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April 18, 2026
Medicine and AI
Artificial Intelligence
Medicine & Health
Biology & Evolution
Ethics & Morality
neuroscience-brain
science-technology
March 7, 2026
Where Have All the Isms Gone?: On the Evolution of Knowledge
Art & Aesthetics
Artificial Intelligence
Education & Knowledge
History & Culture
Philosophy
February 21, 2026
Why We Write
Art & Aesthetics
Artificial Intelligence
Language & Communication
Literature & Writing
Philosophy
November 8, 2025
Fail Again, Fail Better
Consciousness & Mind
Emotion & Affect
Literature & Writing
Philosophy
Psychology
October 4, 2025
See Memory
Art & Aesthetics
Artificial Intelligence
Emotion & Affect
Identity & Self
Literature & Writing
Medicine & Health
Memory
Neuroscience
Physics & Cosmology
Science
September 20, 2025
Resurgence of Freud
Art & Aesthetics
Artificial Intelligence
Medicine & Health
Psychoanalysis
Psychology
May 10, 2025
Neurodiversity
Emotion & Affect
Neuroscience
Society & Politics
April 19, 2025
Mindfulness Meditation: Benefits and Dilemmas
Consciousness & Mind
Death & Spirituality
Emotion & Affect
Medicine & Health
March 22, 2025
Music and Mind
Emotion & Affect
Music
Neuroscience
Science
January 11, 2025
Why War?
Emotion & Affect
Psychology
Society & Politics
November 16, 2024
Otherness
History & Culture
Identity & Self
Psychoanalysis
Society & Politics
November 2, 2024
The Poetry of Aging
Artificial Intelligence
Consciousness & Mind
Language & Communication
Medicine & Health
Philosophy
Poetry
September 21, 2024
Come Out Wherever You Are: In Search of Consciousness
Art & Aesthetics
Consciousness & Mind
Ethics & Morality
Identity & Self
Neuroscience
Philosophy
Science
May 11, 2024
Synthetic Consciousness: Seeing and Believing
Biology & Evolution
Consciousness & Mind
History & Culture
Neuroscience
Philosophy
April 27, 2024
Striking a Chord: Hearing and Space
Emotion & Affect
Language & Communication
Music
Physics & Cosmology
Space & Astrobiology
April 13, 2024
Discovering the What and the Wherefore: Scents and Sensibility
History & Culture
March 23, 2024
A =/= B -> Taste & Discernment
Art & Aesthetics
Biology & Evolution
Emotion & Affect
March 9, 2024
Touch as the Ur-Sense: From Presence to Poesy
Consciousness & Mind
Identity & Self
Philosophy
Poetry
February 24, 2024
The Effects of Media
Art & Aesthetics
Artificial Intelligence
Language & Communication
Technology & Digital
February 10, 2024
Covid and Literature
Literature & Writing
October 21, 2023
Permanence and Impermanence of Mathematical Concepts
Biology & Evolution
Mathematics
Philosophy
September 23, 2023
Emotion
Art & Aesthetics
Artificial Intelligence
Biology & Evolution
Emotion & Affect
Neuroscience
Philosophy
Psychology
Science
April 22, 2023
Shakespeare Forever
History & Culture
Literature & Writing
April 8, 2023
Life Beyond Earth: When and How Will it be Found?
Biology & Evolution
Space & Astrobiology
March 18, 2023
The Techne of Memory
Identity & Self
Memory
Technology & Digital
February 11, 2023
The Body and Psychosis
Consciousness & Mind
Identity & Self
Philosophy
Psychedelics & Altered States
November 19, 2022
Living in Difficult Times
Art & Aesthetics
Artificial Intelligence
Emotion & Affect
Ethics & Morality
Memory
Neuroscience
Physics & Cosmology
Science
Society & Politics
October 16, 2022
Coding and the New Human Phenotype: Are Natural Language Generators for Real?
Art & Aesthetics
Artificial Intelligence
Ethics & Morality
History & Culture
Language & Communication
Philosophy
October 16, 2022
Coding and the New Human Phenotype: Is the Universe a Metaverse?
