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UPAC presentations elsewhere Upcoming Black Hole Initiative research visit incl Foundations Seminar talk on interpreting the mass of a Schwarzschild black hole, Sanne Vergouwen, Harvard, April/May 2025 2024 Leiden Theoretical Philosophy Colloquium , "Dark Matter Realism" , Niels Martens, 8 Nov 2024University of Strasbourg Observatory Colloquium, "Philosophy for and with astronomy" , Niels Martens, 17 Oct 2024 EASST Ethnographies of Outer Space: Unveiling the hidden social worlds of space exploration seminar, "Epistemic Role of Imagination in Space Science" , Sabine Winters, Krakau, Poland, 13 September 20242nd COSMOS History & Philosophy of Cosmology Conference , Milan, 10-13 September 2024Symposium "Cosmological Spacetime-Matter Distinction", Antonio Ferreiro, Sanne Vergouwen, Alex Fleuren, Niels Martens "A Novel Conceptualization of Fine-Tuning in Inflationary Cosmology" , Maura Burke" Circularities in the search for empirical grounding for the cosmological principle", Antonios PapaioannouSonnenborgh Museum & Observatory Down to Earth Festival , "Imagination in Science" Ventspils Internation Radio Astronomy Centre , "Imagination in Space Science" , Sabine Winters, Irbine, Latvia, 8 August 2024ISVW Summer School A theory of everything or nothing "Nieuw denkkader voor de fysica door het afbreken van het onderscheid tussen ruimtetijd en materie" São Paulo School on Gravitational Physics , "Philosophy of Relativity" BONZ Symposium, "Boltzmann Brains and the Foundations of Physics" , David Zuilhof, Utrecht, Netherlands, 21 June 2024 "Boltzmann Brains and the Trouble they Cause in Foundations of Physics" Sign-up Friday Fish Seminar (Mathematical Institute Utrecht University), "Another critical look at inflationary cosmology" , Alex Fleuren, 7 June 202414th Biennial Conference on Classical and Quantum Relativistic Dynamics of Particles and Fields , "Quantum fields in cosmological spacetime and the early Universe" , Antonio Ferreiro, Espoo, Finland, 3-6 June 2024Black Hole Initiative Annual Conference , "10 ways in which the humanities & social sciences can contribute to black hole research" , Niels Martens, Harvard, Cambridge, USA, 29-31 May 20243rd History Philosophy & Culture of the ngEHT workshop , panel session , Niels Martens, Harvard, Cambridge, USA, 28 May 2024ARCO Seminar (The Astrophysics Research Center of the Open university ), "Social science & humanities contributions to the next generation Event Horizon Telescope collaboration" , Niels Martens, Online/ The Open University of Israel, 15 April 2024 ESA ESTEC Noordwijk, "Epistemology in imagination of space science, methodology of research", Sabine Winters with Michael T. Stuart (University of York), Noordwijk, 23 Feb 2024 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, "Interdisciplinary collaboration & big science" , Niels Martens, 19 Feb 2024 Freudenthal Research Seminar, "The Epistemic Value of Imagination in Space Science" , Sabine Winters, Utrecht, 25 Jan 2024 Bochum HPS Research Colloquium, "Building a telescope collaboration" , Niels Martens, Bochum, 18 Jan 2024 2023 II Jornadas de Epistemología e Historia de la Astronomía, "Building a Telescope Collaboration: the case of the ngEHT" Descartes Colloquium, "Losing track of the spacetime-matter distinction in astronomy & cosmology", Utrecht, 17 Oct 20231st COSMOS network general meeting , "The ngEHT's History Philosophy Culture Working Group", Online, 20 Sept 2023MCMP Colloquium, "Losing track of the spacetime-matter distinction in astronomy & cosmology", Online/Munich, 19 July 2023 British Society for the Philosophy of Science Conference , "Planet-sized Integrated Philosophy of Science” Symposium, 1) "Introduction" "How to Organise a Telescope Collaboration", DBHC meeting , "Taking the long view: historical, philosophical & cultural aspects of the ngEHT", 16 June 2023XXVII International School of Philosophy and Foundations of Physics: Philosophy of Dark Matter , Various Lectures on the Philosophy of Dark Matter & Modified Gravity, Urbino, 5-9 June 2023NgEHT HPC workshop, Boston, "One Year of the Collaborations Focus Group" , 16 May 2023 Freudenthal Institute Research Seminar, "The Philosophy of the Next Generation Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration", Utrecht, 11 May 2023 Foundations of Observational, Classical and Semi-Classical Gravitational Physics and The Problem of Agency and Laws of Nature , "Taking the long view: historical, philosophical & cultural aspects of the ngEHT" , Munich, 28-31 March 2023Freudenthal Institute Research Seminar, "The Philosophy of Dark Energy", Utrecht, 23 March 2023 Utrecht Philosophy & Foundations of Physics Research Seminar, "Doing More with Less - Dark Matter & Modified Gravity", Utrecht, 10 March 2023 2022 PSA2022 , Symposium "Interpreting Theories of Modified Gravity", "The Spacetime-Matter Distinction", Pittsburgh, 10-13 Nov 2022 
