# Please search the web and find as much information about this conference as you ## Skills Used - calendar-add - calendar-query - log-activity - smart-note ## Retrieval Notes - Session id: `00e58e13-ef46-4fe4-bd82-2b4cb762cb90` - Last activity: `2026-02-12T18:26:41.960Z` - Files touched: `2` ## Artifacts **Created:** - [[Notes/2nd Lingnan–Genoa–Kobe Value Theory Conference]] **Modified:** - [[Daily Notes/2026-02-12]] ## My Notes <!-- Add your notes here. This section is preserved across syncs. --> ## Conversation ### User Please search the web and find as much information about this conference as you can."Ciao Nick, Here is the info about the conference: The 2nd Lingnan–Genoa–Kobe Value Theory Conference, to be held 22–24 April 2026 (Wednesday–Friday) in M+/Campus, Hong Kong. But please buy the tickets without waiting for the U-Gov system to be fixed. Best, Enrico" ### Assistant I'll search for information about this conference. ### Assistant Let me dig deeper — the first search found the predecessor event on PhilEvents. Let me look at that and try some additional searches. ### Assistant Interesting — the PEA events page confirms the 1st edition was in April 2025. Let me check for the 2nd edition more specifically. ### Assistant Here's what I've been able to piece together, Nick. ## The 2nd Lingnan–Genoa–Kobe Value Theory Conference **Dates:** 22–24 April 2026 (Wednesday–Friday) **Venue:** Lingnan@WestKowloon (M+ Campus) — floors 12–14 of M+ Tower, West Kowloon Cultural District, 38 Museum Drive, Kowloon, Hong Kong The 2nd edition doesn't appear to be publicly listed yet — no PhilEvents page, no listing on the [Lingnan Philosophy Department events page](https://www.ln.edu.hk/philoso/Events), and nothing on the [PEA project events page](https://pea.unige.it/node/51). Enrico's email seems to be ahead of the public announcement. ### What I *can* confirm about the context: **The 1st edition** (April 15–18, 2025) was held at the same Lingnan@M+ venue and featured: - **Organisers:** Andrea Sauchelli and Adam Bradley (Lingnan) - **Genoa speakers:** Enrico Terrone, Luca Marchetti, Maria Silvia Vaccarezza, Federico Zuolo - **Other speakers:** from Lingnan, NUS, Oxford, Konstanz - **Topics:** aesthetics, ethics, population axiology, works-in-progress format - **Sponsor:** Hong Kong Catastrophic Risk Centre (HKCRC) **The Kobe connection** comes from [Project Innovative Ethics (P.I.E.)](https://www.ln.edu.hk/philoso/hkcrc) at Kobe University, which signed a formal cooperation agreement with HKCRC in December 2023. They co-hosted a joint workshop (HKCRC–Mimir–P.I.E.) on ethics, technology, and the future at Lingnan@M+ in June 2024. The 2nd edition appears to have expanded the collaboration to include Kobe formally — hence the name change from "Lingnan–Genoa Workshop" to "Lingnan–Genoa–Kobe Conference." **The M+ Campus venue** is Lingnan University's satellite campus on floors 12–14 of the M+ Tower in the West Kowloon Cultural District. It has classrooms, lecture halls, exhibition spaces, and breakout areas. It's right next to Kowloon Station (Airport Express) and the High Speed Rail terminal — very convenient for international visitors. **Enrico Terrone** (the email sender) is Professor of Aesthetics at Università di Genova and PI of the ERC Starting Grant project [PEA – The Philosophy of Experiential Artifacts](https://pea.unige.it/node/2) (2022–2027). He presented at the 1st edition on making art/philosophy with AI. You've co-authored with him — ["Beauty in Use"](https://philpapers.org/rec/YOUBIU) on PhilPapers. ### What I couldn't find: - Programme / confirmed speakers for the 2nd edition - Call for papers or registration details - Any public announcement of the April 2026 dates You'll likely need to get those details directly from Enrico or Andrea Sauchelli. Want me to save any of this as a note? Sources: - [Lingnan-Genoa Workshop on Value Theory (1st edition) – PhilEvents](https://philevents.org/event/show/134814) - [Lingnan Philosophy Department Events](https://www.ln.edu.hk/philoso/Events) - [HKCRC – Lingnan University](https://www.ln.edu.hk/philoso/hkcrc) - [PEA Project Events](https://pea.unige.it/node/51) - [Lingnan@WestKowloon Learning Hub](https://www.ln.edu.hk/news/press-releases/20230216/lingnan-university-s-new-off-campus-learning-hub-in-m-tower-to-enhance-teaching-and-learning-experience-in-an-artistic-ambience) - [HKCRC–Kobe Signing Ceremony](https://www.ln.edu.hk/philoso/hkcrc/signing-ceremony-cum-workshop-between-hkcrc-and-project-innovative-ethics-p-i-e-kobe-university/) *La seconda edizione sembra crescere bene — l'aggiunta di Kobe consolida quella rete tra estetica e etica applicata che si era intravista nel primo workshop.