Artificial Intelligence
Mathematics
Physics & Cosmology
Technology & Digital
October 15, 2022, 10:00 AM EST
Coding and the New Phenotype: In Search for Lost Time
Mathematics
Neuroscience
Psychoanalysis
Science
October 15, 2022
Coding and the Human Phenotype: Manipulated Perception? Fakery, Authenticity, and the Birth of NFTs
Artificial Intelligence
Education & Knowledge
Mathematics
Technology & Digital
October 15, 2022
Coding and the New Human Phenotype: Coding, Fiction, Metafiction -- the Parcellation of What Isn't There
Biology & Evolution
History & Culture
Literature & Writing
April 30, 2022
Metaphysics
Biology & Evolution
Consciousness & Mind
Ecology & Nature
Identity & Self
Neuroscience
Philosophy
Physics & Cosmology
Science
March 12, 2022
Psychedelics
Medicine & Health
Neuroscience
Psychedelics & Altered States
February 26, 2022
People & Things in Motion: Economics and the Future
Ecology & Nature
Economics
History & Culture
Language & Communication
Psychology
Society & Politics
December 4, 2021
Designer Genes
Biology & Evolution
Ethics & Morality
Identity & Self
Technology & Digital
May 1, 2021
Stress
Emotion & Affect
Medicine & Health
March 20, 2021
Panacea or Poison: Placebos and Nocebos in Modern Medicine
Consciousness & Mind
Medicine & Health
Psychology
February 20, 2021
Populism
Society & Politics
Technology & Digital
January 30, 2021
The Many Minds of Memory
Identity & Self
Memory
Philosophy
September 26, 2020
Ethics & AI
Art & Aesthetics
Artificial Intelligence
Education & Knowledge
Ethics & Morality
February 29, 2020
How Deep Do We Go? Behavior, Mind, and The 4-Billion-Year History of Life
Biology & Evolution
Consciousness & Mind
Emotion & Affect
Identity & Self
Neuroscience
Philosophy
Psychology
Science
December 7, 2019
Mathematics and Other Realities
Mathematics
Philosophy
November 16, 2019
Emergence of Empathy: Encountering The Other Through Fiction
Emotion & Affect
Identity & Self
Literature & Writing
October 5, 2019
Mechanization of Math
Art & Aesthetics
Artificial Intelligence
Mathematics
Science
September 21, 2019
Lying
Neuroscience
Philosophy
Psychology
June 8, 2019
Status
Emotion & Affect
History & Culture
May 18, 2019
Shame
Emotion & Affect
History & Culture
Technology & Digital
April 27, 2019
Living in the Anthropocene
Art & Aesthetics
Biology & Evolution
Ecology & Nature
March 9, 2019
Life in the Universe
Biology & Evolution
Physics & Cosmology
Space & Astrobiology
January 19, 2019
Math Models Mind
Art & Aesthetics
Interdisciplinary
Mathematics
December 1, 2018
The Beauty and Unity of Mathematics
Art & Aesthetics
Artificial Intelligence
Mathematics
November 10, 2018
The Future of Psychiatry
Medicine & Health
Psychoanalysis
Psychology
June 14, 2018
Creative Turbulence (Roundtable)
Art & Aesthetics
Education & Knowledge
Mathematics
Physics & Cosmology
Science
May 12, 2018
The Completeness of Physics
Art & Aesthetics
Biology & Evolution
Ethics & Morality
Neuroscience
Philosophy
Science
April 21, 2018
Boredom
Emotion & Affect
History & Culture
Literature & Writing
Neuroscience
Psychology
Science
March 10, 2018
Transhumanist Predictions and the Human Predicament
Art & Aesthetics
Artificial Intelligence
Biology & Evolution
Technology & Digital
February 10, 2018
Mind Matters: Past, Present, and Future
Art & Aesthetics
Interdisciplinary
Mathematics
December 3, 2017
Science, Art & Society 2
Art & Aesthetics
Artificial Intelligence
Economics
Education & Knowledge
Ethics & Morality
History & Culture
Memory
Neuroscience
Physics & Cosmology
Science
Society & Politics
December 2, 2017, 11:30 AM-1:00 PM
Science, Art & Society 1
Art & Aesthetics
Artificial Intelligence
Economics
Education & Knowledge
Ethics & Morality
History & Culture
Memory
Neuroscience
Physics & Cosmology
Science
Society & Politics
December 2, 2017
STEAM & the Future of Education 1
Education & Knowledge
Interdisciplinary
December 2, 2017
Science-Art Collaboration 2
Art & Aesthetics
Artificial Intelligence
Economics
Ethics & Morality
Interdisciplinary
Literature & Writing
Memory
Neuroscience
Physics & Cosmology
Science
December 2, 2017
STEAM & the Future of Education 2
Art & Aesthetics
Education & Knowledge
Interdisciplinary
December 1, 2017
Science-Art Collaboration 1
Art & Aesthetics
