Workshop: Radical Embodiment in the Wild

Workshop hosted by the Center for Philosophical Psychology at the University of Antwerp, addressing how radical embodiment unfolds within the complexities of real-world environments. The contributions explore how perception, memory, learning, and social interaction emerge through dynamic engagements with diverse “wild” contexts. The workshop aims to expand radical embodiment research into new terrains and to rethink what it means for cognition to be lived, enacted, and situated.

Date: 17/11/2025

Place: University of Antwerp, S.R.218, Rodestraat 14, Antwerpen

9.30 — Reception

9.50 — Welcome
Ludger van Dijk (Wageningen University)


10.00 – 10.45

Sarah Bro Trasmundi (University of Southern Denmark)
Radical embodiment beyond the body: indirect perception in the wild. Arctic world

10.45 – 11.00

Hannah Moss (University of Liverpool)
Breath, Body, Word: Continuities in Enactive Cognition

11.00 – 11.30 — Coffee break


11.30 – 11.45

Menno van Calcar (Erasmus University Rotterdam) & Anne Sofie Levin (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Learning as acting in new ways

11.45 – 12.15

Giulia Di Rienzo (University of Antwerp)
Not-yet: Affordances in the making

12.15 – 13.30 — Lunch


13.30 – 14.00

Emanuele Prezioso (University of Oxford)
Re-Enacting Memory in the Wild: Materiality, Temporality, and Practice

14.00 – 14.30

Ayşe Uslu (Freie Universität Berlin)
Rewilding Methods: Post-Qualitative Pathways into Wild Embodiment Research

14.30 – 15.00

Emma Otterski (Independent Researcher)
Mindreading (in) context: how social status shapes emotion attribution

15.00 – 15.30 — Coffee break


15.30 – 16.00

David Schoute (University of Antwerp)
Visual samples as a method in psychology

16.00 – 16.45

Louise Barrett (University of Lethbridge)
Our Mess is a Bit of a Life: the Case for Embracing Accurate Messiness

17/11/2025