Keynote Speakers
Dr. Kevin LaGrandeur is Director of Research for the Global AI Ethics Institute, Professor Emeritus at NYIT, Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technology, co-founder of the NY Posthuman Research Group, and Advisory Board Member of the Lifeboat Foundation (which seeks ways to promote safe development of new technology). He specializes in technology and culture, ethics, and education. Dr. LaGrandeur is a member of the founding editorial boards of two journals: AI and Ethics, and the Journal of Posthumanism. As well, he is on the founding editorial board of the book series Critical Posthuman and Citizenship Studies, by the publisher Rowman and Littlefield. He has published more than 60 articles and media productions, in both professional venues and the popular press, and 2 books: Artificial Slaves (2013), which won a 2014 Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Prize, and Surviving the Machine Age (2017), with sociologist James Hughes, which is about AI and the future of jobs.
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Stefan Lorenz Sorgner is a philosophy professor at John Cabot University in Rome, Director and Co-Founder of the Beyond Humanism Network, Fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET), Research Fellow at the Ewha Institute for the Humanities at Ewha Womans University in Seoul, academic Advisor of Humanity+, and Visiting Fellow at the Ethics Centre of the Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena. He is editor of more than 10 essay collections, and author of the following monographs: Metaphysics without Truth (Marquette University Press 2007), Menschenwürde nach Nietzsche (WBG 2010), Transhumanismus (Herder 2016), Schöner neuer Mensch(Nicolai, 2018), Übermensch (Schwabe 2019), On Transhumanism (Penn State University Press 2020), We have always been cyborgs (Bristol University Press 2022), Philosophy of Posthuman Art (Schwabe 2022), Transhumanismus (with Philip von Becker, Westendverlag 2023), Homo ex Machina (together with Bernd Kleine-Gunk, Goldmann 2023, in German), Homo ex Machina (together with Bernd Kleine-Gunk, Mirae N Co, Ltd 2024, in Korean translation), Philosophy of Posthuman Art (Epikentro 2024, in Greek translation). In addition, he is Editor-in-Chief and Founding Editor of the “Journal of Posthuman Studies” (a double-blind peer review journal, published by Penn State University Press since 2017). Furthermore, he is in great demand as a speaker in all parts of the world (World Humanities Forum, Global Solutions Taipei Workshop, Biennale Arte Venezia, TEDx, Colours of Ostrava) and a regular contact person of national and international journalists and media representatives (Die Zeit, Cicero, Der Standard; Die Presse am Sonntag, Philosophy Now, Il Sole 24 Ore). CV & www.mousike.de
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Günseli Sönmez İşçi
Sümeyra Buran Utku
Dr. Buran is an Associate Professor of English and a faculty member at South Carolina State University specializing in Anglo-American fiction and world literature, with a specific focus on science fiction and speculative fiction. She delves into the areas of eco/digital/post-humanities, film, media and culture, Anthropocene and ecocriticism, and new materialism with a particular interest in feminist technoscience. Her research interests lie at the intersection of AI, VR, AR, and posthuman studies, exploring how these advanced technologies influence digital humanities. She is the co-founder and managing editor of the Journal of Posthumanism; Division Head of the Science Fiction Literature Division of the IAFA, Turkey Country Representative for the Science Fiction Research Association, and Chair of the SFRA Innovative Research Award Committee. She is also the editor of the Posthumanism book series, and the author and editor of several influential volumes, including Technologies of Feminist Speculative Fiction: Gender, Artificial Life, and the Politics of Reproduction (Palgrave), Posthumanism in Literature, Posthumanism in Multidisciplinary Studies, and the First Anthology of Turkish Science Fiction, and Technofeminist Science Fiction. She is currently working on forthcoming volume on Religious Futurisms to be published by Liverpool University Press.
