June 3-5, 2024
Each Speaker will have 20 minutes time for the talk, followed by 10 minutes discussion. The rooms are all provided with screens, computers and beemers, so it is possible to prepare a presentation and bring it in a USB stick short before presentation or send it to the e-mail address This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. some days before the conference start. If copies of handouts are needed please send a request to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Please note: we recommend all participants to keep their talk within 20 minutes in order to keep the panels on time and allow participants to follow different panels.
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University of Catania, Italy
AUDITORIUM
PLENARY
Emotions in Action. A Neuroscientific Perspective
Mystery Loves Company
Lisa Zunshine
Emotions, Identity, and Narrative: Dissociation, Multiple Personalities, and the Agency of Integration
Naomi Rokotniz
Shrieking
Ellen Spolsky
CHAIR: Margaret Freeman
Introduction
Joerg Fingerhut/John Sutton
A Roman Thought Has Struck Him": Emotion and Place on the Early Modern English Stage
Lyn Tribble
The Embodied Architectural Journey: Navigating Emotional Resonance from Vitruvius to Contemporary Neuroscience
Dora Anastasi
Feeling and Remembering Architecture: How Embodied Atmospheres Amplify Emotions and Prime Memories, Illustrated through the Baroque Spaces and the 20th-Century Exhibition Design of Palazzo Rosso in Genoa
Elisabetta Canepa
Commentary & Discussion: Giovanna Colombetti
CHAIR: Joerg Fingerhut
Emotions in Memory. A Historical Inquiry into Ancient and Mediaeval Theories of Cognition
Line Cecilie Engh
The Franks Casket and Blend Tolerance: A Cognitive Crack at an Early English Riddle
Jacob Goldbeck
Embodied Jealousy. Insights from Latin Literature and Language
Roberta Leotta
CHAIR: Peter Garratt
Does Camera Movement Move Us – or, How 5E Is Film Viewing? Investigating film viewers’ motions and emotions.
Lisa-Maria van Klaveren
Expected vs. Unexpected: Contruction of Emotion in Cinema in the Era of Transmediality
Anna Tashchenko
Hues on Screen: Exploring Emotions and Cognitive Semiotics
Derya Tok
CHAIR: Karen Pearlman
University of Catania, Italy
AULA A3
WORKSHOP 1
Experiencing Zhi: Emotion and cognition in literary creation viewed from ancient Chinese literary theory
Benito Garcia Valero
AUDITORIUM
PLENARY
Forward to the Past and Backward to the Future
Semir Zeki and Team (Samuel Rasche, Taylor Enoch)
Emotions layered in Traces and Places: Situated Affect and the Aesthetics of Superposition
John Sutton
Enacting Change through Participatory Art
Harry Drummond
Experiencing the Urban Sublime
Sanna Lehtinen
“Your Emotional City!”: Berlin as a Case Study for Urban Aesthetic Emotions
Joerg Fingerhut
CHAIR: Giovanna Colombetti
Anger and Compassion as Reader’s Emotions in Hungarian Social Novels
Márta Horváth
Emotions in Literary Corpora: Problems, Methods and Solutions
Gábor Simon
Two Types of Moral-related Disgust and Empathetic Resistance to Fiction
Efi Kyprianidou
In Praise of the Visceral. Disgust as an Experience of Cognitive Tension in Poetry: Enaction and Embodiment in the Aesthetic Experience of a Mixed Affect
Adriana Bermejo Lozano
CHAIR: Jennifer Davis Taylor
Signs of life: Challenges for the humanoid AI performer
Brad Krumholz
The Commons of the Lung: Future Breath Aesthetics
Sozita Goudouna
Esthetics of inquiry and their applications in AI
Rodoniki Athanasiadou
Emotion and Embodiment in Multiscreen Contexts
Wyatt Moss-Wellington
Emotion-as-Value: Enactive Challenges for Machine Consciousness
Robin L. Zebrowski
CHAIR: Daniela Giordano
To Hecuba: Emotions in and from the Performative Arts
Amy Cook
Emotion in the Theatre History Class
Rhonda Blair
Evolutionary Kinesiology and Acting: Shaking Off Emotions
Marie Adamova
Embarrassment and Boredom – Positive Impulses in Acting
Martina Musilová
CHAIR: Ellen Spolsky
Narration, Emotion and Medicine: a Sentiment Analysis
Paola Villani
Painting, Grief, and Continuing Bonds
Jussi A. Saarinen
The Influence of Emotional and Affective Factors on Navigation Ability
Francesca Foti
Not Off in Their Own Little World: Neurodivergence, Emotion, and Climate Fiction
Douglas Basford
CHAIR: Daniela Conti
The Cognitive Aesthetics of Emotive Experience
Margaret H. Freeman
