2024

• Lily Frank and Michal Klincewicz (Invited Talk) "Digitally Mediated Deception in Dating", The Leeds Center for the Philosophy of Sex and Love, University of Leeds, UK, September 12-13, 2024. 

• Lily Frank (Invited Talk) "AI in Psychiatric Medicine: Duty, Trustworthiness, and Empowerment", The Leuven Centre for Health Humanities (LCH²), Health Humanities LEcture Series, Lueven, Belgium, March 7 2024.

2023

• Lily Frank (Invited Talk) Workshop: XAI in Medicine,"XAI in Psychiatric Medicine: Duty, Trustworthiness, and Justice." November 3-4, 2023, Lugano, Switzerland.

• Philip J. Nickel, Iris Loosman, Lily Frank and Anna Vinnikova."Empowerment through digital health:ethical challenges and opportunities." Society for the Philosophy of Technology, June 7-10, Tokyo, Japan.

• Lily Frank (Invited Keynote) "Carnal Values: On the Technological Disruption of Sex." Sex-Tech Workshop, May 9. Ghent University, Belgium.

• Philip Nickel, Iris Loosman, Lily Frank and Anna Vinnikova.  Empowerment through digital health: ethical challenges and opportunities." The Datafication of Health, April 13-14, Eindhoven University of Technology.

• Lily Frank (Invited Talk), "Gaming Moral Improvement"Mapping the ethical terrain." The Ethics of Video Games Workshop. March 2, Center for Agency, Values, and Ethics, Macquarie University, Australia.

2022

• Lily Frank, "Life with Pious Robots: Exploring the ethical terrain" (Invited Talk), Event: Could robots be religious? Philosophical, theological, and ethical perspectives on the future of Artificial Intelligence, University of Amsterdam, December 12, 2022. 

• Gunter Bombaerts, Joel Anderson, Matthew Dennis, Alessio Gerola, Lily Frank, Tom Hannes, Jeroen Hopster, Lavinia Marin and Andreas Spahn. "Attention as practice. Virtue ethical and Buddhist responses to attention controlling technologies", Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies International Conference, Lieden, October 6-7, 2022. 

• Julia Herman, Lily Frank, and Naomi Jacobs. "Anticipating  Technosocial  Disruption  and  Co shaping Desirable Futures: An Emerging Methodology", New Methods in Ethics of technology., Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies International Conference, Lieden, October 6-7, 2022. 

• Lily Frank, Cindy Friedman, and Sven Nyholm, "The Ethics of Gendering Robots: Three Interpretations of an Intersectional Feminist Perspective on How Robots Should be Representative", IEEE, International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, (RO-MAN), Workshop: GENDERING ROBOTS: Intersectional Feminist Perspectives on Gender in Social Robotics, Naples, Italy, August 28-29, 2022.

• Naomi Jacobs, Lily Frank, Julia Herman, "The Disruptive Potential of the Artificial Womb", "Philosophy of Human Technology Relations Conference, Aalburg University, Dennmark, July 5-7, 2022.

• Contributed Panel:  "Intercultural ethics and the design of the attention economy", with Andreas Spahn, Lily Frank, Gunter Bombaerts, Matthew J. Dennis (TU/e), Joel Anderson (UU), Hopster, Jeroen (Twente), and Tom Hannes, Workshop: Intercultural Ethics and Technology, University of Twente, January 27-28, 2022 

• Lily Frank, Julia Herman, Naomi Jacobs, "The disruptive potential of the artificial womb", Conceptual Engineering and Socially Disruptive Technologies”, March 31 – 1 April 2022, online. 

• "The disruptive and liberatory potential of the artificial womb", Masters Seminar, (Invited) Tilburg University, Netherlands, April 20, 2022.

2021

• Contributed Panel: "Connecting Human Flourishing to Sustainable Values", With Matthew Dennis, Lily Frank, Andreas Spahn, Minha Lee (TU/e) and Madelaine Ley (TUD), and Benjamin Hofbauer (TUD) ,  4TU Ethics Conference: It’s Alive, October 14-15 2021

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVxIp9c7yUs Our talk @28:16 

• Frank, L. Invited Speaker. "Vulnerability, digital technologies and young women & girls, "4TU Symposium: Vulnerability and Human Computer Interaction, University of Twente, December 2, 2021

• Friedman, C., Frank, L. and Nyholm, S., "Emotional Embodiment in Sex and Love Robots", 6th international congress on sex and love with robots, August 18-20th, 2021

Dennis, M. & L. Frank, "Incremental Solutions to Ecological Challenges: Repurposing Artificial Intelligence for Sustainability", Sustainable AI conference, University of Bonn, June 15th-17th, 2021. (Link to Video)

• Frank, L. & N. Jacobs, Poster, "Technologies for the detection and prevention of pressure ulcers-the need for capability sensitive design," Supporting Health by Technology Conference, June 10th-11th, 2021

• Frank, L., Nyholm, Sven, and Cindy Friedman. "Emotional embodiment in humanoid sex and love robots" Workshop on Social Robotics and the Good Life, University of Tubingen, May 2021, 2021.

