Veranstaltungen

• CHANSE-HERA Crisis Call: “Projects monitoring” (Nottingham, November 24-25)
• Paulus-Akademie: “Zwischen Freiheit und Verantwortung. KI-Regulierung in der Schweiz”: Panelist (October 30)
• 9. Alps Forum: “Quantum Security”: panelist (Lenzerheide, September 25-27)
• cyrenzh Summer School: “Ethical considerations in cybersecurity research” (Zürich, July 11)
• Workshop “AI Assertion Conference” (Graz, June 22-23)
• University Zurich “SDG Research Scout: Mapping UZH Publications to Sustainability Goals”: Panelist (June 17)
• Kinderuniversität Zürich: “Kann KI böse sein? Künstliche Intelligenz und Ethik” (May 29)
• armasuisse W+T, Reporting Forschungsprogramm 65: “Beurteilung autonomer Systeme in zeitkritischen Situationen: Experimente und Umfragestudien” (Thun, May 13)
• 7. Netzwerktreffen Developmental Science Network: “Forschungsethik und Datenschutz – DESAT für UZH-Forschende” (Zürich, Februar 4)
• University of Zurich/Sidney Winter/Summer School Law and Technology: invited expert on cybersecurity (Zürich, January 24)

2024

• Dialogveranstaltung «Regulierung von KI: Risiken, Rechte und Verantwortlichkeiten»: “Chancen von KI kontrolliert nutzen – wie kann das gelingen?” (Bern, November 26)
• Stratos-Debatte: “Autonome Waffensysteme – was bringt die Zukunft” (Luzern, November 13)
• Stände-Talk: “Teaching, Research, and AI: The Future of Knowledge and Social Impact” (Zürich, Oktober 29)
• FORMI-Kurs 2024: “Ethik der Künstlichen Intelligenz” (Wil, September 11)
• Research Hackathon: Investigating the Role of AI in Higher Education: “AI in higher education: Insights from UZH students survey and strategic recommendations” (Zürich, September 11)
• TA-SWISS Klausurtagung: “Dual-Use: Technologien in militärischen Anwendungen” (Spiez, September 9)
• DACH-Tagung Militärethik: Mensch-Maschine Kooperation im Sicherheitsbereich: Wer ist verantwortlich? (Luzern, September 3-6)
• Stiftung Risiko Dialog: “Roundtable KI in der Luftfahrtsicherheit” (Zürich, August 29)
• Final Meeting of the NFP 77 “Promoting trust in cybersecurity through ethics and law: conclusions” (Bern, June 3)
• 8. Datenschutzrechtstagung: “Daten-Ethik – was soll das sein und wie bringt man das in die Praxis?” (Zürich, May 22)
• Conference “L’éthique et le droit pour promouvoir la confiance en la cybersécurité: une conclusion” (Lausanne, April 17)
• Conference “Mit Ethik und Recht das Vertrauen in die Cybersicherheit fördern – ein Fazit” (Zürich, March 7)
• AI workshop of the Life Science Zurich Graduate School: “Main Findings of the DSI Strategy Lab 2023” (Zürich, February 8)

2023

• World Health Organization, Webinar “The Power of Artificial Intelligence for Advancing Health Equity”: AI in Health (Equity) – Opinions and Recommendations’, panelist (Zurich, January 23)
• NFP-75. Workshop “Big Data – Neue Erkenntnisse zu Rechtslage, (Selbst-)Regulierung und Anwendungen im öffentlichen Sektor, invited expert (Bern, Februar 8)
• Media Workshop “Algorithmen & KI” (Zürich, March 1)
• National Media Conference “NRP 75 Big Data”, Bern: “Gesellschaftliche und ethische Herausforderungen von Big Data” (Bern, March 2)
• Inselspital Bern, Symposium Gesundheitsberufe: “Gesellschaftliche und ethische Dimensionen der digitalen Transformation” (Bern, March 10)
• BrainFare Zurich: “KI in der Medizin – gesellschaftliche und ethische Dimensionen” (March 16)
• Societal Acceptance of Drones in Urban Switzerland, Expert Consultation Workshop, invited expert (Winterthur, April 6)
• Workshop “Data protection and research – solution approaches” (Zürich, April 20)
• Kirchgemeinde Uitikon: “Künstliche Intelligenz – was ist das?” (Uitikon, May 10/24)
• Grosser Rat des Kantons Bern, Parldigi MasterClass: KI in der Medizin. Welche ethischen Fragen stellen sich? (Bern, June 6)
• Université de Lausanne, Forensic Information Technology Working Group Annual Meeting: “Ethical Issues in Cybersecurity” (Lausanne, June 8)
• Meeting of the NFP 77 “Digital Transformation”: Project status report (Bern, June 13)
• Swiss Parliament, Kommission für Wissenschaft, Bildung und Kultur: AI Hearing, invited expert (Bern, August 17)
• NRP-77 «Open Justice vs. Privacy», Expertenworkshop, invited expert (Bern, Oktober 31)
• Kirchgemeinde Uitikon: “Künstliche Intelligenz – eine Einführung” (November 8/15)
• Panel “Recommendations for AI in Education”; part of the AI Policy Summit (Zürich, November 4)
• NOVO Innovation Day: “Wir uns die Künstliche Intelligenz – ein Blick hinter den Hype” (November 22)
• CH-CERT-Meeting “Präsentation CERT Ethics Guidelines” (Bern, Dezember 8)
• Parldigi-Workshop “Cybersicherheit – die kommenden Herausforderungen” (Bern, Dezember 20)

