Held in Cantania, Italy
8-12 September, 2025
The 9th Image Schema Day is an interdisciplinary workshop devoted to cognitive primitives, spatial reasoning, embodied cognition, analogical reasoning and investigations of the puzzle pieces of mind. The main topic is on image schemas, which were introduced as the generalised cognitive patterns learned from embodied experience by which humans use to reason and make sense of the world’s perceptions and expressions.
A truly interdisciplinary workshop, we invite contribution from a range of scientific, professional and artistic domains. This means that we invite researchers from linguistics, psychology, computer science, philosophy, humanities, artists and practitioners to submit their work and participate in the workshop. Our only requirement is that the core focus are on image schemas, cognitive patterns and conceptual primitives.
All contribution will be peer-reviewed by an international program committee of experts on the field. All accepted publications will be submitted for publication in CEUR-WS proceedings as per standard at ISD. See previous workshops and proceedings here:
Venue and time
The 9th edition of the ISD workshop series will be held at the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO) in conjunction with FOIS in Catania, Italy, in September.
Call for papers and abstracts
Topics of interest includes (but are not limited to):
- Image schema investigations
- Spatiotemporal reasoning
- Formalisation of conceptual primitives
- Linguistic analysis of semantic patterns
- Artistic systems/pieces based on composition semantics
- Cognitive/empirical studies on conceptual thinking
- Metaphoric/analogical analysis of concepts
- AI/robot systems using image schematic components
Paper types and formatting instructions
ISD9 accepts 4 types of contributions:
- Full research papers (10-12 pages)
- Extended abstracts/short papers (5-9 pages) – typically work in progress, early results, descriptions of artistic work, or position papers.
- Summaries of recently published articles (2-5 pages) – title must include “paper summary” and the original paper must be mentioned in the abstract.
- Abstracts for presentation only (1-2 pages)
All page numbers are including references. Note that all contribution of less than 5 pages (Abstracts for presentation and Summaries of recently published articles) will NOT be included in the proceedings. Submitted contributions may not be submitted at any other venue at the time and should exclusively be written by the authors on the paper. We do not allow submissions in which parts are generated by AI not so we accept AI tools as explicit co-authors. AI tools may only be used for correction and improvement, not content creators.
All submissions must adhere to the CEUR-WS one column format. You can find the template here:
Submission and peer-reviewing
Submission to the workshop is to be done through Easychair.
All submitted contributions will be peer-reviewed by the experts in the program committee. Each submission will recieve at least two reviews.
—> SUBMISSION LINK TBA
Important dates
Abstract/Title submission deadline: 25 May, 2025
Paper submission deadline: 1 June, 2025
Notification of acceptance: 14 July, 2025
Camera-ready version (strict!): 1 September, 2025
Workshop dates: 8-9 September, 2025
Organisation and Program Committee
Organisers
- Maria M. Hedblom, Jönköping AI Lab, Jönköping University, Sweden
- Oliver Kutz, Research centre for knowledge-based Artificial Intelligence, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
Program committee
- TBA