The Keimyung Thursday Philosophy Institute, which has been offering humanities lectures for Daegu citizens with the goal of "popularizing philosophy and philosophizing the public," will host the "Thursday Philosophy Humanities Forum" in the second half of this year. The forum will be held every Thursday from September 5 to December 12, for a total of 11 sessions, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM at the Kim Manyong-Park Sunyeon Hall in Beomeo Library, Suseong District, Daegu.
This forum is organized under the theme "The Age of Posthuman: Rethinking Humanity." Any Daegu citizen can attend, and registration is available on the Beomeo Library website or on-site on the day of the event. In addition to the in-person lectures, the forum will also be broadcast live online via the YouTube channel MokcheolTV.
The first forum, on September 5, will feature Lee Jongkwan, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Sungkyunkwan University, speaking on "Humans Without Souls, AI With Souls?" Subsequent weekly sessions will cover topics such as Human Labor and Technopolitics in Artificial Intelligence (Ha Daecheong, Professor at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology), Artificial Intelligence and Democracy (Park Sungjin, Professor at Gwangju National University of Education), How Are the Bodies of Humans and Artificial Intelligence Different? (Kim Jonggap, Professor Emeritus of English Language and Literature at Konkuk University), The Pseudo-Problem of Superintelligence (Kim Jaein, Professor at Kyung Hee University Institute for Cross-Cultural Studies), Synthesizing Artificial Intelligence as Media (Kim Jihoon, Film and Media Scholar, Professor at Chung-Ang University), The Problem of Intelligence and the Body, or Artificial Intelligence and the Body (Lee Jingyeong, Professor at Seoul National University of Science and Technology), The Reality and Challenges of Artificial Intelligence Technology: The Possibility of Superintelligence (Cho Seongbae, Professor of Computer Science at Yonsei University), Science and Technology Governance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Son Hwacheol, Professor at Handong Global University), Posthuman Society and Human Dignity (Seo Yunho, Professor at Kyung Hee University Law School), and Biases in Artificial Intelligence Technology and Countermeasures (Jeong Wonseop, Professor at Kyungnam University).
The Keimyung Thursday Philosophy Institute has been striving for 44 years to communicate with citizens through its passion for the humanities, and is now approaching its 900th lecture. Numerous distinguished scholars from Korea and abroad, as well as artists, religious leaders, and politicians, have given lectures, elevating Daegu's reputation nationwide. Past lectures of the "Thursday Philosophy Humanities Forum," praised as a "monument of our era," can be viewed on the Keimyung Thursday Philosophy Institute's website.
Meanwhile, the "Thursday Philosophy Humanities Forum" began in October 1980 as the "Thursday Philosophy Seminar" in the Department of Philosophy at Keimyung University. In 2011, with the motto "popularizing philosophy and philosophizing the public," the Keimyung Thursday Philosophy Institute was established as an affiliated institution of Keimyung University, expanding its scope and renaming the seminar to the "Thursday Philosophy Humanities Forum." The philosophy lectures have also been subdivided into the "Thursday Philosophy Humanities Forum," the "Thursday Philosophy Colloquium," and the "Philosophy Humanities Class" for youth, providing a range of humanities education programs.
Park Hyesun, Director of the Keimyung Thursday Philosophy Institute, said, "Based on the achievements in the humanities accumulated over the past 44 years, I hope the Thursday Philosophy Humanities Forum will continue to grow with more citizens and contribute to building a happier society."
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