Robert Beets

Neuroethics 2026StanfordLuccaStellenboschScheduleRegistration This World Café session brings conference attendees into structured, small-group dialogues to explore a timely topic: how to better understand and govern the collection, sharing, and reuse of neuroscience data. Rather than aiming for consensus, the session is designed to produce a collective output that surfaces under-attended harms, under-realized benefits, research questions, pilot … Open Neurodata & Data Governance World Café: Local Dialogues

Neuroethics 2026LuccaScheduleRegistration Aggression is a multidimensional phenomenon arising from the interplay of neural circuits involved in threat detection, emotional arousal, cognitive control, and social evaluation. Contemporary neuroscience distinguishes reactive aggression, a rapid defensive response to perceived threat, from proactive aggression, a goal-directed and instrumental form of violence. This distinction has far-reaching consequences for ethics, responsibility, … Aggression, Brain, and Ethics: Revisiting Threat, Intent, and Responsibility

Neuroethics 2026LuccaScheduleRegistration This session uses the Syrian chemical weapons attacks and an ongoing French war-crimes case as a concrete lens to explore how neuroethics can be practiced in the service of survivors and international justice. Neurotoxic agents such as sarin are designed to target the nervous system, disrupting acetylcholinesterase, inducing seizures, hypoxia, and producing long-term … Accountability for War Crimes involving Neurotoxins: A Case Study of Applied Neuroethics in Syria

Neuroethics 2026LuccaScheduleRegistration Chaired by Prof. Giovanna De Minico (University of Naples Federico II), this panel brings together legal scholars, engineers, and neuroscientists to explore how A.I. and neuroscience are reshaping electoral campaigns. Special attention is dedicated to the existing legal framework governing political communication. Speakers will examine tools in engineering and data science to influence … To what extent can AI-driven neurotechnologies influence or change political views?

Neuroethics 2026LuccaScheduleRegistration This panel will discuss how the recently-adopted UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Neurotechnology can help build bridges within the European neuroethics community and beyond. Co-organized by SINe and RHUNE networks, the objective of the discussion and associated collaborations is to build bridges between regional and national communities, with the UNESCO Guidelines providing … Building bridges within the European Neuroethics Community on UNESCO Guidelines pillars

Neuroethics 2026LuccaScheduleRegistration A larger multi-centre study — Neurologic Physiology after Removal of Therapy (NeuPaRT) — is a pivotal advance that is closely studying the neurophysiology of the dying process in the ICU. This panel, with four researchers involved in the NeuPaRT study, will address the scientific and clinical implications from the perspectives of neurology and … When does death really occur in the context of donation after death determined by circulatory criteria?

Neuroethics 2026LuccaScheduleRegistration Because existing legal and technical frameworks regulate identifiable data but not the inferences multimodal systems generate, a governance gap arises where opacity, personalization, and clinical consequence meet. This session aims to clarify what multimodal systems can infer, how those inferences shape neuromodulation and computational psychiatry, and the ethical, clinical, and regulatory challenges they … Lived Experience, Inferred States: Neuroethical Challenges of Multimodal AI

Neuroethics 2026LuccaScheduleRegistration This panel brings together scholars from underrepresented regions including East Asia, Southern and Eastern Europe, and the MENA region. Speakers will explore the value of cultural-sensitivity in addressing ethical challenges in neuroscience and neurotechnology; how evidence, culture, and lived experience can inform ethical frameworks that are first locally responsive and then globally relevant; … Glocal Neuroethics: the Value of Cross-Cultural Approaches to Emerging Neuroethical Challenges

Neuroethics 2026LuccaScheduleRegistration We are proud to host the ELSA EPNA Award 2025 research talk given by winning author Christopher Poppe, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin. He will discuss his research and award-winning article ‘Brain–Computer Interfaces, Completely Locked-In State in Neurodegenerative Diseases, and End-of-Life Decisions‘ published in the journal Bioethical Inquiry 21, 19–27 (2024). Christopher Poppe’s talk is … ERA-NET NEURON ELSA-EPNA Paper Award and Talk