Talks

Here is a list of my forthcoming talks. Come say hi!

23 mars 2026 | joint talk with Céline Boisserie-Lacroix on atmospheres (see Event section) in Grenoble

Past talks

2026

I spent a week at University of Cagliari thanks to the Visiting Professor/Research Programme (sponsored by Filippo Contesi)

17 February 2026, 15:00–17:00 (CET) | Aula Loi (Sa Duchessa Campus,
Central Building, Cagliari) & online, Joulia Smortchkova (University of Grenoble & UniCA Visiting
Professor/Scientist), “Perception-Based Mindreading”

20 February 2026, 9:00–11:00 (CET) | Aula Motzo (Sa Duchessa Campus,
Central Building, Cagliari) & online, Joulia Smortchkova (University of Grenoble & UniCA Visiting
Professor/Scientist), “The Affective Core of First Impressions”, Discussants: Laura Candiotto (University of Cagliari) & Oriana Mosca (University of Cagliari)

2025

7 February 2025 | PRISME Seminar, Institut Jean Nicod, The affective core of first impressions

28 February 2025 | IPhiG internal seminar (axe 2 “esprit et cognition”), The affective core of first impressions

4 April 2025 | CLLAM Stockholm (on-line), First Impressions and Affect

10 April 2025 | Perception workshop with Jessie Munton (Cambridge), Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, Social perceptual illusions and mind misreading

3 June 2025 | Philosophy of perception seminar, University of Turin, First impressions and affect

23 June 2025 | Neural Mechanisms (online), High-level social perception and mind misreading

30 June 2025 – 2 July 2025 | Symposium “Distorted first impressions” at the SOPHA, Nantes Université (with Géraldine Carranante and Jimena Clavel)

9 July 2025 | IUSS Philosophy Seminar – Pavia, The affective core of first impressions

16 July 2025 | CERE2025, Grenoble, Emotions and emotional expressions

30 September – 2 October 2025 | Céline Boisserie-Lacroix will be presenting our joint work on the perception of atmospheres in Milan for the conference Varieties of Atmospheres. Across Philosophy and History of Art

22-23 October 2025 | DigitHuman, Università Federico II, Napoli, Faces in the Claude. The psychological origins of animacy impressions.

8-9 November 2025 | KCL-Toronto Perception Workshop, Social perceptual illusions

25-26 November 2025 | FILE internal workshop, Collège de France, Files and First Impressions

27-29 November 2025 | The Philosophy of Atmospheres, Università di Torino, First Impressions and Atmospheres

2024

11-12 December 2024 | Perceiving high-level properties, Milan, Can Empirical Data Help Us Establish High-Level Perception?

5-6 December 2024| Mental Files in Philosophy and Psychology: scope and limits, Bochum, First Impressions and person-files (with Michael Murez, Nantes University & Collège de France)

25-27 November 2024 | La philosophie des émotions aujourd’hui,Clermont-Ferrand, Peut-on voir les émotions dans les visages et les corps des autres ?