Bittersweet Talk Series

Bittersweet, Ancient and Modern: Mixed Affect in Emotional Experience from Plato to Brain Imaging

Ambivalent emotions, conflicting passions, bittersweet feelings: such experiences are commonplace, but more complex than suggested by ordinary language usage and currently available scientific models. Bittersweet, Ancient and Modern (BAM) is a multidisciplinary hub that brings together philosophers, psychologists, and cognitive scientists to work on mixed affect.

Crying in the sunshine

20/03/2024 11:00 - 13:00

Partecipanti:

Eric Cullhed (Uppsala)

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Bittersweet, Ancient and Modern: Mixed Affect in Emotional Experience from Plato to Brain Imaging

When the fog lifts. Lack of emotional awareness and anhedonia

25/03/2024 11:00 - 13:00

Partecipanti:

Sara Dellantonio (Trento)

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Bittersweet, Ancient and Modern: Mixed Affect in Emotional Experience from Plato to Brain Imaging

Affective injustice, transformative fury and the desire for recognition

26/03/2024 11:00 - 13:00

Partecipanti:

Federica Gregoratto (Berlin)

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Bittersweet, Ancient and Modern: Mixed Affect in Emotional Experience from Plato to Brain Imaging

Uncertainty in emotion perception

27/03/2024 11:00 - 13:00

Partecipanti:

Ditte Munch-Jurisic (Copenhagen)

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Bittersweet, Ancient and Modern: Mixed Affect in Emotional Experience from Plato to Brain Imaging

Pleasure, suffering and virtuous agency in 11th century China

09/04/2024 11:00 - 13:00

Partecipanti:

Curie Virág (Warwick)

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Bittersweet, Ancient and Modern: Mixed Affect in Emotional Experience from Plato to Brain Imaging

Do we trust and like people who show mixed emotion expressions?

10/04/2024 11:00 - 13:00

Partecipanti:

Ursula Hess (Berlin)

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Bittersweet, Ancient and Modern: Mixed Affect in Emotional Experience from Plato to Brain Imaging

Mereological causation: ancient causal models for power mixtures

15/04/2024 11:00 - 13:00

Partecipanti:

Anna Marmodoro (Durham)

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Bittersweet, Ancient and Modern: Mixed Affect in Emotional Experience from Plato to Brain Imaging

The Epicureans and psychic conflict

16/04/2024 11:00 - 13:00

Partecipanti:

Donncha O'Rourke

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Bittersweet, Ancient and Modern: Mixed Affect in Emotional Experience from Plato to Brain Imaging

Who’s afraid of fictional characters?

17/04/2024 11:00 - 13:00

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Partecipanti:

Carola Barbero (Torino)

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Bittersweet, Ancient and Modern: Mixed Affect in Emotional Experience from Plato to Brain Imaging

On valence

22/04/2024 11:00 - 13:00

Partecipanti:

Marco Viola (Roma Tre)

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Bittersweet, Ancient and Modern: Mixed Affect in Emotional Experience from Plato to Brain Imaging