The 9th Image Schema Day

Interdisciplinary workshop held at JOWO

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:

—> Previous editions

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.

Schedule and accepted papers

Session 1: 09:30-11:00

Session 2: 11:30-13:00

Session 3: 14:30-16:00

Session 4: 16:30-17:00

Social session: 17:30 – Late

  • Panel in the pub
  • Workshop dinner

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:

    —> TEMPLATE LINK

    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
    Pick track: WS: Image Schema Day

    Note that we expect one of the authors to register to attend onsite at JOWO. Under very special circumstances we can also allow for a remote presentation, but contact the chairs before to discuss this possibility.

    Important dates

    Abstract/Title submission deadline: 25th of May, asap, 2025
    Paper submission deadline: 1st of June 16th of June, 2025
    Notification of acceptance: 14th of July, 2025
    Camera-ready version (strict!): 1st of September, 2025
    Workshop dates: 8-9th of 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

    The interdiscipilarity of the PC is intended to reflect the highly diverse research interest within the image schema research community. That way, submitted contributions can be judged with experts in the domain.

    • Cordula Baur, Psychological Ergonomics, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany
    • Maarten Coegnarts, FilmEU, University of Antwerp, Belgium
    • João M. Cuhna, Centre for Informatics and Systems, University of Coimbra, Portugal
    • Stefano De Giorgis, Semantic Technology Laboratory, CNR-ISTC, Italy
    • Zoe Falomir, Computing Science Department, Umeå University, Sweden
    • Rafael Peñaloza, Information and Knowledge Representation, Retrieval and Reasoning Laboratory, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
    • Mihai Pomarlan Hawkin, Applied Linguistics Department, University of Bremen, German
    • Guendalina Righetti, Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo, Norway
    • Marco Schorlemmer, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA), CSIC, Spain
    • Francis Steen, Department of Communication, University of California, US