2022

• Schulthess Forum Data Privacy 2022, Podium Datenethik (Zürich March 22)
• Kickoff “UFSP Digital Religion(s)”, Podium “Was wir uns vom UFSP Digital Religion(s) versprechen” (Zürich, April 1)
• Workshop “Social Acceptance of Drones in Urban Switzerland”: invited expert (Winterthur, April 6)
• Meeting of the NFP 77 “Digital Transformation”: Project status (Basel, May 17)
• Workshop “Nationale Strategie zum Schutz der Schweiz vor Cyberrisiken – Effektive Abwehr von Cyberangriffen und Ahnung der Verursacher”: invited expert (Bern, June 9)
• Fireside Chat with Swiss Parliament “Monitoring von künstlicher Intelligenz”: invited expert (Bern, June 13)
• Workshop “Die Rolle der Ethik für eine nachhaltige Datenwirtschaft” (Zürich, September 29)
• University of Notre Dame, Rome Global Gateway; Workshop Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: “Human-AI-interaction in security-related decision-making: empirical findings and normative consequences” (Rome, October 20-21).
• Workshop “Controlling Autonomous Systems in the Security Sector – empirical, ethical and legal considerations” (Zürich, November 2-3)
• Parldigi-Veranstaltung NFP-75 Big Data im Bundeshaus “Die Schweiz und Big Data: Chancen und Herausforderungen”: invited expert (Bern, December 5)

2021

• Associate Deans Conference: Challenges and Opportunities: Conducting Quality Research in the Digital Age – The example of the Digital Society Initiative (online, October 28)
• Eichinger T, Christen M, Katsarov J (2021): uMed: Your Choice – A Serious Game for Medical Ethics Education. 47th Annual Conference of the Association for Moral Education (online, November 03-07), talk
• 41st Scientific Week of Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre: DESAT – Data Protection & Ethics Self-Assessment-Tool (online, November 09)

2020

• Workshop “Trust in Autonomous Machines” (online, Zürich, November 26-27)
• Meeting of SRG SSR Verwaltungsrat “Ausschuss Digitale Transformation”: invited expert (online, Bern, November 2)
• SATW TecToday Event: “Big Data am Arbeitsplatz”: panelist (Zürich, September 17)
• Conference “SDS 2020 – Swiss Conference on Data Science”, including pre-conference workshop “Implementing Data Ethics in Business Processes” (online, Lucerne, June 26)
• Workshop “Serious Games for Ethics Training in Medicine” (Zürich, January 16-17)

2019

• Amnesty International Hochschulgruppe Zürich: “Waffenforschung an Schweizer Hochschulen?” panelist (Zürich, November 06)
• IBM Data AI Meetup – Künstliche Intelligenz: Die Umsetzung und ethische Debatte: “Addressing ethical challenges in the use of AI and Big Data” (Zürich, September 19)
• Expert conference “Big Data Ethics Recommendations for the Insurance Industry” (Zürich, September 16)
• CYD-Campus Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Defence and Security: From Robots to Cyber Weapons. Ethical Considerations on the Use of AI in Security and Defense (Lausanne, September 5)
• 24. Symposium on Privacy and Security: panelist (Zürich, September 4)
• Stadtgespräch Digitalisierung: Smart City Zürich & Künstliche Intelligenz. Inputreferat “Künstliche Intelligenz” (Zürich, September 3)
• Zurich, Swiss Data Science Conference. “Data Ethics Poker Round” (Bern, June 13).
• Workshop SATW / Stiftung Risiko Dialog: “Künstliche Intelligenz im Alltag: eine Einführung” (Zürich, June 6)
• Meeting of the NFP Big Data: “NRP-75-Project: Between Solidarity and Personalization: main results“ (Bern, May 21)
• Workshop “Value-driven operations and strategical technological development in cybersecurity” (Lausanne, May 13-14)
• International conference “Ethical and Legal Aspects of Autonomous Security Systems” (Zürich, May 2-3)
• Zurich, Shift 2019 – Business ohne Grenzen? Vertrauen und Akzeptanz digitaler Geschäftsmodelle; session “Ethisches Framework für Unternehmen” (Zürich, February 28)

