General description of the project

Participants to the Regional Summits are encouraged to explore the posthuman turn by challenging the normative paradigms and the risk of replicating hegemonic knowledges and references. The invitation to participants is to engage with regional philosophies, perspectives, practices and experiences (which may expand beyond the written canon), to offer a deeper understanding of the posthuman condition. Participants from any part of the world can participate to any regional meeting by honoring these guidelines:
  • The topic, references and reflections should embrace the socio-cultural, philosophical, technological and ecological phenomena (among others) referring specifically to the interested geo-political areas.
  • Knowledges from other parts of the world are welcome as much as they are fully engaging with regional knowledges, traditions and references.
  • A specific attention should be given to the practices. For instance, multi-lingual approaches are encouraged to allow exchanges in different languages and to support cultural pluralism. (Those interested in presenting in a language other than English are required to provide a written English-language translation of their talks and of their multimedia presentations; during the Q&A session they should facilitate the possibility of direct translation into English or another lingua franca).
  • The goal of the open and evolving frames of these meetings is to allow participants to learn from each other (not to teach to each other) in a shared effort to expand the existential enquiry of the posthuman condition.
  • Every five years participants will share their reflections and contributions in digital or physical meetings connected to the World Congress of Philosophy in panels organized by the World Posthuman Society (WPS) and the Beyond Humanism Network to be in a constant and evolving plurilogue about the notion of the posthuman.

REGIONAL GROUPS

This project was born in July 2019.
It is currently being developed, with vision and inspiration,
by scholars located in: ​Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America
(regions listed in alphabetic order).

ASIAN GROUP
Period: 2021 (Summit) / 2020, End of June (Preliminary One/Two-day Workshop)

Preliminary Workshop Description: "Technosciences and the Future of Life" (provisional title)

Linkage: Well-known selected teachers, philosophers, engineers, geneticists, artists.

Goal: To appeal and spread the idea of the coming 2021 summit/conference (or other name).

Structure: Open access to public + Skype or online ways of communication. Report or recording of each talk will be organized.

Language: Main language: English.

Referee:
Sangkyu Shin

Network:
Hayashi, Mitsuhiro
Honda, Kojiro
Kroulík, Milan
​Lombard, Jessica
del Val, Jaime

AFRICAN GROUP
Period: 2023

Main Topic: Forms of Transhumanisms in Africa (provisional title)

Possible themes: Perception of Transhumanisms in Africa / Transhumanisms and Religions in Africa / Transhumanisms and Afrofuturisms / Transhumanisms and Cultures in Africa / Transhumanisms and Poverty

Language: English and French
(once the summit is established, other languages may be considered, if feasible)

Venue: Cameroon / Ghana / Nigeria

Linkage: Transhumanist individuals and musicians (it will be expanded to philosophers, artists, scientists, engineers and scholars working on different areas)

Referee:
Leo Igwe

Network:
Meben Gambala, R.
Rahn, J.
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LATIN AMERICAN GROUP
Period: 2020

Referee:
TBA

Network:
Ferrando, F.
Murru, S.
Rozzoni, S.
del Val, J.

General Info

Coordination:
Francesca Ferrando

​Contact: 
Stefano Rozzoni

Network:
(in alphabetic order)
del Val, Jaime
​Ferrando, Francesca
Hayashi, Mitsuhiro
Honda, Kojiro
Kroulík, Milan
​Lombard, Jessica
Meben Gambala, Robert
Murru, Simone
Rahn, Judith
Rozzoni, Stefano
Sankyu, Shin
Sorgner, Stefan Lorenz