No body, never mind? Embodiment constraints and the experience of empathy in Jan Koneffke’s Die Tsantsa-Memoiren
Ana Margarida Abrantes
Exploring the Effects of Reader ‘Mindset’ on the Aesthetic Experience of Poetry
Patrick J. Errington
CHAIR: Karin Kukkonen
University of Catania, Italy
AUDITORIUM
PLENARY
Against Disinterest: Implications of Enactivism for Cognition and Aesthetic Experience
Giovanna Colombetti
Film and the Emotions of Tragedy for Our Climate Emergency
Bruce McConachie
Chornobyl: a Palimpsest of Ancient Relics, of Memories of an Abandoned Landscape and the Devastating Emotions of a Military Occupation
Alla Kurzenkova
Metrics on Biodiversity and the Relationship with Emotions
Giulia Leonetti
CHAIR: Line Cecilie Engh
Empathy and Emotions in Motion-Capture Acting
Dan Leberg
Creating The Sisters B: Building a Film Narrative starting from 5E Cognition
Annika Boholm/Kersti Grunditz Brennan
Real Movement in Virtual Worlds: Questions and Hypotheses about Shaping Affective Experiences in Virtual Worlds and Realities
Karen Pearlman
CHAIR: Robert Shaughnessy
The Dynamical Relationships of Action, Emotion and Narrative in an Actor-Training Studio: Emergent Intersubjective Meaning in Embodied Fictional Worlds
Richard J. Kemp
Holding the Puppet’s Hand: An Experimental Investigation of the Puppeteer as a Cognitive Guide to the Audience’s Immersion in Fiction
Ana Díaz Barriga
Grotowski and the Essence of the Actor’s Skill: Embodied Memory, Empathy, and Truth in Performance
Yanna Popova
CHAIR: Valentina Cuccio
Gesture and Empathetic Imagination in Poetry
Friederike Foedtke
Enacting Grief in The Unfortunates (1969) by B.S. Johnson: Recurring Circles of Reflective Memory
Daria Baryshnikova
The Case for Metalepsis and Intertextuality as Literary and Hermeneutic Axioms
Paola Del Zoppo
CHAIR: Ana M. Abrantes
Soundtracking the Self: Musical Layering and Emotional Narrativity
Marco Bernini
Emotional bodies extend through music (and Gregorio Magno and Monteverdi already knew it)
Serena Allegra
Singing the Body Collective: Affect Contagion in Communal Lyrics
Sharon Lattig
CHAIR: Sabina Fontana
University of Catania, Italy
AULA A3
WORKSHOP 2
Dancing with Emotions: enriching the 5 E Cognition in Dance Pedagogy
Garamh Kim
AULA A4
WORKSHOP 3
Intimacy Workshop: Exploring Intimacy through the Prisma of Technology
Marjan Sharifi
AUDITORIUM
PLENARY
What Is Embodied Cognitive Microhistory?
Hannah Wojciehowski
The Dynamics of the Center of Pressure (COP) during a Spectator’s Experience
M. Clément Mager
Scenographic Contraptions: Designing uncertainty and orchestrating error for the generation of participatory scenography
Christina Penna
Mind’s Eye: Memory, Perception and Audio Description in the Theatre
Robert Shaughnessy
Sharing the Sorrow: Operatic Acting in Contemporary Production of Baroque Opera - Händel’s Alcina
Šárka Havlíčková Kysová
CHAIR: Amy Cook
Training to promote Navigational Skills in Healthy Population: a Systematic Review with a Particular Focus on the Emotional, Motivational and Attitudinal Dimensions
Luca Pullano/Santo Di Nuovo/ Francesca Foti
Fragmented Memories and PTSD: the Role of Photography in Intermedial Literature
Anja Meyer
4E Cognition, Creativity and Flow: the Work of Autistic Artists
Ilona Roth
“With his Memory of the Future in the Past”: Narrative Construction of Subjective Temporal Viewpoints in Frank Herbert’s Dune and Denis Villeneuve’s Dune
Aimee Koristka
CHAIR: Paola Villani
Theory of Imagination and Emotions in Louise Gluck's Poems
Slavica Srbinovska
Gefühlstextualität and Reader’s Emotions. Designing an Experimental Research between (German) Literature and Neuroscience
Irene Orlandazzi
Cognitive Coping in Katherine Mansfield’s ‘Miss Brill’ and ‘Bliss’in Louise Gluck's Poems
Gwenda Koo
Emotions and Literary Theory Concepts – an Attempt of Inclusion
Ramona Zăvoianu-Petrovici
CHAIR: Benito García Valero
Imagination in Reading Texts of Fiction: Social Reading and Social Cognition
Pascal Nicklas/Gerhard Lauer
On the Embodiment of Negation in Italian Sign Language (LIS): An Embodied Approach
Sabina Fontana /Valentina Cuccio
Varieties of the Dark: Emotional and Cognitive Effects in Reading Poems from Dark Romanticism
Jana Lüdtke
Cognition and Aesthetic Experience when Reading Literature in a Foreign Language: How do We Perceive and Process Metaphors?
