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ONLINE COURSE "THE POSTHUMAN"
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Dr. Ferrando's crash course "The Posthuman" has reached 80K views on Youtube (as of April 2024).
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This online course on the Philosophies of "The Posthuman" is conceived for anyone who is interested in the topic of the posthuman and wishes to access a basic understanding of the different movements that are addressing the topic of the posthuman. In 6 lessons and 3 concepts, Prof. Ferrando explains the main topics related to the posthuman turn. |
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MINI COURSE "HOW TO WRITE A PAPER"
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Mini Course on "How to write a Paper" by Prof. Francesca Ferrando (NYU).
There are 13 videos: Introduction, 6 Lessons and 6 Exercises.
Introduction - How to write an academic paper
Lesson 1. Love Your Topic
Exercise 1
Lesson 2. Have a clear argument
Exercise 2
Lesson 3. Who is Your Audience?
Exercise 3
Lesson 4. Quote with Dignity
Exercise 4
Lesson 5. Have a clear structure
Exercise 5
Lesson 6. Polish Your writing
Exercise 6
Total time: 1 hour and 10 minutes.
This Course is freely available on Youtube under a Creative Commons license (CC BY NC).
Mini Course on "How to write a Paper" by Prof. Francesca Ferrando (NYU).
There are 13 videos: Introduction, 6 Lessons and 6 Exercises.
Introduction - How to write an academic paper
Lesson 1. Love Your Topic
Exercise 1
Lesson 2. Have a clear argument
Exercise 2
Lesson 3. Who is Your Audience?
Exercise 3
Lesson 4. Quote with Dignity
Exercise 4
Lesson 5. Have a clear structure
Exercise 5
Lesson 6. Polish Your writing
Exercise 6
Total time: 1 hour and 10 minutes.
This Course is freely available on Youtube under a Creative Commons license (CC BY NC).
LATEST LECTURES AND INTEVIEWS
English
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INDIA, Kanyashree University, July 1st 2024
Keynote at the International Conference "Exploring Pluralism, Sustainability and Inclusion: Interdisciplinary Perspectives", Kanyashree University, Nadia, India.
US, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 5-6 April 2024
Keynote at the Carolina Conference for Romance Studies "The (Non)Human Question", The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill (NC).
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VLOG, May 2024
"An enlightening Conversation With Dr. Francesca Ferrando: Posthumanism and Its Metanarratives". Interview by Diksha Tripathi.
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VLOG Symbiotic Futures, April 2024.
"Beyond Anthropocentrism: Philosopher Francesca Ferrando’s Art of Being Posthuman".
Interview by Venya Patel, founder of Symbiotic Futures.
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Book Launch
CETAPS, Culture of the Futures, University of Porto, February 14th 2024. Chair: Manuel de Sousa.
Lecture
Q/A
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Video 1 "Live"
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Video 2 "The Divine"
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Video 3 "The Child"
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Video 4 "The Environment"
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INDIA, Adda Conversation Series, January 19th 2024
"Post-Anthropocentrism and Post-Humanism": Dr. Francesca Ferrando in conversation with Dr. Sayan Dey and Dr. Arnab Panda, Adda Conversation Series, Alliance University, India.
CYPRUS, European University of Technology /
European Culture and Technology Laboratory ‘ECT Lab+’, 17-18 November 2023
Keynote at the 3d European Culture and Technology Lab+ Annual Conference, European University of Technology.
INDIA, Bankura University, February 12th 2023
Lecture: "Being Posthuman", Conference “Humanities at the Crossroads: Re-configuring (Post)human Ethics, Aesthetics and Politics", Center for Research in Posthumanities, Bankura University, India
BELGIUM, European Commission, January 20th 2022
Lecture "Who is Afraid of Artificial Intelligence?", European Commission, JRC SciArt Project, Series "Changing the Ground". Chair: Prof. Derrick de Kerckhove.
AUSTRIA, University of Linz, January 17th 2023
Interactive Lecture: "Being Posthuman: Now!", Lecture Series "After Human? Making sense between Art, Science and Religion in the 21st Century", University of Linz, Austria. Chair: Kerstin Borchhardt.
Spanish / Español
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ARGENTINA, Journal Estudios Posthumanos, May 23rd 2024
Lecture and Book Launch "The Art of Being Posthuman", Journal
Estudios Posthumanos, Buenos Aires. Chairs: Gabi Balcarce and Juan Pablo Savino.
