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)

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...

Please join us tomorrow at UPF Poblenou, Barcelona, for the Valence Asymmetries seminar (12:00-13:30). Our own project member Morgan Moyer will give the talk "Affect is prominent in word meaning", based on joint work with Anouch Bourmayan, Brent Strickland, and myself.

With the introduction published, the topical collection "Slurring Terms across Languages" that I have co-edited with my friend and colleague Dan Zeman is now completed 🤗 Thanks to all the contributors, reviewers, and members of the STAL network more generally!

The First Valence Asymmeries Conference will take place on 19 & 20 March 2026 at UPF in Barcelona. Speakers: Hans Alves, Frédérique de Vignemont, Saif Mohammad, Pascale Willemsen. CFP submission deadline: 13 October!

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...

The workshop "New – experimental – perspectives on valence in language" will take place at the Sorbonne (Paris) on 12 & 13 June. A truly exciting line-up of speakers! Attendance is free, but do register! parisvalenceworkshop2025.github.io/index.html

🔥Exciting news in experimental philosophy🔥 Very happy to announce that there will be soon a new journal named “Experimental Philosophy”. It will be open access, free of charge for authors and follow all Open Science principles. Editors and Editorial Board below. More information coming soon...

Editors: Ivar Hannikainen Alex Wiegmann Pascale Willemsen Editorial Board: A. Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social J. Horvath J. Knobe @xphilosopher.bsky.social E. Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social I. Stojanovic @isidorastojanovic.bsky.social J. Weinberg @jonathanweinberg.bsky.social

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