading @ Singularity Summit Australia
2010 Sep 5 Melbourne, Australia Russell Blackford on “Science Fiction and Technoscience” @ World Science Fiction Convention
2010 Aug 31 Hong Kong China Ben Goertzel @ TEDX Hong Kong
2010 Aug 20-23 Beijing, China The 2nd International Conference on Advanced Intelligence
2010 Aug 20-23 Beijing, China Ben Goertzel @ International Conference on Advanced Intelligence
2010 Aug 14-16 San Francisco, CA USA Ben Goertzel & Ramez Naam @ Singularity Summit 2010
2010 Aug 13 Washington DC Synthetic Biology: What’s the Agenda? @ Center for Policy on Emerging Technologies
2010 Jul 28-31 Berkeley, CA Open Science Summit 2010
2010 Jul 11-13 Oxford, United Kingdom 5th Global Conference: Visions of Humanity in Cyberculture, Cyberspace and Science Fiction
2010 Jul 1-2 University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Basic Income Earth Network
2010 Jun 25 CJSR FM88.5, Edmonton, Alberta George Dvorsky on Skeptically Speaking
2010 Jun 21-23 Long Beach, CA Neural Interfaces 2010
2010 Jun 21-23 Long Beach Convention Center, CA, USA Neural Interfaces Conference
2010 Jun 12-13 Cambridge, MA Hughes, Dvorsky, deGrey, Goertzel, Vita-More, Lin and Naam @ H+ Summit
2010 Jun 3-6 San Jose, CA Humanism 2.0: AHA’s 69th Annual Conference
2010 May 28 Buffalo, NY George Dvorsky on “Introduction to Transhumanism”
2010 May 25 Switzerland Science Fiction in Dialog
2010 May 22 Schenectady, New York, USA Hughes on “Defining Disability in an Age of Enhancement”
2010 May 16-21 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Implantable Neuroprosthetics: Technologies & Techniques
2010 May 10-12 Washington D.C. Neuroethics Society
2010 May 5-7 Geneva, Switzerland Cascio, de Grey @ Lift10
2010 Apr 23-25 Boston, MA Priorities 2010
2010 Apr 22-25 Blacksburg, VA USA Gender, Bodies and Technology
2010 Apr 24 London, UK Bostrom, de Grey & Vita-More @ Humanity+ UK 2010
2010 Apr 22-23 Toward a Science of Consciousness
2010 Apr 22 Hartford, Connecticut, USA James Hughes on “The Future of Women’s Education”
2010 Apr 20 London, UK Andy Miah: Untold Stories of the Olympic Games
2010 Apr 15-18 San Jose, CA Psychedelic Science in the 21st Century
2010 Apr 13-18 Tucson, Arizona Consciousness 2010
2010 Apr 17 Santa Cruz, CA Jamais Cascio at the UC Santa Cruz “Intellectual Forum”
2010 Apr 15-16 Montreal, Quebec, Canada Basic Income at a Time of Economic Upheaval: A Path to Justice and Stability?
2010 Apr 13-15 Bristol, UK Progress in Medicine
2010 Apr 10-11 Manchester, UK J. Hughes on “When is Enhancement like a Gun?” @ Beyond the Body? Perspectives on Enhancement
2010 Apr 10 Northampton, MA Hughes @ Technologies of Awareness: Buddhism and the New Mind Sciences
2010 Apr 9 Richmond, VA Natasha Vita-More Keynotes on Human Enhancement Design & Praxis
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 5-9 Lugano, Switzerland Goertzel @ Artificial General Intelligence Conference
2010 Mar 5-8 Lugano, Switzerland The Third Conference on Artificial General Intelligence
2010 May 3-7 Linköping, Sweden ESF-LiU Conference on Violations of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
2010 Mar 5 UK Andy Miah: Ethical Design in Pervasive Media
2010 Mar 3-5 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 22 Vancouver, Canada Andy Miah: The Olympic Media
2010 Feb 18-19 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 8 Manchester, UK Andy Miah: The Future of European Bioethics
2010 Feb 2 PBS Premiere of Doug Rushkoff’s Digital Nation
2010 Jan 28 New York, US Battle of the Quants
2010 Jan 25 Edinburgh, UK Andy Miah: The Olympic Rings
2010 Jan 25 Edinburgh, UK Andy Miah: What will we remember about the future?
2010 Jan 7 Washington DC USA Unveiling of “Progress in Bioethics”
2009 Dec 21 global Natasha Vita-More on “Future of Humans”
2009 Dec 15-16 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 4-5 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 26-30 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

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