Timothy Knepper

12/7: Tirosh-Samuelson, “The Preciousness of Being Human: A Judaic Perspective on Embodiment, Death, and Immortality”

On Thursday, December 7, at 7:00 pm, in Sussman Theater (Olmsted Center), Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Director of Jewish Studies and Irving and Miriam Lowe Professor of Modern Judaism at Arizona State University and author of “Transhumanism as Secularist Faith,” will speak about “The Preciousness of Being Human: A Judaic Perspective on Embodiment, Death, and Immortality.” Please find below …

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11/15: Muhammad Faruque, “Immortality through AI? Transhumanism, Human Nature, and Islamic Philosophy”

On WEDNESDAY, November 15, at 7:00 pm, in Sussman Theater (Olmsted Center), Muhammad Faruque, the Inayat & Ishrat Malik Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati, and author of Sculpting the Self: Islam, Selfhood, and Human Flourishing (Michigan, 2021), will speak on “Immortality through AI? Transhumanism, Human Nature, and Islamic Philosophy.” Muhammad U. Faruque is Assistant Professor …

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10/21: Hindu Cultural and Educational Center, festival of Navaratri

On Saturday, October 21, from 5:30-7:30pm, the Hindu Cultural and Educational Center (1940 E Army Post Road, Des Moines) will be hosting a celebration of the annual festival of Navaratri (for the Hindu goddess Durga) that includes bhajan singing and dancing. Join the local Bhutanese Hindu community for a bhajan celebration as part of a Navaratri celebration, …

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10/19: Eric Steinhart, “Transhumanism vs. Christianity”

On Thursday, October 19 at 7:00 pm in Sussman Theater (Olmsted Center), Eric Steinhart, Professor of Philosophy at William Patterson University and author of Your Digital Afterlives: Computational Theories of Life after Death (Palgrave, 2014), will speak on “Transhumanism vs. Christianity.” Eric Steinhart grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania. He received his BS in Computer Science from the Pennsylvania …

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9/14: Robert Geraci, “Saffron Singularity: The Global Circulation of Transhumanist Narratives”

On Thursday, September 14 at 7:00 pm in Sussman Theater (Olmsted Center), Robert Geraci, Professor of Religious Studies at Manhattan College and author of Temples of Modernity: Nationalism, Hinduism, and Transhumanism in South Indian Science (Lexington, 2018) and Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality (Oxford, 2012), will speak on “Saffron Singularity: The Global Circulation …

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