Most Tuesdays at 2pm during Oxford term time, we have hybrid talks taking place in person in the upstairs seminar room at Stoke House, Oxford OX3 9BX, as well as online on zoom (link is here). Below is the full list of talks.

MIchaelmas term 2024/25:

Tuesday Sep 17
“The hominization of the brain: From genes to cognition”
Prof Jean-Pierre Changeux

Week 1, Tuesday Oct 15
“Trees: Markers of time, place and season. Sketches and notes from the field”
Dr Emma Coleman-Jones

Week 2, Tuesday Oct 22 2024 “Entangled: Being-with-Music”
Professor Eric Clarke (University of Oxford)

Week 3, Tuesday Oct 29 2024
“Artistic AI as emotional storytelling”
Peter Stenbæk

Thursday Oct 31 2024
“Anhedonia and reward-related neural abnormalities prospectively predict longitudinal changes in quality of life among treatment-seeking individuals with mood disorders”
Prof Diego Pizzagalli (Harvard University)

Week 4, Tuesday Nov 5 2024
Conscious Flourishing Day (9am-9pm)
Free to attend, but booking is required

Week 5, Tuesday Nov 12 2024
“Nature Recovery”
Professor Yadvinder Malhi (University of Oxford)

Week 6, Tuesday Nov 19 2024
“Blossoming, regrowth and flourishing: natural and social cycles in Yanomami society”
Dr Alejandro Reig

Week 7, Tuesday Nov 26 2024
“Water in the brain: Challenges and opportunities for survival and thriving”
Professor Nanna MacAulay (University of Copenhagen)

Trinity term 2023/24:

Week 1, Monday 22 April 2024
“Psilocybin treatment of tobacco addiction”
Prof Matt Johnson (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)

Week 1, Tuesday 23 April 2024
“Moving towards individualized epilepsy treatment: possibilities in whole brain modelling”
Dr Karmele Olaciregui Dague (Center for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing)

Week 2, Monday 29 April 2024
“Your wild and precious life”
Liz Jensen

Week 2, Tuesday 30 April 2024
“The Early Reception of the Sun Machine”
Nicholas Royle

Week 3, Tuesday 7 May 2024
“Joy of discovery: The phenomenology of Aha! experiences”
Dr Amory Danek (Heidelberg University, Germany)

Week 4, Tuesday 14 May 2024
“The Varieties of Psychedelic Breakthroughs”
Prof Leor Roseman (Exeter University)

Week 5, Tuesday 21 May 2024
“Deep flourishing: Ecstasy and agony in music”
Prof Milton Mermikides (Royal College of Music)

Week 6, Tuesday 28 May 2024
“From neural codes to mental worlds: A cognitive mapping lens on mental health”
Dr Matthew Nour (University of Oxford)

Week 7, Monday 3 June 2024
“Sculpting subjective reality in health and disease”
Prof Predrag Petrovic (Karolinska Institut, Sweden)

Week 7, Tuesday 4 June 2024
“On the perception of ‘now’: intriguing evidence from confabulating patients”
Prof Armin Schnider (University Hospital Geneve)

Week 8, Tuesday 11 June 2024
“Sound Gathers: collaborative curation with The Black Power Station”
Prof Noel Lobley (University of Virginia)

Week 9, Solstice Friday 21 June 2024
“The musicality of mental time travel”
Prof Nicola Clayton & Mark Baldwin (University of Cambridge)

Hilary term 2023/24:

Week 1, Tuesday 16 January 2024
“Music and dance mitigate the impacts of age-related neurodegeneration”
Dr Roosa Leimu-Brown

Week 2, Tuesday 23 January 2024
“The Future of Functional Neurosurgery”
Prof Alex Green (University of Oxford)

Week 3, Tuesday 30 January 2024
“Consciousness from micro to macro: network models to bridge neurotransmitters, pharmacology, and cognition”
Dr Andrea Luppi (University of Oxford)

Week 4, Tuesday 6 February 2024
“Being my whole self: a story of synthesising neuroscience, trichotillomania, connection and art”
Prof Claire Mackay (University of Oxford)

Week 5, Tuesday 13 February 2024
“Ethically Scaling Emergence”
Daniel Ingram 

Week 6, Tuesday 20 February 2024
“Psychedelics and how they affect the brain”
Kenneth Shinozuka (University of Oxford)

Week 7, Tuesday 27 February 2024
“From dynamics to thermodynamics in the brain and beyond”
Ramon Nartallo-Kaluarachchi (University of Oxford)

Michaelmas term 2023/24:

