Recent invited talks

• April 2008. Invited Speaker. "On enactivism and the intrinsic relation between mind and life." Bounds and Boundaries between Mind and Life. University of Groningen, April 15th, 2008.

• September 2007. Keynote Speaker. "Enaction begins in autonomy (and some forms of autonomy begin in play)". Enaction and Cognitive Science, CNRS Summer School, Organized by the Association pour la Recherche Cognitive (ARCo), 6-12 September 2007 - Frejus, France.

• September 2007. Invited Speaker. "Groovedigging: an Ashbyan Principle for the Dynamics of Development". Workshop Dynamical Approaches to Development: Beyond the Metaphor, ECAL'2007, 9-10 September 2007 - Lisbon, Portugal.

• September 2007. Keynote Speaker. "Escape from pervasive individualism: Why should embodied cognition seriously study the collective dynamics of social interaction?" 9th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL2007, September 10-14, 2007, Lisbon, Portugal.

• July 2007. Invited Lecturer, 5th European Neuro-IT and Neuroengineering School - Cognition and Action, July 15-21, 2007, Hanse-Institute for Advanced Study, Delmenhorst, Germany.

• February 2007. Guest Lecturer. Play as enaction; MSc in Complexity Science, University of Southampton, February, 23, 2007.

• November 2006. Play as re-creation: an enactive route to human sense-making. Mind and Life Seminars, University of Sussex, November 8th, 2006.

• October 2006. Invited Speaker. Enactive sense-making, play, and the receding horizons of representationalism. Workshop on Representation and action in human beings and machines. Universit`a degli Studi di Siena, Siena, Italy, 20 – 22 October 2006.

• September 2006. Invited Speaker SAB06 Workshop: Behaviour and Mind as a Complex Adaptive System. Roma, Italy, 30 September 2006.
• July 2006. Invited Speaker AI'50, 50th Anniversary Summit of Artificial Intelligence. Monte Verita, Switzerland 9-14 July 2006.
• June 2006. Invited Speaker. Enactive perception: Lessons from evolutionary robotics. Perceiving and Being Perceived in Digital Environments, Cognitive Technologies Program (FMSH – EDF R&D). Paris, 12 June 2006.
• May 2006. Invited Speaker. Horizons for the enactive mind: Values, social interacion, and play. CNRS Summer School: Constructivism and Enaction: A New Paradigm for Cognitive Science. Organized by the Association pour la Recherche Cognitive (ARCo), 29 May to 03 June 2006 - Ile d'Oléron, France.
• April 2006. Playing to be mindful (remedies for chronic boxology). AISB'06 Symposium on Machine Consciousness. University of Bristol.
• March 2006. Challenges for artificial cognitive systems. Artificial Cognitive Systems – Models and Paradigms. A preparatory Workshop for the EU seventh Framework Programme 2007-2013 for research and technology development. Luxembourg, 20-21 March 2006.
• January 2006. Autopoiesis, Adaptivity, and Sense-making: towards a biology of values. NUCOG/PHITECO Seminar Cognition, Motivation, Action. Universite de Technologie de Compiegne
• September 2005. (with Seth Bullock and Jason Noble) The value of the individual in individual-based modelling. British Ecological Society Annual Meeting, 5-7 September, 2005, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
• July 2005 Mas alla del robot indiferente: hacia una teoria dinamica de valores. Centro REDES - CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• June 2005 Nuevos pasos en robotica evolutiva. Universidad Simon Bolivar and Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela.
• June 2005 Mas alla del robot indiferente: hacia una teoria dinamica de valores. Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela.
• June 2005 La simulacion evolutiva como herramienta cientifica: distintos usos, nuevas ventajas, nuevos problemas. Universidad Simon Bolivar and Universidad del Central de Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela.
• June 2005 Inter-action matters: sketches of a radical enactive approach to social understanding. (with Hanne De Jaegher) Workshop on Perception, Intersubjectivity and Development, University of Middlesex, Friday 24th June.
• March 2005 Cognition, Not so minimal. Activate.d Workshop on Dynamical Systems Approach to Life and Cognition, University of Sussex.
• February 2005 Autopoiesis, adaptivity and time: the biology of agency and sense-making. COGS seminar, University of Sussex.
• January 2005 What makes an agent? What makes behaviour meaningful?. Autonomous Systems Lab ASL/LSA, EPFL, Lausanne.
• March 2004 Significance and Constitution: The less explored aspects of enaction. Talk presented at the Symposium on Enactive Perception University of Sussex, 9 and 10 March, 2004
• January 2004. Beyond robot movement, towards robot action. Erasmus/PHITECO Seminar Savoir ce que l'on fait. Universite de Technologie de Compiegne
• December 2003. Evolutionary Robotics: the Sussex approach. Art-Science Symposium, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao.
• October 2003. Simulating the origins and evolution of communication. Research on Languages and Linguistics at Sussex Seminar.
• September 2003. Plastic and non-plastic spiking neural controllers in evolutionary robotics. Computation and Control in Spiking Neuronal Networks, Second Conference. University of Sussex.
• August 2003. Homeostasis in adaptive behaviour, neuroscience and evolutionary robotics. Daisyworld and Beyond Workshop. University of Sussex.
• July 2003. Evolutionary synthesis of networks. Simple Models of Complex Networks Summer Workshop. University of Leeds.
• May 2003. Robotica inspirada en el organismo. Departamento de Logical y Filosofia de la Ciencia. University of the Basque Country, Donostia-San Sebastian.
• April 2003. Robotics inspired in the organism: Intentionality beyond the closed sensorimotor loop. AI Lab, University of Zurich.
• Jan 2003. Organismically-inspired robotics: homeostatic adaptation and teleology beyond the closed sensorimotor loop. Erasmus Seminar Espaces d'action, espaces de perception. Universite de Technologie de Compiegne
• Dec 2002. Towards organismically-inspired robotics. In Dynamic Systems Approach to Embodiment and Sociality, 3rd International Symposium on Human and Artificial Intelligence, HART 2002, University of Fukui, Japan

Simple Models of Complex Networks (SMoCN) Research Cluster (July, 2003 - June, 2004)

• Co-organiser, together with, Seth Bullock, Netta Cohen and Jason Noble (Leeds). Visit the cluster website.

ECAL'2001

• Co-organiser, together with Mike Wheeler (Dundee), Seth Bullock (Leeds) and Jason Noble (Leeds) of a workshop to be held in September 2001 in Prague as part of the ECAL'2001 conference: The view from elsewhere. Perspectives on  Alife Modelling. It's a follow-up of previous debates on the subject.

ECAL'99

• I have co-organized, together with Seth Bullock and Jason Noble, a debate called "Artificial Life: Discipline or Method?" as part of the Fifth European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL'99.

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• Member of the EPSRC College of Peers
• Regular Programme Committee member for international conferences: ALIFE, CEC, SAB, ECAL, GECCO, etc.
• I'm associate editor for the journal Adaptive Behavior.
• I have guest-edited Special Issue No 10 for the same journal
• I have guest-edited a special issue of Artificial Life on Francisco Varela and artificial life.