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ARGENTINA, Journal Estudios Posthumanos, May 23rd 2024
Lecture and Book Launch "The Art of Being Posthuman", Journal
Estudios Posthumanos, Buenos Aires. Chairs: Gabi Balcarce and Juan Pablo Savino.
MEXICO, Cátedra Alfonso Reyes, May 28th 2021
Lecture "Philosophical Posthumanism", Cátedra Alfonso Reyes, Departamento de Estudios Humanísticos, Escuela de Humanidades y Educación, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico. Chair: Prof. Rodrigo Esparza Parga.
PERU, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, 12th March 2022
Keynote Speaker at the 3rd Symposium “Coloquio sobre las Posthumanidades”, Lecture "Dialogue on Posthuman Existence", Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima. Chair: Prof. Victor J. Krebs. Inaugural Event of the Latin-American Posthuman Network.
English
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US, Harvard University, October 23rd 2020
Lecture "Covid19, TransMedia and the Art of Posthuman Existence" at the Seminar "Transmedia Arts", Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University, US, October 23rd 2020 (live on Zoom).
Lecture "Existential Posthumanism: A Path of Self-Enquiry" at the Consciousness Studies Programme, National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bangalore (India)
January 15th 2021 (live on Zoom).
Keynote Lecture "Human Violence / Post-Human Post-Violence". Conference "Representations of Violence in Literature, Culture and Arts", Osmaniye Korkut Ata University, Osmaniye, Turkey, October 22nd 2021 (live on Zoom).
Dialogue with Debashish Banerji "Posthumanism as a Way of Existing", Posthumanism and India: Envisioning and Manifesting, An Inaugural Online Symposium, Indian Posthumanism Network, India (live streamed), June 11th 2021. To watch it on Youtube, please click here (Dr. Ferrando and Dr. Banerji's dialogue starts at 25:40).
Book Meets Critic Session on "Philosophical Posthumanism", Conference "The Cyborg and Existential Becoming: Exploring Posthumanism with Jaspers", Karl Jaspers Society of North America, April 24 2021.
Lecture "Philosophical Posthumanism", Central and Eastern European Lumen Conference, Iasi, Romania, May 30th 2021.
Lecture "Philosophical Posthumanism", Central and Eastern European Lumen Conference, Iasi, Romania, May 30th 2021.
Dialogue-based lecture "Philosophical Posthumanism", organized by A-nanda Group of Contemporary Studies, Kolkata, India, April 9th 2021 (live on Facebook).
Plenary Speaker at the Conference "Globalization and New Terrains of Consciousness: Phenomenologies of the Global/ Local", organized by the University of Würzburg (Germany), Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (India), and the Ministry of Education (India),
February 10th 2021 (live on Youtube).
Dr. Ferrando's talk starts at minute 45:20:
Book discussion "Philosophical Posthumanism" at the Forum "Calcutta Comparatists". Chair: Professor Dr. Subhadeep Paul, Bankura University, West Bengal, India,
January 26th 2021 (live on Youtube).
Keynote on "Philosophical Posthumanism, Embracing Change...Forging Ahead",
at the APCoRE 2020 Conference, ASIA-PACIFIC CONSORTIUM of Researchers and Educators,
December 4th 2020 (live on Zoom).
Workshop "The Posthuman Art of Existence", Study Group "Foreign Object" (US), July 2021:
1. "The Composite Landscape of the Posthuman"
1. "The Composite Landscape of the Posthuman"
2. Workshop "The Posthuman Art of Existence"
En español
Keynote Lecture "Presencia Posthumana,
at the 2nd Symposium “Coloquio sobre las Posthumanidades”,
Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, Peru,
September 11th 2020 (live on Zoom).
Lecture "Planetary Crisis and the Humanities: Prospects in Theory and Praxis",
Aliah University, Kolkata, India,
August 28th 2020, (live on Google Meet).
Lecture "Planetary Crisis and the Humanities: Prospects in Theory and Praxis",
Aliah University, Kolkata, India,
August 28th 2020, (live on Google Meet).
Lecture "Post-COVID19 Environmentalism: Possible Futures",
Ambedkar College, University of Kalyani, India,
June 25th 2020 (live on Youtube).
Lecture "Literature, Disease and Mind"
The Heritage College, University of Calcutta, India.
