Presentations

  • 22–24 Mar 22 Titlte TBA, International Conference on Embodied Cognitive Science (ECogS): The study of social interaction, Embodied Cognitive Science Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
  • 11–13 Nov 21 Enacting hope. 14th Biennial Radical Philosophy Association Conference: Facing Catastrophe: Environment, Technology, and Media, San Jose State University, San Jose, California, USA. With Elena Cuffari and Ezequiel Di Paolo
  • 3 Nov 21 Title TBA, Ouroboros 2021: Life and Work of Franciso Varela, online Seminar series, Metanoia Research Group and Mind & Life Europe
  • 5–9 Jul 21 “Introduction to Participatory sense-making and PRISMA research method” Analyzing Classroom interactions Summer School, departments of Developmental Psychology, Educational Sciences, Special Needs Education and Youth Care at the Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences, and department of Linguistics at the Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, NL
  • 14–16 May 21 What is letting be? Emerging, engaging knowing. Varela International Symposium: An Exploration of Uncertainty and Emergence in Self and Society, Upaya Institute and Zen Centre, Santa Fe, US.
  • 28–29 Jan 21 “Autism and an Ethics of Participation: Seeing and Inviting Participation in Autistic Interactions”, Symposium Social Interactions in Inclusive Educational Settings, Department of Education, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland
  • 8 dec 20 “Seeing and inviting participation in autistic interactions (link to youtube video)”, COGS Research Seminar, University of Sussex, UK
  • 28 Oct 20 Brief Encounter: Participatory Skill Build: Intention & impact in autism. Learning about identity and power from misunderstandings With Jonny Drury and Jackie Elliott (Dialogica UK), Academy of Professional Dialogue Virtual Conference 2020: The World Needs Dialogue! Online conference
  • 22 – 24 Oct 20 “Loving: not an emotion” 1st Conference of the European Association of Phenomenology and Psychopathology (EAPP) on “The Emotions: Phenomenology, Psychopathology, and Psychotherapy” Heidelberg, DE – CANCELLED—COVID
  • 16 – 20 Sep 20 “Loving and Knowing: Enactive Methodology”, CILC5 2020, Pre-symposium for the 5th International Conference on Interactivity, Language & Cognition, Integrating Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in the Cognitive and Language Sciences, Warsaw, PL. Invited keynote.
  • 6 – 10 Jul 20 “Participatory Sense-making as a conceptual-methodological framework for analysing classroom interactions,” Summer School Analysing Classroom Interactions, Department of Education, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, NL. Invited main keynote. CANCELLED—COVID
  • 20 Feb 20 “‘What’s this adorable noise!’ Music therapy and participatory sense making with preschool children with autism.” In dialogue with Karin Mössler at the MORO – en konferanse om ro, uro og moro i musikalsk samspill med barn og unge, Grieg Academy for Music Therapy Research, University of Bergen, Norway
  • 6–8 November 2019: Symposium on Linguistic Bodies, Encontro Cognição & Linguagem, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia – Uberlândia, Brazil VIDEO 1 VIDEO 2
  • 5–7 July 19 “Loving and Knowing II”, Frog Farm Advance, Winlaw, Slocan Valley. Organized by Evan Thompson and Beck Todd
  • 26–28 June 19 “Loving and knowing, voice and relationship: inviting participation in autistic languaging”, Workshop and conference on Cultural Poetics of Illness and Healing: Embodiment, Enactment and the Politics of Experience, McGill University, Montreal, CA, 2 invited talks: one keynote and workshop presentation
  • 10–12 Jun 19 “Participatory sense-making and collaboration: Linguistic Bodies around the Design Table”, The 17th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Center for Human-Computer Interaction, University of Salzburg, AU. Keynote
  • 7 Mar 19: Loving and knowing. Reflections for an engaged epistemology. Online at ensoseminars.com. Find the video on youtube.
