Find Me

Here you will find my recent and upcoming talks.
If you were at one of these events, it was a pleasure to connect.
If you are joining an upcoming one, I look forward to meeting you — whether in person or online.

✨ Upcoming

• 📅 Atypical Cases of Memory: From Minimal Agents to Human Development
  May 4-7, 2026 — 🌐 Grenoble (Université Grenoble Alpes, Centre for Philosophy of Memory)
  Talk: Thinking Without Neurons: How Fungi Remember
• 📅 Keynote talk: Kako um zna da nešto nije stvarno [How the Mind Knows Something Isn’t Real]
  May 20, 2026 — 🌐 Zagreb (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing)
• 📅 AISB (The Society for the study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour) 2026
  July 1-2, 2026 — 🌐 Brighton, UK (University of Sussex)
  Talk: One Faithful Pass Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
• 📅 Philosophy of AI
  May 21-23, 2026 — 🌐 Dubrovnik (Czech Academy of Sciences)
  Talk: TBA
• 📅 Representations and values in science
  Nov 5-6, 2026 — 🌐 Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
  Keynote talk: TBA
• 📅 Illusions of Consciousness in Humans and AI
  May 21-23, 2026 — 🌐 Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
  Keynote talk: TBA

⏳ Past (2026)

• Strange New Worlds: Science and Star Trek Podcast by Michael Wong.  Episode 193: The Linguistics of “Darmok”
• 📅 AI Literacy for Prospective Teachers in Early Childhood and Primary Education
  May 4–7, 2026 — 🌐 Zagreb (University of Zagreb, Faculty of Teacher Education)
  Keynote talk: Everything Everywhere All At Once (Except for Understanding)

⌛ Past (2025)

• 📅 Conference on Domestic Cats in Literature
  March 13–15, 2025 — 🌐 Online (Troy University)
  Talk: What Is It Like to Be a Cat: Consciousness and Subjective Experience in Stray (2022)
• 📅 Workshop on Advancing Fairness in Machine Learning
  April 9–10, 2025 — 🌐 Online (Center for Cyber Social Dynamics, University of Kansas)
  Talk: Ethical Guardrails for AI: A Framework for Fairness and “Make Your Own Ethics”
• 📅 Philosophy in Technology (PiNT 2025)
  April 25–26, 2025 — 🌐 Online (Wrocław University of Science and Technology (hybrid))
  Talk: Computational Proto-Qualia
• 📅 Ernst Mach Workshop XIII: Conscious AI? Functionalism and its Alternatives
  June 2–3, 2025 — 📍 Prague, Czech Republic
  Talk: Do Large Language Models Hallucinate Electric Fata Morganas?
• 📅 BEACON 2025 — Biennial European Astrobiology Conference
  July 1–5, 2025 — 📍 Reykjavík, Iceland (Harpa Conference Centre)
  Talk: Astrobiology and the Transformation of Scientific Epistemology
• 📅 European Astrobiology Institute
  September 17, 2025 — 💻 Online (European Astrobiology Institute, Working group for Historical, philosophical and societal issues in astrobiology)
  Talk: The Boy Who Cried Life: False Positives and False Negatives in Astrobiology
• 📅 Online Workshop on Agentic AI
  November 21 & 28, 2025 — 💻 Online, The Centre for Philosophy and AI Research PAIR (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), the Institute of Philosophy (Chinese Academy of Sciences), and Northeastern University – London
  Talk: How to Miss a Mind
• 📅 Budapest Workshop on Philosophy and Technology
  November 27-29, 2025 — 📍Budapest University of Technology and Economics
  Talk: How to Design an Artificial Mind