We are pleased to invite you to the HuME Invited TalK series, promoted by the PhD candidates of the HuME PhD Program, jointly organized by Scuola Universitaria Superiore IUSS Pavia, the University of Milan, and Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. 

Giulia Napolitano (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Why Stereotypes Persist: Causal Generalizations and their Resistance to Counterexamples (joint work with Olivier Lemeire)
Wednesday, 19 November 2025, 14:00-16:00 (CET), at IUSS Pavia

Dustin Stokes (LMU Munich)
Aesthetic Taste as Perceptual Expertise
Monday, 12 January 2026, 11:00-13:00 (CET) at IUSS Pavia

Simon van Baal (University of Leeds) 
Self-Control Conflicts in Natural Language
Friday, 20 March 2026, 13:00-15:00 Italian time (UTC+1) at Università degli Studi di Milano, Dipartimento di Filosofia, Via Festa del Perdono 7, Milan (Italy), Sala Martinetti

Nicola Angius (University of Messina)
General Intelligence, Representation, Embodiment. New Perspectives for Cognitive Science from Large Language Models
Tuesday, 31 March 2026, 14:00-16:00 (CEST) at UniMI

Sanford Goldberg (Northwestern University)
The Expected Common Ground
Friday, 15 May 2026, 11:00-13:00 (CEST) at IUSS Pavia

Vladyslav Vyazovskiy (University of Oxford)
Title TBA
28 September 2026, Time and Location TBC
 

For further information, you can contact:
Evelina Lissoni (evelina.lissoni@iusspavia.it), Alfredo Tomasetta (alfredo.tomasetta@iusspavia.it), Andrea Sereni (andrea.sereni@iusspavia.it)