2015: 1st Boredom Conference

date: 15-16 June 2015

venue: Tyszkiewicz-Potocki Palace, University of Warsaw, Poland

15th June
11:00-13:00 PRINCIPLES OF BOREDOM
INAUGURATION: Mariusz FINKIELSZTEIN
(University of Warsaw, Poland)
Boredom is Everywhere: Towards Boredom Studies – Cross-Disciplinary Overview [ABSTRACT]
 
Janina DUSZYŃSKA
(University of Nicolaus Copernicus, Toruń, Poland)
Anatomy of Boredom [ABSTRACT]
 
Krystian GRADZ
(University of Warsaw, Poland)
Melancholy and Boredom [ABSTRACT]
14:00-15:15 KEYNOTE LECTURE14:00-15:15 PEDAGOGY PANEL
Wijnand VAN TILBURG
(University of Southampton, UK)
Eric Igou
(University of Limerick, UK)
 
Boredom Begs to Differ: Dirrerentiationg Boredom Among Negative Emotions as Lay Concept, State, and Individual Difference [ABSTRACT][PAPER]
 
Searching for Meaning: Why Boredom Polarizes Intergroup Attitudes, Intensifies Political Ideology, and Fosters Nostalgia [ABSTRACT]		Małgorzata TYSZKOWSKA
(Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz, Poland)
Boredom in Preschool as a Warning Signal for a Tutor/Teacher [ABSTRACT]
 
Aleksandra ANTONIK
(Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)
Clever and Bored. Causes and Implications of Underachievement in Gifted Students [ABSTRACT]

Iga KAZIMIERCZYK
(University of Warsaw, Poland)
What do you Feel when you’re Bored out? Pupils Talk about Boredom in School [ABSTRACT]
15:30-17:00 PSYCHOLOGY PANEL15:30-17:00 ACADEMIC BOREDOM


Agata ZŁOTOGÓRSKA
(Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)
Cognitive Functions of Boredom [ABSTRACT]

Małgorzata OSOWIECKA
(University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty in Sopot, Poland)
Jakub KUŚ
(University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty in Wrocław, Poland)
Creative Boredom: What Good Can Come from Boredom in Multitasking Network Culture? [ABSTRACT]		Zbigniew GŁOWALA
(Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)
“The Funereal Parade of Yawn-enforcing Facts”. Conferences, Lectures and Articles in the Academic Novel [ABSTRACT]

Daniel KONTOWSKI
(University of Warsaw, Poland)
High-impact Educational Practices – against Academic Boredom
17:10-17:30 OPEN PANEL
Patrycja GRZYŚ
(University of Gdańsk, Poland)
The Great Plague of Dullness – Briefly about Polish Cityscape [ABSTRACT]
16th June
10:00-11:00 KEYNOTE LECTURE
Lee Anna MAYNARD
(Georgia Regents University)
Time to Think, Time to Fear: British Literature’s Gothic Boredom [ABSTRACT]
11:10-12:30 PHILOSOPHY PANEL12:45-14:00 HISTORY PANEL
Jaboco ZABALO
(University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain)
Metaphysics of Boredom. On how Nietzsche Became Heidegger [ABSTRACT]
 
Monika CHYLIŃSKA
(John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)
Is the Bored Mind an Unconstrained Mind? [ABSTRACT]
 
Piotr SAWCZYŃSKI
(Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)
Can Doing Nothing Emancipate Us? Giorgio Agamben on Boredom and the Political [ABSTRACT]		Edyta PĘTKOWSKA
(University of Warsaw, Poland)
Between Historical Events, Feelings and … Boredom? – Polish Female Memoire Writers at the Turn of the 18th and 19th Centuries [ABSTRACT]
 
Jeffrey AUERBACH
(California State University, USA)
Boredom and the British Empire [ABSTRACT][BOOK]
15:00-16:45 SOCIOLOGY PANEL17:00-18:00 LITERATURE PANEL
Cinthya GUZMAN
(University of Toronto, Canada)
Problematic or Productive – Experiences of Boredom in Everyday Life [ABSTRACT]
 
Małgorzata KUBACKA
(Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)
Boredom in Everyday Life Experience – Shameful or Affirmed [ABSTRACT]
 
Wojciech SOBOLEWSKI
(University of Warsaw, Poland)
Boredom in Theatre – a Sociological Study of Theatre Audience [ABSTRACT]		Wojciech BORYSZEWSKI
(University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn, Poland)
Existential Boredom and Melancholia in “The French Lieutenant’s Woman” by John Fowles
 
Aleksandra SOWA-ZDUŃCZYK
(University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland)
The Art of Routine. A Boredom in Two Poems by Stanislaw Baranczak and Elizabeth Bishop