Programme

Day 1, 20 November: Palazzo Nuovo, Via Sant’Ottavio, 20, 10124 Torino

8.45-9.00Registration
 Auditorium Quazza Chair: Erica Onnis
9.00-9.30Welcome Address Tiziana Andina (UniTo) & Claude Mangion (UM)
9.30-10.30Keynote: Maurizio Ferraris, University of Turin
10.30-11.00Break
 Sala Lauree GallinoAuditorium Quazza
11.00-12.30Parallel Session One Chair: Valeria MartinoParallel Session Two Chair: Erica Onnis
 Greta Francesconi Giving birth in a Post-Anthropocentric worldEamon Reid Flattening Processes: The Tensions Between Pluralistic Machine Ontologies and (a Possible) Liberal Politics
 Francois Zammit Homo Economicus as The New Cyborg.  Rita Serpytyte Things, Objects and Reality  
 Martina Todaro The Promethean Drift of Dante’s Transumanar  Audronė Žukauskaitė Toward and Organism-Oriented Ontology
12.30-14.30Lunch Break
 Sala Lauree GallinoAuditorium Quazza
14.30-16.00Parallel Session Chair: Martina LilloParallel Session Chair: Giulio Sacco
 Michael Ardoline Interiority and Control: Subjectivation in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism  Vaiva Daraškevičiûtė Aesthetis of “Artificial Nature”: Between Rejection and Uncanny
 Sebastian Nähr-Wagener Technology as Dispositif and the Production of SubjectsCostanza Penna No title supplied
 Rodrigo Guiomar Carrasco Flores Fields of Sense and Cosmotechnics: towards an Andean concept of technologyMartin E. Rosenberg The Ontology of How and the Epistemology of Now: Jazz Improvisation at the Intersection of Materialist Phenomenology and Panpsychism
16.00-16.15Break
 Sala Lauree GallinoAuditorium Quazza
16.15-17.45Parallel Session Chair: Martina LilloParallel Session Chair: Giulio Sacco
 Timothy Tambassi Is Extensible Markup Language perspectivist?Oliver Norman Performing the non-human Other : On Monsters, Club-Kids, and Aliens. Beyond Drag as a Gender Performance
 Evangelos Koumparoudis Defining Death and Dying in Relation to Information Technology and Advances in BiomedicineJetske Brouwer Categorical Porosity and Care: Comparing Ecofeminist and New Materialist Perspectives
 Marco Emilio, Cristina Viano e Irene Domenicale The Challenge of Tokenizing Collective AgencyRobert Booth ‘We Should all in Part be Naturalists’: Ecophenomenology, Ecofeminism, and Environmental Education Policy

Day 2, 21 November: Palazzo Nuovo, Via Sant’Ottavio, 20, 10124 Torino

9.00-10.30Parallel Session Chair: Costanza PennaParallel Session Chair: Giulia Beltritti
 Sala Lauree GallinoAuditorium Quazza
 Luca Valentino Making sense of nonhuman impacts on society: Against the new materialist approach  Zachary Goldberg Using Wittgenstein to Fulfill the Principle of Explainability in AI
 Emily Dellheim Intersect, interact, Imagine: Relational Becomings, Inclusive Encounters and New Materialism in Museum Education  Giovanna Di Cicco From Social Robots To Moral Robots? Empathy and moral standing in the age of affective robotics
 Leonardo Geri On vicarious causation and the third, new objectIrene Olivero Evaluating and Re-Engineering AI’s Social Impact: A Conceptual Engineering Framework
10.30-11.00Break
 Sala Lauree GallinoAuditorium Quazza
11.00-12.30Parallel Session Chair: Costanza PennaParallel Session Chair: Giulia Beltritti
 Kristupas Sabolius The Compossibility of CoexistenceArjen Kleinherenbrink Why non-humans do not have agency
 Matteo Maria Paolucci Spacing (as) Coexistence: Nancy and Morton on ‘World’ and ‘Nature’Tyler Tritten Habit as Organon of Philosophy: A Cosmology
 Agnieszka Jagła Shifting boundaries between the human and the nonhuman in The Stone Gods by Jeanette WintersonDavid Roden Of Minds and Hyperminds
12.30-14.30Lunch
 Sala Lauree GallinoAuditorium Quazza
14.30-16.00Parallel Session Chair: Giulia MiottiParallel Session Chair: Valeria Martino
 Maximilian Margreiter When is AI-Art Art?Drew M. Dalton New Realism and the Metaphysics of Nihilation: Engaging the Thermodynamic Revolution
 Michael Miller Autopo(i)etics and Authorial Technique in the Work of Holly Herndon and Sasha StilesAndrea Cocciarelli Posthuman ontologies and achieving queered personhood
 Regine Rørstad Torbjørnsen Autopo(i)etics and Authorial Technique in the Work of Holly Herndon and Sasha StilesNiki Young Not an Abyss but a Dynamo: Alphonso Lingis and the Animal
16.00-16.15Break
 Sala Lauree GallinoAuditorium Quazza
16.15-17.45Parallel Session Chair: Giulia MiottiParallel Session Chair: Valeria Martino
 Poppy Wilde Who’s in Control?: Posthuman subjectivities and feminist resistance in videogamingAndrea Gentili Who speaks for the nonhuman?  Nature’s representation and the law  
 Antonis Sarris Virtual and Hyperreal Intersections: Baudrillard and Deleuze in Alain Damasio’s novel Les FurtifsKatie MacDonald and Suzanne McCullagh The Rights of Nature and Multi-Species Political Community  
 Jasmijn Leeuwenkamp Saving ‘nature’ from humans with rights: ecocide, rights of nature, and the hidden dimensions of predation and use.Giacomo Pezzano and Marco Pavanini Comic Ideas: The Nonhuman Constitution of Philosophical Cognition

Day 3, 22 November: Scienza Nuova, Corso Rodolfo Montevecchio, 38, 10129 Torino

9.30-10.30Keynote: Tiziana Andina, University of Turin
10.30-11.00Break
11.00-13.00Session One Chair: Erica Onnis
 Federico Comollo Phytosemiotics: the Key to a Vegetal Ethic
 Viola Di Tullio Beyond instrumentality: rethinking plants as agents in environmental philosophy
 Maria PatriciaTinajero A Multispecies Translation and Ethical Aesthetics Approach to Reimagining Human-Plant-Soil Relations
 Agata Kowalewska Feralizing the Plantationocene with weedy rice
12.30-14.30Lunch
14.30-16.00Session Two Chair: Giulio Sacco
 Andrea Velardi Hyperhuman Subjects: On the interplay Between Technology and Nature
 Nataliya Atanasova Objet, cache-moi: the subject’s presence in a hostile world
 Alicia Macías Recio From Aesthetic Appreciation to Ecological Action: Art as a Means to Address the Challenges of the Anthropocene
16.00-16.30Concluding Remarks: Tiziana Andina (UniTo) & Claude Mangion (UM)
16.30-17.00Reception


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