Talks, Conferences & Media Appearances

MEDIA APPEARANCES

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Events 2026


March

18

Hult International Business school, ‘Intelligence, AGI and the Future’


March

13

Ethical resistance: a response to the ideology behind Big Tech

https://spine.falmouth.ac.uk

Speculative Enquiry Into Ethics Public Lecture Series, University of Falmouth

Past Talks & Events – 2025



JUL

1-2

MEEET-Lab’s AI Hopes, Fears, and Realities Conference (1-2 July) in Zurich


JUN
24-27

Beyond Humanism conference โ€“ 24th-27th June, University of Paris 8 – Two presentations:

Book Panel on:
(1) Prosthetic Immortalities (U. of Minnesota 2024),
(2) The Politics and Ethics of Transhumanism (Bristol UP 2024), and
(3) Science Fiction and Posthumanism in the Anthropocene (Bloomsbury 2025)

Talk: Play time for the Broligarchy. Normalising hierarchy, exit and scale.


JUN

17

Gen AI Ethics, AGI fantasies and the ideologies behind Big Tech ambitions at ‘GEN AI for Learning: UEL at the Forefront of Education Innovation’ conference


May

12

‘Intelligence as political force. AI in politics. Learner agency as resistance in education’ University of the Arts London

Past Events – 2024

OCT

18

‘Exiting the tangled web of being: transhumanism and the fantasy of techno-transcendence’ 

Conference: How (not) to Build a BunkerReinvigorating democracyโ€”rejecting AI apocalypticism and resisting the rush to build AGI

The Arendt/Schรผrmann Symposium at the Philosophy Department of the New School for Social Research,

SEP

26

Book Launch

The Politics and Ethics of Transhumanism: Techno-Human Evolution and Advanced Capitalism
University of East London, USS campus

SEP

14

‘I, Human’

Part of the British Science Festival at University House
Great Hall, UEL Stratford Campus

SEP

05

Transhumanism and its Critics

Cape Western University (online) 

AUG

07

‘Cosmopolitics, Libertarian and Eugenic fantasies: Transhumanism, the โ€˜Tescreal Bundleโ€™ and the Development of AGI’

XXV World Congress of Philosophy, Rome

AUG

07

AI Debate

Panel discussion with Stefan Sorgner, Nicolas Rojas and Juan Jana: Philosophically Enhancing Transhumanism

XXV World Congress of Philosophy, Rome

AUG

06

Panel discussion with Stefan Sorgner and Tamara Kamatovic: Transhumanism across the Political Spectrum: its Proponents, Opponents, and Political Meanings

XXV World Congress of Philosophy, Rome

JUL

04

‘Resisting the Cosmological Sublime’

Beyond Humanism Conference, Lodz,

MaY

16

AI Debate

Linkedin Live – UEL


Previous Events 2023 & before