#PHMunivr A bit of drama, last minute cancellations, Covid, pickpocketing, 1 conference baby, one too many wine-soaked peaches and a few zoomboombers. Thanks to the most amazing #PhD colleagues for… well, you know. 🌞 it’s a wrap!

Catching up with old friends and making new ones ❤️ #IAEA2022

Congrats to my amazing phd colleagues @serri_dmc and Julia 🔥 check out their publication!

Very honoured and very excited to be part of the next Empathy & Narrative Discussion Event. Join us to discuss the limits of narrative empathy!

Interested in empathy with morally objectionable fictional characters and how that works? This event may be for you :) Sign up at: tinyurl.com/limits-of-empa…

Interested in narratives, language, empathy & ethics? This discussion event is for you! We'll think about answers to questions you may have about how far our empathy can go and what role narrative text plays in that. 📚 Sign up & more info here: tinyurl.com/limits-of-empa…

Heads up! ESR Julia will speak at the next Empathy and Narrative Discussion Event! Julia will talk about the quantitative study of the shift in morality before one can experience empathy for immoral characters. Sign up to join the event for free: tinyurl.com/limits-of-empa…

@EekhofLynn and I are putting the last hands to the organisational side of this & are looking forward to the discussions that will ensue after Julia, Carmen Bonasera & @Colorin79929650 share some of their expertise on (studying) the limits of empathy/negative empathy 📚

Massive thank you to Fransina Stradling and @EekhofLynn for organising another inspiring Empathy & Narrative Interactive Discussion Event. I feel honoured to have been one of your 'discussion starters' on the Limits of Empathy 😊

Come join us to build bridges between Shared Reading practitioners and Shared Reading research! 📍 June 28 ELIT ESRs Julia Giulia Scapin Tine Riis Andersen are organising the seminar “Empathy and Health Benefits of Shared Reading”. Register at ✏️: forms.gle/BVnaT7Sab5qk1v…

.Giulia Scapin, Tine Riis Andersen and I are organising a #seminar on Empathy and Health Benefits of #SharedReading. Come join us to build bridges between Shared Reading practitioners and Shared Reading research! 📍 June 28, 10-17h Register at ✏️: forms.gle/BVnaT7Sab5qk1v… (ELITnetwork)

ESRs Julia and Giulia Scapin presented their ELIT research projects to the Department of Communication Science of VU University, a department not very familiar with Literary Studies. Lots of interesting questions and insights!

‘When you read together, no one loses their memory. You can come to with your memory.’ Wonderful to hear the reader quoted here today by Marije Wilmink, one of the founders of the 'Culturele Apotheek' or Cultural Pharmacy in Amsterdam. ELITnetwork The Reader Esther Valora

Massive thanks to everyone who attended! Practitioners from The Reader #cultureleapotheek and #hetlezerscollectief, researchers from all over the world... Until we meet again!

We are excited to announce ELITnetwork 's Final Conference! Research findings from 9 projects will be shared and discussed in Monopoli, Italy on 26 September 2023. More news on this soon. #conference #seminar #phd #literature #empiricalliterature

Today the IGEL Society poster presentations take place at the conference in Monopoli! Not attending? Learn more about my work on Concordance: discourse.igelsociety.org/t/fiction-read…

Attending and presenting with my fabulous colleagues in the amazing Monopoli! Cannot really ask for more 😊

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