  • 1 Feb 19 “From participatory sense-making to loving and knowing and beyond. Vision for the future”, Department of Sports Science and Clinical Biomechanics, Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). Invited lecture
  • 15 Nov 18 “Loving and Knowing” Lunchtime Seminar, Dept. Of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, UK. Invited lecture
  • 13-15 Sep 18 “Loving and Knowing” Time, the Body, and the Other. Phenomenological and Psychopathologial Approaches Conference, University of Heidelberg
  • 13 Apr “Loving and Knowing: Letting be without letting go” FESTIVAL DRIFT, Amsterdam
  • 14–17 Mar 18 “Knowing and Letting Be”, Enactivism: Theory and Performance Conference, University of Memphis
  • 27 Oct 17 “An epistemology of engagement,” Workshop Social Dimensions of Cognition and Education: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, University of Edinburgh
  • 25 Oct 17 “Autistic language and experience,” Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
  • 19 Oct 17 “Loving and Knowing,” Public lecture, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt University, Berlin
  • 18–20 Oct 17 “Autistic Linguistic Bodies,” Workshop An Enactive Approach to Psychiatry and (Psycho)therapy, Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt University, Berlin
  • 27 Jul – 2Aug 17     “Participatory sense-making and PRISMA: Exploring the experience of intersubjectivity”, Mind & Life Europe’s Summer Research Institute 2017: Exploring Experience, Fraueninsel, Chiemsee
  • 13 Jun 17    “Linguistic Bodies: An enactive approach to language”, Getting Real About Words And Numbers Workshop, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
  • Jun 17    “Love and enaction: towards an engaged epistemology”, Mind & Life Summer Research Institute 2017: Intersubjectivity and Social Connectivity, Garrison, New York
  • Apr 17    “Love and Enaction”, Lunchtime Seminar, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Antwerp
  • Apr 17    “An experiential approach to autism”, Living Autism Workshop, Autism Ethics Network, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Antwerp
  • 28 Nov 16    “Love and Enaction: A proposal”, IAS-Research Center INTERIDENTIDAD Research away days, Zumaia, Basque Country
  • 23 Nov 16    “Love and Enaction: A proposal”, PPA Colloquium, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam
  • 16 Nov 16    “Investigating autistic interactive experience”, Digital Bubbles Seminar, Cumberland Lodge, Wimbledon, University of Southampton
  • 21 Oct 16    “Bewusstheit im Tun: Gedankenlos? Praktische Erfahrungen und theoretische Zugänge in der Verschränkung von Feldenkrais, Sozialwissenschaften und Philosophie”, Vienna, Austria
  • 15 Oct 16    “Investigating autistic interactive experience, a demonstration”, Symposium: Choreographies of Change. Embodiment and the experience of social attunement in autism, Maastricht, Netherlands
  • 16-19 Jun 16    “Readiness-to-interact”, International Conference “Acting ahead of time”, InterUniversity Centre, Dubrovnik, Croatia
  • 9 May 16    “Deelnemed zin-geven. Een wetenschappelijke basis voor genuanceerde empathische interacties.” Psychiatrie en Filosofie workshop over emotie en empathie in psychiatrie en filosofie, Stichting Psychiatrie en Filosofie & University of Amsterdam
  • 11 Mar 16    “Embodying Hegel, socializing Freud.” Commentary on Jonathan Lear: The Freudian Sabbath. Workshop on Freedom, Recognition, and Consciousness, Philosophy and Public Affairs Research Group, Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, NL.
