Speakers
Alessandro Portelli
(Online presentation)
Alessandro Portelli is an Italian scholar of American literature and culture, oral historian, writer, and musicologist. He is considered one of the leading theorists of oral history. His work has been translated into several languages, including Spanish, Catalan, Finnish, and Portuguese (two collections of his essays have appeared in Brazil and in Portugal). In 2013, he was awarded an honorary degree from the University of La Plata.
Alessandro has been published in many academic journals intellectually. He writes regularly for Il Manifesto daily in Rome, produces radio programs and has edited a number of records based on his field recordings of Italian folk music. His current project is a collection of music and life stories from immigrants to Italy from different parts of the world (We Are Not Going Back. Migrant Music of Resistance, Memory and Pride, 2016).
Kellie Pollard
(Online presentation)
Kellie Pollard obtained her PhD in archaeology from Flinders University in 2019. Since then, Kellie has been employed at Charles Darwin University in the Northern Territory, first as a Lecturer and most recently as a full-time Research Fellow in the Faculty of Arts and Society. Kellie specialises in Indigenous knowledges and philosophies and a range of other subjects that cover the historical and contemporary Indigenous experience in Australia since 1788.
Kellie, a Wiradjuri koori originally from New South Wales, has a long career working in federal, state and Territory agencies administering Indigenous affairs across diverse portfolios before entering academia full-time. With two current ARCs in archaeology, her research focuses on decolonising theory, method and approach to empower the self-determination of Indigenous people in history and heritage.
John Sutton
(Online presentation)
John Sutton is Leverhulme International Visiting Professor at the University of Stirling in Scotland for 2023-24, and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Macquarie University. He works on distributed cognition, memory, skill, and cognitive history.
A volume he coedited with Kath Bicknell, Collaborative Embodied Performance: ecologies of skill, was published by Bloomsbury in 2022. Other recent work addresses expertise in film, music, and healthcare.
Glenda Satne
She is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the School of Liberal Arts, University of Wollongong. I specialise in Philosophy of mind and Social Ontology. My research focuses on E- approaches to the Mind and sociality. My areas of interest include Collective Intentionality, Joint action, Social Cognition, the Second-Person, Normativity and the role played by culture in human evolution. I have written on many topics connected to these including music improvisation, social learning, social bias, evolution and cooperation, social norms, and social attention. I am also interested in Metaphilosophy and Naturalism and usually write on these topics too. I have written a book on Wittgenstein and I am currently writing one on social normativity
I am a member and part of the steering committee of the International Social Ontology Society; Book Review Editor of Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences; and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Social Ontology.
https://scholars.uow.edu.au/glenda-satne
Nicolas Bullot
As an academic researcher and lecturer, I am working at the interface of philosophy and the cognitive and social sciences. My published research includes a psycho-historical framework for the science of art appreciation, a psycho-cultural model of music appreciation, a theory of the identification of human persons, and a critique of individualistic theories of violence.
The transdisciplinary method I adopt in these works attempts to reconcile empirical discoveries made by cognitive scientists with normative and historiographical inquiries contributed by philosophers, historians, archaeologists, and other social scientists. I am passionately engaged in collaborations with Aboriginal researchers and Indigenous leaders to develop truth-telling about Australian history and the decolonisation of the academe.
Rob Wilson
Rob Wilson is a professor of philosophy at the University of Western Australia. He has a longstanding interest in integrating work across the cognitive, biological, and social sciences, as manifest in his Boundaries of the Mind (Cambridge UP, 2004), Genes and the Agents of Life (Cambridge UP, 2005), and The Eugenic Mind Project (MIT Press, 2018). As part of that interest, and related to “Thinking Together”, he has published on group minds and collective intentionality, individualism, and kinship. His current research centres on kinship and the philosophy of anthropology, as well as Indigenous expertise and scientific knowledge.
Anne Schwenkenbecher
Anne is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the College of Arts, Business, Law and Social Sciences at Murdoch University. Before joining Murdoch in June 2013, she held appointments at The University of Melbourne, the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) at the Australian National University, the University of Vienna, and Potsdam University. Her Ph.D. in Philosophy (2009) is from Humboldt University of Berlin, her hometown.
Her research is in moral, social and political philosophy, more specifically on – group action and joint action – collective moral obligations – social epistemology – ethics of political violence (terrorism and war) – environmental philosophy: ethics and climate change, social justice implications of conventional and renewable energies – public goods and global commons.
Alberto Guerrero-Velazquez
Alberto is a philosopher with a specialisation in Social Sciences and a MA in Cognitive Sciences. Currently, he is doing a PhD in Philosophy under the supervision of Rob Wilson. His research focuses on episodic thinking, particularly autobiographical memory, and its relationships with imagination, identity, language, and collective memory.
Part of his work in philosophy and social history has been published in journals in Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, and Brazil. He was the compiler of “Memorias desde el sur,” a book that reflects on interdisciplinary perspectives on memory processes in Colombia and Argentina.
Regina Fabry
Regina Fabry is a philosopher of mind and cognition with expertise in empirically informed research on 4E cognition and enculturation. She is a Lecturer and ARC Discovery Early Career Research Awardee in the Department of Philosophy at Macquarie University. Her research interests include narrative practices, literacy, sense of self, mental disorders, grief, mind-wandering, mathematical cognition, and human-technology interactions. Currently, Regina is working on her ARC DECRA project “Living to tell, telling to live: Experience, narrative and the self.” In this project, she explores the relationship between lived experience and self-narrative by integrating work in philosophy, the cognitive sciences, and cognitive narratology.