2018

• National Cybersecurity Strategy – planning event topic “Kompetenz- und Wissensaufbau” (Bern, December 6): invited expert
• ICT 2018 Conference, Networking Session “The Ethics Case of Cybersecurity – how should I decide?” (Vienna, December 5): co-organizer
• Conference “The Cyborg Days” (Zürich, November 26-28): co-organizer
• Zurich, ICMF-Fachtagung Cyber Security: “Ethische Herausforderungen der Cybersecurity” (Zürich, November 22): speaker
• Zurich University of the Arts: “Chances and risks of Big Data in industrial design” (Zürich, November 20): speaker
• University of Applied Sciences of Special Needs Education: “Ethische Fragen von Robotik” (Zurich, November 14): speaker
• Panel “Living with Cybersecurity: A Shared Responsibility” (Tricity, Poland, September 24-26): speaker & co-organizer
• University Zurich, Workshop Digital Health and Shared Decision-Making: “Definition and scope of Digital Health” (Zürich, September 19): speaker
• Workshop “Cybersecurity Challenges in the Government Sphere – Ethical, Legal and Technical Aspects” (Bern, September 5-6): organizer
• Workshop “New Security Paradigms Workshop” (Windsor, August 29-31): program committee
• University of Notre Dame, London Global Gateway, Conference Practicing Science: Virtues, Values, and the Good Life: “Does the Digitization of Science Affect Scientific Virtue?” (London, August 11): speaker
• Public event series “Ist gut nicht gut genug?”: Hirndoping (Pfäffikon, July 6): speaker and panelist
• ARCHE 2018, Robotic support in disaster management (Wangen a.A., July 5): speaker & invited expert
• Bern, Ethics & Leadership Workshop “Spielerischer Ernst – Computerspiele zum Training moralischer Kompetenzen von Mitarbeitenden”: “Moralische Sensitivität – was ist das?” (Bern, July 3); speaker
• Veranstaltungszyklus Autonomie in der Medizin: “Autonomie und Digitalisierung“ (Bern, June 15): panelist
• Law & Robots Workshop 2018: “Diskriminierung durch Big Data im Versicherungswesen? – Ethische Überlegungen“ (Basel, May 16): speaker
• Meeting of the NFP Big Data: “The Big Data ELSI Task Force“ (Bern, May 8): speaker
• Reatch NanoTalks: “Criteria for the Ethical Use of (Semi-) Autonomous Systems in Security and Defense“ (Zurich, March 29): speaker
• Jean Monnet Module: “Neuroscientific research in the EU ethical-legal framework“ (Milano, March 12): speaker
• Zurich, PolitTalk “Digitales Zürich: “Daten – Rohstoff der Zukunft“ (Zurich, January 23): speaker

2017

• Zurich, Porny Days Festival: “Panel Sex Robots“ (Zurich, November 25): panelist
• Collegium Helveticum Workshop “Dr. Cyber – oder wer sorgt eigentlich für unsere digitale Gesundheit?” (Zurich, November 22): co-organizer
• Akademie Berlingen: “Ethik und Prognose“ (Berlingen, October 25): talk
• Conference “Technology-enhanced Warfare: Perspectives from Ethics and Social Science” (Rome, October 17-18): co-organizer & talk
• University of Zurich, “Tag der Lehre”: Panel “Teaching in the digital age” (Zurich, October 1); panelist
• Digital Festival: “Panel Big Data“ (Zürich, September 14): panelist
• Durham University, Institute of Advanced Study: Virtues in the Practice of Science Colloquium: invited expert (Durham, September 7-8)
• Panel “Thematic Session on Serious Moral Games” as part of ISAGA 2017; International Simulation and Gaming Association (Delft, July 10-14): co-organizer
• Brocher Foundation Workshop “Cybersecurity Challenges in Healthcare – Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects” (Geneva, June 12-14): co-organizer
• Workshop Research Integrity at Paul Scherrer Institute: “Big data ethics”: invited expert (Villigen, May 16)
• Kickoff-Meeting of the NFP Big Data: “Big Data and Ethics – a framework“ (Bern, May 9): talk
• Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation: “Using “Big Data” in insurance. A lunchtime round-table on the upside and downside”: panelist (London, May 3): panelist
• EAB Meeting of the Human Brain Project: “An Evaluation System for the Ethical use of Autonomous Robotic Systems in Security Application“ (Bristol, March 29): talk
• Inaugural lecture (Antrittsvorlesung) University of Zürich: “Serious Moral Games – Mit digitalen Werkzeugen Moral verstehen und beeinflussen” (Zurich, March 18): talk
• Basler & Partner, Montags-Kolloquium Wirtschaft & Gesellschaft: “Ethische Herausforderungen für Unternehmen im Umgang mit Big Data“ (Zurich, March 13): talk
• Parlamentarier Dinner ‘parldigi’: “Digitalisierung der Politik: Chance oder Ende der Demokratie?“ (Bern, March 8): panelist
• Workshop “The Ethical use of Autonomous Robotic Systems in Security Applications” (Zurich, January 19-20): organizer

2016

• Christen M: Contributor to the Workshop “Gezielte Veränderungen der Persönlichkeit mittels Hirneingriff und Würdeschutz“, Annual Meeting of the AEM (Bielefeld, September 22)
• Christen M: The emotional and moral flavor of epistemic values in science and art. Colloquium “Developing Virtues in the Practice of Science” (Notre Dame, September 1-3)
• Conference “Designing Moral Technologies – theoretical, practical and ethical issues” (Monte Verità / Ascona, July 10-15) (organizer)
• Christen M: The influence of color-manipulation on data interpretation in neuroimaging and geographic information visualization. Potsdam Visualization Workshop (Potsdam, May 20)
• Christen M: Führungsverantwortung und Ethik im Zeitalter der digitalisierten Kriegsführung – Cyberwar und «Drohnen». ETH Zürich Military Academy, ZAL 2: Leadership Responsibility (Birmensdorf, April 24)
• Workshop Co-Utility: Markus Christen: Co-Utility through Serious Game based Training of Moral Competences in Finance (Tarragona, March 10-11 2016).
• Talk im Turm „Revolution der Rechner. Wie Big Data unser Leben verändert“. Podiumsveranstaltung mit Markus Christen & Mike Martin (Zurich, January 18 2016)
• Projekt „Mensch nach Mass“. Podiumsveranstaltung zu „Gehirndaten“ mit Beatrix Rubin und Markus Christen & (January 12 2016)

