December 4–5, 2025
Toulouse
Room TSE/IAST Building
The Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse (IAST) and the Toulouse School of Economics and Quantitative Social Sciences (TSE) will host the conference on Disgust across Borders: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on a Core Emotion.
Conference Theme
This international conference will bring together researchers from diverse disciplines— including psychology, political science, evolutionary biology, and related fields—to explore the basic yet multifaceted emotion of disgust. The meeting will aim to bridge disciplinary divides, incorporate cross-species perspectives, and examine applications of disgust research in politics, conservation, and animal welfare. We hope that this conference will mark the beginning of a recurring series, with Disgustology as a unifying theme.
Keynote Speakers
We are pleased to welcome four outstanding keynote speakers:
Caroline Amoroso (University of Virginia) - Evolution and ecology of infection avoidance: principles and experiments
Cindy Kam (Vanderbilt University) - The Politics of Disgust
Paul Rozin (University of Pennsylvania) - Is disgust a unitary emotion? (presentation online)
Philip Powell (University of Sheffield) - Putting the gross in domestic product: Disgust and consumer behaviour
Call for Abstracts: Closed
Registration
Registration is free but it is mandatory to be able to attend the conference. The deadline for registration is September 30, 2025. Please register via this form: https://forms.gle/QBmkUB3aLDjYBKfb6
Dates: December 4-5, 2025
Location: Toulouse School of Economics (Auditorium 3 Jean-Jacques Laffont)
Organizers: Cécile Sarabian, Catherine Molho, & Arnaud Tognetti
Contact
If you have any questions, feel free to reach out at disgustnerds@iast.fr
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This event is funded by a French government subsidy managed by the Agence Nationale de la Recherche under the framework of the investissements d'avenir programme reference ANR-17-EURE-0010.
Reference
Disgust across Borders: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on a Core Emotion, Toulouse, December 4–5, 2025, room TSE/IAST Building.