Mediation & Teaching

Mediation & synthesis articles

“Paysages culturels” Société Française de Cliodynamique, October 6, 2023. https://www.cliodynamique.org/philosophie/paysages-culturels.
“On Participatory Realism.” Kairos Journal, October 18, 2022. https://kairos-research.org/on-participatory-realism.
“The Clothes of the Empire : An Active Inference Account of Identity Capture,” May 2022. https://kairos-research.org/clothes-of-the-empire.
“Cognition in Eco, Cognition in Vitro.” Kairos Journal, November 3, 2020. https://kairos-research.org/cognition-in-eco/.
“Naturalism in the Social Sciences : A Short Review.” Kairos Journal, July 3, 2020. https://kairos-research.org/naturalism-social-sciences/.
“Cliodynamics, or the Study of Historical Processes.” Kairos Journal, July 8, 2020. https://kairos-research.org/historical-processes/.
“Beyond State.” Kairos Journal, May 1, 2020. https://kairos-research.org/beyond-state/.

Mediation talks

2024 November 2027: Interview with Maks Valenčič on Active Inference and the “Social Constraints” framework, in the Technologos series
2024 October 10: “From material landscapes to cognitive landscapes - An invitation to cognitive archeology”, invited talk at the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle de Bourges, with Jadranka VERDONKSCHOT.
2024 January 18: “Represent to act, act to represent”, invited contribution to the Meta-Practical Coffee organized by the French Society of Cliodynamics
2023 December 20: “How to represent historical change?”, invited contribution to the Meta-Practical Coffee organized by the French Society of Cliodynamics
2023 November 1: Conclusion session of the Active Inference in the Social Science course, with Daniel FRIEDMAN, Mahault ALBARRACIN, Lorena SGANZERLA, Alexis ROZANSKI, and Colin TURFUS
- Video
2023 October 18 : “Social constraints and the existential stance - What makes us human”, Session of the Active Inference in the Social Science course.
- Video
2021 November 14 : “Future of cryptocurrencies”, Panel discussion, Future Fossils podcast at Complexity Weekend
- Video.
2021 August 14 : “Why people believe weird things ?”, Scepticisme Scientifique podcast.
- Slides
- Video
2021 August 03 : Interview with the “Labo des savoirs”, with Iona BRENAC.
2021 July 21 : Kairos : toward an enactive research, Conference talk, with Iona BRENAC, in the Open, Slow, and Sustainable Science conference 2021.
- Slides
2021 June 23 : Complex systems methodology for navigating the Anthropocene, Unconference, in the Tools for the Regenerative Renaissance Course
2021 May 12 : “Cognition in eco & cognition in vitro : can cognitive mechanisms explain ecological behaviour ?”, Public lesson, in Cours aux Ernest, ENS Ulm.
- Slides
- Vidéo
2021 May 5 : “The architecture of cognition”, Public lesson, in Cours aux Ernest, ENS Ulm.
- Slides
- Vidéo
2021 April 11 : “Cognition in eco & cognition in vitro : can cognitive mechanisms explain ecological behaviour ?”, Poster, in the Cognitive Sciences Forum.
- Poster
2020 October 16 : “Beyond State : toward a prospective anthropology”, Conference, in the French Society of Cultural Evolution (SFEC)’s conferences.
- Slides
2020 January 16 : “Is cognition individual ? A complex system perspective”, Conference, in Cognivence’s conferences, ENS Ulm.
2017 May 9 : “Tell me a story : relevance and narration in the evolution of cognition”, Conference, in Cognivence’s conferences, ENS Ulm.

Teaching and consulting

October 2024 : Teaching assistant for the Master in Management of the ESC Clermond-Ferrand
March 2024 : Scientific consultant for the video on thermodynamics and the ecological transition (part 1, part 2 by Après la Bière and Le Réveilleur
September 2023 to present : Teaching assistant / lesson designer for the Mathematics and Computational Methods for Complex Systems at University of Sussex
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July 2023 to present : Organizing the Active Inference for the Social Sciences course, in collaboration with the Active Inference Institute and Kairos Research
February to June 2019 : Teaching scientific process & critical mind, Pierre & Marie Curie University (Paris VI)
- coordinated by Mehdi KHAMASSI and Frederic DECREMPS
- Goal : helping first year students in science develop their critical thinking regarding how research may influence society, teaching scientific norms for bibliography and presentations.