2015

• Workshop The genomics of human cognition and psychiatric disease (Geneva, December 9) Christen M: Ethical issues of big data driven research in brain-related diseases.
• Workshop “The transformation of war through information technology and its impact on humanitarian work” (Zurich, November 6-7). Introduction (organizer)
• Swiss Re, Big Data and Privacy Compliance in Insurance Roundtable (Zurich, October 27). Christen M: Ethical concepts and theories associated to privacy and data protection in the Big Data context
• Kompetenzzentrum Menschenrechte, Veranstaltungsreihe Das Recht auf Privatsphäre im digitalen Zeitalter: (Zurich, October 10). Christen M: Recht auf Vergessen und Privacy – grundsätzliche Überlegungen
• Annual Meeting of the International Neuroethics Society (Chicago, October 16). Christen M: The influence of color-manipulation on data interpretation in neuroimaging and geographic information visualization.
• Workshop “Privacy and Data Protection in the Human Brain Project”, HBP Summit 2015 (30.09., Madrid). Christen M: Ethical concepts and theories associated to privacy and data protection in the HBP
• ETH Zürich Military Academy, ZAL 2: Leadership Responsibility (Birmensdorf, September 24). Christen M: Führungsverantwortung und Ethik im (kommenden) Zeitalter semi-autonomer Waffensysteme – das Beispiel der „Drohnen“.
• Workshop “Compassion Week” (Eugene OR, August 06). Christen M / Alfano M: Moral Technologies.
• Joint conference of the International Society for Ethics and Information Technology and the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (University of Delaware, June 22-25 2015). Christen M, Domingo-Ferrer J, Herrmann D, van den Hoven J: Beyond Informed Consent – Investigating Ethical Justifications for Disclosing, Donating or Sharing Personal Data in Research
• Conference „Moral Progress: Concept, Measurement, and Application“ (Amsterdam, 23-25 June 2015). Gutzwiller E, Christen M, Narvaez D: Cultural moral progress despite biological moral decline? – an empirical and ethical investigation of the notion of “moral progress”
• Conference „Clinical Neuroethics: Bench to Bedside“, Paris, June 17-19. Participant in the panel „How Should We Address the Special Challenges of Using Neuroscience-based Therapies in the Developing Brains of Children and Adolescents?“
• Conference „Annual Meeting of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology“, New Orleans (April 2-4). Robinson B, Alfano M, Christen M: The Semantic Space of Intellectual Humility (talk).
• Conference „The Human Sciences after the Decade of the Brain – Perspectives on the Neuro-Turn in the Social Sciences and the Humanities, Mainz (March 30-31). Christen M, Bringedal B, Biller-Andorno N, Matsuzaki H, Rábano A: Strangers in neuroscientific research. On the role of social scientists and ethicists as advisors in ethical, legal and social aspects of the Human Brain Project (Talk)

2014

• 6th Symposium of the Graduate School for Health Sciences Universität Bern, 27.11.2014, Münchenwiler, Switzerland). Christen M: How Health Sciences produce evidence: Some observations from the point of view of neuroethics.
• Conference „European Conference on Social Intelligence, ECIS 2014, Barcelona (03.-05.11.2014). Christen M, Alfano M, Robinson B: The Semantic Space of Intellectual Humility (talk)
• Workshop „Technology-mediated tragic decisions in military, cybersecurity, and humanitarian crises“, Zürich (21.-22.10.2014). M Christen: Introduction (Organizer)
• Debunking-Argumente in der Moralphilosophie, Tübingen (03.-04.10.2014). Christen M: The neuroscience of ethics as a basis for moral behavior interventions? An assessment of moral enhancement
• NOLTA: 2014 International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications, Luzern (14.-18.09.2014). Ott T, Eggel T, Christen M: Generating Low-Dimensional Denoised Embeddings of Nonlinear Data with Superparamagentic Agents.
• Lernexpedition Stiftung Risiko-Dialog “3D-Druck: Revolution in Technik, Recht und Medizin? Wird aus dem Werkzeug für den Prototy-penbau eine Technologie, mit der wir bald Organe drucken?“ (27. 08.2014, Winterthur). Christen M: Ethische Aspekte des Bioprinting (Vortrag).
• 22. European Conference on Information Systems, Tel Aviv (09.-11.06.2014). Christen M, Villano M, Narvaez D, Serrano J, Crowell CR: Measuring the moral impact of operating “drones” on pilots in combat disaster management, and surveillance.
• Workshop „The Ethics of Moral Technologies“, Zürich (28.05.14). Christen M: Introduction
• ECCE HOMO Rahmenprogramm, Zürich (06.04.2014). Vortrag „Mensch 2.0 – ein Sozialroboter im Daten-Mahlstrom?“
• Zurich Salon „Limits and potential of neuroscience“, Zurich (27.03.2014). Podiumsteilnehmer
• Human Brain Project. Meeting of the ELSA Committee, Institut Pasteur, Paris (26.-27.03.2014). Teilnehmer und Vice-Chair des Komitees.
• Workshop „Neuroethics and the Human Brain Project“, Brocher Foundation, Geneva (24.-25.03.2014). Invited participant.
• Swiss Medical Students‘ Convention, Zürich (22.03.2014). Teilnehmer auf der Podiumsdiskussion „Du – ein Sklave deines Gehirns?“
• 7th International Conference on Computers, Privacy and Data Protection, Brussels (22.-24.01.2014). Replacing Jeroen van den Hoven at the Panel „Privacy in Mobility and Location Data“.

