BHAE Conference: video links

[amara esther]

Dear Colleagues,

Greetings of the day. I trust this email finds you well.

 Please find below the video links for the 2nd international conference on "Biotechnology, Human Enhancement and African Ethics.

DAY 1: 01 OCTOBER 2025

Session 1

1.   Reimagining Human Biotechnological Enhancement through a Decolonial Lens: Insights from Necropolitics and Solidarity

Ademola K. Fayemi (Australian Catholic University, Brisbane, Australia)

https://youtu.be/OOD8xyu4lh8

2.The Right to Relate: Ubuntu Philosophy of Relationality, Between Natural Human Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence

Wakanyi Hoffman (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

https://youtu.be/U60p0B6WNf4

3. Vitalism as an African Ethical Basis for Human Enhancement

Ojochogwu Abdul (University of Abuja, Nigeria)

https://youtu.be/VpUoNIXl5Lc

4.     Q&A

https://youtu.be/PSFPfZvN_aQ

 

Session 2

5.Pedagogy of the Heart and Bioenhancement: Conceptualizing Ozuzu and Elemu as an Intercultural Pathway for Ethical Enhancement

Christiana Idika (University of Erfurt & University of Applied Sciences, Mainz, Germany)

https://youtu.be/lqZL9h_99wY

6.Keynote Lecture: From the Sea of Islands to the Continent: Cross-Cultural Imaginations of Human Enhancement

Nicholas Agar (University of Waikato, New Zealand) [with Leilani Tuala-Warren (University of Waikato, New Zealand)]

https://youtu.be/mGCVAxydSiEQ&A

 

DAY 2: 02 October 2025

Session 1

7.Beyond Binaries: Conversational Personhood and the Moral Status of Morally Enhanced AI

Dr. Zubairu Lawal Bambale (Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria)

https://youtu.be/dgLXIvzgLb4

8.Will Transhumanism Lead to Technologized Personhood?

Amara Esther Chimakonam (University of Fort Hare, South Africa)

https://youtu.be/BBQmmmkgvUM

9.Afrolongevity and the Bioenhanced Future

Ósìnákáchī Àkùmà Kálū (Afrolongevity, Johannesburg, South Africa)

https://youtu.be/NbGY582-EhY

10.Afrolongevity in the Age of AGI: Rethinking African Wellness, Infrastructure, and Ethics for a Post-Labour Future

Tonye AI Onyanabo (University of Ibadan, Nigeria)

https://youtu.be/ygqRqEDc1J4

11.  Q&A

https://youtu.be/OFSopI4lklE

 

Session 2

12.  Bioenhancement and the Quest for Personal and Collective Identity in Post-Colonial Africa

Isaac Zachariah Mutelo (Arrupe Jesuit University, Harare, Zimbabwe)

https://youtu.be/JrzKCe2oryE

13.African Relationality and Human Dignity as an Ethical Approach to Human Bioenhancement

Peter I. Osuji (Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA), John Mark Ogu (Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA), and Roderick Williams (Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA)

https://youtu.be/vVEmf82tmSc

14.Between Plant-Based Healing and Genetic Engineering: Ethical Reflections from Francophone African Women’s Literature

Augustina Orie Ndu (Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Nigeria)

https://youtu.be/EJ4h5wj03vY

15.  Q&A

https://youtu.be/vpmt1aIhpLc

Feel free to share with colleagues.

Thank you,

AE  Chimakonam, PhD

(on behalf of the LOC)