2nd cfp: ISD9@JOWO: The 9th Image Schema Day, 8-9 2025, Catania, Italy

[Maria Hedblom]

(Apologies for potential cross-posting.)
Call for Abstracts and Papers
The 9th Image Schema Day (ISD9)

@ The 11th Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO@FOIS)
September 8-9, Catania, Italy 

-- Please print and distribute our, as per tradition, psychedelic workshop poster! --

The Image Schema Day is a yearly workshop devoted to conceptual reasoning from an interdisciplinary perspective. We have had eight previous editions and are excited to invite you to the ninth!

This year, the workshop will take place in the beautiful city of Catania, Italy, next to Europe's largest active volcano Etna, on September 8-9th, 2025. The ISD9 will be part of The International Conference of Formal Ontology in Information Systems (FOIS)'s workshop program The Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO). 

Check more information on the workshop website at: https://isd9.imageschema.net/

As in previous years, ISD9 is a networking event that invites researchers on image schemas, conceptual primitives and spatiotemporal reasoning from various scientific disciplines to present their research and discuss ideas for future projects. Unlike many other workshops focused on different topics in one discipline or using one methodology, the Image Schema Day invites researchers from all disciplines and methods but focuses on one main topic. As such, the workshop offers a friendly environment for researchers of all stages who are interested in presenting and discussing work on the formal and analytical treatment of conceptual patterns, embodied cognition and the interdisciplinary exploration of human thought!

This year, the workshop accepts four kinds of submissions:

• Abstracts for presentation only (1-2 pages)
  (NOTE: not included in the proceedings.)
• Extended abstracts/short papers (5-9 pages) of work in progress
• Summaries of recently published articles (2-5 pages).
  (NOTE: only summaries of 5 pages are included in the proceedings.)
• Research papers (10-12 pages) discussing novel research not published (or under review) at another venue. 

Topics of interest with (the broadest of interpretation of) an image-schematic focus include: 

• Image schema investigations
• Spatiotemporal reasoning
• Formalisation of conceptual primitives
• AI/robot systems using image schematic components
• Linguistic analysis of semantic patterns
• Artistic systems/pieces based on composition semantics
• Cognitive/empirical studies on conceptual patterns
• Metaphoric/analogical analysis of concepts

All submissions will be peer-reviewed, and accepted contributions will be presented at the workshop! Extended abstracts (5+ pages) and full papers will be published in the JOWO'25 proceedings. Submission instructions can be found on the event website. 

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
  

Please share this invitation with colleagues and students who might be interested in the workshop and consider joining us in September!

We hope to see you in Catania at ISD9!

/ Maria and Oliver