Michele Guerra, Veronica Innocenti, Hector J. Perez, Margrethe Bruun Vaage:    Introduction

Anesa Miller (Independent Scholar):    Addicted to Emotion: "How Affective Neuroscience Sheds Light on Our Love of Narrative Arts"

Jaak Panksepp (Washington’s State University):    Addicted to Emotion: "How Affective Neuroscience Sheds Light on Our Love of Narrative Arts"

Fernando Canet (Universitat de Valencia):    The Relationship Between Characters as a Metaphor for the Viewer's Engagement in Television Series

Luca Barra (Università Cattolica di Milano):    A Different Kind of Connection. Building the Audience Engagement in Contemporary US Sitcoms

Flavia Laviosa (Wellesley College):    From an Inspired ... to Publication. The Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies

Sebastian Armbrust (University of Hamburg):    Events in Serial Storyworlds: Towards a Theory of Serial Plotting

Paolo Braga (Università Cattolica di Milano):    The Contribution of Screenwriting Theory to the Analysis of Complex TV

Bohdan Y. Nebesio (Brock University):    Rhythm in TV Series Storytelling

Francesco Parisi (Università di Messina):    Identification, Memory, Elaboration. The Importance of Time in the Context of TV Series Fruition

Hannah Chapelle Wojciehowski (University of Texas Austin):    Binge-watching, Immersive Experience and Creativity: An Embodied Approach

Federico Pierotti (Università di Firenze):    Emotion and Color Design in 'Mad Men'

Enrico Carocci (Università Roma Tre):     'I Can Smell the Psychosphere': The Aesthetics of Mood in 'True Detective'

Maria Jesus Ortiz (Universidad de Alicante) e Alberto Nahum Martinez (Universidad de Navarra):    Mise-en-scene, Embodied Metaphors and Moods

Sara Casoli (Università di Bologna):    The Emotional Anomaly. The Planning of an Affective Experience in a Serial Information Architecture

Massimo Locatelli (Università Cattolica di Milano):    Fear Relevant Narratives

Margrethe Bruun Vaage:    The Antihero in American Television (Routledge 2015) Discussant: Jason Mittell (Middlebury College)

Janina Wildfeuer (University of Bremen):    Out of place!? - The Semiotic Role of Music in Contemporary TV Series

Adriano D’Aloia (Università UniNettuno) e Ruggero Eugeni (Università Cattolica di Milano):    The Boundaries of Never-ending

Ariel Avissar (Tel Aviv University):    Connecting the Dots: Narrative Complexity in Contemporary Catastrophic Serie