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2025 21st November - Paris, Colloque Cas d'École "Controverses au cœur des sciences sociales".  Colloque des 50 ans de l'EHESS. Table ronde "(Dés)accords des sciences sociales de demain ?"

Étienne Anheim (modérateur), Marie Aberdam, Margherita Arcangeli, Rémi Hadad, Naveen Kanalu, Ioulia Shukan

2025 12th November - Online, Empirically Informed Philosophy of Mind Seminar

Episodic Memory through the lens of Aphantasia

2025 21st July - Merano, "ScienzaNuova 2025"

Speakers:  Arcangeli Margherita,  Angelo Bassi,  Ivana Bianchi,  Maria Bondani, Maurizio Borghi, Giovanni Chesi, Ivo De Gennaro, Marco Erba, Federico Laudisa, Vieri Mastropietro, Andrea Moro, Achille Varzi, Gino Zaccaria
Organisers: Ivo De Gennaro & Gino Zaccaria

2025 4th June - Uppsala, Higher Seminar

Aphantasia, episodic memory and creativity

2025 28th May - Umeå, Department Colloquium / Workshop on Imagination and Creativity

Aphantasia, episodic memory and creativity

2025 27th May - Umeå, Cognitive Science Seminar

The intricate notion of mental simulation

2025 5th May - Genova, PEA Seminar

What aphantasia can teach us about episodic memory

2025 19th - 20th March - Paris, Workshop "Creativity, Imagination & Artificial Intelligence"

Speakers: Daniel Andler, Gregory Bochner, Simona Chiodo, Dimitri Coelho Mollo, François Garnier, Steve Humbert-Droz, Julia Langkau, Piera Maurizio, Andrea Rivadulla Durò, Emmanuelle Volle
Organisers:  Margherita Arcangeli, Séphora Bennaoum, Jérôme Dokic

2025 19th  February - Rovereto, Animal Brain & Cognition group seminar

What aphantasia can teach us about episodic memory

2024 12th  December - Paris, IHPST general seminar

Qu'est-ce qui ne va pas avec l'aphantasie ? Le cas de la mémoire épisodique

2024 25th - 28th June - Geneva, "Issues in Philosophy of Memory 4"

Speakers: Margherita Arcangeli, Richard Heersmink, Robert Hopkins, Changsheng Lai, Kristina Liefke, Johannes Mahr, Albert Newen, Katherine Puddifoot, Matthew Soteriou

Organisers: André Sant'Anna, Fabrice Teroni, Andrea Rivadulla Duró

2024 2nd - 3rd May - Reggio Emilia, International Workshop “Oltre la soglia. Prospettive filosofiche sul sublime e sul suo ruolo nell’educazione”

Speakers: Daniela Angelucci, Margherita Arcangeli & Jérôme Dokic, Alice Chirico, Elio Franzini, Andrea Gatti, Giovanna Pinna

Organisers: Annamaria Contini, Francesca D’Alessandris, Alice Giuliani, Lorenzo Manera

2024 28th  March - Paris, ICM Createam Seminar

The Relationship(s) between Imagination and Creativity

2023 7th - 8th November - Turin, International Workshop "Varieties of Aboutness"

Speakers: Margherita Arcangeli, Ned Block, Adrian Briciu, Denis Buehler, Elvira Di Bona, Matteo Plebani, Elisabetta Sacchi, Nick Shea

Organisers: Fabrizio Calzavarini, Elvira Di Bona, Agostino Pinna Pintor, Alberto Voltolini

2023 1st June - Paris, Workshop SublimAE

Speakers: Esteban Buch & Mario Lorenzo, Maedeh Norouzi, Amélie Jacquot, Sara Salgues, Sandra Shapshay
Organisers:  Margherita Arcangeli, Jérôme Dokic

2023 30th May - Paris, Study day in tribute to Martin Fortier

Speakers: Géraldine Carranante & Michiel van Elk, David Dupuis, Juan C. González, Raphaël Millière, Joëlle Proust
Organisers:  Margherita Arcangeli, Jérôme Dokic

2023 15th-17th May - Geneva, Imagination and Creativity Conference

Speakers: Margherita Arcangeli, Jimena Clavel Vázquez, Patrik Engisch, Amy Kind, Julia Langkau, Peter Langland-Hassan, Alice Murphy, Caterina Moruzzi, Bence Nanay, Elliot Paul, Dustin Stokes, Nick Wiltsher
Organisers: Julia Langkau, Amy Kind, Anaïs Giannuzzo

