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The first VALENCE ASYMMETRIES conference is nearly here! The conference
will take place on <b>March 19th-20th 2026</b> 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.</font></div><div style="font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><b><br></b></font></div><div style="font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div style="font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">
<b>Registration closes on 20 February.</b> Registration is free, but necessary.
If you plan on attending, please register via this link (by clicking on
the enrol button): <a href="http://eventum.upf.edu/go/valenceasymmetries" target="_blank">http://eventum.upf.edu/go/valenceasymmetries</a>.</font></div><br></div><div style="font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">
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.</font></div>
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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.</font></div>
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Our keynote speakers are: </font></div>
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Hans Alves (Ruhr Universität Bochum),</font></div>
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Frédérique de Vignemont (Institut Jean Nicod),</font></div>
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Saif M. Mohammad (National Research Council Canada),</font></div>
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Pascale Willemsen (Universität Zürich)</font></div>
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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). </font></div>
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Full program and abstract booklet: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/VALENCE-ABSTRACTS" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/VALENCE-ABSTRACTS</a></font></div>
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We hope to see you all there!</font></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">
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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).</font></div>
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Event page: <a href="http://eventum.upf.edu/go/valenceasymmetries" target="_blank">http://eventum.upf.edu/go/valenceasymmetries</a></font></div>
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Project website: <a href="https://www.upf.edu/web/valence-asymmetries" target="_blank">https://www.upf.edu/web/valence-asymmetries</a></font></div><div style="font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">
<font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">For any questions, please contact: <a href="mailto:valence.asymmetries@upf.edu" target="_blank">valence.asymmetries@upf.edu</a> </span></font></div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>VALENCE ASYMMETRIES CONFERENCE</b></span></font></div>
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Conference Dates: 19/03/2026 TO 20/03/2026</font></div>
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Pre-Conference Workshop: 18/03/2026</font></div>
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Location: Sala Nau, Universitat Pompeu Fabra </font></div>
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Carrer de Roc Boronat, Barcelona, Spain</font></div><br clear="all"></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">--</span></div><div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">Morgan Moyer</span></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Postdoc</div><div>Valence Asymmetries Project</div></div></div></div>