<div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">-- CALL FOR PAPERS --</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Image Schema Day III (ISD3), September 21-23, Bolzano, Italy</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><a href="http://isd.inf.unibz.it/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244)" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://isd.inf.unibz.it</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submission deadline: July 17 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Keynote: </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Todd Oakley (Case Western Reserve University) will speak on "Force dynamics and the windowing of attention".</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This year the </span><a href="http://isd.inf.unibz.it/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244)" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;font-style:italic;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">3rd Image Schema Day</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> will be part of the Joint Ontology Workshops </span><a href="http://iaoa.org/jowo/2017/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244)" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">JOWO 2017</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, hosted at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Image schemas, in one view, can be seen as the conceptual building blocks inferred from early sensorimotor processes. Research on image-schematic constructs (s</span><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">uch as VERTICALITY, CONTAINMENT, SOURCE-PATH-GOAL, or FjORCE) has traditionally been conducted in cognitive linguistics, but schemas have also been given some attention in semiotics, philosophy, developmental psychology, and design, among other fields. Recently, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">some schools in </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">artificial intelligence have </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">also become interested in </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">the potential impact of image schemas as a bridge between the physical world and the human mind. </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000"> </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A psychologist might study how children develop them; a philosopher might structure them ontologically; a neuroscientist might wonder how directly they are connected to neural activation in </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">the</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> sensorimotor cortex; a linguist might wonder what spatial language </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">and embodiment in general </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ha</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ve </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">to do with abstract concepts; a musicologist might </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ask </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">how image schemas are related to musical gesture; an AI specialist might work on how to integrate image schemas into a system for natural language understanding; and in cognitive robotics, researchers might wonder how image schemas can help robots in achieving human-level performance in a variety of tasks. </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font color="#000000"> </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000">We hope to see an interdisciplinary meeting focused on the topic of image schemas and related constructs, where participants contribute with insights from their own discipline. </font></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The workshop will take place at the third </span><a href="http://iaoa.org/jowo/JOWO-2017/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244)" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO)</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, where ten ontology-centered workshops meet for three days in an exciting joint event at the Free University of Bozen-</span><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Bolzano. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The inspiring environment</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, tucked in between the South Tyrollean Alps, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">promises to provide an excellent setting</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> to discuss innovative and state of the art research. Please join us!</span></font><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font color="#000000"><br><br></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We look forward to seeing you in Bolzano!</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Maria, Mihailo and Oliver</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Important dates: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- July 17, 2017 - Submission of contributions to workshops </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Sept 1, 2017 - Workshop paper acceptance notification</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Sept 15, 2017 - Deadline for the camera-ready version</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">- Sept 21-23, 2017, JOWO workshop</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submission details: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Papers should be formatted following the </span><a href="http://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-authors/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244)" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">IOS Press</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> template, with short papers not exceeding 6 pages, and full research papers not exceeding 12 pages. Submissions must not be previously published or be under review at another venue. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.iospress.nl/service/authors/latex-and-word-tools-for-book-authors/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244)" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://www.iospress.nl/service<wbr>/authors/latex-and-word-tools-<wbr>for-book-authors/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">All accepted papers will be published open-access in the joint JOWO proceedings. Please visit the workshop webpage </span><a href="http://isd.inf.unibz.it/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244)" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://isd.inf.unibz.it</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> for more information. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submission is via the Easychair submission system. To submit your paper, go to: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jowo2017" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244)" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://easychair.org/conferen<wbr>ces/?conf=jowo2017 </span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">And select the track "ISD 2017 - 3rd Image Schema Day"</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Previous JOWO Proceedings can be found here: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1517/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244)" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1517/</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  for JOWO 2015,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1660/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244)" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1660/</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">  for JOWO 2016.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Program committee</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Maria Hedblom </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Chair)</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Mihailo Antovic </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Chair)</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - University of Nis, Serbia</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Oliver Kutz </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(Chair)</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">John Bateman - University of Bremen, Germany</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Brandon Bennett - University of Leeds, UK</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Roberta Ferrario - Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Trento, Italy</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hans U. Fuchs - Zurich University of Applied Sciences at Winterthur, Switzerland</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Antony Galton - University of Exeter, UK</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Beate Hampe - University of Erfurt, Germany</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Fabian Neuhaus - Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cristobal Pagan Canovas - University of Navarra, Spain</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Marco Schorlemmer - Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA-CSIC) Bellaterra, Spain</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Tony Veale - University College Dublin, Ireland</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:13.696px;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Larry Zbikowski - University of Chicago, US</span></p></div>
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