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Transhumanist technologist Ralph Merkle will be a keynote speaker at the 2015 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association[1] on 3 April at the Salt Lake City Public Library.
The 2015 Call for Papers for the Transhumanism and Religion Group at the American Academy of Religion is online. The deadline for proposals is March 3rd, 2014, at 5pm EST. For more information, please follow this link: http://papers.aarweb.org/content/transhumanism-and-religion-group
Please note that this year, we are also co-sponsoring a special joint session with the Cognitive Science of Religion Group. Our call for papers is as follows:
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Register now for the 2015 Annual Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, to be held 3 April 2015 at the Salt Lake City Public Library. We look forward to an inspiring and thought-provoking lineup of music and presentations, including keynote speakers Kristine Haglund and Ralph Merkle.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2015-conference-of-the-mormon-transhumanist-association-registration-15677843853[3]
Also don’t forget that the deadline for submitting papers is February 22nd.
http://news.transfigurism.org/2015/01/call-for-papers-for-2015-conference-of.html
The Mormon Transhumanist Association will celebrate Future Day on 1 March with a screening of AI Artificial Intelligence at 8pm in Provo UT.
About Future Day
Mormon Transhumanist Association Humanitarian Managers Roger Hansen and Hank Pellissier were recently in Uganda, checking up on the multiple Association-funded projects that are operating there.
Roger Hansen set up a Computer Training School in Masaka (southern Uganda) in the classroom of an LDS church building. The Computer Training School has ten Chromebooks, an Epson projector, a Samsung laptop, and a large projection screen. An Indiegogo campaign (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/uganda-computer-training-school-in-masaka/x/342678) launched by the Association raised funds for the project, and additional equipment was donated by Association members. Roger’s son-in-law provided the wifi-installing expertise.
We cordially invite you to submit papers, artwork, photography, poetry, and music for the 2015 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, which will be held on April 3, 2015, in Salt Lake City, Ut. The aim of this conference is to address the many issues and topics that lie at the intersection of technology and religion, and their impacts on society, and culture including art, music, entertainment, and on society in general. Contributions need not focus only on specifically Mormon religious issues.
The Mormon Transhumanist Association (MTA) was extremely philanthropic in 2014. Members of MTA contributed generously to charity campaigns in Uganda that were conducted by Roger Hansen and Hank Pellissier, managers of MTA humanitarian projects.
Below is a list of sponsored campaigns with an estimate of MTA philanthropy in each:
The Mormon Transhumanist Association will co-publish an ebook anthology in Spring 2015, tentatively titled:
The Poorest of the Poor will find Pasture - religion, the future, and the charitable impulse
The first line of the title is from Isaiah 14:30 (New International Version). The prophet is forecasting a future in which poverty is eradicated. Isaiah - messenger of the Deity - foretells an end to economic inequity because God is outraged by the injustice:
“What do you mean by crushing my people and grinding the faces of the poor?” declares the Lord, the LORD Almighty. Isaiah 3:15
The Mormon Transhumanist Association (MTA) is dedicating itself to a humanitarian cause - alleviating poverty in Uganda. 67% of Ugandans live below the poverty line, and 24.7% are trapped in extreme poverty.[14] Additionally, there are 2.5 million orphans in Uganda; UNICEF estimates that 45% are parentless due to AIDS. The new MTA staff members in this activity are Hank Pellissier (Manager of Humanitarian Projects) and Roger Hansen (Assistant Manager of Humanitarian Projects).
What instigated this new MTA project, and who are these new administrators?
IMAGE: PHOTO OF DOROTHY DEASY
Dorothy Deasy, a director of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, was interviewed by The Columbian on the topic of religion and Transhumanism.
In the interview, she discusses the importance of bridging religious ideals with how we will relate to rapidly changing technology, doing our best to guide technology in directions that are beneficial for society, and avoiding abuses that may arise from some conceptualizations of advancing civilization.
Read “Conversations abound about what it means to be human” at The Columbian.
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