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Recent and Upcoming Talks, Interviews, and Media Appearances

  • Small Cross‑Disciplinary “Error Correction Seminar” on Creativity, Knowledge, and AI. Host: University of Basel (Ryan Healey). Date: October 2, 2026. Location: Basel, Switzerland.

  • World Creativity Conference. Host: Seoul National University (Mark Runco). Date: June 11-14, 2026. Title of Keynote: From World-Tracking to World-Shaping: Creativity, Learning, and Coherence in Minds and Machines. Title of Additional Short Talk: A More Coherent Conception of Divergent and Convergent Thought. Location: Seoul, Korea.

  • Torrance Festival of Ideas. Host: Torrance Center for Creativity at the University of Georgia (Anna Abraham). Ttitle of talk: Creative Thinking in Humans and Machines. Date: April 22-23, 2026 Location: Online.

  • RoundTable with Dr. Robert Mizzi and Margo Picher-Levesque hosted by Stan Baines of the Canadian Network for Imagination and Creativity. Topic: What is the Future of Creativity? Date: 2026-04-09 Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84745651712

  • Presentation of paper co-authored by Armando Vieiera for the Theoretical Foundations Session of the AAAI 2026 Spring Symposium on Machine Consciousness in conjunction with the California Institute for Machine Consciousness, as part of the AAAI Spring Symposium. Date: 2026-04-07. Title of Talk: Autocatalytic Constraint Closure as an Organizational Principle for Machine Consciousness. Location: Burlingame, Calif.

  • Interview with Evan McGloughlin for the Giant's Shoulder: Exploring Radical Ideas in Neuroscience, Biology and Consciousness. Topic: Creativity, mind, and consciousness. Date of Interview: 2026-03-24 Date it airs: 2026-?

  • Interview with Daniela Botz and Michael Pravica for the SoulConnected Podcast. Topic: Science and spirituality. Date of Interview: 2026-03-20 Date it airs: 2026-04-?

  • Speaker at Psychology Department Seminar, University of Nebraska Host: Prof. Roni Reiter-Palmon. Title of Lecture: Creativity, Learning, and Coherence in Cognitive Systems. Date: 2026-03-17 Location: Omaha, NE

  • Presentation at Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts Conference (Div0 of APA) Annual Conference, Omaha NE. Date: 2026-04-07 Title of Talk: Toward a More Coherent Conception of Divergent and Convergent Thought.

  • Interview with Dr. Keith Sawyer for the Science of Creativity Podcast Topic: Creativity Date of Interview: 2025-12-08 Date it aired: 2026-01-27 [Listen Here] [YouTube Link]

  • Interview with Dr. Anastasia Bendebury and Dr. Michael Shilo DeLay for Demystifying Science Podcast Title: What's Changing Human Evolution? - Dr. Liane Gabora: Part 2, Episode #391 (Title wasn't chosen by me.) Date of Interview: 2025-12-09 Date it aired: 2026-01-07 [YouTube Link]

  • Interview with Hannah Nolan of posAbilities for the What’s in the Hat: Laughing Matters Podcast, in partnership with TELUS STORYHIVE. Platforms: CiTR 101.9FM, TELUS OptikTV, with audio versions available on Spotify, other social media platforms. Topic: Humor Date of Interview: 2025-12-08 Date it airs: 2026-04-?

  • Interview with Dr. Anastasia Bendebury and Dr. Michael Shilo DeLay for Demystifying Science Podcast Title: What Evolution Gets Wrong About the Mind - Dr. Liane Gabora: Part 1, Episode #390 (Title wasn't chosen by me.) Date of Interview: 2025-12-09 Date it aired: 2026-01-04 [YouTube Link]

  • The Darwin Club for Social Science Host: Professor Brian D. Smith Title of Lecture: Cultural Evolution through, not Natural Selection but Self-Other Reorganisation Date: 2025-09-23. [YouTube Link]

  • Panelist at Precision Convergence Webinar Series featuring Paul Rosenbloom. Co-Hosts: The McGill Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE) at McGill University and The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, a joint computational research center between Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh Title of Lecture: On Minds: Reflections of a Cognitive Architect Date: 2025-09-24 Location: Armstrong Building, room 155a, 3420 Rue McTavish, Montréal, QC [YouTube Link]

  • Panelist at Precision Convergence Webinar Series featuring Christian Lebiere. Co-Hosts: The McGill Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE) at McGill University and The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, a joint computational research center between Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh Title of Lecture: Convergence across the Bands of Cognition Date: 2025-04-25 Location: Armstrong Building, room 155a, 3420 Rue McTavish, Montréal, QC. [YouTube Link]

  • Interview with Kevin Price for the Syndicated Price of Business Show Topic: Artificial Intelligence, consciousness, and creativity Date: 2025-03-31 [YouTube Link]

  • Speaker at Psychology Department Weekly Seminar, University of British Columbia (Okanagan Campus) Host: Prof. Dr. Paul Davies. Title of Lecture: The Conception and Evolution of Creative Ideas Date: 2025-03-26 Location: ASC Room 209

  • Film screening of the movie AI: Beyond the Code that features Martin Kooiman interviewing myself and my graduate student, Abhishek Rakshit Topic: Artificial Intelligence and creativity Date: 2025-03-26 Location: ADM 26, University of British Columbia (Okanagan Campus)

  • Feature Speaker at Precision Convergence Webinar Series Co-Hosts: The McGill Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE) at McGill University and The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, a joint computational research center between Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh Title of Lecture: The Conception and Evolution of Creative Ideas Date: 2025-02-24 Location: Armstrong Building, room 155a, 3420 Rue McTavish, Montréal, QC.[YouTube Link]

  • Speaker at the Psychology Research Exchange Forum, a monthly brown bag series Host: Prof. Dr. Stephen Blessing, Department of Psychology, University of Tampa, FL Title of Lecture: The Conception and Evolution of Creative Ideas Date: 2025-02-21 Location: Music Room Auditorium, Plant Hall, University of Tampa

  • Panelist at Precision Convergence Webinar Series featuring Michael Platt Co-Hosts: The McGill Centre for the Convergence of Health and Economics (MCCHE) at McGill University and The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, a joint computational research center between Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh Title of Lecture: The Neural Code Supporting Multidimensional Social Relationships Date: 2024-12-04 Location: Armstrong Building, room 155a, 3420 Rue McTavish, Montréal, QC

  • Speaker at the Brain Behavior and Quantitative Science Program Seminar Series, Department of Psychology, University of Kansas, Lawrence KA Title of Lecture: Creative Ideas: Their Emergence and Evolution Hosts: Dr. Jeffrey M. Girard and Dr. Arian Ashourvan Date: 2024-09-27

  • Speaker in the One World Cognitive Psychology Seminar Series, hosted by the Psychonomic Society, Host: Prof. Dr. Valérie Camos, Université de Fribourg, Title of lecture: Creative ideas: Their Emergence and Evolution, Date: 2024-09-25 [YouTube Link]

  • For public lectures, interviews, podcasts, and media pieces prior to fall 2024, please see CV.