Event Name:
The INTREPID Symposium: Unlocking Consciousness through Adversarial Collaborations

Dates: 10 and 11 July, 2025

Location: Atlantis Aquila Hotel, Heraklion, Greece

Organizers: Cyriel Pennartz, Umberto Olcese, Reinder Dorman (University of Amsterdam)

Speakers: Cyriel Pennartz (University of Amsterdam, NL), Umberto Olcese (University of Amsterdam, NL), Lars Muckli (University of Glasgow, UK), Andrew Haun (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA), Jonathan Robinson (Monash University, AUS), Liad Mudrik (Tel Aviv University, IL), Fanis Panagiotaropoulos (University of Athens, GR), Biyu He (New York University, USA), Axel Cleeremans (Free University of Brussels, BE), Anil Seth (University of Sussex, UK), Athena Demertzi (University of Liege, BE), Sascha Fink (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, DE), Johannes Kleiner (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, DE), Hal Blumenfeld (Yale University, USA), Virginia Cooper (Templeton World Charity Foundation, USA), David Chalmers (New York University, USA). Additional speakers to be announced.

Website: www.arc-intrepid.com/symposium/

Event Name:
QUALIUS Retreat on Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness

Dates: 10–14 July, 2025

Location: Vrachos Villa, Ligres, Crete, Greece

Participants/Organizers:
George Fejer (Max Planck Institute for Brain & Cognitive Sciences, DE; ALIUS Research Network), Andrés Gómez Emilsson (Qualia Research Institute, USA), Cyril Costines (University of Freiburg, DE), Jonas Mago (McGill University, CA), Keisuke Suzuki (Hokkaido University, JP), Mar Estaralles (McGill University, CA; University College London, UK), Pawel Motyka (Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences, PL), Timo Torsten Schmidt (Freie Universität Berlin, DE), Stratos Bichakis (Transdisciplinary Artist, GR), Zuri Maria Daiß ( Cultural Curator & Strategist, DE).

Additional Participants:
Anna Ciaunica (University of Lisbon, PT), Michael Lifshitz (McGill University, CA). Additional participants to be announced.

Parent Organizations:
ALIUS Research Network (www.aliusresearch.org)
Qualia Research Institute (https://qri.org/)

Website: https://www.aliusresearch.org/qualius-retreat.html