37.625, Confs: Valence Asymmetries (Spain)

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Subject: 37.625, Confs: Valence Asymmetries (Spain)

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Date: 11-Feb-2026
From: Isidora Stojanovic [valence.asymmetries at upf.edu]
Subject: Valence Asymmetries


Valence Asymmetries
Theme: The positive, the negative, the good and the bad in language,
mind and morality

Date: 19-Mar-2026 - 20-Mar-2026
Location: Barcelona, Spain

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; General Linguistics;
Philosophy of Language; Pragmatics; Semantics

The first VALENCE ASYMMETRIES conference will take place on March
19th-20th 2026 with a pre-conference workshop on the 18th of March.
The conference will take place in Sala Nau at the Poblenou Campus of
Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.
This interdisciplinary event will discuss themes surrounding the role
of valence asymmetries - the systematic ways in which "the bad" and
"the good" differ -  in language and cognition. These include the role
of affect in perception, language processing, social cognition,
communication, judgement and morality. The program brings together
philosophical analysis and argumentation with experimental and
corpus-based work in linguistics and psychology, including
cross-linguistic work, formal semantics, experimental pragmatics, and
computational approaches to affect and emotion in language.
This event brings together researchers at all career levels, with
participants joining from around the world. We hope you can join us
and contribute your perspective to the discussion. Program details and
abstracts can be found here:
https://www.upf.edu/documents/d/traduccio/valence-asymmetries_abstract-booklet_final
Our keynote speakers are:
Hans Alves (Ruhr Universität Bochum),
Frédérique de Vignemont (Institut Jean Nicod),
Saif M. Mohammad (National Research Council Canada),
Pascale Willemsen (Universität Zürich)
In addition to our invited speakers, we will also have talks by
Filippo Domaneschi & Federico Bina, Ida Miczke, Alexey Tymbay, Leila
Glass and Valentina Apresyan. Our pre-conference workshop includes
talks from Said M. Mohammad, Eirini Sossidi, Anouch Bourmayan, as well
as talks from the Valence Asymmetries Team (Morgan Moyer, Michelle
Stankovic and Isidora Stojanovic).
Registration closes 20 February. Registration is free, but necessary.
If you plan on attending, please register by clicking on the enrol
button on our eventum page:
http://eventum.upf.edu/go/valenceasymmetries
We hope to see you all there!
Our website: https://www.upf.edu/web/valence-asymmetries
Contact us: valence.asymmetries at upf.edu
The event is funded by Isidora Stojanovic’s ERC Advanced Grant
“Valence Asymmetries: the positive, the negative, the good and the bad
in language, mind and morality” (GA n° 101142133).



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