34th Annual KJSNA Meetings (2012-2013)
In conjunction with the American Philosophical Association

APA EASTERN DIVISION

DECEMBER 27-30, 2012

Friday, December 28, GVI-4

7:30 - 10:30 pm, Room tba

SESSION ONE: Author meets Critics
“The Flame of Eternity: An Interpretation of Nietzsche's Thought”
(Princeton Universtity Press, 2012)

Chair: Alan M. Olson (Boston University)

Author: Krzysztof Michalski (Boston University and Warsaw University)

Critics: Babette Babich (Fordham University)
James Dodd (The New School, New York)
Tom Rockmore (Duquesne University)
Sigríður Thorgeirsdóttir (University of Iceland - Reykjavik)

KJSNA Business Meeting Following Session

Saturday, December 29, GX-3

7:00 - 10:00 pm, Room tba

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION:
“Karl Jaspers and Hannah Arendt: Relevance of Their Ways of Life and Thinking”

Moderator: Lydia Voronina (Independent Scholar)

Discussants: Babette Babich (Fordham University)
Elena Bezzubova (University of California - Irvine)
Alina Feld (Hofstra University)
Cornelia Klinger (Tübingen University Germany)
Sigríður Thorgeirsdóttir (University of Iceland - Reykjavik)
Lydia Voronina (Independent Scholar)

APA PACIFIC DIVISION ANNUAL MEETING (San Francisco, CA)

MARCH 27 - 31, 2013

Friday, March 29 G7D

7:00 - 10:00 pm, Room tba

SESSION ONE: Book session
“Philosophical Faith and the Future of Humanity”
(Springer Verlag, 2012)

Chair: Stephen A. Erickson (Pomona College)

Critic: Purushottama Bilimoria (University of California, Berkeley)
"Philosophical Humanity and the Future of Faith"

Respondents: Ties Nijssen (Springer Verlag)
Alan M. Olson (Boston University)
Reinhard Schulz (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany)
Gregory J. Walters (Saint Paul University-Ottawa)
Helmut Wautischer (California State University, Sonoma)

KJSNA Business Meeting Following Session

Saturday, March 30 G9E

6:00 - 9:00 p.m., Room tba

SESSION TWO: “Humanity and Post-Humanity”

Chair: Gregory J. Walters (Saint Paul University-Ottawa)

Speakers: Dale Carrico (UC Berkeley)
"Futurological Discourse and Posthuman Terrains"

James Carroll (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
"The Pace of Technological Progress, Linear or Exponential,
and its Implications for the Future of Humanity"

Stephen A. Erickson (Pomona College)
"Post-Humanism, Technology, and Education"

Francesca Ferrando (Università di Roma Tre)
"Post/Trans/Meta/Anti-Humanism: Relations and Differences"

John Sullins (Sonoma State University)
"Transhuman Express: Are We Ethically Required to be Transhumanists?"

Natasha Vita-More (University of Plymouth, Humanity+)
"Contested Culture: The Plausibility of Transhumanism"