o Panagiotidou, O., “Cognitive theories and Wittgenstein: Looking for convergence, not for divergence,” 3rd ERB Workshop: Wittgenstein, Religion, and Cognitive Science, 15 Δεκεμβρίου 2020, Nova Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA), Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities – Nova University of Lisbon (NOVA FCSH) (via zoom).
o “Ancient Greek Divination: Cognitive and Cultural Heuristics of Predictive Brain”, Worlding the Brain: Tools of Collective Prediction: Music, Art, Literature, Religion, November 27-29 2018. Aarhus, Denmark.
o o“Sleep sanctuaries and Collective Dreaming: The Asclepius Cult”, Pillow Culture, Test-Bed Exhibition, February 28, 2018. Aronson Gallery, New York, USA.
o “Ancient Greek Divination: Cross-cultural Cognitive Proclivities, Cultural Patterns of Practice and Social Interactions”, Fourth International Symposium on Network Theory, Cognitive Science, and Historiography, October 1-6th 2017, Crete, Greece.
o “Aelius Aristides’ Sacred Tales and Actual Dreaming Experiences”, Conference of History and Cognition towards a Cognitive Historiography, December 4-5, 2016. London, Great Britain.
o “Secrecy in the Mithras Cult: Concealment, Cognition and Social Cohesion”, The Mysteries of Mithras and other Mystic Cults in the Roman World, Symposium Peregrinum, June 16-19, 2016. Tarquinia, Italy.
o “The Spread of Asclepius’ Reputation: Social Interaction and Cultural Learning”, Network Theory, Cognitive Science, and Historiography, Workshop organized by the Greek Society for the Study of Culture and Religion Association (GSSCR), the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion, Toronto, Canada, the Department for the Study of Religion, Masaryk University and the Czech Society for the Study of Religion, September 01-04, 2015. Kavala, Greece.
o “History meets cognition: The Asclepius cult as a pattern of practice”, XXI IAHR World Congress, Erfurt, Germany, August 23-29, 2015. Erfurt, Germany.
o “The Asclepian Therapy as an alternative healing choice: A case of placebo effect’, Popular Medicine in the Graeco-Roman World, Columbia University, April 18-19, 2014. New York, USA.
o “History meets Cognition at the Asklepios’ sanctuaries,” 1st Workshop about History and Cognition towards a Cognitive Historiography, July 23-24, 2013. London, Great Britain.
o “Location of an Asklepios' sanctuary: Why there? Why like that?,” Spatialising Practices: Landscapes, Mindscapes, Socioscapes. Towards a Redescriptive Companion to Graeco-Roman Antiquity, June 23-27 2013. Loutraki, Greece.
o “The Asklepios Cult: Where Brains, Minds and Bodies interact with the World creating New Realities,” Conversion and Initiation in Antiquity: shifting identities - creating change, December 1-4, 2012. Ebeltoft, Denmark.
o “Can cognition meet history (and vice versa)? The case of the Asklepios cult,” Explaining Religion: Method, Theory & Experiment, November 22-24, 2012. Thessaloniki, Greece.
o “Cognitive Approaches to Ancient Greek Cults: The Asklepios' paradigm,” Past, Present, and Future in the Scientific Study of Religions, Workshop by The Laboratory for the Experimental Research of Religion (LEVYNA), the Czech Association for the Study of Religions (CASR) and the Department for the Study of Religions (Masaryk University), March 1-3 2012. Brno, Czech Republic.
o “The cognitive route of 'star-talk': Τhe scene of the tauroctony as a system of signs,” 10th Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions: New Movements in Religion Theories and Trends, Budapest, September 18-22, 2011. Budapest, Hungary.
o “The Asklepios cult as placebo effect,” 3rd Annual Conference of the Study of Religion and Sociology: Considerations for the modern study of religion, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, June 10, 2011. Thessaloniki, Greece.
o “Divine Healings in the Temples of Asklepios as “turning points” in the life narratives of Supplicants,” 2nd Hellenistic Studies Workshop, The Alexandria Center of Hellenistic Studies, July 4-10, 2010. Alexandria, Egypt.
o “Narrative Construction of the Mithraists’ Lives,” 2nd Annual Student Conference: The Study of Religion in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Department of the Study of Religion, Aristotle University, April 23, 2010. Thessaloniki, Greece.
o “A Cognitive Approach to the Worldview of Mithraism,” 1st Annual Student Conference: Religions, Cults, and the Self in Hellenistic Worlds. Department of the Study of Religion, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece. (Response [coordinated by Prof. Russell McCutcheon, University of Alabama, USA] by Luther H. Martin, University of Vermont), May 25, 2009. Thessaloniki, Greece.