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Keynote Lynn Hershman Leeson

Lynn Hershman Leeson (US)

In this lecture, Lynn Hershman Leeson will give an overview of her work, particularly related to cyborgs, from 1966’s Breathing Machines , to 2018’s Antibody and 2020’s Gravity’s End.

Uncanny Fictions

Jiré Emine Gözen, Barbara Eder, Barbara Eggert, Gloria Meynen

Moderation: Gloria Meynen

Keynote Janina Loh

Janina Loh (DE), Thomas Matzner

Loh’s research interests lie in the field of trans- and posthumanism (espe- cially critical posthumanism), robot ethics, feminist philosophy of technology, responsi- bility research, Hannah Arendt, theories of judgement, and ethics in the sciences.

Uncanny Agents

Gunter Lösel, Pamela Scorzin, Anna Bromley, Marcus Burkhard

Moderation: Marcus Burkhard

Keynote Thomas Macho

Thomas Macho (AT), Gloria Meynen

Since 2016 Thomas Macho has been director of the International Research Centre for Cultural Studies (IFK) at the University of Art and Design Linz in Vienna. In 2019 he was awarded the Sigmund Freud Prize for scholarly prose by the Ger- man Academy for Language and Poetry, and in 2020 the Austrian State Prize for Cultural Journalism.

A staged conversation

Ann Cotten, Gloria Meynen

Moderation: Gloria Meynen