2016: 2nd Boredom Conference

date: 2-3 June 2016

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

2nd June3rd June
10:00-10:30 INAUGURATION
Mariusz FINKIELSZTEIN
(University of Warsaw, Poland)
So whimsical that controversial? Between Science and Anecdote – about the Significance of Boredom [ABSTRACT]
10:30-11:30 SOCIOLOGY PANEL I10:00-11:30 PHILOSOPHY PANEL I
Izabela WAGNER
(University of Warsaw, Poland)
Boredom in Scientific Work [ABSTRACT]

Małgorzata KUBACKA
(Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)
BusyBored. The Time, (Post)Modernity and Boredom [ABSTRACT]
Ivan ORTEGA-RODRIGUEZ
(Universidad Pontificia Comillas Madrid, Spain)
Technical Civilisation, Boredom and Responsibility in Jan Patočka [ABSTRACT]

Paweł SZYPOWSKI
(University of Warsaw, Poland)
Escaping the Being. Boredom in Early Levinas [ABSTRACT]

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 [ABSTRACT]
11:45-13:15 SOCIOLOGY PANEL II11:45-13:45 PEDAGOGY PANEL
Mariusz FINKIELSZTEIN
(University of Warsaw, Poland) 
Bores and Bored: Boredom as an Interactional Phenomenon [ABSTRACT]

Guido BORELLI
(University of Venezia, Italy)
«There is Time to Kill Today*». Everyday Life, Boredom and Domestic Uncanny in the Italian Northeast [ABSTRACT]

James HARDIE-BICK, Susie SCOTT
(University of Sussex, UK)
Waiting in the Wings: Boredom, Flow and Reflexivity [ABSTRACT]

Alberto Sánchez Rojo
(Antonio de Nebrija University, Spain)
Boredom and Education in 21st Century: Lack of Motivation or Fatigue? [ABSTRACT]

Iga KAZIMIERCZYK
(University of Warsaw, Poland)
Boredom in the Early Stage of Education [ABSTRACT]

Małgorzata TYSZKOWSKA
(Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz, Poland)
Positivity as a Mental Tool against Boredom [ABSTRACT]

Aleksandra ANTONIK
(Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)
Why do Children Feel like Doing Boring Things? Mechanisms and Functions of Rituals and Stereotyped Behaviours [ABSTRACT]
14:15-15:45 PSYCHOLOGY PANEL I15:00-16:30 PHILOSOPHY PANEL II
Maria FLAKUS
(University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland)
Psychotherapy with the Boring Patient – Boredom as a Clinical Issue [ABSTRACT]

Michał WRÓBLEWSKI
(Gdańsk University, Poland)
The Boredom in Analytical Psychology and in Logotherapy [ABSTRACT]
Jørn Henrik OLSEN
(Independent scholar, Denmark)
Angst, Boredom, and Creativity – with Impetus from Søren Kierkegaard and Martin Heidegger [ABSTRACT]

Jacobo ZABALO
(Universidad Pompeu Fabra, Spain)
Boredom’s Time: Beyond the Symptomatic Urge to ‘Do Something’ [ABSTRACT]

Janko LOZAR
(University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
The Boredom of Metaphysics [ABSTRACT]
16:00-17:30 PSYCHOLOGY PANEL II16:45-18:15 PHILOSOPHY PANEL III
Łukasz MICIUK
(Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)
Personality and Boredom: the Role of Self-concept Adequacy [ABSTRACT]

Marta MOLIŃSKA
(Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)
People Prone to Get Bored – Who Are They? [ABSTRACT]

Maria FLAKUS
(University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland)
Reliability and Validity of Boredom Proneness Scale (short form). Polish Version [ABSTRACT]
Carlo SALZANI
(Independent scholar, Germany)
The Anima that Gets Bored: Paradoxes of the Human/Animal Divide [ABSTRACT]

Monika CHYLIŃSKA
(Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)
The Art of Attentive Looking – What Annie Dillard Shows us about the Nature of Boredom [ABSTRACT]

Zhenxu FAN
(Catholic University of Lublin, Poland)
Immunity to Boredom: the Self in Plotinus’ Philosophy [ABSTRACT]
17:40-18:10 OPEN PANEL
Daniel DZIENISIEWICZ
(Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)
A Linguistic Look on Boredom: Causes, Trends and Ways of Expression [ABSTRACT]
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