  • 4 Nov 15    “An introduction to Participatory sense-making”, Invited Seminar on participatory sense-making for neuro-physiotherapy, Trømsø, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway
  • 7 Oct 15    “Participatory sense-making, definition of interaction, and interactive experience: A dialogue with interactional sociology,” Centre of Excellence on Intersubjectivity in Interaction, University of Helsinki, FI
  • 16-21 May 15    “Interaction as the default mode in social understanding: readiness-to-interact and the human social brain”, 26th Attention and Performance Meeting A&P2015, Helsinki, Finland. Keynote
  • 23 Mar 15    Plenary response “Spectrums in Autism Research and Practice”, Innovative Technologies for Autism Critical Reflections on Digital Bubbles, University of Sussex Conference Centre, Brighton, UK
  • 12-14 Mar 15    “VIDEO LINK (youtube): Participatory sense-making – An integrative framework for the study of intersubjectivity,” Inaugural International Convention of Psychological Science, Association for Psychological Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • 12-14 Nov 14    “The future of social cognition is intersubjective”, V Encuentro de Filosofía y Ciencia Cognitiva/IV Workshop on Philosophy and Cognitive Science, SADAF, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Keynote
  • 24 Oct 14    “Participatory sense-making and the phenomenology of interacting” International Symposium on Current tendencies in social cognition and neurophenomenology, Centro de Estudios de Fenomenología y Psiquiatría, UDP, Santiago de Chile, Chile. Keynote
  • 21-26 Jun 14    “Social spying: Some concepts for methodology” Summer School Meeting Minds: Ways of engagement and making sense, Centre for Situated Action and Communication, University of Portsmouth, UK
  • 12-14 Jun 14     “The future of social cognition is intersubjective” The Future of Social Cognition Conference, Dept. of Philosophy, Ruhr-University Bochum. Keynote
  • 12-14 Jun 14     “Enactive Language”, Finding Common Ground: Social, Ecological, and Cognitive Perspectives on Language Use Conference, Department of Psychology of the University of Connecticut, US (joint paper with Elena Cuffari and Ezequiel Di Paolo, presentation will be by Elena Cuffari). Keynote
  • 10-12 Jun 14    “Participatory sense-making and mutual incorporation” and “Intersubjectivity and action”, International Symposium Redefining the social brain: Implications for neurological physical therapy, Hurtigruten from Bodø to Tromsø and UiT The Arctic University of Norway. Two keynotes.
  • 1-3 May 14    “Participatory sense-making and heteronomies,” Interacting Complexity workshop: Cognition and communication in Conflict Transformation, Globernance Institute and IAS-Research Centre, UPV/EHU, San Sebastián, Spain. With Ezequiel Di Paolo. Keynote

Some past presentations:

  • 31 Oct 13     “Participatory sense-making and the Interactive Brain Hypothesis”, Philosophy Meets Cognitive Science Research Colloquium Dept. of Philosophy, Ruhr-University Bochum
  • 23-24 Sep 13    “Introduction to Participatory sense-making” Workshop on Intersubjectivity, Institute of Philosophy, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Faculty of Humanities, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Keynote
  • 19-20 Sep 13    Workshop on Participatory Sense-making and the Interactive Brain Hypothesis, Brain Research Unit, School of Science, Aalto University, Aalto, Finland. Keynote
  • 6-7 Jun 13    “Interactive experience,” Intersubjectivity as Interaction: In the Footsteps of Merleau-Ponty, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Keynote
  • 28 Apr 13    “Participatory sense-making in Autism” Institut für Philosophie, Rurh-Universität Bochum, Germany. Keynote
  • 7-8 Feb 13    “Participatory sense-making and interactional experience” TESIS Conference: Enactive and Phenomenological Approaches to Intersubjectivity, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Keynote
  • 24-25 Jan 13    “Participatory sense-making and agency”, Enactivism, narrativity, second-person perspective, agency, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Cordoba. Keynote
  • 21-23 Jan 13    “Participatory Sense-making and social interaction” Seminar: From Perceptual Interaction to Extended Cognition, Compiègne University of Technology, France
  • 17-19 Jan 13    “Participatory Sense-making and social interaction”, RETECOG meeting on Interaction, University of Zaragoza, Spain. Keynote
  • 26-27 Sep 12    Guest lecturer, PhD course on Phenomenology and Qualitative Research Methods – Using and Contextualising Empathy?, University of Southern Denmark, Odense
