TALKS


Invited talks (recent, sample)

  • 27-29th September 2024 (forthcoming). Hybrid Agencies. Virtual Reality Summit. Ruhr University Bochum, Germany 
  • 12-15th August 2024 ( forthcoming). Self-Modelling and Self-Organisation in Biological and Artificial Systems. Summer School of Neuroscience and Philosophy ( SSNAP), Duke University, USA. 
  • 9-15th July 2024. Artificial Minds and Bodies. School of Ideas in Neuroscience, Nencki Institute, Warsaw, Poland
  • 3-5th  July 2024. Detached Selves.  The Affective and Emotional Dimensions of Experience: Language, Cognition and Culture conference, University of Braga, Portugal. 
  • 19-21rst June 2024 . The Brain is not Mental. Dimension of Radical Embodiment Workshop, University of Murcia, Spain. https://radicalembodiment.github.io
  • 7th June 2024– Hybrid Agents in Virtual and Natural Environment. Material Engagement Theory and Active Inference – Synergy Workshop. University of Sussex, the UK. 
  • 25-26th March 2024 – Self-Organisation in Humans and Artificial Agents. The Reality and Fictionality of Scientific Modelling: From Physics to Self- Models, University of Bonn, Germany.  
  • 18-19th March 2024  – Hybrid Agencies. In Defining Agency: Between Cognition and Biology Workshop, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France
  • 11th March 2024 (forthcoming). Embodied Joint Agency and Human/Avatar Interactions. ETH, Zurich, Switzerland. 
  • 8th February 2024. Self-Perception in Humans and Artificial Agents. Centre for Tactile Internet with Human in the Loop, Technical University Dresden, Germany.
  • 8-10th January 2024. Living with Artificial Others– Winter School Invited Lectures, Centre for Human Nature, Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience (CHAIN), University of Hokkaido, Japan. https://www.chain.hokudai.ac.jp/events/3554/
  • 9th  December 2023 – Hybrid Agencies in Biological and Artificial Systems, Human Tech Summit, SWPS University, Warsaw, Poland, https://htsummit.pl/en/home#program 
  • 30th  November 2023 – Altered sense of self in Depersonalisation ; EuroMov Digital Health in Motion, Université of Montpellier, IMT Mines Ales, France 
  • 27th  November  2023 – The Brain is Not Mental- Coupling Neural and Immune Systems in Human Cognition. Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives, Université Aix Marseille, France
  • 21 Nov 2023 – Embodied Joint Agency in Human -Robots Interactions and Virtual Realities, University of Goldsmith, London the UK. 
  • 9-10 Nov 2023(Un)real dreams : Space, time and self experiences in depersonalization. Neuroscience and Philosophy Meeting, Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://filoyneuro.wixsite.com/wsdc 
  • 25-27 June 2023 – From Cells to Selves: The Co-Embodied Roots of Self-Consciousness in Humans. “Pushing the Boundaries: Neuroscience, Cognition, and Life” conference, UCLA, USA. https://bri.ucla.edu/events/luskin-endowment-for-thought-leadership-symposium-pushing-the-boundaries-neuroscience-cognition-and-life-13/
  • 30 May 2023; I overthink therefore I’m not – altered sense of agency in Depersonalisation. British Society of Phenomenology’s first International Symposium at the Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy.
  • 14-15th April 2023; Invited Talk, Pathologies of Self-Awareness, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
  • November 2022   – Keynote Talk, ‘Proximal Interactions Matter’ – International Conference in Embodied Cognitive Science (online), Japan https://groups.oist.jp/ecogs
  • 17th November 2022 – ‘Self-consciousness in Humans and Artificial Agents’ – XVI National Congress of the Portuguese Society of Psychiatry (SPPSM), Portugal 
  • 25th October 2022- (Dis)Integrating and Reintegrating the Self – An Active Inference Account of Altered Self-Perception in Depersonalisation and Psychedelic Experiences, MIND Foundation, Berlin ( online)
  • 29th September 2022 – Hybrid Agencies. Tufts University, Boston MA, USA ( online)
  • 22-24 June 2022 – Participatory Time-Making- the Embodied Relational Roots of Conscious Experiences in Early Life. The Affective Turn in Cognitive Science, University of Parma, Italy. http://www.aisc-net.org/home/next-conference/
  • 20-22 June 2022 – The Proximal Self. Mind the Gap – How we build, perceive, experience and share spaces. University of Trieste, Italy https://people.sissa.it/~ale/Mind/
  • 6 -12 June 2022 – Self-Organising Biological and Artificial Systems. Allen Discovery Center, Tufts University, Boston, USA
  • 22 May – 5 June 2022 – Summer School in Neuroscience of Consciousness, Duke University, USA (invited) http://www.ssnap.net
  • 16 -22  May 16 2022 – Self-Organising Systems. Centre for Neural Sciences, New York University, USA
  • 28 April 2022 Self-Consciousness in early life. Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland 
  • 27 April May 2022 Anomalous self experiences. “Phenomenological Psychopathology and Psychotherapy” of the Department of General Psychiatry in Heidelberg, Germany 
  • 6-9 April 2022 Altered Sense of Self. Bial Symposium, Porto https://www.bial.com/com/bial-foundation/symposia/
  • 29 March 2022 – “Back to Square One: The Bodily Roots of Conscious Experience in Early Life”, Seminar of the Section Philosophy of Mind and Language of the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies of Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
  • 29 March 2022 – Altered Self-Experiences in Depersonalisation’, Narrative Cognition and Communication’ of the Center for Language Studies, Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  • 22 March 2022 What is Self-Consciousness? Dept. of Medicine & Surgery, Unit of Neuroscience, University of Parma, Italy
  • 2 March 2022 -Back to Square One : the Bodily roots of Conscious Experiences in Early life. Consciousness Club. Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL, the UK
  • January 10th 2022 – Nested Selves- Immunoceptive Inference and Self-Other Differentiation in Prenatal Development . Theoretical Biology seminar, University College London 
  • May 13th – 15th 2021 (virtual) – (Dis)Embodied Perception of the Self and Other in Human and Artificial Agents – Embodied Cognition at the Crossroads of Philosophy, Linguistics, Psychology and Artificial Intelligence, Cluj, Romania
  • November 2nd 2020 – Back to Square One! Minimal Perceptual Experiences in Utero. PPN Seminar series, University of Glasgow – https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/cspe/news-and-events/ppn-seminar/
  • March 4th 2020  – The Detached Self- Altered Visuotactile Integration in Depersonalisation, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
  • January 29th – 31rst 2020 – The Meeting of Bodies: Empathy and Basic Forms of Shared Experiences, International Congress of Psychiatry, Lisbon, Portugal.