Week 0, Tuesday 3 October 2023
“From Complexity to Action: Urban Mental Health and Interventions”
Professor Claudi Bockting (University of Amsterdam)

Week 2, Tuesday 17 October 2023
“Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Supporting Neurodiversity”
Angela Austin (Autistic Spectrum Solutions)

Week 3, Tuesday 24 October 2023
“Could AI become conscious?“
Dr Shamil Chandaria (Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing, Linacre College, University of Oxford)

Week 4, Tuesday 31 October 2023
“Flourishing: A global health perspective”
Professor Willem Kuyken (Sir John Ritblat Family Foundation Professor of Mindfulness and Psychological Science, University of Oxford)

Week 5, Tuesday 7 November 2023
“Autistic flourishing: Cognition, coproduction, compassion, and meaningful therapeutic applications”
Dr Eloise Stark (Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing)

Week 6, Tuesday 14 November 2023
“A computational approach to understanding motivational dysfunction in depression”
Professor Jonathan Roiser (University College London)

Week 7, Tuesday 21 November 2023
“Everything is connected”
Annie Cattrell (Artist-in-residence, Centre for Eudaimonia and Human Flourishing)

Week 8, Tuesday 28 November 2023
“The Colonial Roots of Botany – Legacies of Empire in the Botanic Gardens of Oxford and Kew”
Dr Vibe Nielsen (Linacre College and Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford)

Trinity term 2022/23:

Week 1, April 25th 2023
“Dynamics of Drug induced Neuromodulations and Neuroadaptations”
Prof Jan Ramaekers, University of Maastricht, Holland

Week 2, May 2nd 2023
“The art of memory: a scientific approach to learning and problem solving”
Vanni De Luca

Week 3, May 9th (Note: hosted at Linacre College) 2023
“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 2023
“Signals from the Brain: A Tale of Dynamics and Networks”
Professor Dimitri van der Ville, EPFL, Switzerland

Week 4, May 18th 2023
“How major depressive disorder impacts on human flourishing and ways to proceed”
Professor Eric Ruhe, Radboud University, Holland

Week 5, May 23rd 2023
“Leonardo and the turbulence of mind”
Professor Gustavo Deco, ICREA and University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

Week 6, May 30th 2023
“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) 2023
“Treatment of Erotomania: Forensic Psychotherapy with a Woman Whose Love Could Kill”
Anna Motz, Oxford

Monday July 17th 2023
“Classic psychedelics: what are they and how might they work?”
Professor Robin Carhart-Harris (University of California, San Francisco)

Tuesday July 25th 2023
“Flourishing and cuteness: Unlocking the parental brain”
Professor Morten L Kringelbach (University of Oxford)

Friday August 25th 2023
“PubChoir”
Astrid Jorgensen (Director, PubChoir)

Hilary term 2022/23:

Week 1, January 17th 2023
“From beast machines to dreamachines”
Prof Anil Seth, University of Sussex

Week 2, January 24th 2023
“How opioids affect well-being”
Prof Siri Leknes, University of Oslo, Norway

Week 3, January 31st 2023
“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 2023
“The Nature of Flourishing”
Caspar Henderson, Oxford

Week 8, March 7th 2023
“Why killing the dead makes people happy”
Prof John Blair, University of Oxford

Week 10, March 21th 2023
“Jhana meditation:  the neuroscience of high arousal contemplation”
Jonas Mago, McGill University, Canada

Michaelmas term 2022/23:

Week 1, October 11th 2022
“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 2022
“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 2022
“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 2022
“Much ado about noise: Delusions and the brain”
Prof Predrag Petrovic, Karolinska Institut, Sweden

Week 6, November 15th 2022
“Understanding the exploration of human suffering”
Prof Suzanne Oosterwijk, University of Amsterdam, Holland

Week 7, November 22nd 2022
“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 2022
“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

Trinity Term 2021/22:

Week 1, Apr 26th 2022
“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 2022
“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 2022
“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 2022
“The Empathy Museum”
Clare Patey, Empathy Museum, UK

Week 5, May 24th 2022
“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 2022
“The science of hedonia and eudaimonia: State-of-the-art”
Prof Morten L Kringelbach, University of Oxford, UK

Week 7, June 7th 2022
“Post-traumatic stress disorder: The role of an episodic memory”
Prof Yair Bar-Haim, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Week 8, June 14th 2022
“Groove on the brain”
Prof Peter Vuust, Center for Music in the brain, Aarhus University/Royal Academy of Music, Denmark

Week 8, June 17th 2022
“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 2022
“The science of emergence: When many become one“
Dr Pedro Mediano, Imperial College

Hilary term 2021/2022

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