James Hughes

Day: Friday, April 22
Hour: 3:15 - 4:00 pm
Presentation: Transhumanism, Biopolitics and the New Rights Paradigm

James Hughes serves as the Executive Director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and its affiliated World Transhumanist Association. He teaches Health Policy at Trinity College in Hartford Connecticut, and serves as Trinity's Associate Director of Institutional Research and Planning.

Dr. Hughes produces the weekly syndicated public affairs talk show Changesurfer Radio, writes the Change Surfing column for Betterhumans.com, and contributes to the democratic transhumanist Cyborg Democracy blog. Dr. Hughes is the author of Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future.

Dr. Hughes lives in rural eastern Connecticut with his wife, the artist Monica Bock, and their two children. <<Back to Conference program