May 15, 2023

14h30-15h00: The cryonic body, between classical dualism and technoscientific hybridization [Jessica Lombard] 3:00 p.m.-3:15 p.m.: Coffee break 15h15-15h45: Life extension and the cult milieu of immortalists in the United States [David Pucheu] 15h45-16h30: Round table: immortality, technoscience and science fiction with Ugo Bellagamba Ugo Bellagamba – University of the French Riviera – Nice Ugo Bellagamba’s career has always been a pas de deux between university, where he is a lecturer in the history of law and political ideas, and writing, in which he has been passionately involved since his first school notebooks. His favorite themes are utopia, alternate history, and space exploration, and his favorite format, despite novels, notably in co-writing with Thomas Day, remains the novella, which has earned him awards. Jean-Yves Goffi – Pierre-Mendès France University – Grenoble Jean-Yves Goffi is Honorary Professor of Bioethics and General Philosophy. He has worked in the field of philosophy of technology and applied ethics, especially in bioethics and environmental ethics. david pucheu – E3D/MICA – Michel de Montaigne University Researcher in Information and Communication Sciences, David Pucheu questions the imaginations and ideologies that preside over Western technological development. He also questions the recompositions of belief at work in our hypermodernity and more particularly in the United States. David Doat – ETHICS – Catholic University of Lille Philosopher holder of the Ethics, Technology and Transhumanism(s) Chair at UCL, David Doat focuses his work on the representations of the “augmented human” and vulnerability in contemporary philosophical, scientific, trans- and posthumanist literature. Frank Damour – ETHICS – Catholic University of Lille Franck Damour is a historian of ideas, associate professor, essayist. After having studied in particular the evolution of Russian religious thought, he turned to the study of the anthropological mutations at work in transhumanism, of which he explores more particularly the history of the movement and the religious dimensions. Alexandre Moatti – SPHERE – Paris VII University Senior civil servant, polytechnician and general engineer of Mines, Alexandre Moatti is a researcher in the history of ideas at the University of Paris (Diderot). He wonders in particular about the French origins of transhumanism, while pursuing a career of public popularization in science and history (webTV cultureGnum.fr). Jessica Lombard – Northwestern Italian Philosophy Consortium FINO / ETHICS – UCL Graduated from the Ecole Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr and holder of a Philmaster (master’s degree in philosophy) from EHESS and ENS Ulm. Holder of a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Piedmont Oriental (Italy) and teacher-researcher at the Catholic University of Lille (France), Jessica Lombard specializes in the philosophy of technology and in phenomenology. Apolline Taillandier – POLIS – University of Cambridge Apolline Taillandier is a postdoctoral researcher in the history of political ideas at the University of Cambridge (POLIS, CFI) and at the University of Bonn (CST). His research focuses on the history of Anglo-American transhumanism and artificial intelligence (1960s-present). 2023-05-15 15:07:09 1684178618