Monika Płużyczka/ Ainur Kakimova
CHAIR: Naomi Rokotnitz
A perfect Storm of Sympathy: Online Misogyny and the Cognitive Ecology of the Internet
Nicola K. Shaughnessy
Decoding the Harmony of Emotions: Unravelling Emotional Neural Dynamics through EEG and AI
Salvatore Calcagno/Daniela Giordano
Exploring the Connection Between Real and Virtual Body in the Context of Emotions
Volha Saroka
Embodying Digital Tools? How to Enhance Cognition within Computer Supported Collaborative Learning
Federica Abramo
CHAIR: Taylor Enoch
Individual Differences and Aesthetic Preferences for Reactive Objects
Daniela Conti/Alessandro Soranzo/Eleonora Bilotta/Francesca Bertacchi
“Design for Terror” in Oral Traditions: a Cognitive Approach
Anna Bonifazi
‘“Through the Chest, through the Heart”: Emotional Resonances in Homer
Sotera Fornaro/Raffaella Viccei
Revisiting Resentment – how and why Nietzsche invented a New Emotion, and what is the Use of it?
Jacek Dobrowolski
CHAIR: Emanuela Campisi
University of Catania, Italy
Art, Politics, & Quantum Mechanics: Le Cabinet des Beaux Arts of Charles Perrault Cognitive Translation
Jennifer Davis Taylor
Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies and the Study of Emotions: Epistemological Developments
Álvaro Marín García
A Matter of Style: An Embodied, Extended, Enacted, Embedded, and Ecological Proposal for Memory
Emanuele Prezioso
CHAIR: Rhonda Blair
Virginia Woolf, Emotion, and Extended Cognition
Omri Moses
The Intelligence of Emotions: Proust to Virtual Reality
Saskia Schabio
Exploring Forms, Characteristics, and Aesthetic Dimension of Literary Narratives through Reader Responses to La Madre. An Experimental Analysis Model
Naji Al Omleh
Cognitive Processing of Counterfactuals in Literature
Ainur Kakimova
CHAIR: Federica Abramo
Affective Perceptualism: Perception, Emotion, and the Ground of Aesthetic Judgment
Tyler Olsson
Bernard Berenson between Cognition and Emotion
Myriam Catalano
The Role of Emotions in Sense-Making with Art: an Interdisciplinary Study
Gemma Schino
CHAIR: John Sutton
“I See what you Feel”. An Exploratory Study to Investigate the Understanding of Robot Emotions in Deaf Children
Carla Cirasa/Helene Høgsdal/Daniela Conti
The Role of Authorship Acknowledgment and Fear of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as Underlying Mechanisms of the Negative Bias toward AI in Aesthetic Appreciation
Giulia Torromino
Enactive Mediology
Francesco Parisi
CHAIR: Pascal Nicklas
AUDITORIUM
PLENARY
Creativity and Contingency: A 4/5 E Perspective
Karin Kukkonen
University of Catania, Italy
EMPACT. Empathy and Sustainability: The Art of Thinking like a Mountain
Efi Kyprianidou
Ecological Art Experience: Aesthetic Emotions and Bodily Synchronization with Films
Lucrezia Lucchi, Lisa-Maria van Klaveren, Julia J. C. Blau, Ralf F. A. Cox
Emotions, Art and Virtual Reality: an Exploratory Study
Anna Re, Laura Ieni, Domenica Bruni
ENID-Teach. European Network in D-Flexible Teaching
Renata Gambino, Francesca Vigo, Salvatore Ciancitto, Federica Abramo
The Power of Imagination: Sketch Comedy as a Tool for Professional Development in Medical Education
Chantal E.G. Albicher, Lisa-Maria van Klaveren
A Decade of Neuroaesthetics at Sapienza University: the ‘Emotional’ Experience of the Industrial Neuroscience Laboratory
Bianca Maria Serena Inguscio, Giulia Cartocci, Dario Rossi, Patrizia Cherubino, Andrea Giorgi, Stefano Menicocci, Ana C. Martinez Levy, Fabio Babiloni
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