2022 14th, 15th and 18th November - Online workshop "Successful and Unsuccessful Remembering and Imagining"

Speakers: Margherita Arcangeli and Jérôme Dokic, Ruth Byrne, Amy Kind, Changsheng (Lex) Lai, Peter Langland-Hassan, Kengo Miyazono and Uku Tooming, Daniel Munro, Marya Schechtman, Lu Teng, Fabrice Teroni
Organisers: Ying-Tung Lin, Chris McCarroll, Kourken Michaelian, Mike Stuart 

2022 11th May - Cagliari, Programma RAS Visiting Professor

L’immaginazione cieca: che cos’è l’afantasia?

2022 10th May - Cagliari, Programma RAS Visiting Professor

Una mappa del reame dell’immaginazione

2022 3rd March - Geneva, Thumos seminar

Affective Memory. A Little Help From Our Imagination

2021 2nd-3rd November - Paris, "Imagination & Memory: A Matter of Degrees?" Workshop

Speakers: Alma Barner, Erica Cosentino, Amy Kind, Julia Langkau, Peter Langland-Hassan, Christopher McCarroll, Erik Myin, Denis Perrin, André Sant’Anna, Dustin Stokes
Organisers: Margherita Arcangeli, Christopher McCarroll, André Sant’Anna

2021 22nd-24th September - Noto, XIV Convegno Nazionale della Società Italiana di Filosofia Analitica: Shaping the future: What’s the Role of Philosophy?

Accepted submitted talk proposal: Aphantasia Demystified

2021 15th-17th September - Bristol, Science and Philosophy of Imagination Conference

Speakers: Margherita Arcangeli, Ruth Byrne, Bence Nanay, Michael T. Stuart, Crawford Winlove
Organisers: Max Jones, Sam Wilkinson

2021 8th-11th June - Milan, Polimi PhD Summer School Empowering Imagination

Speakers: Ester Bernadò, Margherita Arcangeli
Organisers: Simona Chiodo, Viola Schiaffonati

2021 4th June  - Parisian (virtual) session of Notes from a Biscuit Tin  [see the poster]

Alexandre Billon (poet), Jérôme Dokic (philosopher-convener), Margherita Arcangeli & Marie Lods (documenters)

2020 27th-30th April - Porto, IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON2020)

Accepted submitted talk proposal (with S. Chiodo, V. Schiaffonati, E. Bernadó-Mansilla): Beyond Creativity: Reflection and Practice of Imagination with Students of Technical Universities

2020 2nd April - Cagliari, Programma RAS Visiting Professor

L’immaginazione cieca: che cos’è l’afantasia? / Blind Imagination: What is Aphantasia? CANCELLED

2020 30th March - Cagliari, Programma RAS Visiting Professor

Una mappa del reame dell’immaginazione / A Map of the Imaginative Realm CANCELLED

2020 12th-13th February - Fribourg, The Aesthetic Mind: Fourth Workshop 

Speakers: Margherita Arcangeli, Constant Bonard, Dorothea Debus, Patrik Engisch, Andrea Lailach-Hennrich, Julia Langkau, Richard Woodward
Organisers: The Aesthetic Mind (Fribourg/Goettingen Research Group) EXRE

2019 5th-8th September - Athens, European Society for Philosophy and Psychology Conference

Accepted submitted symposium proposal (co-organised with J. Dokic, P. Piolino & M. Sperduti): Limit experiences: testing the boundaries of the self

2019 1st-4th July - Grenoble, Issues in Philosophy of Memory 2. Book symposium "Christopher McCarroll, Remembering from the Outside: Personal Memory and the Perspectival Mind "

Commentators: Margherita Arcangeli, Sarah Robins, Marina Trakas
Organiser: John Sutton

2019 27th-28th June - Bochum, Conference "Fiction, Imagination, and Epistemology" 

Speakers: Margherita Arcangeli, Christopher Badura, Joachim Horvath, Amy Kind, Julia Langkau, Bence Nanay, Margot Strohminger
Organisers: Christopher Badura, Amy Kind

2019 18th-21st June - Milan, Polimi Summer School Empowering Imagination

Speakers: Ester Bernadò, Margherita Arcangeli
Organisers: Simona Chiodo, Viola Schiaffonati

2019 31st May - Trento, Seminar "Che cos'è un esperimento mentale?"

