METIS hosts a weekly seminar series on Tuesdays at 11:30 Madrid time (CET/CEST). Unless marked with an asterisk (*), talks take place in Sala B, Edificio de Humanidades, UNED, and are also streamed online. If you’d like to attend remotely, get in touch. Alternatively, you can simply show up.
This is the calendar for the academic year 2026/2027:
October 6: Mario Villalobos (Tarapacá): La brecha entre la autopoiesis y la conciencia fenomenológica: primeros pasos para salvarla
October 13: Luis Mireles-Flores (Helsinki): A Multi-Stage approach to the role of evidence in policymaking: opening the black-box of the public policy process
October 20: Matheus Valente (UNED): New Knowledge of Old Facts
October 27: Claire Field (Zürich): Neurodiversity and Normativity*
November 3: Samuele Chilovi (CSIC) & Dan López de Sa (ICREA & UB): New Work for a Theory of Authoritative Normativity?
November 10: Javier González de Prado (UNED): What is Epistemic Normativity?*
November 17: Davide Vecchi (UNED): AI imperialism and the prospects of data-centred and automated natural science
November 24: Andrés Soria Ruiz (Barcelona): Deniability in media. Mechanisms & legitimacy of a(nother) kind of information disorder
December 1: Chrysostomos Mantzavinos (Athens): The Constitution of Science
December 15: Carme Isern-Mas (Illes Balears): The Affective Injustice of Obstetric Violence
January 12: Mariano Martín Villuendas (UNED): The Metascience of Target Systems: A Pragmatist-Inferentialist Approach
January 19: Pilar López-Cantero (Antwerp): Friendship endings
February 18: Seminar CSIC-METIS
February 23: Marie Kaiser (Bielefeld)
March 2: Paloma Atencia (UNED) & Nemesio García Carril Puy (Complutense)
March 9: Elia Zardini (Complutense)
March 16: Claudia Picazo & Cristian Saborido (UNED)
April 6: Sonia Ester Rodríguez (UNED)
April 13: Elena Casetta (Torino)
April 20: TBA
April 27: Helen Beebee (Leeds)
May 4: TBA
May 11: José Luis Bermúdez (Texas A&M)
May 18: TBA
June 15: Keren Gorodeisky (Auburn)
June 22: Carolina Cuadrado (Complutense) & María Jiménez Buedo (UNED)
Here you can find an archive of calendars for our previously hosted talks and here you can access video recordings of our seminar.
The seminar is currently coordinated by Paloma Atencia-Linares and Claudia Picazo.