list of talks
This is a complete list of all talks held at the Centre (2022-present):
15th of February 2022
“Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing: Ancient wisdom through a modern lens”
Dr Shamil Chandaria, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, University of Oxford, UK
1st of March 2022
“From harmonics to enlightenment: Links between harmonics, nature, brain and consciousness”
Dr Selen Atasoy, University of Oxford, Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, UK
Trinity Term 2022:
Week 1, Apr 26th
“Logarithms of well-being: What information decomposition can show us about self and boundaries”
Dr Fernando Rosas, Imperial College London and University of Sussex, UK
Week 2, May 3rd
“Brain dynamics of encoding and recognising temporal sequences: Insight from music”
Dr Leonardo Bonetti, University of Oxford, Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, UK
Week 3, May 10th
“Who’s Upside Down; Us or the Bats? Evoking Empathy with Animal Portraiture”
Tim Flach, Artist-in-residence, Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, University of Oxford, UK
Week 4, May 17th
“The Empathy Museum”
Clare Patey, Empathy Museum, UK
Week 5, May 24th
“Hidden Music: Sonic translations of Nature”
Prof Milton Mermikides, University of Surrey & Royal College of Music London, UK. Artist-in-residence, Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, University of Oxford, UK
Week 6, May 31st
“The science of hedonia and eudaimonia: State-of-the-art”
Prof Morten L Kringelbach, University of Oxford, UK
Week 7, June 7th
“Post-traumatic stress disorder: The role of an episodic memory”
Prof Yair Bar-Haim, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Week 8, June 14th
“Groove on the brain”
Prof Peter Vuust, Center for Music in the brain, Aarhus University/Royal Academy of Music, Denmark
Week 8, June 17th
“Emergence and function of irreversibility in neural systems”
Dr Christopher Lynn, Centre for the Physics of Biological Function, Princeton University, USA
Week 9, June 21st
“The science of emergence: When many become one“
Dr Pedro Mediano, Imperial College
Michaelmas term 2022:
Week 1, October 11th
“The Bayesian Brain and Meditation: A predictive processing account of radical changes in the character of phenomenal experience”
Dr Shamil Chandaria, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, Linacre College, University of Oxford
Week 2, October 18th
“Music for improving sleep and well-being: Interdisciplinary perspectives”
Prof Kira Vibe Jespersen, Center for Music in the Brain, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Week 3, October 25th
“Empathy, connection and the power of listening: Listening volunteer for the Samaritans”
Mark Haddon
Week 4, November 1st
“Emergence of Consciousness and Becoming a Person”
Prof Hugo Lagercrantz, Karolinska Institut, Sweden
Week 5, November 8th
“Much ado about noise: Delusions and the brain”
Prof Predrag Petrovic, Karolinska Institut, Sweden
Week 6, November 15th
“Understanding the exploration of human suffering”
Prof Suzanne Oosterwijk, University of Amsterdam, Holland
Week 7, November 22nd
“Unfolding boredom and discovering origami”
Dr Lizzie Burns, Artist-in-residence, Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, University of Oxford, UK
Week 8, November 29th
“Becoming a good ancestor: The search for Human Flourishing”
Dr Roman Krznaric, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, University of Oxford, UK
Hilary term 2023:
Week 1, January 17th
“From beast machines to dreamachines”
Prof Anil Seth, University of Sussex
Week 2, January 24th
“How opioids affect well-being”
Prof Siri Leknes, University of Oslo, Norway
Week 3, January 31st
“Psychological and neuropsychological mechanisms for human interaction through music”
Prof Peter Keller, Center for Music in the Brain, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Week 7, February 28th
“The Nature of Flourishing”
Caspar Henderson, Oxford
Week 8, March 7th
“Why killing the dead makes people happy”
Prof John Blair, University of Oxford
Week 10, March 21th
“Jhana meditation: the neuroscience of high arousal contemplation”
Jonas Mago, McGill University, Canada
Trinity term 2023:
Week 1, April 25th
“Dynamics of Drug induced Neuromodulations and Neuroadaptations”
Prof Jan Ramaekers, University of Maastricht, Holland
Week 2, May 2nd
“The art of memory: a scientific approach to learning and problem solving”
Vanni De Luca
Week 3, May 9th (Note: hosted at Linacre College)
“Global Art in Local Art Worlds: Changing Hierarchies of Value”
Dr Vibe Nielsen (University of Oxford) & Professor Jens Sejrup (University of Copenhagen)
Week 4, May 16th
“Signals from the Brain: A Tale of Dynamics and Networks”
Professor Dimitri van der Ville, EPFL, Switzerland
Week 4, May 18th
“How major depressive disorder impacts on human flourishing and ways to proceed”
Professor Eric Ruhe, Radboud University, Holland
Week 5, May 23rd
“Leonardo and the turbulence of mind”
Professor Gustavo Deco, ICREA and University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Week 6, May 30th
“Oscillatory modes at the basis of a brain melody in health and disease”
Dr Joana Cabral, University of Minho, Portugal
Week 9, June 21st (note: Wednesday)
“Treatment of Erotomania: Forensic Psychotherapy with a Woman Whose Love Could Kill”
Anna Motz, Oxford
Monday July 17th
“Classic psychedelics: what are they and how might they work?”
Professor Robin Carhart-Harris (University of California, San Francisco)
Tuesday July 25th
“Flourishing and cuteness: Unlocking the parental brain”
Professor Morten L Kringelbach (University of Oxford)
Friday August 25th
“PubChoir”
Astrid Jorgensen (Director, PubChoir)
