Tomorrow is the last day to apply for this excellent MA program in Cognitive Science, at ENS, Paris.

Please join us tomorrow for Karolina Prochownik's talk "Are there bad dual character concepts" at the Valence Asymmetries Seminar, 12-13:30, UPF Poblenou, Barcelona

Please join us tomorrow for the talk by Kathleen Murphy-Hollies (Birmingham) at the Valence Asymmetries seminar, at noon (in person only!) at UPF Poblenou!

Please join us tomorrow for the talk "Pessimistic Knowers: Emotional valence and epistemic standards", by Aarón Álvarez González (U. Valencia) at the Valence Asymmetries seminar, at UPF Poblenou (Barcelona)!

Join us for the talk by Elisabeth Camp (Rutgers) entitled "Why Do Mantras Move Us?" at the STAL monthly online seminar, tomorrow 2:30-4 pm CET online. Everyone is welcome!

Please join us for Dario Cecchini's talk today, "Toward a bivalent dyadic morality" at the Valence Asymmetries Seminar (UPF Poblenou, room 52.701, 12-13:30)

We are very excited to welcome Dimitra Lazaridou-Chatzigoga tomorrow for her talk "Striking generics: sharks attack people and glippets love to play with fire" at the Valence Asymmetries seminar, at UPF Poblenou. Everyone is welcome!

Join us tomorrow (2:30-4pm CET, online) for Daisy Dixon's talk "Aesthetic Slurs" at the STAL (Slurring Terms across Languages) network's monthly seminar!

Thrilled to announce the First Valence Asymmetries conference, March 19-20 at UPF Barcelona, with H. Alves, F. de Vignemont, S. M. Mohammad, P. Willemsen, F. Domaneschi & F. Bina, I. Miczke, A. Tymbay, L. Glass, V. Apresyan and H. Colston; sponsored by Isidora Stojanovic's ERC Grant n. 101142133

If you are in Barcelona tomorrow, don't miss the next Valence Asymmetries session: we are very happy to have Camilo Ronderos give a talk on the the processing of expressive meaning. In addition, there'll be a mini-workshop with Camilo on Wednesday on the use of pupillometry for the study of meaning

Join us tomorrow at noon at UPF Poblenou for the talk "Why miratives are (un)expected" by Martina Wiltschko!

Starts in two hours! A talk by Pekka Vayrynen entitled "High standards", at UPF, in the Valence Asymmetries Seminar. The session will be in hybrid format, email us (the project) if you'd like to attend virtually - or just pop up, if you are in Barcelona.

If you are in Barcelona tomorrow, come join for this talk by Michelle Stankovic, who has recently joined our Valence Asymmetries project, and will present her recent research on emotion processing among bilinguals

Join us tomorrow at the University of Barcelona and Friday at Pompeu Fabra University for the workshop “Acquaintance Familiarity and Value”, jointly organized by LOGOS/UB and the Valence Asymmetries project

Join us online this afternoon (2:30-4 pm CET) for the first session of the STAL (Slurring Terms across Languages) seminar, for Luvell Anderson's talk "Theories of reclamation"! philevents.org/event/show/1...

Very excited to announce the first VALENCE ASYMMETRIES conference, March 19th-20th 2026, at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, the first major event in my Valence Asymmetries ERC Advanced Grant (GA n° 101142133). Deadline for submissions: 30 September. philevents.org/event/show/1...

We are inviting applications for a fully funded 4 year PhD position in semantics and pragmatics, as part of my ERC project "Valence Asymmetries", at University Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). Application deadline: 25 April 2025