Dear friends and colleagues,
It is a pleasure to announce three upcoming workshops that take place online or in hybrid format. We are delighted to host an outstanding group of invited speakers and look forward to many stimulating discussions.
If you would like to participate, please register via the workshop websites linked below.
With very best wishes,
The Organizers 👋
State of the Art in Mathematics and Phenomenology Workshop
November 12 – 13, 2025
Online
This workshop is devoted to Mathematical Phenomenology—a research programme in Consciousness Science that seeks to connect the formal tools of mathematics with the study of lived experience, as carried out, among other things, by the philosophical discipline of Phenomenology. Despite its importance, this area has received comparatively little attention over the past decades.
The workshop convenes leading scholars at the intersection of mathematics and phenomenology to facilitate a synthesis of current research. It aims to showcase contemporary developments, pioneering contributions, and key milestones that define the current state of Mathematical Phenomenology, while also developing its conceptual foundations, methods, and principal achievements.
Drawing on the presentations and shared insights, the workshop facilitates focused discussions that address open questions, future directions, and potential applications of Mathematical Phenomenology within the broader landscape of Consciousness Science.
👉 Workshop Website
https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/research-activities/sota-workshop/
Mathematical Phenomenology: Synergies and Connections Workshop
November 24 & 26, 2025
Online
This workshop aims to create bridges between research in Mathematical Phenomenology and other formal research programmes in Consciousness Science, especially those concerned with quality spaces, structuralism, and psychometrics.
On the one hand, the workshop seeks to explore synergies and common targets of investigation. This includes questions like: To what extent can methods or perspectives developed within one research programme inform another? Do research programmes address distinct aspects of a common phenomenon? How do their formal tools compare, and can they be integrated into a unified framework?
On the other hand, the workshop seeks to clarify differences between research programmes, concerning their underlying assumptions, explanatory goals, desiderata, and satisfaction conditions. This includes, in particular, mutual criticisms that have arisen, such as concerns about rigour, bias, or the adequacy of standard practices for capturing phenomenal character.
Ultimately, the workshop aspires to help foster a more synergistic research landscape in Consciousness Science, in which progress in one research area can be recognized, evaluated, and fruitfully employed in another.
👉 Workshop Website
https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/research-activities/synergies-workshop/
Paradigms in Consciousness Science Workshop
December 11 – 12, 2025
Hybrid
This workshop is dedicated to discussing and critically reflecting on the paradigms in Consciousness Science. Its goals are:
To identify the paradigms at play in contemporary Consciousness Science across research areas and research topics.
To understand the historical and cultural roots of these paradigms, and, a fortiori, how these roots shape current research in the field.
To critically reflect on the scope and limitations of the paradigms, in particular, where the boundaries and ultimate questions of the field are concerned.
To highlight where and how paradigms in the field are already changing or starting to change.
To facilitate the discussion of new ideas and proposals that may change paradigms in Consciousness Science, in particular in conversations with other fields and contemplative traditions.
On the first day of the workshop, we explore these topics from a theoretical perspective. Together, we will ask: What are the dominant assumptions or even dogmas currently shaping the field? How do they emerge, persist, and influence research agendas? And how might they be revised, challenged, or expanded? Our goal is to open up a shared space of reflection on the very foundations of the discipline.
On the second day of the workshop, we turn to practical considerations, with a focus on methodological innovation: Which existing approaches already embody a paradigm shift in consciousness research? Which new methods (conceptual, empirical, or theoretical) should be developed to realise the shifts envisioned during the first day? Our goal with the second part of the workshop is to inspire researchers to engage with new tools, approaches, frameworks and conceptions that could seed future paradigm shifts in the field.
Both days of the workshop will comprise invited talks as well as discussion sessions. To make the workshop easily accessible to researchers from around the globe, it will be held in a hybrid format.
Interactive in nature, this workshop brings together researchers with diverse backgrounds and from all academic career stages. It seeks to encourage creative experimentation and aims to provide a safe environment to share and exchange perspectives on current and emerging paradigms in Consciousness Science, as well as novel work that already puts paradigm-shifts into practice. Our hope is for the workshop to spark creative approaches and novel ideas to advance consciousness research.
👉 Workshop Website
https://www.uni-bamberg.de/en/bamxi/research-activities/paradigms-workshop/
