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thINTERNATIONAL CONGRESS
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LOVE AND SEX WITH ROBOTS - 2019
Free University of Brussels (ULB)
Schedule
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eCongrès International
d’Amour et de Sexualité avec les Robots – 2019
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Programme
Lundi 1er Juillet Monday, July 1
9:00-9:45 Registration and breakfast
Inscription et petit-déjeuner
9:45-9:50 Preparing to go to the classroom
Changement de local
9:50-10:00 Welcome address and Introduction
Bienvenue et introduction
10:00-10:45 Keynote:
Gabriele Trovato Love and Faith with Robots
10:45-11:10 Rudolf Arnold:
Interactive Sonification of Sexual Arousal in Long-Distance Relations
11:10-11:40 Tea and coffee break
Pause café et thé
11:40-12:05 Adamantios Koumpis:
Sex with Robots: A not-so-niche Market for Disabled and older Persons
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PALADYN
Journal of Behavioral Robotics
www.degruyter.com/view/j/pjbr
12:15-12:20 Short break in preparation for livestream
Préparation à la vidéconférence
12:20-12:45 Livestream with the “Berlin Sextech Hackathon“
Vidéoconférence
12:45-13:45 Lunch/Déjeuner
13:45-14:10 Marc Behrendt:
The Moral Case for Sexbots
14:10-14:50 Workshop/Atelier
An Jacobs:
What could go wrong with empirical research on love and sex with robots?
14:50-15:15 Alice Fox:
Sinful Circuitry: The Oldest Profession's New Menu
15:15-15:45 Tea and coffee break
Pause café et thé
15:45-16:10 Hiroshi Yamaguchi:
“Intimate Relationship“ with “Virtual Humans“ and “Socialification“ of Familyship
16:10-16:35 Florian Kraus:
Developing Norms of Interaction with Sexrobots – Perspectives from Users
16:35-17:00 Maurizio Balistieri:
Sex with Robots: Ideal Love? A Moral Analysis
17:00-17:25 Tõnu Viik:
Romantic Attitudes in the face of Technological Alterities
17:25-17:30 Moving chairs for discussion panel
Préparation à la table ronde
17:30-18:25 Discussion panel/Table ronde
What can robots teach us about love?
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PALADYN
Journal of Behavioral Robotics
www.degruyter.com/view/j/pjbr
Mardi 2 Juillet Tuesday, July 2
9:30-9:55 Dennis Weiss:
Learning to be Human with Sociable Robots
9:55-10:20 Nicola Liberati:
Making out with the world and valuing relationships with humans. Mediation theory and the introduction of
teledildonics
10:20-10:45 Carlotta Rigotti:
Fundamental Rights and Sex Robots: How to Respect Asimov’s First Law
10:45-11:15 Tea and coffee break
Pause café et thé
11:15-11:40 Agnès Jacquerye:
A Profitable Future for Human high-fidelity Simulation in Holistic Sexual Education: A Conceptual Framework
11:40-12:05 Eduard Fosch Villaronga:
Sex robots and care. Exploring the impacts of sexual robot technologies for care purposes
12:05-12:30 Jan Peter Bergen:
Love(rs) in the Making? Technological intimacy and ethical subjectivity
12:30-13:40 Lunch/Déjeuner
13:40-14:05 Leonardo Mariano Gomes:
TouchYou: A Wearable Touch Sensor and Stimulator for Using Our Own Body as a Remote Sex Interface
14:05-14:30 Eleanor Hancock:
Why are Radical Feminists wrong when they refuse to accept Sex Robots and Sex technology?
14:30-14:55 David Mainenti:
Sex Robots and the Narrative Policy Framework: A relationship in the making?
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PALADYN
Journal of Behavioral Robotics
www.degruyter.com/view/j/pjbr
14:55-15:20 Alison de Fren:
Representations of Robotic Desire
15:20-15:45 Tea and coffee break
Pause café et thé
15:45-16:10 Alexandra Aleksandrovich:
What is Multisensory Sexual Arousal and how its
Implementation in XR will Define the Future of Cybersex?
16:10-16:35 Mika Koverola:
Moral Psychology of Sex Robots: an experimental study -- How Pathogen Disgust is associated with interhuman sex but not interandroid sex
16:35-17:20 Keynote:
David Levy
Some Aspects of Human Consent to Sex with Robots
17:20-17:25 Moving chairs for discussion panel
Préparation à la table ronde
17:25-18:25 Discussion panel and short closing party
Table ronde et clôture festive To what extent will sex robots and sex-technology be able to engage in sexual health therapies and sex education? What are the moral objections to these technologies?