Conference opening - Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Protection, 1st floor, CH IV lecture hall
9:30 - 10:00 - Guest arrival and registration
10:00 - 10:30 - Welcome address from TUIASI leadership
10:30 - 11:00 - Keynote address, prof. Carsten Timmermann, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, Mechanical Bodies and Biological Systems: Machine Metaphors in the History of Biomedicine, and Why They Both Do and Don’t Work
11:00 - 11:30 - Coffee break
English Panel 1 (in person)
Bodies of Late Capitalism: Gender and Ecology in the Anthropocene
Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Protection, 5th floor, CRU 1 Room
Panel moderator: Ioana Baciu
11:30 - 11:50 - Anca-Luisa Viusenco, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Ecofeminism and the Anthropocene
11:50 - 12:10 - Sorina Chiper, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Manufacturing Life: the Promotional Discourse of Romanian Fertility Clinics
12:10 - 12:30 - Haralambie Athes, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, The Green Punch of Black Metal. Musical Projections of Environmentalism and Animal Rights in the Digital Age
12:30 - 12:50 - Ioana Baciu, “Gheorghe Asachi” Technical University of Iași, Capitalism and the Embodied Female Experience in The Substance (2024)
12:50 - 13:00 - Conclusions
13:00 - 13:50 - Catered lunch
14:00-15:00 - visit to TUIASI library in Copou
Secțiunea în limba română 1 (fizic)
Impactul tehnologiei în istorie, educație și societate
Facultatea de Inginerie Chimică și Protecția Mediului, etaj 5, sala CRU 1
Panel moderator: Gabriel Asandului
13:50 - 14:10 - Alina Bruckner, Alexandra Chiriac, Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza din Iași, „Traducerea științei: textul științific românesc timpuriu și provocările popularizării științei în secolul al XVIII-lea”
14:10 - 14:30 - Smaranda Buju, Universitatea „Gheorghe Asachi” din Iași, „Când gânditul devine opțional: tehnologie, IA și reconfigurarea autonomiei cognitive în învățământul superior”
14:30 - 14:50 - Gabriel Asandului, Universitatea „Gheorghe Asachi” din Iași, „Eugenismul în România interbelică”
14:50 - 15:00 - Concluzii
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break
English Panel 2 (in person)
Technology, Discourse and Narratives of Control
Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Protection, 5th floor, CRU 1 Room
Panel moderator: Atanasia Bărlădeanu
15:30 - 15:50 -Roxana Mihalache, University of Life Sciences, Three Italian Utopias, Three Technologies of Power: Doni, Agostini, Zuccolo – Between Narrative Madness and Textual Control
15:50 - 16:10 -Matthew Hayes, Northern Lakes College, Canada, The Sinister Effects of Technology on Biology in the Anti-Vaxxer Conspiratorial Imagination
16:10 - 16:30 - Atanasia Bărlădeanu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, Technological Rationality and the Dialectic of Control: From Moby-Dick to Data Extraction
16:30 - 16:40 - Conclusions
English Panel 3 (online)
Bio-techno Hybrids in the Age of Posthumanism
Google Meet joining info
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/jsn-nxsv-uso
Panel moderator: Teodora Leon
15:30 - 15:50 - Hervé Goerger, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, An Island of a Man. Captain Nemo and Doctor Moreau’s Laboratories Against Mankind
15:50 - 16:10 - Bianca Nicoleta Simon, Transilvania University of Brașov, Biology and Technological Desire: A Lens onto Ballard and Cronenberg’s Voices of Cruelty
16:10 - 16:30 - Teodora Leon, University of Bucharest, Tackling the Unknown: Anthropomorphic Depictions of Nonhuman Beings in Fictional Contexts
16:30 - 16:50 - Carmi Britz, Central University of Technology, Free State, South Africa, Playing the Robot: Gamifying Dystopian Short Stories to Teach Students about Posthumanism, Morality, Artificial Intelligence, Ecocriticism, and Digital Neocolonial Power
16:50 - 17:00 - Conclusions
17:30 - Dinner at a local restaurant
*not included in the conference fee