Speakers 2026

Duncan Pritchard

June 4, 2026

Duncan Pritchard is UC Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Knowledge, Technology & Society at the University of California, Irvine. He was previously Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Eidyn Research Center at the University of Edinburgh.

Silvia Stoyanova

June 4, 2026

Silvia Stoyanova is is a scholar of Italian literature and Digital Humanities. She is affiliated with University of Arizona, Department of French and Italian. Her research interests are focused on the application of digital and computational technologies for the study of language, literature, and intellectual history.

Lorenzo Costabile & Maria Eleonora Sciubba

June 4, 2026

Lorenzo Costabile is a PhD candidate at the University of Pavia. Maria Eleonora Sciubba is a Senior Researcher at the Department of Culture Studies in Tilburg University.

Mariela Destéfano

June 4, 2026

Mariela Destéfano is affiliated with the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) – National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET).

Paula Muhr

June 4, 2026

Paula Muhr is a visual artist and transdisciplinary researcher. She is Professor of Transdisciplinary Studies at the Brand University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg  and an external affiliated researcher with the Human-Centered Health AI research group at the Idiap Research Institute. She received her PhD in Visual History from Humboldt University Berlin.

Riccardo Valenti

June 4, 2026

Riccardo Valenti is affliated with the University of Trento.

Shaoyu Han

June 4, 2026

Shaoyu Han is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at Durham University.

Giacomo Pezzano

June 4, 2026

Giacomo Pezzano is an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy and Education at the University of Turin.

Eugene Philalithis

June 4, 2026

Eugene Philalithis is affiliated with the University of Edinburgh.

Afra Willems

June 4, 2026

Afra Willems (she/her) is interested in the ethics and aesthetics of digital imagery. Afra got her fine art and philosophy degrees from ArtEZ University of the Arts (MFA) and the University of Twente (MSc). Afra teaches at Saxion University of Applied Sciences for the Creative Media and Game Technologies (CMGT) program and works for the

Seunghyun Song

June 4, 2026

Seunhgyun Song is an assistant professor at Tilburg University. Her main area of expertise is in linguistic justice and intergenerational justice.

Zuzana Rybaříková

June 4, 2026

Zuzana Rybaříková is affiliated with the University of Ostrava.

Siebe Bluijs

June 4, 2026

Siebe Bluijs is an Assistant Professor at the Tilburg Center of the Learning Sciences. He works as a literature scholar specialized in modern and contemporary Dutch literature, avant-garde and experimental literature, and narratology.

Jan de Wit

June 4, 2026

Jan de Wit is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Cognition at Tilburg University.

Stefaan Blancke

June 4, 2026

Stefaan Blancke is Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Science at Tilburg University.

Thomas Decreus

June 4, 2026

Thomas Decreus is affiliated with the Department of Philosophy at Tilburg University.

Luke Kersten

June 4, 2026

Luke Kersten is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alberta.

Francien Dechesne

June 4, 2026

Francien Dechesne is Associate Professor of Ethics and Digital Technologies at Leiden University. She also holds the endowed chair of “AI and Data for the Rule of Law” at Tilburg University (a position shared between TLS and TSHD). She studied mathematics and philosophy, holds a PhD in Logic, and did postdoctoral research on formal methods

Richard Heersmink

June 4, 2026

Richard Heersmink is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Tilburg University.

Juan Sebastian Olier

June 24, 2024

Dr. Juan Sebastian Olier is an assistant professor at the Department of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence at Tilburg University. He is an engineer with a PhD in Machine Learning and Cognitive Environments and is passionate about interdisciplinary perspectives involving cognitive and social sciences. His research focuses on applying and developing artificial intelligence methods to

Inge van de Ven

May 8, 2023

Inge van de Ven is Associate Professor at the Department of Culture Studies of the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences of Tilburg University. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from Utrecht University in 2015. She was a Junior Core Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Budapest (2018-’19) and she is a board

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