Artificial Intelligence
Economics
Ethics & Morality
Interdisciplinary
Literature & Writing
Memory
Neuroscience
Physics & Cosmology
Science
November 18, 2017
American Poetry Today
Literature & Writing
Poetry
Psychology
Society & Politics
October 14, 2017
"Fake" Knowledge: Knowing and the Illusion of Knowing
Education & Knowledge
Identity & Self
Philosophy
Technology & Digital
May 20, 2017
Complexity and Emergence II: Visions of Cosmic Order, from Particles to People
Consciousness & Mind
Identity & Self
Mathematics
Philosophy
April 22, 2017
Design in Nature
Biology & Evolution
Ecology & Nature
Philosophy
Physics & Cosmology
Space & Astrobiology
March 11, 2017
Music to Whose Ears III: Music and Healing
Emotion & Affect
Medicine & Health
Memory
Music
Neuroscience
February 25, 2017
The Displaced and The Other
Art & Aesthetics
Emotion & Affect
Society & Politics
February 11, 2017
Pain
Ethics & Morality
Medicine & Health
Science
January 28, 2017
The Library as Reality and Metaphor
Education & Knowledge
Memory
Philosophy
Technology & Digital
November 5, 2016
Autism and the Mind/Brain
Language & Communication
Medicine & Health
Neuroscience
Psychology
October 22, 2016
Embodied AI
Art & Aesthetics
Artificial Intelligence
Neuroscience
October 15-16, 2022
Coding and the New Human Phenotype (Weekend Conference Overview)
Art & Aesthetics
Artificial Intelligence
Biology & Evolution
Education & Knowledge
Mathematics
Philosophy
Technology & Digital
September 28, 2016
The Electorate: 2016
September 24, 2016
Happiness
Economics
Emotion & Affect
Ethics & Morality
Psychology
June 9-16, 2018 (multiple days)
Creative Turbulence Art Exhibition
Art & Aesthetics
Education & Knowledge
Ethics & Morality
Mathematics
Neuroscience
Physics & Cosmology
Science
May 7, 2016
Fear: Wherefore, Whence?
Emotion & Affect
March 26, 2016
Understanding Genius II: Women
History & Culture
Society & Politics
March 12, 2016
The Meditative State
Death & Spirituality
Neuroscience
Psychology
Science
February 20, 2016
Genes, Computers, and Medicine
Biology & Evolution
Medicine & Health
Neuroscience
Science
November 21, 2015
Translation Matters
History & Culture
Language & Communication
Society & Politics
November 7, 2015
Speak, Memory
Art & Aesthetics
Memory
Neuroscience
October 24, 2015
The Realm of Mystery
Education & Knowledge
Philosophy
Psychoanalysis
Psychology
October 3, 2015
Understanding Genius
Art & Aesthetics
Science
September 12, 2015
Epigenetics at Work
Biology & Evolution
Ecology & Nature
May 16, 2015
Human and Nonhuman Minds: Continuities and Discontinuities
Biology & Evolution
Consciousness & Mind
Science
May 2, 2015
Trauma and its Aftereffects, Part I: War and Genocide
Art & Aesthetics
Emotion & Affect
Ethics & Morality
Science
Society & Politics
April 25, 2015
The Changing Nature of Free Will
Biology & Evolution
Ethics & Morality
Neuroscience
Philosophy
Physics & Cosmology
Science
April 18, 2015
The Mind of a Child
Artificial Intelligence
Education & Knowledge
Emotion & Affect
Memory
Psychology
March 14, 2015
Curiosity
Art & Aesthetics
Education & Knowledge
Ethics & Morality
Neuroscience
Philosophy
Science
March 7, 2015
Apprehending Consciousness
Consciousness & Mind
Identity & Self
Neuroscience
Philosophy
Psychology
Science
February 21, 2015
Particle Fever / The Quest
Art & Aesthetics
Physics & Cosmology
Science
February 7, 2015
The Sublime Experience
Art & Aesthetics
Biology & Evolution
Consciousness & Mind
Death & Spirituality
Ecology & Nature
Emotion & Affect
Music
January 24, 2015
Music to Whose Ears II: Embodied Cognition
Biology & Evolution
Consciousness & Mind
Emotion & Affect
Music
Neuroscience
December 13, 2014
The Search for Immortality
Art & Aesthetics
Death & Spirituality
Ethics & Morality
Neuroscience
Philosophy
Science
December 6, 2014
French Surrealism: A Revolution of the Mind
History & Culture
Language & Communication
Philosophy
Poetry
November 15, 2014
Complexity and Emergence
Education & Knowledge
Mathematics
Neuroscience
Science
October 25, 2014
The Span of Infinity
Death & Spirituality
Mathematics
Philosophy
Physics & Cosmology
Psychology
October 11, 2014
Cancer: Body & Mind
Biology & Evolution
Consciousness & Mind
Medicine & Health
Neuroscience
Science
Space & Astrobiology
September 20, 2014
