Call for Papers: 2013 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association

We cordially invite you to submit papers to the 2013 Conference of the Mormon Transhumanist Association, which will be held on Friday, April 5th, 2013, 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, their impacts on each other, and on society in general. These papers need not focus only on specifically Mormon religious issues.

Papers should be approximately two to six pages in length. Authors of accepted papers will be given approximately 10 minutes to present the ideas in their papers at the conference. A selection of the best of those papers will subsequently be published in the conference proceedings, which will be made available online and potentially in print form. Therefore, papers should be written with the intent of eventual publication in mind (full citations, references, footnotes, etc.). Authors whose papers are selected for publication will be given an editor to work with, to prepare their final paper for publication.

Among the suggested topics are:

Mormonism Religion, Anti-Religion and Fundamentalism; Authentic Mormonism; God, Gods and Godhood; Trusting and Being Christ; From the Fullness of Times to the Millennium; Immortality and Eternal Life in Worlds without End

Transhumanism Transhuman-ism and Trans-humanism; Evolution and the Great Filter Argument; Moore’s Law, Kurzweil’s Law and the Technological Singularity; The Pace of Technological Change; Evolution; The Evolution of Technology; Simulation Argument; Solar Energy; Genome Sequencing; Synthetic Biology; 3D Printing; Genetics and Biotech; Nanotech and Molecular Machines; Robotics and Artificial Intelligence; Substrate Independent Minds; Uploading; Consciousness; Cultural Impact of Technology; Helping humans adapt to the pace of technological change

Transfigurism Rejecting Fundamentalism; Rejecting Anti-Religiosity; Transfigurist Science; Transfigurist Politics; Transfigurist Art; Promoting Benevolence; Promoting Creativity; Engineering Transfiguration; Engineering Resurrection; Engineering Renewal of this World; Engineering Worlds without End; The Faith Assumption; The Angel Argument; The Benevolence Argument; The Creation Argument; The New God Argument

Please send submissions in RTF, PDF, or MS Word format to [[email protected]], by email attachment. Include author's full name, contact information, and title.

Some funding is available to reimburse portions of travel for presenters. Please indicate interest in being considered for travel support in the submission email.

For more information, visit the event website at [transfigurism-2013.eventbrite.com] or the official website of the Mormon Transhumanist Association at [transfigurism.org].

Important dates Conference Paper Deadline: January 12th, 2013 (Extended to January 19th, 2013) Presentation Notification Date: February 1st, 2013 Conference Presentation: April 5th, 2013 Best Paper Awards: May 1st, 2013 Final Editing of Best Papers: May 1st - September 1st, 2013 Camera Ready for Published Papers: September 1st, 2013

For further conference related questions please contact [admin@transfigurism].org. For further publication / formatting questions, please contact the publication editor, James L. Carroll, at [[email protected]].