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​The Global Posthuman Network is starting a series of live digital forums in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. This is the first of our Posthuman Forums on the topic:
"The Philosophical and Political Implications of Covid19 and the Posthuman".
Speakers: Kevin LaGrandeur, Stefan Lorenz Sorgner, Christine Daigle, Jamie Del Val, Maggie Jiang, Denny Daniel.

DATE and TIME
The event was held on Saturday, May 30th 2020, 12pm-1.30 pm (Eastern time) live on Zoom.

The event was sold out - tickets were free, but people had to register. We had 250 registering and 152 connecting live from each continent (countries included: the US, Europe, India, China, Brazil, Korea, South Africa, Pakistan, Nigeria, Australia, Mexico, Canada etc.).

PROGRAM
Introduction
(5 minutes)

Facilitators:
Francesca Ferrando (NYU / Posthuman Global Network)
Jim McBride (NYU / NY Posthuman Research Group)

Speakers:

1. “Why it is Helpful and Dangerous to Use AI to Fight Covid”
Kevin LaGrandeur (New York Institute of Technology, US / NY Posthuman Research Group)
​(5 minutes)

2. “A Democratic Usage of Digital Data”
Stefan Lorenz Sorgner (John Cabot University, Italy / Beyond Humanism Network)
​(5 minutes)

3. Posthuman Technology during COVID-19”
Maggie Jiang (NYU, US / China)
​(5 minutes)

Q/A
​(20 minutes)

4. “Posthuman Vulnerability”
Christine Daigle (Brock University, Canada / Posthumanism Research Institute)
​(5 minutes)

5. "The Virus, our Ally for Metahumanist Mutations"
Jaime del Val (Metaverso Institute)
​(5 minutes)

6. "Stimulus Serenades for Social Change: Putting the "Social" back in Social Distancing"
Emily Bauman (NYU)
​(5 minutes)

Q/A
​(20 minutes)

7. “A History of Treating Disease through Objects” (Visual Exhibition)
Denny Daniel (Museum of Interesting Things, NYC, US)
​(5 minutes)

Final Remarks and Announcements
​​(10 minutes)
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Social Media
Each Summit will turn into an episode of our Vlog "Posthumans": http://www.posthumans.org/vlog.html
and Podcast "Posthumans": http://www.posthumans.org/podcast.html).

More info:
http://www.posthumans.org/forum-covid...