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Online Symposium – National Empathy Day

Date 1 May 2026
Research group Gazzola
Location Online

We are pleased to invite you to Empathy Day, an online event organized by the Social Brain Lab (SBL) at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, taking place on May 1st.

This one-day event brings together speakers from multiple disciplines—including neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, and artificial intelligence—to explore how empathy can be understood, modeled, and applied in both science and everyday life.

The event is fully online and open to everyone.

Timetable, Speakers & Topics

10:30: Social Brain Lab – Opening
11:00: Alex Mari – AI and human–machine relationships
13:00: Mary Gordon – Empathy in education and society
13:30: Zanna Clay – Empathy in primates
14:15: Dimana Atanassova – Mechanisms of empathy in humans
15:05: Daryl Cameron – Empathy, motivation, and decision-making

Join us via MS Teams

https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/319137764158063?p=2eRPduWkEJQ4nT1fsN

We look forward to welcoming a broad audience for an engaging and interdisciplinary discussion.

 

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