<div dir="ltr"><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 Registrations</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 registration: 6 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"> </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 registrations for the <a href="https://fondazioneamendola.it/eventi/general-information/" target="_blank">Third International Conference on Beauty and Change</a>, 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"><b>Invited speakers:</b></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">Stefano Mastandrea (Roma Tre University)</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 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"><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_792280163066808172_m_-7718579424178687922_m_-4130225212879274879__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.</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"> </span><br></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">How to Register</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">To register, please follow the instructions on <a href="https://fondazioneamendola.it/eventi/general-information/registration/" target="_blank">this page</a>.</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"><br></span></b></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"><br></span></b></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_792280163066808172_m_-7718579424178687922_m_-4130225212879274879__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"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></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 is 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">.</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><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>