2013

• Tagung „Digital Humanities: Neue Herausforderungen für den Forschungsplatz Schweiz“, Bern (28.-29.11.2013). Christen M: Digital Humanities – von der Digitalisierung zur Simulation (talk).
• Experten-Workshop „Wandel von Autonomie und Kontrolle durch neue Mensch-Technik-Interaktion“, Berlin (21.-22.11.2013). Markus Christen: Input-Vortrag.
• Society for Neuroscience, San Diego (09.-13.11.2013). Christen M: The neuroethical challenges of large-scale brain simulations (poster, also at INS)
• International Society of Neuroethics, San Diego (07.-08.11.2013): Christen M, Cabrera L, Ineichen C, Ott R: Teaching Neuroethics: The Zurich Spring and Summer School Experiences (poster). Satalkar P, Christen M: Defining and Defying Death: Making Sense of Brain Death and Cadaveric Organ Donation in India (poster). Molina-Luna P, Christen M, Brugger P, Regard M: Beyond Phineas Gage: Analyzing Morality in Frontal Lesion Patients (poster). Hughes J, Cabrera L, Ott R, Ineichen C, Christen M: Neuroenhancement: Mapping the importance of Ethical Considerations and Stakeholder Perspectives (poster).
• Association for Moral Education, Montréal (24.-26.10.2013). Christen M, Narvaez D, Tanner C, Ott T: Thesaurus-based value maps as an instrument for psychological research (talk) / Larme MC, Roof E, Godby O, Christen M, Narvaez D: A German-English comparison of Thesaurus-based value maps reveals underlying semantic structures of cultural moral differences (poster).
• Workshop on “Ubiquitous games and gamification for promoting behavior change and wellbeing”, Trento, Italy (16.09.2013). Christen M, Faller F, Götz U, Müller C: Serious Moral Games in Bioethics (talk)
• APA Annual Convention, Honolulu: (31.07.-04.08.2013). Christen M, Niederberger T, Ott T, Aebersold R, Aryobsei S, Hofstetter R. Comparing Top-Down and Bottom-Up Sorting of Enriched Micro-Texts by Humans and Machines (poster). Christen M, Lienhard F, Zehr M, Ineichen C, Narvaez D, Tanner C: Sphere and cultural-specific distinctions of moral and non-moral values (talk).
• Annual Meeting of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy, College Park (15.-17.07.2013). Christen M: The Neuroethical Challenges of Brain Simulations (talk).
• NDES 2013 (10.-12.07.2013, Bari). Ott T, Christen M, Niederberger T, Aebersold R, Aryobsei S, Hofstetter R (2013): A Semi-Supervised Learning System for Micro-Text Classification (talk)
• Society for Applied Philosophy, Annual Conference 2013, University of Zurich (28.-30.06.2013). Christen M, Ineichen C, Tanner C: How “Moral” are the Principles of Biomedical Ethics? (talk)
• The Jean Piaget Society 43rd Annual Meeting, Chicago (06.-08.06.2013). Fish A, Christen M, Denkhaus K, Guzman M, Lawrence A, Pruitt T, Thompson C, Narvaez D: Parenting Style Preferences, Parenting Style Experiences and Moral Identity: International Differences (poster).
• International Conference on Deep Brain Stimulation, Düsseldorf (30.-31.05.2013). Christen M, Ineichen C, Bittlinger M, Bothe H-W, Müller S: The practice of Deep Brain Stimulation – An international survey on clinical and ethical issues (talk). Müller S, Christen M (2013): Should Deep Brain Stimulation be offered to Parkinsonian patients with pedophilia? (Poster).
• Zurich Spring School in Neuroethics, University of Zurich (2.-5.04.2013): Organizer. See Website of the School.
• National Popular Culture Association & American Culture Association Annual Conference, Washington DC (27-30.03.13). Organized Panel Serious Moral Games – Assessing the Use of Video Games for Understanding and Influencing Human Morality. Including the talk: The Concept of a Serious Moral Game. Villano M, Christen M, Kacprowicz Z, Peterson E, Narvaez D (2013): Killing or Letting Die – Drone Dilemmas as an Instrument to Assess the Impact of the Virtualization of Warfare on Human Morality.
• Cognition, Brain, and Behavior Study Group Meeting, Psychology Department, University of Notre Dame (25.03.2013). Christen M: Thesaurus-based value maps as an instrument for psychological research (talk)
• Xenomelia. Neuropsychiatric and ethical aspects of healthy limb amputation (14.-15.03.2013, Zurich). Christen M: Ethical aspects of body modifications (talk).
• Research in Progress Seminar, Harvard Medical School (30.01.2013, Boston). Christen M: The practice of Deep Brain Stimulation – An update based on an international survey about clinical and ethical issues (talk).
• Working Seminar, Division of Medical Ethics, Harvard University (28.01.2013, Boston). Christen M. Serious Moral Games in Ethics – Video games as a tool for research and teaching (talk).