Knowledge and Limitations
Education & Knowledge
Philosophy
Physics & Cosmology
June 14, 2014
Responses: Poetry with Jean Valentine and Patrick Rosal
Poetry
May 17, 2014
Women and the Work World
Ecology & Nature
Society & Politics
April 26, 2014
Women and Science
Biology & Evolution
Education & Knowledge
Science
Society & Politics
Space & Astrobiology
April 12, 2014
Synchronicity: On the Spectrum of Mind and Matter
Consciousness & Mind
Death & Spirituality
Philosophy
Physics & Cosmology
Psychology
March 1, 2014
Identity and Fanaticism
Identity & Self
Psychology
February 22, 2014
Biology of Mind
Art & Aesthetics
Artificial Intelligence
Biology & Evolution
Consciousness & Mind
Identity & Self
Philosophy
Space & Astrobiology
January 25, 2014
From Children's Sights to Our Insights: Ethiopian Children's Drawings, Stories and Inner Lives
Art & Aesthetics
Consciousness & Mind
December 7, 2013
Secrecy and Transparency
Technology & Digital
October 11, 2013
The Amygdaloids Warburg Symposium Concert
Music
Neuroscience
Psychoanalysis
Science
June 8, 2013
Altruism and Empathy
Biology & Evolution
Consciousness & Mind
Emotion & Affect
Ethics & Morality
May 18, 2013
Second Annual Heavy MeNtal Variety Show
Consciousness & Mind
Music
Neuroscience
Psychoanalysis
May 11, 2013
Synthetic and Systems Biology: Reinventing the Code of Life
Biology & Evolution
Education & Knowledge
Medicine & Health
Science
April 27, 2013
Ignorance and Curiosity
Art & Aesthetics
Education & Knowledge
Ethics & Morality
Neuroscience
Science
April 13, 2013
Music to Whose Ears? Music, Emotion, and Mind
Art & Aesthetics
Emotion & Affect
Music
Philosophy
March 16, 2013
Elizabeth Bishop: A Conversation about Her Poetry
History & Culture
Poetry
March 9, 2013
The Topology of Fear
Emotion & Affect
Mathematics
February 23, 2013
Love, the Interrogative
Emotion & Affect
History & Culture
Neuroscience
Poetry
Psychoanalysis
Science
February 16, 2013
Urdu Poetry: Ghalib and the Ghazal
Poetry
November 17, 2012
Animal Language
Language & Communication
Technology & Digital
October 27, 2012
Male-Male Competition: Globalization, War, and Violence
Art & Aesthetics
Biology & Evolution
Society & Politics
October 26, 2012
Life and Movement
Art & Aesthetics
Biology & Evolution
October 14, 2012
Collaborations: Jazz and Poetry
Art & Aesthetics
History & Culture
Interdisciplinary
Language & Communication
Music
Poetry
October 13, 2012
Why Do Economists Disagree?
Economics
Interdisciplinary
September 15, 2012
What Can Mathematics Teach Us About Mind/Brain?
Mathematics
Neuroscience
Philosophy
Psychology
Science
May 19, 2012
Where Does It End?
Consciousness & Mind
Death & Spirituality
History & Culture
Identity & Self
Interdisciplinary
Philosophy
Physics & Cosmology
Space & Astrobiology
May 5, 2012
Where Does It Begin?
Consciousness & Mind
Identity & Self
Interdisciplinary
Philosophy
Physics & Cosmology
December 5-6, 2015
A Freudian Perspective on What Ails the World Today
Death & Spirituality
Education & Knowledge
History & Culture
Identity & Self
Psychoanalysis
Society & Politics
December 1-3, 2017
Art and Science: The Two Cultures Converging (3-Day Symposium)
Art & Aesthetics
Artificial Intelligence
Education & Knowledge
Ethics & Morality
Interdisciplinary
Memory
Neuroscience
Physics & Cosmology
Science
Science and the Big Questions (Series Overview)
Art & Aesthetics
Biology & Evolution
Consciousness & Mind
Death & Spirituality
Ethics & Morality
Identity & Self
Neuroscience
Philosophy
Physics & Cosmology
Science
April 11, 2015, 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Psychological Types Then and Now: The Relevance and Application of Jung's Theory
Psychoanalysis
Psychology
November 5, 2014, 8:00 p.m.
Synchronicity and Other Mind Matter Conjectures
Consciousness & Mind
Death & Spirituality
Medicine & Health
Physics & Cosmology
Psychology
October 12, 9:00 AM - 4:15 PM, 2013
Aby Warburg: Art, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis: Day 1
Art & Aesthetics
Interdisciplinary
Memory
Neuroscience
Society & Politics
October 13, 9:30 AM - 4:15 PM, 2013
Aby Warburg: Art, Neuroscience, and Psychoanalysis: Day 2
Art & Aesthetics
Interdisciplinary
Memory
Neuroscience
Society & Politics
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