<html><body><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>Submission deadline: </b>13<b> </b></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">October, 2025</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br><b>Conference dates:</b><i> </i>19-20 </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">March, 2026</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br><b>Conference venue:</b><i> </i></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br><b>Topic areas:</b></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Cognitive science, linguistics, psychology, philosophy of mind and language, value-theory, ethics and metaethics</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">CFP and details: </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(64, 116, 234);"><a href="http://eventum.upf.edu/go/valenceasymmetries" title="http://eventum.upf.edu/go/valenceasymmetries" data-ogsc="rgb(64, 116, 234)" style="color: rgb(64, 116, 234); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">http://eventum.upf.edu/go/valenceasymmetries</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This is a final reminder that the deadline for submissions to the First Valence Asymmetries Conference (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, 19–20 March 2026) is 13 October 2025.</span></p><p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></p><p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This interdisciplinary event will discuss themes which are central to the Valence Asymmetries project, including the role of valence asymmetries in perception, emotion, morality, language, and communication. Discussion will draw upon insights from philosophy, psychology, and linguistics.</span></p><p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Submissions:</span></p><ul style="text-align: left; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><p role="presentation" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Aptos;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4–6 talks will be selected from open submissions.</span></p></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><p role="presentation" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Aptos;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each accepted talk: 50 minutes (including discussion).</span></p></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><p role="presentation" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Aptos;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Abstracts: maximum 2 pages (with optional 3rd page for references/figures).</span></p></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><p role="presentation" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Aptos;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Submit by email to: </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(64, 116, 234);"><a href="mailto:valence.asymmetries@upf.edu" class="ms-outlook-linkify" title="mailto:valence.asymmetries@upf.edu" data-ogsc="rgb(64, 116, 234)" style="color: rgb(64, 116, 234); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">valence.asymmetries@upf.edu</a></span></p></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><p role="presentation" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Aptos;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Subject line: “valence asymmetries submission”</span></p></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><p role="presentation" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Aptos;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Deadline: 13 October 2025 (23:59 CET)</span></p></li></ul><p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We especially encourage submissions on the relation between value, valence, and polarity; theoretical and empirical accounts of valence asymmetries in language, including in negative strengthening, scalar inferences, and irony; the asymmetry between virtue and vice, and between praise and blame, in normative and applied ethics. Broader discussions of valence in linguistics, cognitive science, moral psychology and cognate areas are also welcome!</span></p><p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Conference Venue:</span></p><p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Department of Translation and Language Sciences </span></p><p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Campus Poblenou, Carrer de Roc Boronat</span></p><p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain</span></p><p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Invited speakers:</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></p><ul style="text-align: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; list-style-type: disc; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); flex-direction: column; display: flex;"><li style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); align-self: start;"><p role="presentation" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hans Alves (Ruhr Universität Bochum)</span></p></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); align-self: start;"><p role="presentation" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Frédérique de Vignemont (Institut Jean Nicod)</span></p></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); align-self: start;"><p role="presentation" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Saif Mohammad (National Research Council Canada)</span></p></li><li style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); align-self: start;"><p role="presentation" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Pascale Willemsen (Universität Zürich)</span></p></li></ul><p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Program Committee and Organization:</span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></p><p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Isidora Stojanovic (Chair); Morgan Moyer; Michelle Stankovic</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Event page: </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(64, 116, 234);"><a href="http://eventum.upf.edu/go/valenceasymmetries" class="decorated-link" title="http://eventum.upf.edu/go/valenceasymmetries" rel="noopener" data-ogsc="rgb(64, 116, 234)" style="color: rgb(64, 116, 234); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">http://eventum.upf.edu/go/valenceasymmetries</a></span></p><p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Project website: </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(64, 116, 234);"><a href="https://www.upf.edu/web/valence-asymmetries" title="https://www.upf.edu/web/valence-asymmetries" data-ogsc="rgb(64, 116, 234)" style="color: rgb(64, 116, 234); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://www.upf.edu/web/valence-asymmetries</a></span></p><p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We warmly encourage you to circulate this call and submit your work. We hope to see you there</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></span></p><p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0in;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Kind regards</span></p><p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0in;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Michelle</span></p><p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0in;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Valence Asymmetries Team </span></p><p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0in;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Universitat Pompeu Fabra</span></p><p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Roc Boronat 138, 08018 Barcelona, Spain</span></p><p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">ERC Advanced Grant: Valence Asymmetries, nº 101142133</span></p><p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(64, 116, 234);"><a href="https://www.upf.edu/web/valence-asymmetries" title="https://www.upf.edu/web/valence-asymmetries" data-ogsc="rgb(64, 116, 234)" style="color: rgb(64, 116, 234); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">https://www.upf.edu/web/valence-asymmetries</a></span></p><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Aptos;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">PI: Dr. Isidora Stojanovic, Distinguished Researcher </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Aptos;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><img src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4wgBYYHucS4XeiQXbNrzg2CdlO6f2qPB-lkQ1Tx9_VYOXPpBOIcZ8EanEeJGzRNX9cNfq5lI_5rQawW" alt="Image" id="img-10b98c6b-db28-49d0-8afe-7857b9d41454" width="192" height="76" style="width: 192px; height: 76px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"></span></p></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div></body></html>