Programme

Wednesday August 25 ( all times are local Riga times)

Morning session; moderated by Ieva Lebiete

09:45-10:00

registration, and welcome by Juris Salaks and Ieva Lebiete

10:00- 10:30

Richard Wingate - Alien Anatomies

10:30 - 11:00

Francis Wells: "Anatomy for the surgeon: Then, Now and into the future"

11:00 - 11:30

Joe Davis -Existential Anatomy

11:30-1200 questions from the audience

12:00 - 13:00 - Lunch Break

Afternoon Session part 1 moderated by Ann Van De Velde

13:00 - 13:30

Angelo Vermeulen. Regenerative synthetic ecosystems and evolving asteroid starships: a cybernetic reframing of the politics, poetics and ethics of space colonization

13:30 -14:00

Andrew Burd: Intelligent Facial Prostheses

14:00 - 14:30

Eleanor crook, The past of the Future

14:30 - 15:00 Coffee break

Afternoon Session part 1 ; moderated by Ann Van De Velde

Afternoon Session part 2 moderated by Pascale Pollier

15:00 - 15:30

Nina Sellars: Anatomy Museums of a Critical Posthumanist

15:30 -16:00

Andrew Carnie: The edge of Anatomy

16:00 - 16:30

Mara G. Haseltine: "Exploring the Link Between Our Cultural & Biological Evolution through Art : in the Anthroprocene Age”.

16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break

17:00 - 17:45

Alexander Lukas Bieri Vesalius' Lasting impact on the Art of the danse Macabre

17:45 - 18:30 Panel Discussion Moderated by Alya Dirix "Death and Beyond "

17:45-18:00

Theo Dirix "How would Sophocles's Antigone bury and rebury her brother tomorrow?".

18:00 - 18:15

William Edwards "Dealing with the Dead - Sentiment versus Modernity"

18:15 - 18:30

Mark Roughley "Should humans from the past exist as digital humans in the future?"

Panel discussion

18:30 - 18:45

open floor panel discussion

18:45 - 18:55

Bryan Green Performance Beyond Anatomy

19:00 - Rector reception Anatomy Museum

Vernissage Exhibition Anatomy & Beyond

20:00 AEIMS/MAA Dinner