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Dear colleagues,</div>
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I would like to share with the MATHLINK community information about an upcoming symposium that may be of interest to researchers working on mathematical cognition:</div>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Dear colleagues,</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">We are pleased to announce the <b>NUMBES Symposium: Numbers, Motion and Multimodality</b>, which will take place in <b>Cabo
de Palos (Murcia, Spain)</b> on <b>2829 May 2026</b>.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">The symposium theme, Representing abstract concepts through metaphor, places a particular emphasis on the conceptualization
of number, while also inviting an interdisciplinary discussion at the crossroads of linguistics, cognitive science, psychology, gesture studies, and cultural analysis, including contributions on other abstract domains related to metaphor, motion, and multimodality.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><b>Event page:</b> </span><span style="font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", -apple-system, system-ui, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(36, 36, 36);"><a style="margin: 0px;" data-linkindex="0" data-auth="NotApplicable" rel="noopener noreferrer" title="http://eventos.um.es/go/numbes" class="x_OWAAutoLink" id="OWA3ff272bf-0c83-0676-52c0-4d2c2b1dd2f8" target="_blank" href="http://eventos.um.es/go/numbes">http://eventos.um.es/go/numbes</a></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><b>Numbers, Motion and Multimodality</b> provides a forum for exploring how abstract concepts particularly numerical concepts
are developed, represented, and communicated across languages and modalities.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Adopting a <b>multimodal</b> and <b>cross-linguistic</b> perspective, the symposium highlights:</span></p>
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the role of <b>embodied cognition</b> in numerical understanding,</p>
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the impact of <b>cultural variation</b> on abstract conceptualization,</p>
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the ways in which <b>metaphor, gesture, and spatial reasoning</b> shape how we think and talk about numbers.</p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Numerical information permeates public and private discourse from news and science communication to education, policy,
and everyday decisions. Yet despite its centrality, research on how numbers are conceptualized remains limited. NUMBES aims to foster reflection, collaboration, and theoretical development to address this gap.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">A special focus of the symposium will be the <b>social implications</b> of numerical conceptualization, including its impact
on learning, accessibility, and social inclusion.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">The event will be held at <b>Sub Up Hostel (Cabo de Palos, Murcia)</b> and will feature <b>invited plenary talks</b>, each
approximately one hour long, as well as <b>poster sessions</b> welcoming a wide range of contributions (experimental, corpus-based, theoretical, and applied).</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Call for Posters</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">We invite proposals for posters presenting <b>original research</b> related to the symposium themes.</span></p>
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<b>Call opens:</b> 1 December 2025</p>
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<b>Deadline for submissions:</b> 31 January 2026</p>
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<b>Language:</b> English</p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Poster sessions are open to researchers working on:</span></p>
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Multimodal approaches to metaphor and number conceptualisation</p>
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Embodiment and numerical cognition</p>
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Experimental approaches to abstract concepts</p>
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Cross-linguistic and cross-cultural differences in number concepts</p>
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Numerical cognition in educational settings</p>
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Social impact of number conceptualization</p>
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Data communication and numerical integration in discourse</p>
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Spatialnumerical associations</p>
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Translation studies on metaphor, motion, or number</p>
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General magnitude systems (e.g., <i>A Theory of Magnitude</i>)</p>
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<b>Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuano</b> (University of Zaragoza) </p>
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<b>Javier Valenzuela</b> (University of Murcia)</p>
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<b>Bodo Winter</b> (University of Birmingham)</p>
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<b>Christopher Hart</b> (Lancaster University)</p>
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<b>Rafael Nez</b> (University of California San Diego)</p>
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<b>Martha Alibali</b> (University of Wisconsin-Madison)</p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><b>Sub Up Hostel</b><br>
C/ Amoladeras, 1315<br>
30370 Cabo de Palos (Murcia, Spain)</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">We look forward to welcoming you to the Mediterranean coast for two days of stimulating research exchange and interdisciplinary
dialogue.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: black;">Best regards,</span></p>
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The Organising Team NUMBES Symposium 2026</b></span></p>
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