Titel: 2nd Global Conference: (Re)production: Origins, Transition, Futures - Probing The Boundaries

Termin: 14.3.2014 bis 16.3.2014

Veranstaltungsort:
Prague , Tschechien

Referenten: in Vorbereitung: Ausschreibung siehe URL

Weitere Informationen:
http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/persons/the-b ...

Kurzbeschreibung: This conference seeks to explore the boundaries of (re)production, not merely as physical birth but more broadly as a gateway which signals origins, indicates a process of continual bodily, sexual, cultural (and even viral) change and transitions, and which speaks of a future and futures possibly unknown.

From iconic images of the incarnation to depictions of monstrous births, the cultural rituals and mythologies of birth and reproduction continue to fascinate us. Bodies that copulate, bodies that reproduce, bodies that replicate, change, decay—or divide—produce anxiety as well as a source of tremendous creativity about the boundaries of who we think we are and what we have it in us to become. Reproduction, like evolution, reminds us that we are ever in flux, that change is inevitable and that we are always ‘on the way’ without the final destination ever being sure. Birth, like death, forces us to acknowledge the limits of our bodies and our ‘selves.’ Additionally, this age of epidemics and viral warfare incites dystopic visions of a future where the effective reproducers are micro-organisms, where humans have been replaced by a replicating other. We seek to explore not only the biological imperative of preserving a species, but also our search for origins, our search for ourselves, our desires, our sexual identities, our gods.

Kontakt: Rob Fisher
br2@inter-disciplinary.net

Veranstalter: Inter-Disciplinary.Net

Schlagworte: Assistierte Reproduktion, Behinderung, Biotechnologie, Eugenik/Enhancement, Fortpflanzungsmedizin, Gesundheitswesen, In-vitro-Fertilisation, Medizinische Ethik, Naturphilosophie, Psychologie