2012

• Association for Moral Education (8.-11.11.2012, San Antonio). Christen M, Peterson E, Kacprowicz Z, Lawrence A, Narvaez D (2012): The Relation of Promotion/Prevention Motivation to Triune Ethics Identity (poster) & Christen M, Denkhaus K, Fish A, Lawrence A, Young J, Thompson C, Narvaez D (2012): Moral Identity Influences the Appreciation of Different Parenting Practices (poster).
• International Neuroethics Society Meeting, (11.-12.20.2012, New Orleans). Christen M, Bittlinger M, Ineichen C, Müller S (2012): The clinical and ethical practice of deep brain stimulation – results of an international survey of DBS experts (poster & talk).
• Society for Neuroscience Meeting 2012 (13.-17.10.2012, New Orleans). Christen M, Vitacco DA, Huber L, Brugger P, Harboe J (2012): Analyzing 14 years of neuroimaging display practice (poster)
• Invitation from the Philosophy Department, University of Alabama (10.10.2012, Birmingham, USA) Christen M: Measuring coherence and the topology of belief spaces: Ideas and Projects (talk).
• National Core for Neuroethics Seminar (09.08.2012), University of BC, Vancouver. Markus Christen: The Zurich Neuroethics Initiative. Projects and Ideas (talk).
• Seminar of research group Douglas Medin, Northwestern University (13.07.2012, Evanston, USA). Christen M: A few thoughts about similarity and sorting (talk).
• Complexity and Human Experience:Modeling Complexity in the Humanities and Social Sciences (30.05.-01.06.2012), Charlotte. Markus Christen: Population and Temptation Density Determine the Effect of Social Strategies on Moral Hypocrisy in a Virtual Society (talk).
• 12th Experimental Chaos and Complexity Conference (16.-19.05.2012), Ann Arbor. Markus Christen & Thomas Ott: A superparamagnetic agent map of science (poster).
• Character – an interdisciplinary panel (03.04.12), Notre Dame. Markus Christen: Measuring character change in neuroscience (talk).
• American Philosophical Association Meeting 2012, Central Division (15.-18.02.2012), Chicago. Markus Christen: Shiny Moral People. A Modeling Approach towards Understanding Moral Hypocrisy within a Virtula Society (talk).

2011

• International Neuroethics Society meeting (10./11.06.11), Washington DC. Markus Christen, Marianne Regard, Peter Brugger: The „immoral patient“ – analyzing the role of brain lesion patients in moral research (poster & accepted abstract for AJOB-N)
• Schlussworkshop „Farbeinsatz im Neuroimaging“ (30.6./01.07.11), Zürich. Markus Christen: Präsentation der Forschungsergebnisse (interner Workshop)
• Conference „What Makes us Moral“ (23./24.06.2011), Amsterdam. Markus Christen & Thomas Ott: Quantified coherence of moral beliefs as a predictive factor for moral agency (talk).
• NEH Summer Institute „Digital Humanities“ (01.-17.06.2011), Charlotte. Workshop participant. Markus Christen: A Model of Moral Hypocracy as a Model of how to learn agent-based modelling (talk).
• ECPR Joint Sessions (13.-16.04.2011), St Gallen. Daniel Schwarz, Markus Christen, Thomas Ott: Why Do Parties Split? A New Measure of Party Coherence Based on the Belief Systems of Party Members in Switzerland and the United States (talk)
• IBME Kolloquium (10.03.2011), Zürich: Markus Christen: An Ethical Evaluation of Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson’s Disease (talk)
• Expert Workshop (20./21.01.2011), Bonn: Deep Brain Stimulation in Psychiatrie. Guidance for responsible research and application. Invited participant.

2010

• Forschungstag der PH Zürich „Sicherheit – Unsicherheit“ (05.11.2010), Au. Markus Christen: Moral macht uns sicher, Ethik unsicher?! (Vortrag).
• BID-Workshop „Brains in Dialogue on Deep Brain Stimulation“ (20.-21.09.2010), Warsaw (invited participant)
• Workshop „Philosophical Consequences of Empirically Informed Ethics“ (29.-31.03.2010), Zürich: Co-Organizer.
• Lehrauftrag im Rahmen des Moduls Neurowissenschaft der Interkantonale Hochschule für Heilpädagogik Zürich (29.01.10), Zürich: Neuroenhancement und Neuroethik (Vortrag).
• Kaderseminar Kanton Aargau (21.01.10), Ermatingen: Das Gehirn und die Moral. Skizze eines Wechselverhältnisses (Vortrag).

2009

• AEM-Tagung „Menschenbilder in der (Medizin-)Ethik“ (24.-26.09.2009), Berlin. Markus Christen, Marianne Regard: Der unmoralische Patient: Eine kritische Analyse des Einsatzes hirnverletzter Personen in der empirischen Moralforschung (Vortrag).
• Konferenz „Moral Responsibility: Neuroscience, organization & engineering (24.-27.08.2009), Delft. Markus Christen: The responsibility-gap in self-organized social systems: can empirical approaches in modeling social science and neuroeconomics help to close it? (Vortrag)
• Fortbildungsveranstaltung Psychiatrische Dienste Aargau (20.08.09): Von einer neurowissenschaftlich inspirierten Psychiatrie zu moral enhancement? (Vortrag).
• Konferenz „The Role of the University in Our Time. The Legacy of Joseph Ben David as a Guideline for Today’s Challenges.” (21.-26.07.2009), Monte Verità: Co-Organisator.
• NDES 2009 (21.-23.06.2009), Rapperswil. Markus Christen, T. Starostina, Daniel Schwarz, Thomas Ott: A spin-based measure of the coherence of belief systems (Vortrag). Co-Organisator.
• Symposium „Ethiktransfer in Organisationen des Gesundheitswesens am Beispiel des Kinderspitals Zürich (28.05.2009), Zürich: Markus Christen: Ist geteilte Verantwortung möglich? (Vortrag)
• 60. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Neurochirurgie (27.05.2009), Münster. Markus Christen: Das Konzept „moral agency“ und Tiefe Hirnstimulation (Vortrag)
• Veranstaltungsreihe „Moralität, ein Innen- oder Außenfaktor?“ (14.04.2009), Hamburg. Markus Christen: Eine Neurobiologie der Moral? Fragen an ein aktuelles Projekt (Vortrag & Diskussion).
• Science and Technology in Society Conference (28./29.03.2009), Washington. Markus Christen, Ina Kaufmann, Svenja Matusall: Disciplinary Dynamics in Emerging Social Neurosciences and Neuroecononomics (Vortrag).
• Öffentliche Veranstaltung „Bedroht die Hirnforschung unser Menschenbild?“ (16.02.2009) der Neuen Helvetischen Gesellschaft, Bern. Podiumsteilnehmer.

