20 years of EVALabs

This September we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the EVA Labs with a Symposium (20th – 22nd September 2024) and a Summer School (22nd – 23rd September 2024). More information about the summer school and how to apply can be found here.

The preliminary schedule of the Symposium and the connected Summer School can be found below, more information to follow.


We invite you to this event. To plan accordingly please register below as we only have a limited space available per event, so unfortunately, we might not be able to host everyone. Please use the form below to indicate which event you would like to attend.

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Welcome Reception, Fri, Sept. 20, 2024, 17:00 – 21:00 

Ceremonial opening of the symposium in the presence of the Vice-Rector of the University of Vienna Manuela Baccarini and with Marcos Nadal from the University of the Balearic Islands as keynote speaker

Venue: Arcaded Courtyard of the University of Vienna, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Vienna


Symposium part 1: Sa, Sept. 21, 2024, morning: 8:30 – 12:30

Empirical Aesthetics – The State of the Art, panels and discussion

Venue: Sky Lounge Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Wien


Symposium part 2: Sa, Sept. 21, 2024, afternoon: 13:30 – 18:00

Empirical Aesthetics – The Future, panels and discussion

Venue: Sky Lounge Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Wien


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Invited Guests

    • Aenne Brielmann (Universität Tübingen)

    • Anjan Chatterjee (Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania)

    • Katharine Cotter (University of North Carolina Greensboro)

    • Julia Crone (University of Vienna)

    • Jörg Fingerhut (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

    • Paul Hekkert (TU Delft)

    • Thomas Jacobsen (Helmut-Schmidt-Universität – Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg)

    • Gregor Hayn-Leichsenring (Universitäts Klinikum Jena)

    • Helmut Leder (University of Vienna)

    • Chris McManus (UCL Medical School)

    • Jan Mikuni (University of Vienna)

    • Marcos Nadal (University of the Balearic Islands)

    • Matthew Pelowski (University of Vienna)

    • Martin Skov (Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre)

    • Eva Specker (University of Vienna)

    • Pablo Tinio (Montclair State University)

    • Oshin Vartanian (University of Toronto, DRDC)

    • Johan Wagemans (KU Leuven)

Symposium & Summer School organizers:

Helmut Leder & Matthew Pelowski

Department of Emotion, Cognition, and Methods in Psychology

Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna

Cognitive Sciences Research HUB

Liebiggasse 5, 1010 Vienna, Austria

Tel: +43-1-4277-ext. 47110 (HL) or ext. 47112 (MP) Email: helmut.leder@univie.ac.atmatthew.pelowski@univie.ac.at