June 5th 2020 (live stream)
Spotlights
Lecture "How to Become Posthuman",
at the Conference Envision.
Princeton University, US, November 23rd 2019.
Keynote "Can Technology be Enlightened?"
at the Conference "The Quantumness of Archipelagos",
IAM Weekend, Barcelona, Spain, March 22nd 2019
Just Released!
En español
Presentación "El Posthumanismo Filosófico"
Evento: VI Workshop Wittgenstein 2019:
"Realidade, Linguagem e Cognição: Fronteiras do Pós-humanismo",
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (PUCPR), Brazil, May 10th 2019.
Keynote "Are We Becoming God(s)? - The Posthuman Divine"
Lecture Series "Religion and Innovation", Section "Artificial Intelligence and Religious Belief",
FBK Fondazione Bruno Kessler, ISR Centre for Religious Studies,
Trento, Italy, November 2018.
Keynote "Are We Becoming God(s)? - The Posthuman Divine"
Lecture Series "Religion and Innovation", Section "Artificial Intelligence and Religious Belief",
FBK Fondazione Bruno Kessler, ISR Centre for Religious Studies,
Trento, Italy, November 2018.
For Part 2 of "The Posthuman Divine", click here.
Keynote Lecture "Philosophical Posthumanism as a Post-Anthropocentrism"
at the International Animal Studies Conference 2018 "Rethinking Animality", Department of Philosophy, University of Santiago, Spain, September 2018.
Keynote Lecture: "Visceral Art, Medusa and the Cognitive Tentacles of Robotics"
at the National Museum of Art "Haus der Kunst", Munich, Germany, June 2018.
Introduction by Jennifer Parker-Starbuck.
Keynote Lecture: "The Posthuman, Politics and Glocal Justice"
Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Manila, November 2017.
For Part 2 and Part 3 of this talk, click on the links.
Talk "A Spiritual Genealogy of The Posthuman"
Conference "Posthuman Politics"
NYU, New York (US) / University of Aegean, Mytilini (Greece), September 2014.
For Part 2 and Part 3 of this talk, click on the links.
Dr. Ferrando's Lecture "Posthumanism as a Practice of Existence"
The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas,
Tel Aviv University, May 2015.
Talk "De-Centering the Human: Posthumanism and the Anthropocene"
Green Festival,
Javits Convention Center, New York City, April 2015.
Talk "Glamorous MetaBodies, the Politics of Amorphogenesis
and the Will to Global Surveillance"
Symposium: “Metabody: Technologies, Cultures and Movement”,
New York Institute of Technology, NYC, March 2015.
Talk "Posthumanism and Transhumanism: Differences and Relations"
Conference "Humanity and Posthumanity", APA, San Francisco, March 2013.
Dr. Ferrando - starting at 0:32:15.
Talk "Towards a Posthuman Cosmo-Ontology"
Conference "The Posthuman: Differences, Embodiments, Performativity"
University of Roma Tre (Italy), September 2013.
NB. Full text can be read and downloaded here.
TED Talk "Humans, Cyborgs, Posthumans"
Conference "TEDx Silicon Alley", New York, December 2012.
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Spotlights In the history of TED talks, Dr. Ferrando was the first speaker to give a talk on the subject of the posthuman. |
PANELS
Just released!
Talk: “Truth, Relativism and the Posthuman Paradigm Shift”,
at the 5th JCU Posthuman Studies Workshop.
Ferrando's speech starts at 33:57 and ends at 54:46:
Panel on "Transhumanism: A Glimpse into the Future of Humanity"
at the "World Technology Awards",
Rockefeller Center, New York, November 14th 2014.
Introduction: Jim Clark. Moderator: Alex Klokus.
Speakers: Francesca Ferrando, Stuart Dambrot, James Hughes.
DOCUMENTARIES
INTERVIEWS
Just Released!
Interview with Nikola Danaylov, Singularity Weblog,
Recorded on January 6th 2020, published on January 21st 2020.
Interview with Nikola Danaylov, Singularity Weblog,
Recorded on January 6th 2020, published on January 21st 2020.
Interview with Dr. Sourav Banerjee, Kolkata University, India,
October 4th 2020, (live on Facebook).
Dr. Ferrando interviewed at the 11th Beyond Humanism Conference, July 2019.
Dr. Ferrando interviewed by Colin Marchon
at IRWGS, Columbia University, New York, April 2014.