Speakers: Adriano Angelucci, Margherita Arcangeli
Organisers: Paola Giacomoni, Claudio Fontanari, Achille Varzi

2019 22nd-23rd May - Rome, Conference "'What if...?' – Counterfactual Explorations and Thought Experiments"

Organisers: Adrian Brändli, Michelle Steinbeck

2019 30th April - Bochum, Consciousness and Cognition Seminar 

Spelling out imagining from the inside

2019 26th March - Paris, CESPRA seminar "L'imaginaire et les sciences sociales"

Perspectives imaginaires

2019 22nd-23rd February - Paris, "Fiction, Understanding, and Thought Experiments" Workshop

Speakers: Anouk Barberousse, Elke Brendel, James R. Brown, Rawad El Skaf, Yiftach Fehige, Valeria Giardino, Sophie Roux, Pierre Saint-Germier, Mike Stuart, Harald Wiltsche
Organisers: Margherita Arcangeli, Yiftach Fehige

2019 13th February - Nancy, Journée d'études sur les expériences de pensée

Speakers: Margherita Arcangeli, Marco Buzzoni, Valeria Giardino
Organisers: Valeria Giardino, Gerhard Heinzmann

2018 27th-28th September - Paris, “The Sublime: philosophical and cognitive approaches” Workshop

Speakers: Alice Chirico, Tom Cochrane, Maddalena Mazzocut-Mis, Matthew Pelowski, Jesse Prinz, Jean-Marie Schaeffer, Sandra Shapshay, Michelle Lani Shiota
Organisers: Margherita Arcangeli, Jérôme Dokic, Marco Sperduti

2018 3rd-7th September - Milan, IDEA League Summer School Empowering Imagination

Speakers: Ester Bernadò, Margherita Arcangeli, Arnon Levy
Organisers: Simona Chiodo, Viola Schiaffonati

2018 2nd-5th July - Louvain-la-Neuve, SoPhA International Congress

Accepted submitted symposium proposal (co-organised with S. Lemaire): Imagination and emotion

2018 29th May - Bochum, Philosophy Meets Cognitive Science Seminar

The architecture of imagination

2018 26th April - Geneva, PhilEAs Seminar

Dispelling the confusion about mental imagery

2018 15th-16th March - Bochum, "Philosophy of Imagination" Conference

Accepted submitted talk proposal: Dispelling the confusion about mental imagery

2017 5th-6th October - London, "Bridging the Gap: Scientific Imagination meets Aesthetics Imagination" Conference

Speakers: Margherita Arcangeli, Andrej Bicanski, Gregory Currie, Jim Faeder, Laetitia Meynell, Margot Strohminger, Adam Toon, Tim de Mey
Organisers: Fiora Salis, Mike Stuart

2017 28th-29th September - Konstanz, "Imagination and Knowledge" Conference

Speakers: Magdalena Balcerak Jackson, Jérôme Dokic, Christopher Gauker, Dominic Gregory, Amy Kind, Andrea Lailach-Hennrich, Julia Langkau, Bruno Leclercq, Margot Strohminger, Mike Stuart
Organisers: Margherita Arcangeli, Andrea Lailach-Hennrich

2017 11th-12th September - Fribourg, Book Symposium "Kathleen Stock, Only imagine: fiction, interpretation and imagination"

Commentators: Margherita Arcangeli, Patrik Engisch, Tobias Klauk, Niels Klenner, Julia Langkau, Victor Lindblom
Organisers: The Aesthetic Mind (Fribourg/Goettingen Research Group) EXRE

2017 21st July - Rome, "Memory, Mental Time Travel, and Self-Control" Workshop

Accepted submitted talk proposal (with J. Dokic): Affective memory: a little help from our imagination

2017 18th-19th July - Leeds, "Aesthetics of Science" Conference

Speakers: Margherita Arcangeli, Angela Breitenbach, Catarina Dutilh Novaes, Catherine Elgin, Milena Ivanova, Matthew Kieran, Cain Todd
Organisers: Steven French, Milena Ivanova

2017 8th-9th June - Genève, "Simulation and Thought experiment" Conference

Speakers: Margherita Arcangeli, Anouk Barberousse, Claus Beisbart, Daniel Dohrn, Rawad El Skaff, Stephan Hartmann, Nenad Miscevic, Gualtiero Piccinini, Mike Stuart
Organisers: Marcel Weber, Michal Hladky, Guillaume Schlaepfer

2017 20th April - Torino, Center for Logic, Language, and Cognition Seminar

Joint talk with Jérôme Dokic: Narrative imagination and memory: A multiperspectival account