Researchers from Project PERFECT will be giving a series of talks in March 2016

Lisa Bortolotti will speak on the Costs and Benefits of Confabulation at the Department of Psychiatry Meeting at the University of Oxford on 8 March, and on Irrational but Useful Beliefs at the Philosophy Seminar of the University of Pavia on 30th March.

PERFECT and the Costs and Benefits of Optimism project will also host an event entitled "Tricked by Memory" during the Arts and Science Festival in Birmingham on 14th March: there will be talks by Anneli Jefferson, Magdalena Antrobus and Kathy Puddifoot. A programme is available here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/tricked-by-memory-tickets-20012059609