Conference Program

June 3-5, 2024

Program 10 years Cognitive Futures in The Arts and Humanities - Catania 2024 From 4E to 5E Cognition: about Emotions

3rd June 2024
4th June 2024
5th June 2024
Posters
Floor plan

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.

For POSTER presentations: The posters should be in the A1 format and suited to be pinned or taped to a panel.

Final program as pdf

Monday, 3 June 2024, morning

University of Catania, Italy

  • 9:00 am
    AUDITORIUM
    WELCOME DESK
    REGISTRATION
  • 9:30 am
    AUDITORIUM
    Welcome and Introductory Remarks
    Renata Gambino & Grazia Pulvirenti
  • 10:00 am

    AUDITORIUM
    PLENARY
    Emotions in Action. A Neuroscientific Perspective

    Vittorio Gallese
  • 11:00 am
    Coffee break
  • 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

AULA A6
Panel 1

Shared Emotions, Real or Imagines

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

AULA A5
Panel 2

Emotion and Place: From 4E to 5E Approaches to Architecture Cities (1) Organizer: Fingerhut

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

AULA A3
PANEL 3

Cognitive Cultural Studies (1)

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

AULA A4
PANEL 4

The Power of Moving Images (1)

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

Monday, 3 June 2024, 9:30 am - 1:00 pm

Monday, 3 June 2024 / afternoon

University of Catania, Italy

  • 2:00 pm

    AULA A3
    WORKSHOP 1
    Experiencing Zhi: Emotion and cognition in literary creation viewed from ancient Chinese literary theory
    Benito Garcia Valero

  • 3:00 pm

    AUDITORIUM
    PLENARY
    Forward to the Past and Backward to the Future
    Semir Zeki and Team (Samuel Rasche, Taylor Enoch)

    Introduced by Grazia Pulvirenti
  • 4:00 pm
    CHIOSTRO DI LEVANTE
    Coffee break
    Poster Presentation
  • 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm

AULA A5
PANEL 2

Emotion and Place: From 4E to 5E Approaches to Architecture and Cities (2)

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

AULA A3
PANEL 5

Moral Emotions in Literary Reception

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

AULA A4
PANEL 6

AI in 4D: A Conversation about Aliveness in Performance

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

AULA A6
PANEL 7

Emotions and the Performative Arts (1)

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

AULA A8
PANEL 8

Cognition and Affect in Medical Humanities (1)

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

AULA A7
PANEL 9

Emotional Dynamics in Literary Texts (1)

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

  • 7:00 pm
    Close of the first day
Monday, 3 June 2024, 2:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Tuesday, 4 June 2024 / morning

University of Catania, Italy

  • 10:00 am

    AUDITORIUM
    PLENARY
    Against Disinterest: Implications of Enactivism for Cognition and Aesthetic Experience
    Giovanna Colombetti

    Introduced by Marco Venuti
  • 11:00 am
    CHIOSTRO DI LEVANTE
    Coffee break
    Poster Presentation
  • 11:30 am - 1:00 pm

AULA A3
PANEL 3

Cognitive Cultural Studies (2)

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

AULA A4
PANEL 4

The Power of Moving Images (2)

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

AULA A6
PANEL 7

Emotions and the performative arts (2)

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

AULA A5
PANEL 9

Emotional Dynamics in Literary Texts (2)

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

AULA A7
PANEL 10

Emotions in Socio-Cultural and Behavioral context (1)

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

Tuesday, 4 June 2024, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Tuesday, 4 June 2024 / afternoon

University of Catania, Italy

  • 2:00 pm

    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

  • 3:00 pm

    AUDITORIUM
    PLENARY
    What Is Embodied Cognitive Microhistory?
    Hannah Wojciehowski

    Introduced by Francesca Vigo
  • 4:00 pm
    CHIOSTRO DI LEVANTE
    Coffee break
    Poster Presentation
  • 4:30 pm - 7:00 pm

AULA A6
PANEL 7

Emotions and the Performative Arts (3)

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

AULA A7
PANEL 8

Cognition and Affect in Medical Humanities Discourse (2)

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

AULA A5
PANEL 9

Emotional Dynamics in Literary Texts (3)

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

AULA A4
PANEL 10

Emotions in Socio-Cultural and Behavioral Context

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

AULA A3
PANEL 11

New Technologies and Emotions

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

AULA A8
PANEL 12

Aesthetic emotions and quasi-emotions

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

  • 7:00 pm
    Close of the second day
Tuesday, 4 June 2024, 2:00 pm - 6:30 pm

Wednesday, 5 June 2024 / morning

University of Catania, Italy

  • 10:00 am

AULA A3
PANEL 3

Cognitive Cultural studies (3)

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

AULA A6
PANEL 9

Emotional Dynamics in Literary Texts (4)

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

AULA A4
PANEL 13

Cognitive Perspectives on Aesthetics and Art Reception

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

AULA A5
PANEL 14

Emotions, Media, and AI Consciousness?

“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

  • 11:30 am
    CHIOSTRO DI LEVANTE
    Coffee break
    Poster Presentation
  • 12:00 pm

    AUDITORIUM
    PLENARY
    Creativity and Contingency: A 4/5 E Perspective
    Karin Kukkonen

    Introduced by Renata Gambino
  • 1:00 pm
    CHIOSTRO DI LEVANTE
    Lunch
Wednesday, 5 June 2024, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Wednesday, 5 June 2024 / afternoon

University of Catania, Italy

  • 3:00 pm
    Trip to Taormina
    STARTING POINT IN PIAZZA DANTE
  • 6:30 pm
    Close of conference

Posters

During all coffee breaks and lunches participants will have the possibility to expose and present their posters.

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

Floor plan