6th BOREDOM CONFERENCE
June 26-27, 2025 (Online)
6th International Interdisciplinary Boredom Conference
#BoredomConference
CALL FOR PAPERS
Following the successful launch and development of the cross-disciplinary Boredom Studies and in accordance with previous editions, the Boredom Conference aims to attract specialists on boredom from a wide range of disciplines to expand the knowledge we have already achieved concerning its nature, history, causes, and consequences. The goals of this encounter are to 1) gather together boredom researchers from various academic disciplines worldwide; 2) make new and develop existing connections between them; 3) create the venue for interdisciplinary boredom-oriented academic discussion; 4) promote Boredom Studies as a justified, significant, and needed domain of scientific research; and 5) establish recurrent organizational and social structures that enable further development of Boredom Studies.
We look forward to proposals addressing the following areas of interest:
- Philosophy, Theology and History of Boredom
- Psychology and Psychiatry of Boredom
- Anthropology and Sociology of Boredom
- Animal Boredom, Evolutionary and Neuro-Boredom
- Boredom in Culture (Literature, Art, Cinema, etc.)
- Boredom in Education and Pedagogy
We would also like to encourage contributions outside that list for an open session.
Please, send proposals (in English) between 250-500 words using the registration form no later than MARCH 2, 2025. Those selected will be notified on 17 March 2025. The participation in the Boredom Conference is free of charge. It will be held online and all presentations will be recorded. The language is English only. The proceedings will be published in the Journal of Boredom Studies.
Link to registration form: https://forms.gle/E1UZZuE8E1gzxPLUA
Contact: www.boredomsociety.com | contact@boredomsociety.com
Organizers: Josefa Ros (UCM, Spain) | Mariusz Finkielsztein (Collegium Civitas, Poland)
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Josefa Ros Velasco
Complutense University of Madrid
Mariusz Finkielsztein
Collegium Civitas, Poland
Book Presentation
Boredom Experience and Associated Behaviors.
A Lifelong Research by Dr. Augustin de la Peña
Augustin de la Peña (Author)*
Josefa Ros Velasco (Editor) – Presenter
Christian Parreno (Editor) Springer – Presenter
9783031326844
Boredom Experience and Associated Behaviors. A Lifelong Research by Dr. Augustin de la Peña collects the lifelong research on boredom by American psychologist Augustin de la Peña (1942-2021). It focuses on the experience of boredom—and other similar states, including ennui, melancholy, laziness, interest, attention, and entertainment—and its associated behaviors. Offering an interdisciplinary chronicle of boredom, from Antiquity to the present, special attention is paid to its daily experience as a ubiquitous phenomenon that informs cultural and political actions that continue to shape our society.
Dr. de la Peña describes the obsolescence of the Western Commonsense View of Reality to propose a Developmental Psychophysiological Approach to Reality, reconceptualizing boredom. The book theorizes the condition as both logical and emotional, an axis that has defined the sensibility of the modern era. This is a volume edited posthumously by Josefa Ros Velasco and Christian Parreno in homage to Augustin’s work and his invaluable contribution to the establishment of the field of boredom studies.
