Recent/Upcoming Events

  • (In)determinacy in Meaning: International Association for Cognitive Semiotics, 6th Meeting

    Sapienza University, Rome, June 4-6, 2026

    “Seeking Conversational Dynamics Between Species: Human-Capuchin Interactions in Positive Reinforcement Training Sessions.”

  • Power and Care: Enactive Approaches and Critical Social Philosophy

    International Conference | 27th – 31st May 2026 | Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona; Mind & Life Europe

    “Can Billionaires Think?”

  • II Workshop Enact: Intersubjectivity

    Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, November 2025

    PRISMA workshop

    “The question of linguistic autonomy”

New papers

  • The editorial introduction to our special issue in Language Sciences: “Rerouting to an open future: languaging, participatory technology, and becoming.”

  • New paper with Nara Figueiredo unraveling the mysteries of symbols in the enactive approach.

  • A lively conversation between improvisers and researchers about habits, language, and interaction dynamics.

    Cuffari, E., De Jaegher, H., Santana, I., and Figueiredo, N. (2024). Dance improvisation and enaction: a dialogue. Proceedings of the 2nd Interdisciplinary Encounter on Dance, Cognition, Technology. Salvador: Editora da Universidade Federal da Bahia (EDUFBA). ISBN: 978-65-5631-140-1. 

  • Results of a PRISMA workshop on interacting across difference with low-tech mediations.

    De Jaegher, H., Prieser, R., and Cuffari, E. (2025). Paradoxical practices of being with others: Some experiential dynamics at play while interacting across differences. Language Sciences, 111, 101731. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2025.101731

  • How do non-human animals form and share communicative intentions?

    Cuffari, E.C., Figueiredo, N.M. Intentions in interactions: an enactive reply to expressive communication proposals. Synthese 205, 46 (2025). https://doi-org.fandm.idm.oclc.org/10.1007/s11229-024-04836-0 

Andrea Hiott of Love and Philosophy offered me a wonderful opportunity to speak with Shay Welch about our vision for the “Marginalized Body Epistemologies and 4E Embodied Cognition” conference held at Spelman Oct 2024.

Mind & Life Europe Core Enaction Seminar Series

Ezequiel, Hanne, and I talk about ethics and linguistic bodies.

We also discuss ethics and critical participation at length with Core Enaction Semester 4 participants here.

And I had the chance to facilitate a conversation about participatory sense-making and robotics for the same MLE semester.

elena.cuffari@fandm.edu
elena.clare.cuffari@gmail.com