36.1964, Confs: International Conference on Cognition and the Media (Italy)

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Subject: 36.1964, Confs: International Conference on Cognition and the Media (Italy)

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Date: 24-Jun-2025
From: Eleonora Sasso [eleonora.sasso at unich.it]
Subject: International Conference on Cognition and the Media


International Conference on Cognition and the Media
Theme: The dynamic relationship between cognitive processes and media
forms — including film, television, digital platforms, games, and
social media — with a particular emphasis on translation and
audiovisual practices

Date: 30-Oct-2025 - 31-Oct-2025
Location: Pescara, Italy
Contact: Eleonora Sasso
Contact Email: cognition.media2025 at unich.it
Meeting URL: https://www.cognition-themedia.it/

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis;
Pragmatics; Sociolinguistics; Translation

Submission Deadline: 22-Sep-2025

Sponsored by AIA (Italian Association for English Studies), Aston
Stylistics Research Centre (Aston University - Birmingham) and CenTras
(Centre for Translation Studies @UCL - UK)
We are pleased to announce the International Conference on Cognition
and the Media, a multidisciplinary event bringing together scholars
from media studies, cognitive science, translation studies,
linguistics, psychology, and related fields.
Drawing inspiration from the work of scholars such as Gilles
Fauconnier, George Lakoff, Ronald W. Langacker and Mark Turner
(cognitive linguistics), as well as more recent contributions by
Giuseppe Balirano (digital and social media, multimodality, and
multimodal stylistics), Jorge Díaz-Cintas (screen and digital media,
cybersubtitling and cyberdubbing), Yves Gambier (translation,
cognition, and media accessibility) and Marcello Giovanelli
(stylistics, cognitive studies, and the public humanities), the
conference seeks to explore the dynamic relationship between cognitive
processes and media forms — including film, television, digital
platforms, games, and social media — with a particular emphasis on
translation and audiovisual practices. We aim to foster dialogue on
how media influence, shape, and are shaped by cognitive mechanisms
such as perception, attention, memory, emotion, and narrative
comprehension, especially in contexts involving multilingualism,
accessibility, and intersemiotic mediation.
At the heart of this conference is a key question: How do media shape
and reflect the ways we think, feel, and communicate—especially across
languages and cultures? In an era of saturated information, real-time
interaction, and constant cross-linguistic exchange, cognition is at
the centre of how media function and how meaning moves across borders.
As cognitive science deepens our understanding of how we perceive,
process, interpret and memorise information, it raises critical
questions for media scholars, translators, and communication experts.
We invite papers that explore the dynamic intersection of cognition
and media from multiple disciplinary perspectives. Submissions may
address (but are not limited to):
 - Cognitive theories of media consumption and production
 - Media influence on perception, attention, memory, and emotion
 - Narrative cognition in journalism, film, and digital storytelling
 - Multilingual media processing and translation reception
 - Cognitive approaches to subtitling, dubbing, and voiceover
 - The role of cognitive load in audiovisual translation
 - Cognitive models of narrative and storytelling in media
 - Eye-tracking and neurocognitive studies in translation research
 - Emotion and affect in digital storytelling
 - The cognitive impact of multilingual media environments
 - Translating culture, humour, and emotion across media
 - Neurological and psychological studies of translation and media
reception
 - Perception of Time, Technology and Media in the Imagined 19th
Century
 - “Steam-powered” Media: Print, Telecommunication, and Information
Manipulation
 - Historical cognition and media technologies (e.g., clocks,
automatons, memory devices)
 - Artificial Memory in Alternative Worlds
Submission Guidelines:
Please send a 300-word abstract and a short bio (max. 100 words) to
cognition.media2025 at unich.it by 22nd September 2025. Accepted papers
will be allotted 20 minutes for presentation, followed by Q&A.
Selected papers will be considered for publication in an edited volume
with an international publisher.
Deadline for submissions: 22nd September 2025
Notification of acceptance: 30th September 2025
Registration fee deadline: 4th October 2025
Conference fee: 200 EUR (standard) / 150 EUR (PhD student) by 4th
October 2025
PayPal Payment: paypal.me/C0nference
Keynote Speakers:
Giuseppe Balirano (University of Naples L’Orientale - ITALY)
Charlotte Bosseaux (Edinburgh University - SCOTLAND)
Jorge Díaz-Cintas (University College London - UK)
Yves Gambier (University of Turku - FINLAND)
Marcello Giovanelli (Aston University – Birmingham - UK)
Luc van Doorslaer (University of Tartu - ESTONIA)
Convenors:
Eleonora Sasso (“G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara - ITALY)
Marcello Giovanelli (Aston University – Birmingham UK)
For a full list of Scientific Committee members, please see the
conference website.
Organizing Committee:
Eleonora SASSO (UdA); Maria DE SANTO (University of Naples
L’Orientale); Robin DONADIO (University of Naples L’Orientale);
Manuela FRANCIA (UdA); Andrea LOMBARDINILO (Roma Tre University);
Giulia MAGAZZÙ (Tor Vergata University of Rome); Dalia MENNELLA
(University of Naples L’Orientale); Michaela QUADRARO (University of
Calabria)
Contacts:
https://www.cognition-themedia.it/
cognition.media2025 at unich.it



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