June 28-29, 2023 (Online)
5th International Interdisciplinary Boredom Conference
#BoredomConference
DEFINITIVE PROGRAM
UTC +2 / Central European Summer Time (CEST) | |||
Wednesday, 28 June | Thursday, 29 June | ||
10:00-10:15 | INAUGURATION | PHILOSOPHY & MISCELANEOUS PANEL Moderator: Josefa Ros Velasco (UCM, Spain) | |
10:15- 11:45 | CULTURE PANEL I Moderator: Annie Runkel (University of Dundee, UK) | 11:00-13:00 | Julia Köwitz García (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain) From Chronicled Situational Boredom to Deep Boredom Lutz Niemann (Charles University, Czech Republic) Boredom and the Lived Body – Between Fullness and Emptiness Morgan Heslop (Massey University, New Zealand) Lessons from the Bored Room: Applying Concepts of Boredom to Animals Jolien de Schepper (University of Antwerp, Belgium) Phone in Hand – A Boredom Demand? Studying the Regulation of Boredom Through Smartphone Use |
Josefa Ros Velasco (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain) Sonakshi Srivastava (Ashoka University, India) Administering Nostalgia: On Leisure, Boredom, and the Raj Salamis Aysegul Sentug (University of Kent, UK) | |||
11:45-12:00 | COFFEE BREAK | 13:00-14:00 | LUNCH BREAK |
12:00-13:30 | CULTURE PANEL II Moderator: Juan Evaristo Valls Boix (UCM, Spain) | 14:00-15:00
15:00-15:15 | EDUCATION PANEL Moderator: Mariusz Finkielsztein (Collegium Civitas, Poland) |
Annie Runkel (University of Dundee, UK) Boredom and the Unoriginality of Romance Fiction Tirna Chatterjee (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) Beckett in Bengal: Boredom, Waiting and Repetition in the Cinema of Ashish Avikunthak Mariusz Finkielsztein (Collegium Civitas, Poland) | Jennie Plate Blomberg (Södertörn University, Sweden) The Affective Economy of Boredom – Teachers Practical Knowledge of Boredom as “Sticky” Carrie Hall (CUNY, US) The Boredoms: Learning under Duress
COFFEE BREAK | ||
13:30-14:30 | LUNCH BREAK | ||
14:30-15:30 | SANDI MANN (The University of Central Lancashire, UK) Moderator: Josefa Ros Velasco (UCM, Spain) | 15:15-16:15 | ELIZABETH GOODSTEIN (Emory Universty, US) Moderator: Andreas Elpidorou (University of Louisville, US) |
15:30-16:30 | ERIN WESTGATE (University of Florida, US) Moderator: Wijnand van Tilburg (University of Essex, UK) | 16:15-16:30 | COFFEE BREAK |
16:30-16:45 | COFFEE BREAK | 16:30-18:00 | CULTURE PANEL III Moderator: Busra Copuroglu (Western University, Canada) |
16:45-18:45 | PSYCHOLOGY PANEL Moderator: John Eastwood (York University, Canada) | Julian Jason Haladyn (OCAD University, Canada) Christian Parreno (Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador) Boredom in the Architecture of Will Alsop Tathagata Bhowmik (Case Western Reserve University, US) Endless Scrolling Through Social Media and Boredom – A Tool for Organizational Control CLOSURE
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Sumana Sri (Claremont Graduate University, US) Boredom Experiences During the COVID-19 Lockdown James Danckert (University of Waterloo, Canada) Boredom as Information Processing: Revisiting Orin Klapp (1986) Vanessa Baaba Dadzie (University of Waterloo, Canada) Chantal Trudel (University of Waterloo, Canada) Connecting Interoception and Boredom Proneness: A Novel Finding | |||
More about our keynote speakers:
CALL FOR PAPERS (CLOSED)
The International Society of Boredom Studies is pleased to invite researchers and faculty staff from all disciplines to participate with papers in the 5th International Interdisciplinary Boredom Conference.
Following the successful launch and development of the cross-disciplinary Boredom Studies and in accordance with previous editions, the 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
- Boredom in Culture (Literature, Art, etc.)
- Boredom in Education and Pedagogy
- Animal Boredom, Evolutionary and Neuro-Boredom
We would like to encourage the contributions outside above list as we plan to organize an open session.
Organizers:
Dr. Josefa Ros Velasco (Complutense University of Madrid)
Dr. Mariusz Finkielsztein (Institute of Sociology, Collegium Civitas, Poland)
Please, send proposals (in English) of no more than 500 words using the registration form no later than MARCH 31, 2023. Those selected will be notified on 12 February 2021. The participation in the Conference is free of charge. The Conference will be held online and all presentations will be recorded. The language of the Conference is English only. The proceedings of the Conference will be published as an issue of Journal of Boredom Studies.
Link to the Registration Form: https://forms.gle/yPHh9QCkK3ZVTpwA9