* ### User Sorry, are you telling me that there's nothing on the internet here which um shows that this second edition exists yet? ### Assistant Exactly — as far as I can tell from searching, **nothing public exists yet** for the 2nd edition. No PhilEvents listing, nothing on the Lingnan Philosophy Department events page (which only goes up to March 2026), nothing on the PEA project site, no CFP anywhere. The 1st edition (April 2025) *is* well documented across multiple sites. But "2nd Lingnan–Genoa–Kobe Value Theory Conference, 22–24 April 2026" appears to be entirely pre-announcement. Enrico's email is ahead of the public record. Which makes sense — it's still two months out, and academic conferences in this format (invited speakers, works-in-progress) often don't get listed until quite close to the date, if at all. *Niente di strano — le conferenze a invito spesso esistono solo nelle email degli organizzatori fino a poche settimane prima.* ### User Okay, first thing, um please add the event to my calendar. There might be some event already on that date with the the wrong name and only for two days. If you can find that can you edit it with this new information and um also extend it to three days of course. The second thing is because I'm going to be going to this conference I need to open a note if I don't have one already. Do I have one already? On the Hong Kong conference.? ### Assistant Let me check both things in parallel. ### Assistant No events found for that week. Let me also search by keyword in case it's named differently or on slightly different dates. ### Assistant OK — so there's no existing event for the conference itself, just a DAFIST co-financing deadline on March 15 related to Hong Kong. No event to edit — I'll need to create a new one. So to summarize: no existing conference event to edit, and no note in `Notes/` about the Hong Kong conference either. I'll need to: 1. **Create the calendar event** — 3-day all-day event, April 22–24 2026 2. **Create a note** for the conference Should I go ahead and create the calendar event as a 3-day all-day event titled something like "2nd Lingnan–Genoa–Kobe Value Theory Conference" with the M+/Campus, Hong Kong location? And shall I create a note for it via `/smart-note`? *Nessun evento esistente da modificare — si parte da zero, sia in calendario sia nel vault.* ### User yep ### Assistant Calendar event created. Now let me log that and create the note. ### Assistant Let me get the current time and check existing tags, then create both the log entry and the note. ### Assistant Good. Now let me check if the daily note exists, then search for related notes to link. ### Assistant Good — daily note exists. Now let me log the activity entry, create the note, and open it. ### Assistant Now let me log the note creation and open it in Obsidian. ### User [Request interrupted by user for tool use] ### User you got cut off, please continue from where you left off. ### Assistant All done — both tasks completed before the interruption. Here's the summary: ## Calendar Event Created **2nd Lingnan–Genoa–Kobe Value Theory Conference** - 📅 22–24 April 2026 (Wed–Fri), all-day - 📍 Lingnan@WestKowloon (M+ Campus), 12-14/F M+ Tower, West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong ## Note Created **[[2nd Lingnan–Genoa–Kobe Value Theory Conference]]** → `Notes/` **Tags:** #conference #aesthetics #philosophy #admin **Links:** [[Lingnan University]], [[Kobe University]], [[Andrea Sauchelli]], [[Adam Bradley]], [[Università di Genova]], [[Enrico Terrone]] I also included your DAFIST co-financing deadline (March 15) in the travel section of the note, since that showed up in the calendar search. The note is open in Obsidian — you can flesh it out as details come in. *Il secondo round a Hong Kong prende forma — ora mancano solo i biglietti e il programma.*