What is consciousness? Lecture in a wine bar

Lectures for curious minds where researchers and experts explore thought-provoking ideas

📍 Location: Agüita Wine Bar
📚 Lecture: What Is Consciousness? A Neuroscientist Explains
🎤 Speaker: Tomas Berjaga Buisan

This Evening’s Talk
Right now you are seeing, hearing, thinking, remembering. But what exactly is the thing that experiences all of this?
In this lecture we will explore how scientists think about consciousness and how it changes across different states of the brain.
Topics include:
• What is consciousness according to neuroscience
• Where consciousness arises in the brain
• How consciousness changes in different states (drugs, dreams, coma etc )
• How the brain creates the sense of self

About the Speaker
Tomas Berjaga Buisan is a researcher and lecturer at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, studying how brain activity changes across different states of consciousness, from wakefulness to anesthesia and brain injury.

Agenda
7:30 PM – Doors open: grab a seat (open seating), order a drink, and settle in.
7:50 PM – Host introduction
8:00 PM – Lecture begins
8:40 PM – Audience Q&A
9:00 PM – Open discussion: stay to chat with the speaker, meet fellow curious minds, and continue the conversation over drinks.

📅 Date: 13 April
📍 Location: Agüita Wine Bar
🎟 Ticket: €10
Drinks are available at the bar throughout the evening.