AISC 2025 - 21st Annual Conference of the Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences (AISC) September 17-19, 2025 -- Lucca, Italy

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that registration is officially open for the upcoming Italian Association of Cognitive Science (AISC) Conference, taking place on September 17-19, 2025. The title of this year’s conference is: Connected Minds: Dynamic Interactions in Cognitive, Social and Artificial Systems.

You can register until July 31. While there is no registration fee, participants must be current AISC members. All relevant information for registration and membership is available at

https://aisc2025.imtlucca.it/program-and-abstracts

Please note that the conference will be held exclusively in person at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (Piazza S.Francesco, 19, 55100 Lucca, Italy).

We are also delighted to announce a satellite AISC event! 

Shaun Gallagher (University of Memphis) will be joining us to mark the Italian translation of his book “Embodied and Enactive Approaches to Cognition” (Cambridge University Press, 2023). The translator, Francesco Parisi (University of Messina), will also be part of the discussion, alongside Guido Baggio (Roma Tre University). The satellite event will take place on September 19 at 2:30 PM.

You can find the program outline at the following page, which will be updated regularly:

https://aisc2025.imtlucca.it/program-and-abstracts

We look forward to your participation!

The AISC 2025 Organizing Committee