GSIS Utopia(s) Conversations on Meaningful Technologies & on a Convivial Society for All

GSIS is organising a series of conversations in various formats that tie in with the themes of our Utopia(s) Reloaded Talks in October 2023. Our Utopia(s) Conversations will revolve around a Convivial Society for All, a Sustainable Planet and Meaningful Technologies.

We invite to the screening of the film

THE END OF HUMANITY

16 July 2024
Indoor Cinema (UPDATE!): Café, alte WU-Mensa, 4lthangrund, Augasse 2-6, 1090 Wien

18:30 CEST Introduction to the subject by experts on site:
Raffaela Giovagnoli, Italy (Pontifical Lateran University, Rome) | Books: R. Giovagnoli & G. Dodig-Crnkovic, Computing Nature, Springer, Sapere, 2013; R. Giovagnoli & G. Dodig-Crnkovic, Representation and Reality in Humans, Other Living Organisms and Intelligent Machines, Springer, Sapere, 2017. Partecipazione del Santo Padre Francesco al G7 a Borgo Egnazia, 14.06.2024: https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2024/06/14/0504/01030.html#en
Tomáš Sigmund, Czech Republic (Prague University of Economics and Business)
Christian Stary, Austria (Johannes Kepler University Linz)

19:30 CEST Streaming of the film:
This film is a documentary. It criticises the trends of trans- and posthumanism and the role AI might play now and in the future. The production of the film was initiated by Sarah Spiekermann-Hoff, Professor at the WU Wien (Vienna University of Economics and Business). The film is just over 1 hour long. It is in English with German subtitles.

20:30 CEST Discussion (streaming and on site):
Your comments are welcome.

Participation is free.

Online participation is enabled.
Join the meeting via ZOOM: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85711810509?pwd=E6Nwdl2z09YMbYIPnSCkegJmlmb5o7.1
Meeting-ID: 857 1181 0509
Kenncode: 158194
Pls, register: mail to office@gsis.at

This event is subsidised by the Commission for Education, Inclusion, Diversity and Social Affairs (BIDS), a District Cultural Promotion Division of the Vienna Cultural Department (MA 7).