2008

• Startworkshop des SAMW-Projektes „Auswirkungen der Tiefen Hirnstimulation (DBS) auf die moral agency: Entwicklung einer Methodik zur Problemerfassung und -validierung“ (12.12.2008). Markus Christen: Ein empirischer Rahmen für die Erfassung von moral agency (Vortrag).
• Vorlesungsreihe „Neurowissenschaften und Bioethik“ (04.11.2008), Tübingen. Markus Christen: Methodenkritik der Neurowissenschaft am Beispiel der Bildgebung und empirischen Moralforschung (Abendvortrag)
• Workshop „On the ethical and philosophical relevance of neuroscience“ (03.-05.10.2008), Bonn. Workshop-Teilnehmer.
• Summer School Graduiertenprogramm: „Methodologie II: Ethische Urteilsfindung, Verhältnis angewandte Ethik zu Moraltheorien und Fallstudien” (28.07-02.08.2008), Uebersdorf FR (Teilnehmer).
• Tagung: „Identität: Vergessen und Gedächtnis. Moderne Perspektiven aus den Neurowissenschaften oder neuer Wein in alten Schläuchen?“ (17.-20.07.2008), Villa Vigoni, Loveno di Menaggio, Italien (Disputant).
• International Workshop on Neuroethics (07.06.2008), Aachen. Markus Christen & Johannes Fischer: What do neural correlates of moral judgments reveal on moral agency? (Vortrag).
• Constantin von Monakow Zyklus (12.04.2008), Zürich. Markus Christen: Ein biologisches Gewissen? Anmerkungen aus ethischer Sicht. (Vortrag).
• European Spring Event on Neuroethics 2008 (15.03.2008), Ludwigshafen. Markus Christen: Autonomy and Moral Agency. Is the Brain More than a Complex System? (Vortrag).
• Symposium Hirnforschung – Chancen und Risiken für das Recht (04.03.2008): Moderation der Podiumsdiskussion (mit Daniel Hell, Gerhard Roth, Marcel Senn und Brigitte Tag).
• STS Meeting 2008 (07. – 09.02.2008), ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Dorothée Baumann, Markus Christen: The art of brain imaging (Vortrag). Jan-Christoph Heilinger, Markus Christen: The condition of informed consent regarding technical interventions in the brain (Vortrag).

2007

• Tagung: „Wenn Gehirn und Computer verschmelzen“ (7.-9.12.2007), Evangelische Akademie Iserlohn. Markus Christen: Technisierung von Körper und Seele. Was bleibt menschlich am Menschen? (Vortrag)
• BMBF-Klausurwoche: „Die Technisierung des Gehirns“ (16.-23.09.2007), Freiburg: Technisierte moral agents? Mögliche Wechselwirkungen zwischen einer „Neurobiologie der Moral“ und dem therapeutischen Einsatz von Neurotechnologien (Vortrag)
• Summer School Graduiertenprogramm: „Themen und Fragen der Methodologie im Kontext der Ethik” (27.08-01.09.2007), Uebersdorf FR (Teilnehmer).
• 15th Annual Meeting of the European Society of Philosophy and Psychology (09.-12.07.2007), Genf. Markus Christen, Adrian Jaeggi, Ina Kaufmann, Svenja Matusall, Nicole Miller, Claudia Rudolf von Rohr: Naturalizing moral agency – prospects and perils (Poster)
• Forschungskolloquium „Der moral agent. Dimensionen seiner Entwicklung“ (22.-23.06.2007), Zürich (Teilnehmer)
• Schweizer Ethikertreffens (06.06.2007), Fribourg: Präsentation SNF-Projekt
• Experten-Seminar „Die Verselbständigung des Computers“ (23.-24.04.2007), Zürich (Teilnahme als Experte)

2006

• Ringvorlesung „Einblicke in die Seele und ihre Aktivitäten“ (Volkshochschule Zürich, 08.11.06): Gehirn ohne Seele? Hirnforschung und das Geistige (Vortrag),
• Symposium „Hirnforschung und Menschenbild“ (12.-14.10. 2006), Fribourg: Teilnahme an öffentlicher Podiumsdiskussion
• Workshop “Potentials of Complexity Science for Business, Governments, and the Media” (03.-05.08. 2006), Collegium Budapest. Markus Christen, Georges Bongard, Attila Pausitz, Nobert Stoop, Ruedi Stoop: From small world to hierarchic business information networks by reogrnaizations – a real word study of a failure (Talk).
• AIMS 2006. Sixth International Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications (25.-28. June 2006), Poitiers, France. Markus Christen, Thomas Ott, and Ruedi Stoop: Computation in olfactory systems beyond synchronization (Talk).
• Forschungskolloquium Grundlage moralischer Orientierung (16.-17. June 2006), Zürich, Switzerland Markus Christen: Autonomie und moral agency aus Sicht der Neurowissenschaft. Versucht einer Klarstellung (Talk).
• Symposium der Schweizerischen Philosophischen Gesellschaft: Was ist Philosophie (19.-20. 05. 2006), Neuenburg: Autonomie – eine Aufgabe für die Philosophie (Talk).

