<html><body><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">VALENCE ASYMMETRIES CONFERENCE</span></div><div style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Conference Dates: 19/03/2026 TO 20/03/2026</div><div style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Pre-Conference Workshop: 18/03/2026</div><div style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Location: Sala Nau, Universitat Pompeu Fabra </div><div style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Carrer de Roc Boronat, Barcelona, Spain</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">REGISTRATION: CLOSING SOON</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The first VALENCE ASYMMETRIES conference is nearly here. The 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 UPF in Barcelona.</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">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.</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">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.</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Our keynote speakers are: </div><div style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Hans Alves (Ruhr Universität Bochum),</div><div style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Frédérique de Vignemont (Institut Jean Nicod),</div><div style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Saif M. Mohammad (National Research Council Canada),</div><div style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Pascale Willemsen (Universität Zürich)</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">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). </div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Full program and abstract booklet: https://tinyurl.com/VALENCE-ABSTRACTS</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">We hope to see you all there!</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Registration closes 20 February. Registration is free, but necessary. If you plan on attending, please register via this link (by clicking on the enrol button): http://eventum.upf.edu/go/valenceasymmetries</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This 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).</div><div style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </div><div style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Event page: http://eventum.upf.edu/go/valenceasymmetries </div><div style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Project website: https://www.upf.edu/web/valence-asymmetries </div><div style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">For any questions, please contact: valence.asymmetries@upf.edu </span></div></body></html>