EPIC Summer School 2026

From July 14th to July 17th, 2026 project EPIC will host a Summer School at Ce.U.B (Centro Residenziale Universitario di Bertinoro) in Bertinoro, Italy. The event is made possible by generous funding by Wellcome, which will also subsidise the delegates' subsistence costs.

Poster of the event

Information about the event will be regularly updated on this page and a detailed programme posted closer to the time. 

The Fortress in Bertinoro

Summer School sessions

Speakers include:

• Martino Belvederi Murri (University of Ferrara) Reacting to demoralization and investigating the experience of dignity in psychosis
• Matthew Broome (University of Birmingham) Epistemic injustice and the future of phenomenological psychopathology
• Lisa Bortolotti (University of Birmingham and University of Ferrara) The Agential Stance
• Lara Calabrese (University of Bologna) "I'm still here and my opinion matters": epistemic injustice in the experience of people living with dementia
• Havi Carel (University of Bristol) Is illness ineffable?
• Fred Cooper (University of Bristol) Epistemic injustice and loneliness
• Dan Degerman (University of Bristol) Silence and epistemic injustice in bipolar
• Luigi Grassi (University of Ferrara) Preserving dignity and epistemic justice in palliative care.
• Laura Guidry-Grimes (Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine) Epistemic Injustice in Capacity and Insight Determinations.
• Carme Isern Mas (University of the Balearic Islands) When Are Psychiatric Patients Considered Less Credible?
• Elisabetta Lalumera (University of Bologna) Can biomedicine and AI-enhanced healthcare be epistemically just?
• Michael Larkin (Aston University) Being understood: epistemic Injustice towards young people seeking support 
• Rose McCabe (City St. George's University of London) The epistemic dimension of clinical communication
• Alice Monypenny (University of Nottingham) Testimonial smothering.
• Themistoklis Pantazakos (American College of Greece) "You think you do, but you don't”: Limits and specifications of the epistemic injustice concept in mental health care.
• Chiara Punzi (University of Ferrara) "Non multa, sed multum": Epistemic injustice and paranoia
• Jodie Russell (University of Birmingham) Contested credibility: Epistemic injustice in young people with unusual experiences and beliefs.
• Elly Vintiadis (American College of Greece) “Give me back my metaphysics!”: Hermeneutical injustice in psychedelic-assisted therapy.

Topics for lectures will encompass perspectives from philosophy, psychology, psychiatry, history, legal scholarship, clinical practice, and lived experience.

One of the meeting rooms at the venue

Applications for the Summer School are now closed and successful applicants have been notified.

The programme will be available to all participants prior to the event.