ART VIDEOS
TV SHOWS
TV Show "Everyday Superwoman Show"
Interviewed by host Kim LaRue
Web TV, DPVN Circuit, September 2012.
MEDIA HOST
1. Current Projects
Dr. Ferrando is the Creative Director of the Vlog "Posthumans",
where she interviews leading voices in the field of Posthuman Studies,
(2018-ongoing).
The Vlog is freely available here and on Youtube.
Following three samples:
one in English, one in Italian and one in Spanish.
where she interviews leading voices in the field of Posthuman Studies,
(2018-ongoing).
The Vlog is freely available here and on Youtube.
Following three samples:
one in English, one in Italian and one in Spanish.
In English
Episode 15
"Evolution and Transhumanism"
Dr. Francesca Ferrando interviews scholar Prof. Mads Rosendahl Thomsen (Aarhus University).
Recorded at Digital Studio, New York University (NYU), New York City, September 2019.
In Italian
Episode 1
"Zoo-Antropologia"
Dr. Ferrando interviews philosopher Roberto Marchesini, one of the leading voices of Posthumanism in Italy (NYU, May 2018).
Episode 1
"Zoo-Antropologia"
Dr. Ferrando interviews philosopher Roberto Marchesini, one of the leading voices of Posthumanism in Italy (NYU, May 2018).
In Spanish
Episode 13
"Magia y Tecnologia"
Dr. Ferrando interviews digital artist and scholar Dr. Miguel Almiron
(Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France, France), April 2019, New York City.
Episode 13
"Magia y Tecnologia"
Dr. Ferrando interviews digital artist and scholar Dr. Miguel Almiron
(Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France, France), April 2019, New York City.
2. Past Projects
In 2010, Dr. Ferrando created the Youtube Channel TVCyborg dedicated to Posthumanism and Cyborg Theory. Dr. Ferrando interviewed Prof. Kevin Warwick and other keynote speakers with more than 30 videos on topics such as the Turing Test, the Chinese Room, Asimov's Three Laws, among others. These are just same samples:
"Have we Already Become Posthuman?"
Francesca Ferrando interviews Prof. Kevin Warwick, University of Reading, England 2010.
TV Cyborg, Youtube.
"Irena Warwick, the first cyborg woman, talks about Cyborg 2.0"
Francesca Ferrando interviews Irena Warwick, University of Reading, England 2010.
TV Cyborg, Youtube.
"Can a computer virus infect a human? - Mark Gasson"
Francesca Ferrando interviews Mark Gasson, University of Reading, England 2010.
TV Cyborg, Youtube.
PANELS
Panelist at the Event "AI, Blockchain and the New Matriarchy",
The Assemblage Nomad, New York, March 8th 2018.
Dr. Ferrando introducing the Keynote Speaker Fritjof Capra,
giving the talk "The Posthuman" and chairing the event "Ideas in the Air",
Last Frontier, Brooklyn (NY), July 2016.
Dr. Ferrando's talk "The Posthuman" starts at 32:32 and ends at 42:22.
PODCASTS
Just released!
Episode "Who are We?", Podcast Ancient Futures. Interviewed by Daniel Simpson, March / April 2024.
Episode: "The Posthuman Awakening", the Conscious Conversations Podcast. Host: Nick Palladino, September 2022.
Episode: "The Posthuman Awakening", the Conscious Conversations Podcast. Host: Nick Palladino, September 2022.
Dr. Ferrando interviewed on "Posthumanism and the Everyday", Australasian Posthumanities, host: Elese Dowden.
Dr. Ferrando being interviewed by Dr. Rensen, Podcast "The Future Femme", April 2018.
INTERVISTE E CONFERENZE |
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Intervista sul "Postumanesimo"
per la Societa' Digitale "Sottosopra" con Giandomenico Potestio, Maggio 2021.
Dr. Ferrando's Talk: "L'Intelligenza Artificiale Non Ci Uccidera'"
("Artificial Intelligence Will Not Kill Us" )
at the Panel "Robotica, Etica e Mondo del Lavoro",
Internet Festival of Pisa, October 8th 2016.
Lecture "Visualizzando il Posthumanesimo"
("Envisioning Posthumanism")
University of Turin (Italy), November 2011.
Introduction by Prof. Luisa Passerini, Video by Carlo Molinaro.