Events

Upcoming

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

Past

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

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