<div dir="ltr"><div id="gmail-:1po" class="gmail-Ar gmail-Au gmail-Ao"><div id="gmail-:1pk" class="gmail-Am gmail-aiL gmail-Al editable gmail-LW-avf gmail-tS-tW gmail-tS-tY" aria-label="Corpo del messaggio" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" tabindex="1" style="direction:ltr;min-height:292px" aria-controls=":1ry" aria-expanded="false"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px">Call for Abstracts</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:22.8267px">Third International Conference on Beauty and Change</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:22.8267px">“Aesthetics and Human Flourishing: Theories, Experiments and Applications”</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px">Turin, Italy, 17-19 October 2024</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px">Deadline for submissions:  30 June 2024</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:center;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">The BraIn Plasticity and Behavior Changes (BIP) Group at the Department of Psychology, University of Turin and the Giorgio Amendola Foundation are delighted to invite contributions for the Third International Conference on Beauty and Change, a three-day international and interdisciplinary conference that will be held in Turin, Italy on 17-19 October 2024.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Established in 2022, the International Conference on Beauty and Change is a highly successful interdisciplinary forum for discussing recent advancements in philosophical and empirical aesthetics. This year’s conference will be devoted to the theme “Aesthetics and Human Flourishing: Theories, Experiments and Applications” and will gather leading scholars from the fields of philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience to reflect on how our aesthetic experiences impact our wellbeing and our psychological functioning.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Confirmed invited speakers:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px">Anjan Chatterjee (University of Pennsylvania)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px">Emily Cross (ETH Zürich)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px">Joerg Fingerhut (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px">Shaun Gallagher (University of Memphis)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px">Stefan Koelsch (University of Bergen)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:15.6933px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:17.12px">Helmut Leder (University of Vienna)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Lucia Sacheli (University of Milano-Bicocca)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">The Theme</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">According to a long-standing philosophical tradition, backed up by present-day research in psychology and neuroscience, our aesthetic encounters contribute in important ways to our individual and collective flourishing. The ways in which they are said to do so are many. Some argue that engaging with great art offers valuable knowledge about our world and our condition, our social lives and our relationships, or our mind and its workings. Others claim that our aesthetic experiences can boost or promote certain capacities, such as learning, <a name="m_8047360067649967732__Hlk162094406">problem-solving, attention, and empathy</a>. Still others claim that engaging with the arts can constitute a form of emotion regulation and help alleviate anxiety, depression, and other psychopathological conditions. Artistic endeavours are also said to be potent vehicles of self-expression and self-transformation, deeply involved in the development of our personal identities. On a collective level, having an aesthetic sensitivity towards how objects, spaces, and environments are built and altered is said to promote deeper, richer, and more caring forms of interactions with others and with nature. Plausible as they might seem, however, these claims are subject to sustained theoretical debates, and the current empirical evidence in favour or against them is far from being conclusive.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">The aim of the Third International Conference on Beauty and Change is to probe all these lines of enquiry in a thoroughly interdisciplinary way, to get a clearer picture of whether and how the arts and aesthetics are conducive to human flourishing. Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, and professionals working in the arts, design, architecture, and urban planning will gather to discuss the theoretical underpinnings of the various proposals in the debate, their empirical support, and their applications in concrete scenarios. We are therefore looking for well-informed theoretical or empirical contributions that might be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience. Topics include (but are not limited to):</span></p><p style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:12pt">·</span><font face="Times New Roman" size="1"> </font><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">Philosophical, psychological, and neuroscientific perspectives on what art contributes to our knowledge or understanding, and the role it plays (or should play) in our epistemic practices;</span></p><p style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt">Philosophical, psychological, and neuroscientific perspectives of how our aesthetic encounters are related to, improve, or impair mental capacities such as learning, problem-solving, creativity, empathy, attention, curiosity, motivation, and critical thinking;</span></p><p style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:12pt">·</span><font face="Times New Roman" size="1"> </font><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">The role of art and aesthetic practices in emotion regulation, affective scaffolding, and extended affectivity;</span></p><p style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:12pt">·</span><font face="Times New Roman" size="1"> </font><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">The theoretical underpinnings, benefits, and limitations of art therapy, art-based interventions, and other applications of aesthetics in therapeutic contexts;</span></p><p style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">· </span><span style="font-size:12pt">The