Kristien Hens 
On 7/10/2019, Delphine Jacobs succesfully defended her PhD entitled ” Autism Spectrum Disorder diagnosis in young children. A clinical-ethical study on the experiences of parents and physicians”. She will start as a postdoc in the NeuroEpigenEthics project on the 1st of January 2020. Congratulations, Delphine!
On the 12th and 13th September, the NeuroEpigenEthics team came together in Antwerp. It was a truly unique experience of interdisciplinarity. Analytic philosophy met with Deleuze. Qualitative research met with experimental philosophy. Scientific research met with clinical practice. All this was made possible by team members along with invited scholars sharing a spirit of openness and a dedication to create insights with practical relevance in autism, ADHD and Tourette Syndrome. Below we give an overview of the entanglements our team will follow up on in the next years.
On the 23rd of September 2019 Laura Mattys succesfully defended her PhD entitled Coming of age: A multi-method inquiry into young adulthood & autism. Laura investigated the experiences of Flemish young adults with an autism diagnosis and their parents and caregivers using qualitative and quantitative research methods. She will join the NeuroEpigenEthics team as a postdoc as of the first of October. Congratulations, Laura!
In the context of the project NeuroEpigenEthics, Leni Van Goidsenhoven brings in life experiences by using arts-based research methods. Together with the artist Karel Verhoeven, she is currently making a video work about swinging. With this video, they want to take up and respond to Patty Douglas’s call for “re-thinking communication, queer (relations to) movement and objects, and radicalizing relationality” (2019: 8).
Read moreListening beyond the spoken word. Swinging together.
One of our PhD researchers, Emma Moormann, just attended a workshop called ‘Models of Control and Moral Responsibility’. The workshop took place in a beautiful venue of the University of Copenhagen and was organized by the Cognition, Intention and Action (CoInAct) research group. The interdisciplinary character of the workshop made it a perfect fit for our project: contributions did not only come from philosophers, but also from cognitive psychologists, psychiatrists and neuroscientists.
Read moreWorkshop: Models of Control and Moral Responsibility (Copenhagen, 29-30 August 2019)