Wednesday, August 22

17:00  Registration
18:00  Opening

20:00  Students’ blitz presentations

Thursday, August 23          

09:00 - 10:30 Jesse Prinz: Emotional Effects on the Appraisal, Perception, and Interpretation of Art
11:00 - 12:30 Gregory Currie: The role of mood and emotion in fiction's (alleged) capacity to change belief

14:00 - 15:30 Roundtable: Jesse Prinz, Gregory Currie, Cain Todd
16:00 - 17:00 Groups formation
17:00 - 18:30 Project group work

20:30 Evening activity: film (hosted by Bence Nanay)

 

Friday, August 24          

09:00 - 10:30 Winfried Menninghaus: What does it mean to be moved by an artwork?
11:00 - 12:30 James E. Cutting: The aesthetic power of movies

14:00 - 17:00 Thematic workshops:
   - "Being moved" by Julien Deonna, Florian Cova, Winfried Menninghaus, Patrizia Lombardo and Julien Zanetta
   - "The Hitchcock paradox: Empathy, Sympathy, Identification, Mirror neurons" by Bence Nanay

17:30 - 19:00 Project group work

20:30 Evening activity: workshop by Prof. Johan Sundberg (hosted by Klaus Scherer)

Saturday, August 25          

09:00 - 10:30 Dahlia Zaidel: Brain, Art, and Beauty: Relationship to Biology, Emotions, and Pleasure
11:00 - 12:30 Didier Grandjean & Klaus Scherer: Music, Language, Speech and Brain: An Evolutionary and Aesthetic Perspective

14:00 - 17:00 Thematic workshops:
  - "The impact of audio and musical features on musical emotion: An approach using the Matlab MIRtoolbox" by Olivier Lartillot and Didier Grandjean
  - "Computational models of non-verbal social signals" by Antonio Camurri

17:30 - 19:00 Project group work

20:30  Evening activity: music performace (hosted by Didier Grandjean)

 

Sunday, August 26           Social program (and free afternoon)

10:00  Departure
11:00  Guided visit to the "Art Brut" collection in Lausanne

 

Monday, August 27          

09:00 - 10:30 Raymond W. Gibbs: Why metaphor feels so right and so beautiful
11:00 - 12:30 Matthew Kieran: Creativity, Fear and Writer's Block

14:00 - 17:00 Thematic workshops:
    - "Emotion in comics" by Charles Forceville
    - "Experimental aesthetics and methodology in philosophy of aesthetics" by Matthew Kieran and Florian Cova

17:30 - 19:00 Project group work

 

Tuesday, August 28          

09:00 - 10:30 David Freedberg: Empathy in Aesthetics Response
11:00 - 12:30 Roundtable: David Freedberg, Patrizia Lombardo, Pascal Griener

14:00 - 19:00 Project group work

 

Wednesday, August 29          

09:00 - 12:30 Project presentations

14:00 - 17:00 Project presentations

16:30 - 18:00 Closing lecture: Robert Zatorre: Music in the Brain: Pitch, Plasticity, Imagery, and Emotion

19:00 - 19:30 ISSAS’2012 prize and closing

Closing dinner

 

Thursday, August 30

 

Departure

 

 

20.06.2012