role of art and aesthetics as vehicles of self-expression and in shaping, defining, and transforming our personal identities;</span></p><p style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:12pt">·</span><font face="Times New Roman" size="1"> </font><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">The positive and negative impact of the work of art practitioners, designers, architects, and urban planners on our individual and collective lives;</span></p><p style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:12pt">·</span><font face="Times New Roman" size="1"> </font><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">The ways in which theoretical and empirical research in aesthetics can inform the work of art practitioners, designers, architects, and urbanists and provide them with suggestions on how to promote human flourishing;</span></p><p style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:12pt">·</span><font face="Times New Roman" size="1"> </font><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">The prospects and potential perils of artification, gamification, experience design, recommendation algorithms, and the rise of AI art for our flourishing and psychological wellbeing;</span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0in 0.5in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Symbol;font-size:12pt">·</span><font face="Times New Roman" size="1"> </font><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:12pt">The ways the arts and other aesthetic practices can promote or hamper positive social change.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Submission Guidelines</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">We accept two types of submissions: talks (20 minutes + 10 minutes for discussion) and posters. For both types of submission, please send an abstract of no more than 300 words in WORD or PDF format to </span><a href="mailto:beautyandchange@fondazioneamendola.it" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-size:12pt">beautyandchange@fondazioneamendola.it</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt"> by 30 June 2024.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Abstracts must be written in English and prepared for blind review. In the body of your email, please indicate the names and affiliations of all the authors (specifying the presenting author), and your preferred presentation type (talk or poster). Each author may submit only one abstract as a presenting author but can be a co-author in any number of submissions.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">We especially encourage submissions from women, early career researchers and members of underrepresented groups, and we will take diversity into account when making decisions for inclusion in the programme.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Important Dates</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2024</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2024</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Conference dates: 17-19 October 2024</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt">Conference Costs</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Conference fee for students (BA and MA): free</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Conference fee for untenured researchers (PhD students and postdocs): €100</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Conference fee for tenured researchers: €200</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Conference dinner (optional): <a name="m_8047360067649967732__Hlk139277302">€4</a>5</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt">Student Prizes</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Two small monetary prizes of €100 will be offered for the two best contributions (posters or talks) by students (BA, MA, PhD). One of the two prizes will be awarded for a theoretical contribution, the other for an empirical one. The prizes will be assigned by the conference scientific committee based on the quality and relevance of the submitted abstract. The two winners will be announced during the conference. If you would like to be considered for one of these prizes, please indicate so in the body of your submission email, specifying which category (theoretical or empirical) you are applying for.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Scientific Committee</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Carola Barbero (University of Turin)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Alessandro Bertinetto (University of Turin)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Elvira Brattico (Aarhus University & University of Bari Aldo Moro)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Alice Cancer (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Jacopo Frascaroli (University of Turin)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Irene Ronga (University of Turin)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Maria Luisa Rusconi (University of Bergamo)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Pietro Sarasso (University of Turin)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Sander Van de Cruys (University of Antwerp)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:16.8667px;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:18.4px">Other Information</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">Information about venue, travel and accommodation will be made available on the </span><a href="https://fondazioneamendola.it/eventi/general-information/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-size:12pt">conference website</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt"> in due course.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">We aim to make the conference as accessible as possible. Please do not hesitate to contact the conference organisers to discuss accessibility requirements.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt">All questions and correspondence should be addressed to the Organising Committee at: </span><a href="mailto:beautyandchange@fondazioneamendola.it" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-size:12pt">beautyandchange@fondazioneamendola.it</span></a></p></div></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Jacopo Frascaroli</div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Turin</div></div></div></div>