1. Keynote Addresses

  • Embodied musical synergies. Creativity and interaction in the musical moment. Psychology and Music Conference - Interdisciplinary Encounters, 26-29 October 2022, University of the Arts Belgrade, Serbia.

  • Fostering creativity in musical learning. Formal and informal pedagogies from infancy to adulthood*. European Association for Music in School (EAS) Conference, 10-13 June 2020, University of Padova, Italy (*cancelled due to COVID-19)

  • The embodied-embedded-extended-enactive musical mind*. Life-Span Perspectives on Music Therapy, Cognition, and Embodiment, 22 April 2020, University of Bergen, Norway (*cancelled due to COVID-19)

  • Embodiment in musical learning and development: A guide to discovery. Symposium of the Finnish Society for Music Education (FiSME), 14-16 November 2019, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
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  • From action to musical experience. A ‘4E’ proposal. 3rd Conference on Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind, 29-30 August 2019, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
 
  • ​Laying down a path in musicking. The 4th International Conference of Dalcroze Studies (ICDS4), 28 July - 2 August 2019, Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music, Katowice, Poland    
 
  • Embodied action and the roots of musicality. 19th Herbstakademie Conference. Embodied Aesthetics: Resonance in Perception, Expression and Therapy, 5-7 October 2017, University of Heidelberg, Germany
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  • Mind the body. Musical sense-making and the power of action.​ GAPS, Global Arts and Psychology Seminar, 28-29 April 2017, University of Graz, Austria 

2. Invited Talks

  • Understanding musical synergies. A preliminary taxonomy. Meetings of the music psychology @ Leeds group, 20 June 2023, School of Music, University of Leeds, UK.

  • Musical sense-making. Actions, synergies, and intersubjectivity. Guest lecture, 15 May 2023, Department of Musicology, University of Pavia, Italy (delivered remotely).

  • 4E Cognitive Science and embodied musical synergies Datasounds, Datasets and Datasense Research Network Seminar Series, 11 May 2023 (delivered remotely).

  •  Music as proprioceptive art (with M. Schrenk). Art in Conversation Seminar, 26 April, 2023 University of St Andrews, UK (delivered remotely).

  • Variations on David Borgo’s insights into improvisation, learning, and creativity / Embodiment and intersubjectivity in musical learning. Two invited lectures, 3 April 2023, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London, UK.

  • Rethinking the musical mind? The Sir John Manduell Research Forum Series, 7 December 2022, Royal Northern College of Music, Manchester, UK.

  • Being musical beings. Tales of embodiment and musical synergies. Music Research Seminar Series, 1 December 2022, Reid School of Music, University of Edinburgh, UK. 
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  • Scienze cognitive e ricerca musicale: Il valore dell’interdisciplinarità. Verso i Dottorati di Ricerca. Incontro Internazionale sulla Ricerca Artistica nei Conservatori, 28 September 2022, “L. D’annunzio” Music Conservatoire, Pescara, Italy (delivered remotely).

  • Musical creativity in theory and practice. Guest lecture, 10 December 2021, Department of Music, Art, and Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Finland 

  • A world to share: 4E cognition and ethnomusicology. Meetings of the Cognitive Ethnomusicology Special Interest Group (SIG) in the Society for Ethnomusicology, 1 April 2021, Brigham Young University, USA
 
  • Performance science. Transformation: Plenary day for doctoral students, 18 March 2021, Royal College of Music, London, UK (with V. Carreras and J. MacRitchie)
 
  • Musical skill acquisition in action and interaction. Guest lecture, 20 January 2021, Department of Cognitive Sciences, Central European University, Vienna, Austria
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  • The musical moment. Embodiment, creativity, and intersubjectivity. Guest lecture, 14 May 2020, Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of Messina, Italy
 
  • Situated musicality. Empirical and phenomenological approaches. Guest lecture, 7 May 2019, Department of Archaeology, University of Barcelona, Spain
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  • Experience and the musical subject. 4Esthetics Workshop. 4E/Situated approaches to (music) aesthetics: challenges and perspectives, 7-9 March 2019, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany    
 
  • Corpo non mente. Musica, pedagogia, e scienze cognitive. Guest Lecture and Workshop, 2 March 2019, “C. Abbado” Scuola Civica di Musica, Milan, Italy
 
  • The 4E approach to music cognition. Guest Lecture, 24 January 2019, Faculty of Education, University of Valladolid, Spain 
 
  • As above, so below. Musical experience in our hands. Auditory perception and musical sound workshop, 7-9 November 2018, Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
 
  • Being, knowing, doing. 4E cognition and the dynamics of musical development. Guest Lecture, 9 October 2018, RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion, University of Oslo, Norway
 
  • Making music together between adaptivity and creativity. SFPS, the 6th International Congress of the French Society of Sport Psychology, 12-15 June 2018, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
 
  • Enactive musical explorations. Enactivism: theory and performance Conference. Workshop in Musical Performance, 15-17 March 2018, Department of Philosophy, University of Memphis, USA                                    
 
  • Sensorimotor primacy in music cognition. Guest Lecture, 5 December 2017, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
 
  • Exploring musical creativity in human development, pedagogy, and performance. Research seminars in Systematic Musicology, 25 April 2017, Centre for Systematic Musicology, University of Graz, Austria                                    
 
  • ‘4E’ Musicality and the pre-reflective. Insights from musical learning and performance. Mind and Brain in Music Symposium, 30-31 October 2015, Department of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca, Italy
 
  • What is music cognition? Guest Lecture, 27 April 2015, “G. Verdi” Music Conservatoire, Milan, Italy
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  • Music cognition as Embodied, Embedded, Enactive, and Extended.​ Research seminars in Systematic Musicology, 21 April 2015, Centre for Systematic Musicology, University of Graz, Austria 

3. Media Coverage

  • So strangely Podcast. I was interviewed about the paper "When the sound becomes the goal. 4E cognition and Teleomusicality in early infancy", September 2018. Click here to listen to the interview. 
                      
  • ​The naked scientists, BBC radio Cambridgeshire, and 5Live.​ I made an appearance on BBC radio Cambridgeshire, and 5Live, talking about music perception and emotion, August 2015. Click here to listen to the interview.