Jacqueline Lo
Professor Jacqueline Lo is the Director of the new Indo-Pacific Research Centre at Murdoch University. She is also an Honorary Professor at the Australian National University. An internationally recognised Humanities scholar and pioneer of Asian Australian Studies, her work on multiculturalism, diaspora and cross-cultural studies has influenced academic and policy sectors in Australia, Asia and Europe. Jacqueline is the Founding Chair of the Asian Australian Studies Research Network and chairs the Asian Australian Studies Series with ANU Press. She was awarded the Knight of the Academic Palms in 2014 by the French Government.
Costanza Penna
(Online presentation)
I’m a PhD student in Philosophy based in Italy, but I’m currently in New York as a visiting scholar at Columbia University. My research mainly lies in social ontology, dealing with collective intentionality, group agency, and social structures. My dissertation project investigates how groups persist through time and what kind of normativity can bind members of different generations in transgenerational social actions. I believe collective memory and collective future thought to be a big part of the story. After my time on the East Coast, I’ll be back in sunny California to conduct research at UC Irvine.
Stephen Enciso
Stephen Enciso has recently completed a Master by Research in Philosophy and is preparing to undertake a Ph.D. His research focus has been mainly on political philosophy, but he is interested in interdisciplinary collaborations. He currently works as a Research and Teaching Assistant at Charles Darwin University.
Aidan Ryall
I am a PhD candidate at the ANU in the school of philosophy, where I specialize in the philosophy of history. My background is in both history and philosophy, and my current project allows me to work with philosophers, historians, and archaeologists. My thesis focuses on developing an account of the nature of history as a discipline. I ask questions about how historians generate knowledge about the past, how they might get it right or wrong, and about structures that enable them to do so. In answering these questions, I draw together insights from the philosophy of science, metaphysics, and historiography.
Annie Mukherjee
Annie Mukherjee is a Ph.D. Research Scholar at the Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University. Her work focuses on the application of experimental methodology in testing out certain Theories of Mind. She has a forthcoming publication in this domain.
Annie has previously completed her B.A., M.A. (graduated top of the class) and M.Phil. in Philosophy from Jadavpur University. Her primary areas of interest lie in the domains of Philosophy of Mind and Experimental Philosophy, with additional interests in Metaphilosophy, Philosophy of Psychology and History of Philosophy.
Alexandra Lamont
(Online presentation)
Alexandra Lamont is Professor of Music Psychology at the School of Psychology, Keele University, UK. She holds qualifications in Music (BA, Cambridge), Music Psychology (MA, City) and Education (PhD, Cambridge). She has been heavily involved in postgraduate education and is the current Director of the Keele Doctoral Academy. Her research is multidisciplinary and brings together different strands of psychology, musicology, education, and sociology to address questions of musical engagement across the lifespan. She is the current Editor in Chief of the journal Psychology of Music and a Trustee of the Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research.
Manuel Anglada-Tort
(Online presentation)
Manuel Anglada-Tort is a Lecturer in Psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, and a visiting researcher in the Computational Auditory Perception Group at Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Germany. He is interested in understanding the psychological and cultural foundations of complex social behaviour such as music and aesthetics, and the role they play in human societies and cultural evolution. His research covers a variety of topics, including biological and cognitive foundations of musical behaviour, production and consumption of creative work, collective cognition and creativity, network science, and cultural evolution
Oscar Davis
Oscar Davis is an Indigenous Fellow and Assistant Professor in Philosophy and Indigenous studies at Bond University. With Aboriginal (Gamilaraay) heritage on his mother’s side, and Papua New Guinean (Tatana/Ranubada) heritage on his father’s side, Oscar is interested in how Indigenous Australian and Melanesian ways of being, doing, and knowing can inform the ontological foundations of our moral responsibility with the environment. Oscar also explores how evolutionary biology has shaped moral discourse. In particular, Oscar’s research in metaethics critically analyses the evolutionary debunking argument, where the evolutionary processes which formed our moral sense are said to undermine the objective, stance-independent truth of moral facts.
Glen Stasiuk
Academic Program Chair of Screen Production, Lecturer & senior Indigenous researcher at Murdoch University and a Western Australian Screen Award (WASA) winning director, Glen is a maternal descendent of the Minang-Wadjari Nyungars (Aboriginal peoples) of the South-West of Western Australia whilst his paternal family emigrated from post-war Russia. These rich and varied cultural backgrounds have allowed him, through his filmmaking, research and writing to explore culture, knowledge and diverse narratives.
Jorge Mendonca
Dr Jorge Mendonca’s research focuses on the philosophical and scientific uses of the concept of altruism, investigating the historical development of this idea and the contemporary arguments for the existence of altruism. His work articulates different ways of conceptualizing the idea of caring for others. He is currently a research associate in the ARC project in philosophy of anthropology centered in the concept of kinship, “Keeping Kinship in Mind”, coordinated by Prof. Rob Wilson, at the University of Western Australia.
Tim Flanagan
Tim is a Lecturer in Humanities at Murdoch University. He works on philosophical aesthetics and the place of metaphysics in post-Kantian thought. His 2021 book, Baroque Naturalism in Benjamin and Deleuze: The Art of Least Distances, examined how the sense of agitation and hallucination so emblematic of the seventeenth-century sensibility serves both to situate and to orient our thinking in a complex world. His current work is oriented by the rethinking of ontology by logology following Barbara Cassin.
Lucia C. Neco
Lucia wears two hats, one as a philosopher and one as a biologist. She is currently the Project Coordinator and Research Associate for the “Keeping Kinship in Mind” Project, coordinated by Prof. Rob Wilson at the University of Western Australia. She is fascinated by the philosophical underpinnings of the biological, cognitive, and social sciences, especially in the realms of social behavior and culture. Additionally, she actively contribute to the Philosophical Engagement for Public Life (PEiPL) network and engage in initiatives related to Philosophy for Children (p4c) in Perth, Australia.
