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Hughes,Glenn @ Nano & Human Enhancement

April 14-15, 2007
Dartmouth, NH, USA

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~phil/conferences/nano/index.html

Nanotechnology and Human Enhancement

April 14-15, 2007

Funded by the National Science Foundation

All Sessions Located in Haldeman Building Room 125, Dartmouth College

Dr. Hughes will speak at 5:15 PM on Saturday April 14 on “The Emerging Biopolitics of Enhancement”

Linda Glenn will speak at 11:15 AM on Sunday April 15 on “From Buzz Lightyear to Darth Vader: The Light Side and the Dark Side of Converging Technologies?”

Saturday April 14, 2007

8:30 AM Coffee and Welcome

Session 1

Moderator: Jim Moor, Dartmouth College

9:00 AM Fundamentals of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
Ursula Gibson, Darmouth College 10:00 AM Chemistry, Nanoscience and Medicine
Joseph BelBruno,Darmouth College

11:00 AM Break

11:15 AM Nanomedicine and Nanotoxicity
Ursula Gibson, Darmouth College
12:15 PM Nanotechnology in the Environment
Joseph BelBruno, Darmouth College

1:15 PM Lunch
Session 2

Moderator: Fritz Allhoff, Western Michigan University

2:00 PM Nanotechnological Improvements to Neurons: Exploring the Possibilities
Nancy Woolf, UCLA
3:00 PM Stage 2 Enhancements
George Khushf, University of South Carolina

4:00 PM Break

4:15 PM How Not to Think About Radical Human Enhancement
Ronald Sandler, Northeastern University
5:15 PM The Emerging Biopolitics of Enhancement
James Hughes, Trinity College

6:15 PM Dinner (125 Haldeman)

Sunday April 15, 2007

8:30 AM Coffee

Session 3

Moderator: Pat Lin, Dartmouth College

9:00 AM Problematizing ‘Enhancement’
Jason Robert, Arizona State University 10:00 AM Human Enhancement’s Flipside: Nanotechnology and the Blind Chicken
Paul Thompson, Michigan State University

11:00 AM Break

11:15 AM From Buzz Lightyear to Darth Vader: The Light Side and the Dark Side of Converging Technologies?
Linda MacDonald Glenn, University of Vermont

12:15 PM Nanotechnological Enhancements: Embrace, Reject, or Regulate?
Wendell Wallach, Yale University

1:15 PM Workshop Ends