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