Public lectures

Exploring interoception: from bodily signals and regulation to scaffolded cognition - 01/07/26
Somogy Varga, Professor of Philosophy of Medicine, University of Aarhus (Denmark)

Using the past to serve the present: Is legislation of memory good for democracy? - 22/03/2024
Nikolay Koposov, Professor of of History and Sociology, Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)

Behind, in front of and around the mirror: Self-recognition in primates - 07/12/2023
James Anderson, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Kyoto University (Japan)

Black People in White Space: Challenges to Civil Society - 22/05/2023
Elijah Anderson, Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies, Yale University (USA)

Morphogens in the ontogeny and phylogeny of cognitive functions - 22/03/2023
Alain Prochiantz, Emeritus Professor in Neurobiology, Collège de France, Paris (France)

Melatonin: prospects and hopes in humans - 30/01/2023
Josephine Arendt, Emeritus Professor of Endocrinology, University of Surrey (United Kingdom)

Lost in a book – on the nature and value of immersive reading - 15/06/2022
Diana Holmes, Professor of French, University of Leeds (United Kingdom)

Modernism's Visible Hand: How architecture shaped the modern way of life - 11/02/2020
Michael Osman, Professor of Architectural History, University of California in Los Angeles (USA)

The Spread Mind: A mind-object identity approach to the problem of consciousness - 11/12/2018         
Riccardo Manzotti, Professor of Theoretical Philosophy, International University of Languages and Media (IULM), Milan (Italy)

Imagining Athens in the Assembly and on the Battlefield - 10/072018 
Peter Hunt, Professor of Ancient Greek History, University of Colorado in Boulder (USA)

Making Athens Great Again - 10/07/2018           
Sophie Mills, Professor of Classics, University of North Carolina Asheville (USA)

The Man Who Had an Upside-Down Circadian Clock - 02/07/2018
William Schwartz, Professor of Neurology and Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin (USA)

Finding truth when most people are wrong - 23/10/2017                   
Drazen Prelec, Professor  of Management Science and Economics, MIT Sloan School of Management (USA)

From tooth to guts: mechanisms of epithelial renewal and regeneration - 08/09/2017
Ophir Klein, Professor of Orofacial Sciences and Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco (USA)

Entering the Golden Age of Drosophila - 10/05/2017  
Norbert Perrimon, Professor of Developmental Biology, Harvard Medical School (USA)

Interactions between humans: Social evaluation by capuchin monkeys - 21/11/2016      
James Anderson, Professor of Psychology, Kyoto University (Japan)

Economic crisis, or crisis in economics? - 25/11/2015
Alan Kirman, Professor of Economics, University of Aix-Marseille, EHESS (France)

Governing Education: the rise of data - 21/09/2015
Jenny Ozga, Professor of Sociology of Education, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)

Lupus and the Brain - 12/05/2015
John Hanly, Professor of Medicine and Pathology, Dalhousie University, Halifax (Canada)

A closer look: The globalization of higher education - 17/03/2015
Susan Robertson, Professor of Sociology of Education, University of Bristol (United Kingdom)