Human futures

Seminar at Sandbjerg, January 25-26, 2016

Mads Rosendahl Thomsen (comparative literature): “A divided humanity?”

Panel 1: Human enhancement

Suresh Rattan (biomedicine): “Breaking the Biological Limits on Lifespan”

Verner Møller (sports): “Who owns the body?”

Marco Nørskov (philosophy): “Integrative Social Robotics—Why Robotics Needs Humaniora”

Laura Søvsø Thomasen (comparative literature): “Man and Superman - Victorian and early 20th-century ideas about the human of the future”

Panel 2: Ethics and aesthetics of change

Jacob Wamberg (art history): “Verlust der Mitte: On the posthuman in avantgarde art”

Pernille Leth-Espensen (art history): “Living Memories and Naked Life”

Karin Christiansen (VIA/philosophy): “Genetic enhancement – Habermas revisited”

Rasmus Bysted Møller (sports): “Some thoughts on the pursuit of equality within bioethics”

Panel 3: Popular culture and superhumans

Johannes Poulsen (comparative literature): “Jonathan Hickman and the Last Superhumans”

Carsten Fogh Nielsen (philosophy): “Exemplars, heroes and ethics”

Sebastien Doubinsky (french/author): “The Posthuman in literature: possibility of fiction or fiction of possibilities?”

Panel 4: Humans, AI and their environment

Cathrine Hasse (DPU): “Robotic learning”

Alexander Wilson (aesthetics, literature and culture): “Ubiquitous Emergence”

Demitris Liakaftos (sports): “Responding to the Trend of Human Enhancement Drugs: the case of drug-free bodybuilding in the European context”

Marianne Raakilde Jespersen (philosophy): “Narratives of Human Enhancement”