Richard Velkley gave a lecture to the philosophy faculty at Erfurt University, Germany, titled "The Vanishing Body. A Mystery of the Modern Era", in May 2026.
Richard Velkley was the keynote speaker at the "Nietzsche: Problems and Perspectives" conference at the Charles University, Prague, the Czech Republic, in October 2024.
Dan Burnston won a "Scialog” grant (with Wilma Bainbridge, Chicago, and Bob Wilson, Georgia Tech) for the project “Mapping Inner Worlds: Representational Spaces and Mental Life” in 2023.
Oliver Sensen is a partner investigator for a joint three-year grant funded by the AHRC (UK) and DFG (Germany) on Respect, the so-called "Means and Ends Network (MEAN)”
Dan Burnston was a Junior Visiting Fellow at the Pittsburgh Center for Philosophy of Science in Spring 2023 and was previously a "Scialog" Fellow in the Cellular and Molecular Foundations of Cognition for his project "Network Topology Underlying Circuit Dynamics During Flexible Cognitive Behavior" (with Lucas Pinto, Northwestern, and Evelyn Tang, Rice) in 2022.
Dan Burnston received Tulane’s “Convergence Award” for interdisciplinary scholarship in October 2022.