<div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"><font face="georgia, serif" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small">Could you please share this on Vision list?</font><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><font face="georgia, serif">========================</font></div></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:black">Dear all,</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"><b>ArC Seminar 23: This is emotional! Empathy and cinematic experience</b> will be held on <span style="color:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit">18th of May 2022, from 3:30 pm to 5:00 pm UK time. We will discuss how cinematic language evolved to affect our emotions. We feel emotional while watching movies, we empathize with movie characters, even though we know they are fictional. What are the philosophical, psychological and neural mechanisms underlying these effects?</span></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:black"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Speakers:</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><b>Katalin Eva Balint</b>, Associate Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, Communication Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam</div><b>Murray Smith</b>, Professor of Film, Director of the Aesthetics Research Centre, and Divisional Deputy Director of Research & Innovation (Interdisciplinarity), University of Kent<div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">The seminar will be held on Teams:</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><a href="https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3a62cda19072b3479a90657cc534596de2%40thread.tacv2/1652285268212?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22f85626cb-0da8-49d3-aa58-64ef678ef01a%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22c35cfbf3-5fce-4d58-b33f-6be0faee0ad3%22%7d" title="https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3a62cda19072b3479a90657cc534596de2%40thread.tacv2/1652285268212?context=%7b%22tid%22%3a%22f85626cb-0da8-49d3-aa58-64ef678ef01a%22%2c%22oid%22%3a%22c35cfbf3-5fce-4d58-b33f-6be0faee0ad3%22%7d" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="gmail-me-email-headline" id="gmail-LPNoLPOWALinkPreview" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Segoe UI Semibold","Segoe UI","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(98,100,167)">Click here to join the meeting</a></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><font face="georgia, serif">Best,</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><font face="georgia, serif">The organizers</font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="georgia, serif">Marina Iosifian and Nicole Ruta</font></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(32,31,30)"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:12pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Ca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