• Frank, L. Invited Speaker. "Moral Anomalies and Ordinary Morality" Workshop on Social Progress and Human Enhancement, LMU Munich, January 21, 2021. 

2020

• Frank, L. Invited Speaker. "Sex robots, Artificial wombs, and Behaviour Change Technologies: the Future of Techno Moral Change" Emerging Technologies and Society Workshop, University of Technology Sydney, Australia, October 23, 2019.

• Frank, L. Invited Speaker. "Ectogenesis and the Abortion Debate" Artificial Womb: Dream or Nightmare? Research Meet, Humans and Technology Center, Technical University of Eindhoven, March 29, 2019. 

• Frank, L. Invited Speaker. "Behaviour Change Technologies and the Moralization of Unhealthy Behaviours" Workshop: How moralization and polarization affect collective action. University of Groningen, March 27, 2019.

• Frank, L. Panelist with Joel Anderson, Andreas Spahn, Gudbjörg Erlingsdottir, and Sander Werkhoven  "Ethical Challenges Raised by Behaviour Change Technologies” CBC Conference 2018 - Behaviour Change for Health: Digital and Beyond, London, UK, February 21-22, 2018.

• Frank, L. Invited Panelist: Ethics and Symbiotic, The 6th International Workshop on Symbiotic Interaction, Eindhoven, Netherlands, December 18-19, 2017. 

• Frank, L., "Inequitable access to public toilets as a feminist moral issue" Culture of Exclusion, 5th Edition: Women, Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland, November 25, 2017.   (Link to Video) 

• Philip Nickel and Lily Frank, "Is electronic coaching (softly) paternalistic?" (Research Showcase talk) OZSW Annual Conference, Utrecht, The Netherlands. November 11, 2017.

• Frank L., Loosman, I., Meijers, A., Nickel, P., "Rethinking trust and consent in mobile behavior change support systems" OZSW Annual Conference, Utrecht, The Netherlands. November 10, 2017 (poster).

• Frank L. “Do as I say, not as I do: What can an obese cardiologist can tell us about trust in ethical expertise?” Trust, Expert Opinion and Policy: A multidisciplinary conference investigating questions of trust in and the trustworthiness of expert opinion. University College Dublin, Ireland. August 2017. 

• Minha Lee, Lily Frank, Femke Beute, Yvonne de Kort and Wijnand Ijsselsteijn, “Bots Mind the Social-technical Gap”, The 15th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Sheffield (UK) August 2017.

• “Virue Ethics and Persuasive Technology for Self-Care”, (co-author S. Nagel),Persuasive Technology XII, Amsterdam, April 2017.

•  Co-organizer of a workshop on Ethics and Persuasive technologies at Persuasive Technology XII, Amsterdam, April 2017.

• “Addiction and Moralization” (co-author S. Nagel), 4TU Ethics Taskforce on Medical Technologies, Workshop on Technology and Moralization, Delft University, December 2016. 

•  “Why should peripheral health care providers be trustworthy?” (Co-author P. Nickel.). OZSW Conference 2016, Groningen, The Netherlands, December 2016. 

• Invited Panelist, “Should we develop robot companions that develop emotional bonds with humans?” at Machine Ethics and Machine Law, Jagiellonian University, Institute of Philosophy and the Department for the Philosophy of Law and Legal Ethics, Krakow, Poland, November 2016.

•  “From Sex-Robots to Love-Robots: Is mutual  love with a robot possible?” (Co-author S. Nyholm) at Machine Ethics and Machine Law, Jagiellonian University, Institute of Philosophy and the Department for the Philosophy of Law and Legal Ethics, Krakow, Poland, November 2016. 

• “Do as I say not as I do: what an obese cardiologist can tell us about expertise in ethis” 36th Dutch-Flemish Day of Philosophy, Leusden, the Netherlands, October 2016.

