You can find the short version of the program below.
You can find the detailed PDF version, that includes speakers here or with abstracts here (symposia and talk session) and here (posters).
Presenters can find instructions for preparing their symposia, talks, or posters here.
5th May
| Inside the Aesthetic Brain. Live Brain Dissection of Neural Structures Associated with Aesthetic Experience Tuesday 5th May, 4:30pm, Institute of Anatomy I, Teichgraben 7; No additional cost. |
| Evening – Opening Social Event – Tuesday 5th May, 7pm – 9:30pm, Volksbad Jena – Keynote talk: Thalia Goldstein – What we Expect from the Arts: Transfer, Meaning Making, and Habits of Mind Tuesday 5th May, 7:30pm, Volksbad Jena |
6th May
| 09:00 – 09:15 | Registration & Posters up |
| 09:15 – 09:30 | Opening & Introduction to Artists | Location: Schott |
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Baumgarten Award Address: Aenne Brielmann | Location: Schott Past Forays, Predicting Futures |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Baumgarten Award Address: Katherine Cotter | Location: Schott Making Sense of Art and Well-Being |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Transition |
| 10:45 – 11:45 | Talk sessions 1. Developmental and Developing Aesthetics | Location: Schott 2. Art Viewing in the Museum | Location: Rosenthal 3. Design and Everyday Aesthetics | Location: Czapski |
| 11:45 – 12:00 | Transition |
| 12:00 – 13:15 | Talk sessions 1. Aesthetics of Human Faces | Location: Schott 2. Narratives & Games | Location: Rosenthal 3. Feeling (for Others) Through Art | Location: Czapski |
| 13:15 – 14:30 | Lunch & Mentorship meeting (from 13:30) | Location: Carl-Zeiss |
| 14:30 – 16:00 | Talk session Advances in Modelling and Measuring Aesthetic Experience | Location: Schott Symposia 1. Empirical Aesthetics of Dynamic Architectural Environments | Location: Rosenthal 2. Self-transcendent emotions evoked by music listening | Location: Czapski |
| 16:00 – 17:00 | Poster presentations & coffee | Location: Carl-Zeiss |
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Talk sessions 1. Engagement with Live Performances | Location: Schott 2. Altered States and Art Viewing | Location: Rosenthal 3. Complex Emotional Experiences | Location: Czapski |
7th May
| 09:00 – 09:15 | Registration & Posters up |
| 09:15 – 09:30 | Opening & Introduction to Artists | Location: Schott |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Keynote Talk: Eftychia Stamkou | Location: Schott How Art Shapes Social Worlds |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Transition |
| 10:45 – 11:45 | Talk sessions 1. Experiencing and Making Art with Clinical Populations | Location: Schott 2. Aesthetics in the Wild | Location: Rosenthal 3. Artificial Aesthetics | Location: Czapski |
| 11:45 – 12:00 | Transition |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Talk sessions 1. Architecture and Spatial Design | Location: Schott 2. Image Statistics and Composition | Location: Rosenthal 3. Processing Paintings | Location: Czapski |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Talk session Aesthetic Brains | Location: Schott Symposia 1. From Uncertainty to Insight: The Science of Curiosity in Artistic Encounters | Location: Rosenthal 2. Cultural Perspectives in Empirical Aesthetics | Location: Czapski |
| 15:30 – 16:30 | Poster presentations & coffee | Location: Carl-Zeiss |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Washburn Award Address: Ed Vessel | Location: Schott |
| 17:30 – 18.30 | IAEA Business Meeting | Location: Schott |
8th May
| 09:00 – 09:15 | Registration & Posters up |
| 09:15 – 09:30 | Opening & Introduction to Artists | Location: Schott |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Keynote Talk: Kohinoor Darda | Location: Schott Who and what is art for? Bridging science and society. |
| 10:30 – 11:30 | Poster presentations & coffee | Location: Carl-Zeiss |
| 11:30 – 13:00 | Talk session Curiosity & Learning through Aesthetic Engagement | Location: Schott Symposia 1. Urban Aesthetics: Empirical Approaches to Public Art, City Design, and Mental Well-Being | Location: Rosenthal 2. Characterizing Aesthetic Engagement with Art: Testing Theory with New Approaches | Location: Czapski |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Symposia 1. Toward a Unified Art- Science Framework for Dance Research: Bridging Theoretical Foundations with Empirical and Applied Approaches | Location: Schott 2. Perspectives on Well-Being and Aesthetic Experience in Context: Ecologically Valid Research from Urban Spaces to Museums | Location: Rosenthal 3. The Arts and the Drive for Knowledge: Philosophical, Psychological, and Neuroscientific Perspectives | Location: Czapski |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Break |
| 16:00 – 17:15 | Talk sessions 1. Cross-Cultural and Individual Differences | Location: Schott 2. Diverse Approaches to Musical Aesthetics | Location: Rosenthal 3. Multisensory Experiences and Multimodal Stimuli | Location: Czapski |
| 17:15 – 17:30 | Transition |
| 17:30 – 18:00 | Fechner Award Address: Anjan Chatterjee | Location: Schott Crowd surfing empirical aesthetics |
| from 19:00 | CLOSING RECEPTION at Phyletic Museum With live music by local band Turbo Boy @turboboyband |
9th May
| Bauhaus Museum. Optional excursion to the Bauhaus Museum in Weimar in the morning. This would include 40 minutes travel from Jena (including a 20-minute train). There will be two tour groups of the museum for up to 50 people at 10:15am and 11:15am, therefore the first group will meet in Jena at 9:30am and the second group at 10:30am. (Train & museum entry fees apply) Bauhaus-Museum Weimar, Stéphane-Hessel-Platz 1, 99423 Weimar, Germany. https://www.klassik-stiftung.de/en/bauhaus-museum-weimar/ |
Addresses of the conference locations:
Volksbad:
Knebelstraße 10
07743 Jena
Volkshaus:
Carl-Zeiss-Platz 15
07743 Jena
Phyletic Museum:
Vor dem Neutor 1
07743 Jena
Read more about the conference locations here.