Recent and Upcoming Invited Talks, Interviews, and Media Appearances

• HowTheLightGetsIn Festival, the world's largest ideas, philosophy, and music festival Host: Institute of Art and Ideas Date: 2026-05-22 to 2026-05-25 Location: Hay-on-Wye, Wales


• Interview with Dr. Anastasia Bendebury and Dr. Michael Shilo DeLay for Demystifying Science Podcast Topic: Humor Date of Interview: 2025-12-09 Date it airs: 2026-01-?


• Interview with Dr. Keith Sawyer for the Science of Creativity Podcast Topic: Creativity Date of Interview: 2025-12-08 Date it airs: 2026-02-?


• Interview with Hannah Nolan of posAbilities for the What’s in the Hat: Laughing Matters podcast, in partnership with TELUS STORYHIVE. Platform: 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-?


• 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: Arts Building
• 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]