2005

• From Quanta to Life: Honoring the contributions by Willi-Hans Steeb to the world of mathematics and physics (18.-22.12.2005), Klosters, Schweiz: Lempel-Ziv in neuronal systems (Talk).
• Forschungskolloquium „Grundlagen moralischer Orientierung“ (09.-10.12. 2005) Zürich: Abklärung des möglichen Beitrags der Neurowissenschaft und der Verhaltensforschung zum Verständnis moralischer Orientierung (Talk).
• Vortrag im Rahmen der Veranstaltungsreihe „Kosmos Gehirn“ der St.Gallischen naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft (09.11.2005), St. Gallen, Schweiz: Das Gehirn als Vorbild und Objekt für Technologie – historische Wurzeln und kommende Szenarien (Talk).
• ZNZ-symposium (21.10.2005), Zürich: Markus Christen, Alister Nicol, Keith Kendrick, Thomas Ott, and Ruedi Stoop: Odors lead to stable neuron relations beyond synchronization (Poster).
• Rhenaphotonics Bio-Opto 2005 conference (28.09.2005) Paris, France: What is neuroinformatics – and how can it be useful for biophotonics (Talk).
• NDES 2005. Nonlinear Dynamics in Electronic Systems (18.-22.09.2005), Potsdam, Germany: Neuronal long-tails revisited (Poster).
• Departementskolloquium Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Berlin (08.02.2005): Spike patterns” als Träger neuronaler Information – Ursprung und Ausbreitung des „temporal coding“ in der Hirnforschung (Talk)

2004

• NOLTA 2004. International Symposium on Nonlinear Theory and Application (29.11.-03.12.2004), Fukuoka, Japan. Markus Christen, Thomas Ott, and Ruedi Stoop: Spike train clustering using a Lempel-Ziv distance measure (Talk).
• ZNZ-symposium (15.10.2004), Zurich: Markus Christen, Thomas Ott, and Ruedi Stoop: Spike train clustering using a Lempel-Ziv distance measure (Poster).
• ISCAS 2004. IEEE International Society of Circuits and Systems (23.-26.05.2004), Vancouver, Canada. Markus Christen, Albert Kern, Jan-Jan van der Vyver and Ruedi Stoop: Pattern detection in noisy signals (Talk).
• Wissenschaft kontrovers: Ist nun plötzlich alles nano? (10.05.2004): Zwischenrufer.

2003

• ZNZ-symposium (17.10.2003), Zurich: Markus Christen, Albert Kern, Thomas Ott, Ruedi Stoop: Recognizing and classifying temporal patterns in neuronal spike trains (Poster).
• Tagung: Artifizielle Körper – lebendige Technik. Zur Geschichte der Biomedizin und Biotechnologie (20.-22.06.2003), Zurich: Markus Christen: Der Einbau von Technik in das Gehirn. Das Wechselspiel von Informationsbegriffen und Technologieentwicklung am Beispiel des Hörens (Talk).
• NDES 2003. Nonlinear Dynamics in electronic systems (19.-21.05.2003), Scuol, Switzerland: Member of organizing team.
• Complexity 2003. Complex Behavior in Economics (07.-11.05.2003), Aix-en-Provence, France: Markus Christen, Ruedi Stoop: Limiting complexity and enabling autonomy in public administrations (Talk).
• Ethics and the European Space (03.-09-04.2003), Les Treilles, France: Markus Christen: How neuroscience impacts ethics (Talk)
• Seminar „Der Mensch geht, der Roboter kommt“, Universität Basel (Andreas Brenner): Gastvortrag: Maschinenautonomie. Überlegungen zum „Selbst“ eines Roboters.

2002

• ZNZ-symposium (18.10.2002), Zurich: Markus Christen, Albert Kern, Jan-Jan van der Vyver, Ruedi Stoop: Correlation integral pattern recognition for neural spike trains (Poster) / Jan-Jan van der Vyver, Markus Christen, Ruedi Stoop: Communicating with autonomous systems using fractal patterns (Poster).
• Complex Systems Summer School (Santa Fe Institute, June 2002): Markus Christen, Laura Franklin: The concept of emergence in complexity science: finding coherence between theory and practice (talk).
• Symposium der Schweizerischen Philosophischen Gesellschaft: Der Körper in der Philosophie (31.05.-01.06.2002), Fribourg.: Markus Christen: Die Ontologie künstlicher Körper (Talk)

2001

• ZNZ-symposium (19.10.2001), Zurich: Markus Christen, Albert Kern, Ruedi Stoop: BDS-test as a benchmark for noise-cleaning (Poster). / Ruedi Stoop, Stefano Lecchini, Markus Christen, Jan-Jan van der Vyver: An integral, thermo-dynamic-formalism based measure of dynamical complexity (Poster).
• PhD-retreat of the Center of Neuroscience Zurich (03.-05.05.2001), Valens: Markus Christen, Ruedi Stoop: The concept of complexity in neuroscience (Poster)