  • 24 Aug 12    “Participatory sense-making and the Interactive Brain Hypothesis”, Opening of the Interacting Minds Centre, Aarhus University, Denmark. Keynote
  • 12 Nov 11    “PRISMA – A practical phenomenology approach to the experience of interaction” Marie Curie ITN TESIS Network Introductory Meeting, University of Heidelberg
  • 15 Oct 11    “Interaction and participatory sense-making” – Celebratory workshop for the 80th birthday of Prof. Colwyn Trevarthen, University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Keynote
  • 30 May 11    “Can social interaction constitute social cognition?” Colloquium series of the SFB-673 – Alignment in Communication, University of Bielefeld. Keynote
  • 5 May 11    “Participatory sense-making and institutions,” Return of the Masses – Towards a Transdisciplinary Analysis of Sur-Individualism, GNOSIS, Aarhus University, Denmark. Keynote
  • 21 Mar 11    “Participatory sense-making and institutions,” Workshop, “The Socially Extended Mind”, Freie Universität Berlin. Keynote
  • 19 Nov 10    “Can social interaction constitute social understanding?” Symposium on Interacting Minds: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Social Cognition at the Center for Integrative Life Sciences, Humboldt University Berlin. Keynote
  • 26 Jun 10    “Life and Social Cognition,” 1st International Summer School on Life and Cognition, University of the Basque Country, San Sebastián. Keynote
  • 19 Jun 10    “Life, self and others. Organic foundations of self-awareness and intersubjectivity,” with Thomas Fuchs, DISCOS, an International Conference on Intersubjectivity and the Self, Central European University, Budapest
  • 28 Jan 10     “Can social interaction constitute social cognition?”, Center for Semiotics, Winter Symposium on Dynamic models and social interaction, Aarhus University, Denmark
  • 17 Jan 10    “The intersubjective environment,” with Sanneke de Haan, Workshop on Plastic Human Boundaries, FEST, University of Heidelberg
  • 18 Nov 09    “Participatory sense-making and early intersubjectivity”, Lunchtime Seminar, Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth
  • 17 Nov 09    “Participatory sense-making and autism”, BPS Seminar Series on Autism: Experimental Methods and Theoretical Confusion? The self in autism and in infancy, University of Portsmouth.Keynote
  • 5 Nov 09    “Participatory sense-making and early intersubjectivity” VW-Stiftung Workshop, University of Heidelberg. Keynote
  • 20 Apr 09    “Enactive approach to social cognition” Centro de Estudios sobre Ciencia, Desarrollo y Educación Superior (Redes), Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • 7 Mar 09    “From direct perception to transparent interaction” Philosophy of Perception: Being in the World workshop, Department of Philosophy, University of Tokyo. Keynote
  • 20 Feb 09    “Implications of the enactive definition of the social”, with Ezequiel Di Paolo, Department of Psychiatry, University of Heidelberg
  • 14 Feb 09    “Implications of an enactive definition of the social” Enacting Intersubjectivity: Paving the Way between Cognitive Science, Social Cognition & Neuroscience International Workshop, University of Lugano, Switzerland. With Ezequiel Di Paolo. Keynote
  • 10 Feb 09    “Jointly shaping meaning: An enactive approach to social cognition” Centre for Semiotics, Aarhus University, Denmark. With Ezequiel Di Paolo
  • 10 Feb 09    “Participatory sense-making: what makes an interaction social?” The Interacting Minds Group, Center for Functionally Integrative Neuroscience, CFIN, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark. With Ezequiel Di Paolo
  • 14 Jan 09    “Interaction and Direct Perception,” Whitehead Lecture Series in “Cognition, Computation and Culture,” Goldsmiths College, London. Keynote
  • 14 Nov 08    “Non-representational approaches to intersubjectivity” Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Disorders and Coherence of the Embodied Self International Conference, University of Heidelberg, 13-15 November. With Thomas Fuchs. Keynote
  • 22 Jan 07    “Social Cognition: Interaction Rhythm and Participatory Sense-Making,” Université de Technologie, Compiègne, France
  • 17 Oct 06    “The Interactive Experience of Autism,” Café Scientifique, Brighton
  • 9 Feb 05    “Minds in Synchrony,” Middlesex University Psychology Research Seminar
  • 28 Nov 03     “How, when our minds meet, our bodies meet. Unpacking the mechanism of social interaction further,” Mainzer Nachwuchsgruppe für Philosophie des Geistes, University of Mainz
  • 19 Jan 01    “This is the Title. On Autistic Thinking and Artificial Intelligence,” AI lab, Free University of Brussels