•  Winner of Best Contribution, “What is lost when we use technology to improve moral decision-making: Do moral deliberation and moral struggle have independent value for moral progress?” Designing Moral Technologies: Theoretical, Practical and Ethical Issues, Ascona, Switzerland, July 2016 .

• “Metaethics in context of engineering ethical and moral systems” (Co-author M. Klincewicz), Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Spring 2016 Symposia: Ethical and Moral Considerations in Non-Human Agents,  Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, March 2016.

• Invited Talk, “Interactionism about Character and Moral Motivation,” Book Launch for Mark Alfano’s Moral Psychology, Delft University of Technology, February 2016.

•  “Should our physicians know all? The electronic medical record, patient trust, and privacy,” Amsterdam Privacy Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 2015.

•  “Should our physicians know all? The electronic medical record, patient trust, and privacy,” 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology, Huize Molenaar, Utrecht, Netherlands, June 2015 (Invited Talk).

•  “In defense of a central role for moral philosophers in the practice of clinical ethics consultation,” International Conference on Clinical Ethics Consultation, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, May 2015.

•  “Cognitive Science and the Meaning of Life,” Society of Fellows Weekend Seminar, Pace University, Warwick, New York (Invited Panelist), October 2014.

• “The Hard Work in the Moral Bioenhancement Debate,” Oxford-Mount Sinai Consortium on Bioethics, Jesus College, Oxford University, April 2014.

• Invited Talk: “Moral Bioenhancement: Metaethical Considerations,” California State University, Sacramento, February 2014.

• “Confusions in the Debate on Moral Enhancement,” Association for Bioethics and the Humanities Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, October 2013 .

•  “Minimal Risk Biomedical Research: Some Epistemological Considerations,” Frontiers of Informed Consent, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, September 2013. 

• “De Minims Risk and Human Microbiome Research,” Human Microbiome Science: Vision for the Future, Bethesda, MD (Poster), July 2013.

• Invited Talk: Health, Health Care, and Contraception,” Cleveland Clinic, Bioethics Department, Cleveland, Ohio, March 2013.

• “Health, Health Care, and the Contraception Requirement,” Panel on "Justice and Defining the Requirements for Health Care in a Decent Society," American Philosophical Association, Committee on Philosophy and Medicine, Atlanta, GA, December 2012 (Panel Participant).

• “Getting Bioethics Wrong: The Role of Bioethics in Metaethical Arguments about Moral Progress and Agreement,” Association for Bioethics and the Humanities Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., October 2012 (Poster)

• “De Minims Risk and Human Microbiome Research,” Mount Sinai School of Medicine Bioethics Conference, New York, NY, October 2012

• “What Psychopaths and Other Amoralists Can Tell Us About Moral Judgment and Motivation,” Oxford-Mount Sinai Consortium on Bioethics, Amsterdam, NL, April, 2012 

• “The Human Microbiome and the Social Fabric,” Association for Bioethics and the Humanities Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, October 2011

•  “Metaethics and Medicine,” (co-author A. Favia), Oxford-Mount Sinai Consortium on Bioethics, New York, April 2011 

• “The Human Microbiome and the Social Fabric,” National Human Genome Research Institute Congress: Exploring the ELSI Universe, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, April 2011 

• “Assessment of Medical Student Competency in Medical Ethics,” Association for Bioethics and the Humanities Annual Meeting, San Diego, California, October 2010 

• “The Human Microbiome and the Social Fabric: Implications for Health and Communities," Human Microbiome Research Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, September 2010 (Poster)

• “When it is Hard Not to Judge: The Importance of the principle of non-judgmental regard in difficult circumstances,” Annual International Conference on Clinical Ethics Consultation, Portland, Oregon, May, 2010

• "The Human Microbiome and the Social Fabric,” Oxford-Mount Sinai Consortium on Bioethics, Kings College London, UK, April 2010

• “A Just Distribution of Healthcare for the Developing World,” Oxford-Mount Sinai Consortium on Bioethics, Oxford University, UK, March 2008 .

COMMENTS

• On Sameer Bajaj’s (University of Arizona) “Why Metanormative Realism Won’t Come from What is Indispensable to Deliberation,” American Philosophical Association, Baltimore, Maryland, December 2013.

• On Chris Sula’s (The Graduate Center, CUNY) “The Dogmatic Objection in Moral Theory: A Case Study in Butler and Anscombe,” Felician College Ethics Conference, New Jersey, Spring 2007.