International Interdisciplinary Boredom Conference
June 2-3, 2016
Organizer: Mariusz Finkielsztein
We are mentioned in Nature.com! The Conference and Boredom are becoming more and more visible! We are very glad to see that.
In May 2015, the University of Warsaw drew almost 50 participants to its second annual conference on boredom, which attracted international speakers from social psychology and sociology. And in November, Danckert brought together about a dozen investigators from Canada and the United States for a workshop on the subject.
We have a brilliant, new article directly about Boredom Conference! Enjoy!
Thank you so much Randy Malamud for One big yawn? The academics bewitched by boredom
Boredom Studies are drawing more and more attention, further article finding the domain expanding and mentioning our Conference!
As boredom bloomed, events followed. The International Interdisciplinary Boredom Conference, held annually at the University of Warsaw, will run for the third time in the spring of 2017. In Canada, symposia on boredom have been convened at U of Waterloo and at Queen’s University. The agendas for these events reveal the field’s engrained interdisciplinary approach, with humanities researchers sharing the stage with scientists.
Conference Program
2nd June 2016 (THURSDAY)(place: Tyszkiewicz-Potocki Palace, Ballroom) | |
9:00-10:00 | REGISTRATION |
10:00-10:30 | INAUGURATION Mariusz Finkielsztein (University of Warsaw) So whimsical that controversial? Between Science and Anecdote – about the Significance of Boredom |
SESSION 1: SOCIOLOGY 1 | |
10:30-11:30 | Izabela Wagner (University of Warsaw) Boredom in Scientific Work Malgorzata Kubacka (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan) BusyBored. The Time, (Post)Modernity and Boredom |
11:30-11:45 | COFFEE BREAK |
SESSION 2: SOCIOLOGY 2 | |
11:45-13:15 | Mariusz Finkielsztein (University of Warsaw) Bores and Bored: Boredom as an Interactional Phenomenon Guido Borelli (University of Venice) «There is Time to Kill Today». Everyday Life, Boredom and Domestic Uncanny in the Italian Northeast James Hardie-Bick, Susie Scott (University of Sussex) Waiting in the Wings: Boredom, Flow and Reflexivity |
13:15-14:15 | LUNCH |
SESSION 3: PSYCHOLOGY 1 | |
14:15-15:45 | Maria Flakus (University of Silesia) Psychotherapy with the Boring Patient – Boredom as a Clinical Issue Michal Wróblewski (Gdansk University) Boredom in Analytical Psychology and in Logotherapy |
15:45-16:00 | COFFEE BREAK |
SESSION 4: PSYCHOLOGY 2 | |
16:00-17:30 | Lukasz Miciuk (Catholic University of Lublin) Personality and Boredom: the Role of Self-concept Adequacy Marta Molinska (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan) People Prone to Get Bored – Who Are They? Maria Flakus (University of Silesia) Reliability and Validity of Boredom Proneness Scale (short form). Polish Version |
SESSION 5: OPEN | |
17:30-18:00 | Daniel Dzienisiewicz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan) A Linguistic Look on Boredom: Causes, Trends and Ways of Expression |
18:00-20:00 | WINE RECEPTION |
3rd June 2016 (FRIDAY)(place: Tyszkiewicz-Potocki Palace, Ballroom) | |
9:00-10:00 | REGISTRATION |
SESSION 6: PHILOSOPHY 1 | |
10:00-11:30 | Ivan Ortega-Rodriguez (Universidad Pontificia Comillas Madrid) Technical Civilisation, Boredom and Responsibility in Jan Patočka Pawel Szypowski (University of Warsaw) Escaping the Being. Boredom in Early Levinas Taejin Bae (Hong Kong Institution of Education) Possibilities and Direction of Boredom as a Curriculum topic: Understanding a boredom based on Natality of Hannah Arendt |
11:30-11:45 | COFFEE BREAK |
SESSION 7: PEDAGOGY | |
11:45-13:45 | Alberto Sánchez Rojo (Antonio de Nebrija University) Boredom and Education in 21st Century: Lack of Motivation or Fatigue? Iga Kazimierczyk (University of Warsaw) Boredom in the Early Stage of Education Malgorzata Tyszkowska (Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz) Positivity as a Mental Tool against Boredom Aleksandra Antonik (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan) Why do Children Feel like Doing Boring Things? Mechanisms and Functions of Rituals and Stereotyped Behaviours |
13:45-15:00 | LUNCH |
SESSION 8: PHILOSOPHY 2 | |
15:00-16:30 | Jørn Henrik Olsen (Denmark, independent scholar) Angst, Boredom, and Creativity – with Impetus from Søren Kierkegaard and Martin Heidegger Jacobo Zabalo (Universidad Pompeu Fabra) Boredom’s Time: Beyond the Symptomatic Urge to ‘Do Something’ Janko Lozar (University of Ljubljana) The Boredom of Metaphysics |
16:30-16:45 | COFFEE BREAK |
SESSION 9: PHILOSOPHY 3 | |
16:45-18:15 | Carlo Salzani (Germany, independent scholar) The Animal that Gets Bored: Paradoxes of the Human/Animal Divide Monika Chylinska (Catholic University of Lublin) The Art of Attentive Looking – What Annie Dillard Shows us about the Nature of Boredom Zhenxu Fan (Catholic Univeristy of Lublin) Immunity to Boredom: the Self in Plotinus’ Philosophy |
18:15-18:30 | CONFERENCE CLOSURE |
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