Thursday June 19, 2025
Dimensions of Radical Embodiment, Day 1
Location: Dialogen, SDU
08:30 – 09:15 Welcome coffee and registration
09:15 – 09:30 Introductory remarks
09:30 – 10:30 Keynote: Vicente Raja, University of Murcia
“A brain for the radical embodied mind”
10:30 – 11:00 Break
11:00 – 12:00 Session: The body and the world
Laura Mojica, University of the Basque Country
“Sensorimotor incorporation: An operational definition”
Marco Facchin, University of Antwerp
“Radical embodiment and cognitive ontology”
David Sanchez, University of Granada &
Joan Camarena, University of València
“An organizational approach to affordances:
Meaning between information and dynamics”
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 14:00 Session: Memory and attention
Elena Ostos, Université Grenoble Alpes
“Embodied generalised episodic remembering”
L. N. Wyman, Maryland University of Integrative Health
“Perceptual justification and place:
Merleau-Ponty & Seigel on place-making & memory”
Jelle Bruineberg, University of Copenhagen
“Attention in radical embodiment”
14:00 – 14:30 Break
14:30 – 15:40 Flash talks / poster pitches
15:40 - 16:40 Session: Non-humans
Anna Finke, University of Murcia
“The plant cognitive revolution:
How plants engineered their own world”
Miguel Segundo-Ortin, University of Murcia
“A world of minds: Ecological psychology as a
framework for comparative cognition”
Matteo Antonelli, University of Urbino
“Beyond morphological computation:
An ecological approach to control in soft robotics”
16:40 – 17:00 Break
17:00 – 18:00 Keynote: Sofie Pedersen, Roskilde University
“What a difference a day radical embodiment makes…”
Friday June 20, 2025
Dimensions of Radical Embodiment, Day 2
Location: Dialogen, SDU
09:00 – 10:00 Keynote: Manuel Heras-Escribano, University of Granada
(title tba)
10:00 – 11:20 Session: Radical embodiment beyond the laboratory
Matt Miller-Dicks, University of Portsmouth
“Holistic representative design”
Guilherme Sanches de Oliveira, University of Murcia
“Affordances in the wild”
Doug Hardman, Bournemouth University
“Wayfinding in the wild”
Moritz Bammel, Leuphana University Leuneburg
“Ecological psychology meets political philosophy of mind”
11:20 – 12:30 Poster session
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:50 Session: Numbers and letters
Ilir Isufi, University of Cincinnati
“Culture, language, and cognition:
An anthropological critique of linguistic relativity research”
Simon Harrison, City University of Hong Kong
“Gesture studies meets radical embodied cognitive science
(and the problem of gestures without bodies)”
Max Jones, University of Bristol
“An ecological approach to numerical perception”
Gilberto Gauche, University of Bologna
“Worldmaking as socially distributed cognition
The account of Mary Douglas”
14:50 – 15:20 Break
15:20 – 17:00 Session: Tech, drugs, rock ‘n’ roll
Zuzanna Rucińska, University of Antwerp &
Thomas van Es, University of the Basque Country
“Against fictionlism of virtual actions”
Line Maria Simonsen, University of Southern Denmark
“Exploring human interaction with AI and LLMs in
healthcare from a distributed perspective”
José Romero Garcia, University of Murcia
“An ecological approach to psychedlic perception”
Sophie Morrissey & Shaun Gallagher, University of Memphis
“Presence and co-presence in aesthetic experiences
of live performance”
18:00 – 21:00 Dinner at Storms Pakhus