Seminar with James Hughes
Philosophical Research Group on Transhumanism and Human Bioenhancement
The Philosophical Research Group on Transhumanism and Human Bioenhancement (GIFT-H+/Fiocruz/CNPq) is pleased to announce the
Seminar with James Hughes (UMass/IEET)
(Hybrid Event)
Registration required:
As well as inviting you to listen to and debate with James Hughes, there will be a section (on September 5th) dedicated to the presentation of papers and debate with him.
We invite you to submit a paper by indicating this option on the registration form (QR Code above), with the title and abstract of the work.
CERTIFICATES OF PARTICIPATION AND PRESENTATION OF WORK WILL BE PROVIDED.
About the organization and the guest:
GIFT-H+ is a research group coordinated by Murilo Vilaça, Senior Researcher at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) and Fellow of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).
We'll host James Hughes, a renowned sociologist and bioethicist, an internationally known technoprogressive thinker and a democratic transhumanist. He is a Professor at UMass Boston and Executive Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET).
He is the author of several articles, book chapters and books that are a reference for researchers on transhumanism, posthumanism, emerging technologies, technological unemployment, universal basic income, human enhancement, among other central topics of contemporary academic debate.
His book Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Nature (2004) is one of the main references for scholars of transhumanism. His most recent book, The Biopolitics of Human Enhancement (2025), edited together with Steven Umbrello and Cristiano Calì, addresses a series of aspects of the debate on human enhancement, bringing together theoretical and practical contributions on it.