Prof. Wu Yan 吴岩
Wu Yan, is a science fiction writer and professor in the School of Humanities and Social Science at Southern University of Science and Technology. He serves as the Director of Science and Human Imagination Research Center under the university since 2017. He has written many fictions including: Spiritual Quest (Xinling tanxian), Life and Death of the Sixth Day (Shengsi di liutian) and China Orbit (Zhongguo Guidao Hao). His short stories such as Mouse Pad have been translated into many languages. He has received many awards including the National Outstanding Children’s Literature Award, The Five Best Cultural Works Project Prize, Bing Xin Literature Award and the Nebula and Galaxy Award for Science Fiction. He has also been engaged in academic writing such as Outline of Science Fiction Literature (Kehuan wenxue lungang). He is editor of numerous scholarly works and has co-edited in English with Kerry Mallan and Roderick McGillis on (Re)imagining the world: Children’s Literatures Response to Changing Times. Wu Yan is the ancestor of science fiction education and create sf curriculum in 1991 in Beijing Normal University. He is the Vice-Chair of China Science Writers’ Association（CSWA） from 2017 and was the President of World Chinese Science Fiction Association(WCSFA) during 2010-2017.
Ass. Prof. Jue Wang 王珏
Jue Wang is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Xi’dian University in China. She obtained PhD from Peking University, pursued postdoctoral research at Notre Dame University and has published various articles in phenomenology of the body, bioethics and public policy.Her current research focuses on ethical studies of old age, elderly care and AI medicine. She also serves in editorial advisory board for International Journal of Chinese Comparative Philosophy of Medicine.
Francesco Verso
Francesco Verso is a multiple-award Science Fiction writer and editor. He has published: Antidoti umani, e-Doll, Nexhuman, Bloodbusters and I camminatori (made of The Pulldogs and No/Mad/Land). Nexhuman and Bloodbusters – translated in English by Sally McCorry – have been published in the US by Apex Books, in the UK by Luna press and in China for Bofeng. He also works as editor and publisher of Future Fiction, a multicultural project, dedicated to scouting and publishing the best World SF in translation from more than 25 countries and 11 languages with authors like Ian McDonald, Han Song, Ken Liu, Liu Cixin, Vandana Singh, Chen Qiufan, Xia Jia and others. From 2019 he’s the Honorary Director of the Fishing Fortress SF Academy of Chongqing and a literary agent for Future Wave, an agency specialized in import/export of copyright from/to China. He lives in Roma (Italy) and may be found at www.futurefiction.org.
Ass. Prof. Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
Stefan Lorenz Sorgner is Chair of the Department of History and Humanities and a philosophy professor at John Cabot University in Rome and is director and co-founder of the Beyond Humanism Network, Fellow at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET), Research Fellow at the Ewha Institute for the Humanities at Ewha Womans University in Seoul and Visiting Fellow at the Ethics Centre of the Friedrich-Schiller-University in Jena. He is editor of more than 10 essay collections, and author of the following monographs: Metaphysics without Truth (Marquette University Press 2007), Menschenwürde nach Nietzsche (WBG 2010), Transhumanismus (Herder 2016), Schöner neuer Mensch (Nicolai, 2018), Übermensch (Schwabe 2019), On Transhumanism (Penn State University Press 2020), We have always been cyborgs (Bristol University Press, 2021). In addition, he is Editor-in-Chief and Founding Editor of the “Journal of Posthuman Studies” (a double-blind peer review journal, published by Penn State University Press since 2017). Furthermore, he is in great demand as a speaker in all parts of the world (World Humanities Forum, Global Solutions Taipei Workshop, Biennale Arte Venezia, TEDx) and a regular contact person of national and international journalists and media representatives (Die Zeit, Cicero, Der Standard; Die Presse am Sonntag, Philosophy Now). www.sorgner.de & www.mousike.de
