Neuroethics 2026StanfordScheduleRegistration Professor Francis Shen will give a talk titled: ‘A Neurolaw Manifesto’ followed by responses from discussants, a moderated group discussion, and questions from the audience. Prof. Shen describes the topic of the keynote lecture as: The law has been fascinated by the mind for centuries, yet advances in modern neuroscience and neurotechnology still … Keynote Lecture: Prof. Francis Shen
Neuroethics 2026StanfordScheduleRegistration Organizers from Stanford, Lucca, and Stellenbosch will present brief summaries of their site’s World Café discussions, highlighting under-attended harms, under-realized benefits, research questions, pilot governance ideas, and the tradeoffs that connect them. The conversation will also explore what these cross-regional insights suggest for future work, including opportunities for research, governance innovation, and collaboration … Open Neurodata & Data Governance World Café: From a Local to Global Dialogue
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
