The Future of Human(ity)
Nipissing University, July 22-24, 2016:
The Fedeli Business Centre (F210)
Friday, July 22, 2016
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| Time09.15 | ActivityRegistration and Coffee |
| Time10.00 | ActivityMike DeGagné (President, Nipissing University): Welcome Councillor Sheldon Forgette (City of North Bay): Welcome |
| Time10.10 | ActivitySkawennati: “My Life As An Avatar (xox remix)” |
| Time10.25 | ActivityKEYNOTE: Adam Nash (RMIT University, Australia) “Actual Fantasy, Modulation Chains, and Swarms of Thought-Controlled Babel Drones: Digital Ontology in the Posthuman Era” |
| Time11.30 | ActivityRefreshments |
| Time11.50 | ActivityCatherine Jenkins (Ryerson, Canada). “Human versus Cyborg Life: Quality versus Quantity” |
| Time12.10 | ActivityEric Weichel (Nipissing, Canada). “The Posthuman: Donna Haraway, Cyborgs, and Contemporary Art” |
| Time12.30 | ActivityAndy Belyea (Royal Military College, Canada): “Self-Defence: Bodies at War in the Posthuman Era” |
| Time12.50 | ActivityDiscussion |
| Time1.05 | ActivityLunch |
| Time2.10 | ActivityKEYNOTE: Peter Eckersall (CUNY Graduate Theatre, USA) “Towards a Dramaturgy of Robots and Object Figures” |
| Time3.10 | ActivityRefreshments |
| Time3.30 | ActivityLeslie Thielen-Wilson (Nipissing, Canada): “Invitations to Equality? Law, De/Humanization, and Agency in a White Settler Context” |
| Time3.50 | ActivityPaisley Cozzarin (University of Waterloo, Canada): “Cripping the Nonhuman: A Material Feminist Intervention in ‘Frankenfish’” |
| Time4.10 | ActivityDavid R Witzling (U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee): "Exercises in Secular Heresy: Technological Determinism, Civil Liberties, and the Taboo of Diminishing Returns." |
| Time4.30 | ActivityDiscussion |
| Time5.30 | ActivityDrinks Exhibition Opening: The Future of Human(ity) White Water Gallery: 122 Main St East P1B 8K6 |
| Time7.30 | ActivityConference Dinner: Raven and Republic (upstairs) 246 First Ave West P1B 3C1 |
Saturday, July 23, 2016: The Fedeli Business Centre (F210)
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| Time9.00 | ActivityRegistration and Coffee |
| Time9.30 | ActivityKEYNOTE: Fred Spier (University of Amsterdam, Holland) “Wished futures and expected futures: a reflection on scenarios of the future of humanity from the point of view of big history” |
| Time10.40 | ActivityRefreshments |
| Time11.00 | ActivityHilary Earl (Nipissing, Canada): "Reflections on Death Tourism in the Age of Experiential Education" |
| Time11.20 | ActivityGillian McCann (Nipissing, Canada): "Secular Pilgrimage: Making Meaning in Late Modernity" |
| Time11.40 | ActivityPavlina Radia (Nipissing, Canada): "From Gas Chambers to 9/11: The Ecstasy of Postmemory and Contemporary American Culture" |
| Time12.00 | ActivityDiscussion |
| Time12.15 | ActivityLunch |
| Time1.20 | ActivityEric Weichel (Nipissing, Canada): “Rehabilitating the “Universal Classic”: Dancing Bodies in Motion and Mutation” |
| Time1.40 | ActivityPaul Monaghan (Nipissing, Canada): “A Stratigraphy of the Imagination: Greek Theatre, the Posthuman, and the Future” |
| Time2.00 | ActivityDiscussion |
| Time2.15 | ActivityRefreshments |
| Time2.40 | ActivityMadhuri Vairapandi (Georgetown University, USA): "Wuthering Heights and the Violence of Narcissistic Humanity: A map to guide the present into an ethical futurity". |
| Time3.00 | Activity“Christine Bolus-Reichert (University of Toronto-Scarborough, Canada): “The Shock Doctrine in Apocalyptic Fiction” |
| Time3.20 | ActivityLaurie Kruk (Nipissing, Canada): “Guy Vandehaeghe and the Future of the Marginalized Canadian Male” |
| Time3.40 | ActivityDiscussion |
| Time4.00 | ActivityBreak |
| Time4.30 | ActivityKEYNOTE: Keith Hipel (University of Waterloo, Canada) “Technology and Policy Options for a Low-Emission Energy System in Canada” |
Sunday, July 24, 2016: The Fedeli Business Centre (F210)
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| Time9.30 | ActivityRegistration and Coffee |
| Time10.00 | ActivityEli Park Sorensen (Chinese University of Hong Kong, China): “Blade Runner and the Right to Life” |
| Time10.20 | ActivityAaron Weiss (York University, Canada): “Interdisciplinarity as the future of academia, the arts, and sciences” |
| Time10.40 | ActivityTimothy Sibbald (Nipissing, Canada): “Developing Secondary Teachers Who Engage in Interdisciplinary Thinking” |
| Time11.00 | ActivityDiscussion |
| Time11.15 | ActivityRefreshments |
| Time11.35 | ActivityMaggie Zeng (Nipissing, Canada): “Gender Mainstreaming in Peace and Security” |
| Time11.55 | ActivityManuel Litalien (Nipissing, Canada): "Gender, Religions and Social Development: A Reflection on the Transnational Role of the Sakyadhita and the Alliance for Bhikkhunis" |
| Time12.15 | ActivityRebin Omar Mohammed Ameen (Hindu College, Delhi University, India): “Ruling Out Religious Intolerance: Jainism and Baha’i as Examples” |
| Time12.30 | ActivityDiscussion |
| Time12.45 | ActivityLunch |
| Time1.40 | ActivityAnahit Armenakyan (Nipissing, Canada): “International Business Relationships” |
| Time2.00 | ActivityIsaac Owusu Frimpong (Jilin University, China): “Migration Concerns in the 21st Century” |
| Time2.20 | ActivityHamza Ates (Istanbul Medeniyet University, Turkey): “The Future of Government: An Evaluation of Drivers of Change and Major Trends”” |
| Time2.40 | ActivityDiscussion |
| Time3.00 | ActivityRefreshments |
| Time3.15 | ActivityWorking Groups |
| Time4.15 | ActivityWorking Group Reports |
| Time4.45 | ActivityConference Closing |
| Time5.00 | ActivityFarewell Drinks |