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June 9th, 2015, 10:26 AM
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Beyond Human JNU
Will you please tell me when the Conference of the Beyond the Human organized at the Jawaharlal Nehru University; give me the complete schedule of it? Provide me the complete information about this conference of the Jawaharlal Nehru University?
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February 18th, 2017, 11:12 AM
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Re: Beyond Human JNU
When the International Conference on Beyond the human at Jawaharlal Nehru University JNU was conducted?
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February 18th, 2017, 11:13 AM
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Re: Beyond Human JNU
The International Conference on “Beyond Man: Monsters, Mutants and Lonely Machines” was a three-day International Conference held from 21-22 February 2014 at Jawaharlal Nehru University JNU to address, critique and further these trajectories and aspects of the border-crossing between the humans and their alter-entities. The first of its kind in India, it seek to explore the various dimensions of this question and their representations; but also bring an important postcolonial perspective to bear on it. Dates - 20-22 February 2014 Conference Venue: Jawaharlal Nehru University Convention Centre The conference is organized by Makarand Paranjape, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Debashish Banerji, University of Philosophical Research, Los Angeles Richard Carlson, Non-Linear Systems, Port Angeles Wa. Conference Schedule- Day One (Thursday, 20 February) 9:30–10:45: Inaugural Session: Chair: Professor Sudha Pai, Rector JNU Welcome and Introduction to the conference: Makarand R. Paranjape Inaugural address: Karan Singh Rector’s Address: Sudha Pai Introductory Remarks: Debashish Banerji Concluding remarks from the chair and vote of thanks 10:45: Tea Break 11:00–12:00: Keynote Address I Chair: Allan Leslie Combs Speaker: Pal Ahluwalia 12:00–1:00: Session 1.1: Post-human Contexts: Back to the Future Chair: Saitya Brata Das Michel Lantelme: “Human, Nothing but Human: From Neanderthal to Clones” John Tangney: “Platonism, Epicureanism and Transhumanism” 1:00–2:00: Lunch 2:00–3:30: Session 1.2: Machines, Utopias, Cosmism: Probing New Frontiers of Consciousness Chair: Debashish Banerji Allan Combs: “Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On: Machines, Consciousness, and the Future” Peter Heehs: “Utopia, Dystopia, and Attainable Futures” Andrei Zavaliy: “The Quest for a Post-human Era in the Tradition of Russian Cosmism” 3:30–3:45: Tea Break 3:45–5:15: Session 1.3: Science Fiction: Literature and Cinema Chair: Makarand R. Paranjape M K Raghavendra: “Glitches in Mankind’s Imagined Future: The Russian SF Film and its Significance” Aruna Bhat: “Beyond Bionic Beings: Cybernetics as an Extension of the Human – A Study of William Gibson’s Novel Neuromancer” Geetha Bakilapadavu: “What is Beyond Human? Science-fictional Perspectives of Arthur C. Clarke” 5:15 onwards: Science fiction film screening Day Two (Friday, 21 February) 9:45–10:45: Session 2.1: Biopolitics, Psychopower Chair: Dhananjay Singh Federico Luisetti: “Technological Vitalism: Rethinking the State of Nature” Samrat Sengupta: “Autoimmunity, Animality and the Irony of Self-Definition” 10:45–11:00: Tea Break 11:00–12:15: Keynote Address II [Video] Speaker: Rosi Braidotti: Critical Post-humanism Discussion 12:15–1:15: Session 2.2: Shaping Future Subjects: Media Effects, Digital Humanities Chair: Saugata Bhaduri Niyathi R. Krishna and Sangeeth S. Pillai: “Internalizing Superhuman and Becoming Subhuman—Where Lies the Human?” Anirudh Sridhar: “Digital Humanities and the University: The Conflict of Koenigsberg” 1:15–2:15: Lunch 2:15–3:45: Session 2.3: Ethics of the Post-human Chair: Franson Manjali Anirban Das: “The Many Ways of Thinking the ‘Non-Human’” Ritu Sen Chaudhuri: “Reading Ajantrik: Talking Technicity” Ananta Kumar Giri: “Spiritual Pragmatics: New Pathways of Transformation for the Posthuman” 3:45–4:00: Tea Break 4:00–5:30: Session 2.4: Virtual Capital and Digital Fetishism Chair: John Tangney Mun-Cho Kim, Nam-Og Kim, Andrew Kim: “Changing Conception of Body in a High-Tech Society” Prayag Ray: “‘Synthetik Love Lasts Forever’: Sex Dolls and the (Post?)Human Condition” [Video] Michel Bauwens: “Digital Economies and Networks of Cooperation” Day Three (Saturday, 22 February) 9:45–10:45: Keynote Address III Chair: Richard Carlson Speaker: Amrita Pande: “Beyond the Mother-machine: Surrogacy and Neo-eugenics in India” 10:45–11:00: Tea Break 11:00–12:00: Session 3.1: Technological Progress and the Subaltern Chair: Amrita Pande Monirul Islam: “Posthumanism: Through the Postcolonial Lens” Sucharita Sarkar: “Durga, Supermom and the Posthuman Mother India” 12:00–1:30: Session 3.2: Virtual Violence/Precarious Bodies Chair: Ritu Sen Chaudhuri [Video] Arthur Kroker : “When Drones Come to Town” Heba Ahmed: “Beyond Belligerence? Towards Posthuman War” Bedatri Datta Choudhury and Promona Sengupta: “The Case of Exploding Humans: The Human Bomb as a Questioning of the Human Condition” 1:30–2:30: Lunch 2:30–4:00: Sessions 3.3 and 3.4 [in two parallel sessions ] Session 3.3: Science Fiction Chair: Geetha Bakilapadavu C.S. Bhagya: “The Final Frontier: The Solipsistic Self in Andrei Tarkovsky’s (and Stanislaw Lem’s) Solaris” Suryansu Guha: “The Imperialist Post-human: Alien Invaders, the Syndicate and the Politics of Colonisation in the X-Files” Kanak Yadav: “The Politics of the Im(possible): What underlies the Posthuman? Session 3.4: Post-human Deferrals Chair: Ananta Kumar Giri Saronik Bosu: “The Death of the Machine and its Mystical Journey Beyond the Human” Huzaifa Omair Siddiqi: “The Postponement of the Post-human: Analysing Post-human Conflict in Science Fiction” Isha Singh: “The Superhero as the New Age Shaman: What Is It That We Want to Become?” 4:00–4:15: Tea Break 4:15: Concluding Session: Technologies of Self-Transformation and Post-Human Futures Opening Remarks: Ashis Nandy Concluding Discussion: Makarand R. Paranjape, Richard Carlson, Debashish Banerji Contact- Jawaharlal Nehru University New Mehrauli Road, Munirka, New Delhi, Delhi 110067 |
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