2021: 4th Boredom Conference

date: 24-26 June 2021

venue: Complutense University of Madrid, Spain [online conference]

24th June	25th June	26th June
10:00-10:30 INAUGURATION
Mariusz FINKIELSZTEIN (Collegium Civitas, Poland) Josefa ROS VELASCO (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain) INAUGURATION [VIDEO]
10:30-12:00 PHILOSOPHY PANEL I	10:30-12:00 PEDAGOGY PANEL
Ernesto Baltar  García-Peñuela (Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain) Technique and boredom: a comparison between Heidegger and Benjamin [ABSTRACT][VIDEO] Beatrice BECCARI (University of Ferrara and PUCPR, Italy/Brazil) Contra Naturam. A short Study into Leopardi and Schopenhauer’s Meditations  [ABSTRACT][VIDEO]	Anke Zeißig (Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany) Boredom and Creativity – Contrast or connection? [ABSTRACT][VIDEO] Keith WALKER (The University of Liverpool, UK) The Social Construction of Contemporary Classroom Boredom [ABSTRACT][VIDEO] Boutheina BOUKHALFA (Kasdi Merah University, Algeria) Boredom and Creation of Meaning in Literature Classrooms [ABSTRACT][VIDEO]
12:10-14:10 LITERATURE PANEL	12:10-14:10 SOCIOLOGY PANEL I	13:00-14:00 OPEN PANEL
Manuel HERRERO-PUERTAS (National Taiwan University)  Toward a Theory of Embodied Boredom: Edgar Allan Poe’s “Hop-Frog” [ABSTRACT][VIDEO] Amélie HAMAD (University of Lille, France) ‘Travelling far beyond the strike of city clocks’: Boredom and time in Hawthorne’s The Blithedale Romance [ABSTRACT][VIDEO] John D’AMICO (Emory University, GA) Flaubert’s ‘Travail Psychologique’: The Value of Distraction [ABSTRACT] Inma ALJARO (Pompeu Frabra University, Spain) Monotony and digression: an aesthetics of boredom in Bolaño’s 2666 [ABSTRACT][VIDEO]	João Pedro AMORIM (The Catholic University of Portugal) Blank Screens: the Revolutionary Aesthetics of Boredom [ABSTRACT][VIDEO] Ricardo Gutiérrez Aguilar (Alcalá de Henares University, Spain) Rituals and Play. Boredom as non-productive stasis in Byung-Chul Han [ABSTRACT][VIDEO] Mariusz FINKIELSZTEIN (Collegium Civitas, Poland) Disdained or Psychologized: Towards the Sociological Definition of Boredom [ABSTRACT][VIDEO]	Marta KORONKIEWICZ & Paweł KACZMARSKI (University of Wrocław, Poland) Beyond Busywork. Boredom in Contemporary Games [ABSTRACT][VIDEO] Todd SIMMONS (New York University) Dr. Levick and his hooligan penguins [ABSTRACT][VIDEO]
15:00-16:30 PSYCHOLOGY PANEL I	15:00-16:30 PHILOSOPHY PANEL II	15:00-16:00 ARCHITECTURE PANEL
KEYNOTE: Wijnand VAN TILBURG (University of Essex, UK) The unbearable lightness of boredom: A psychological perspective [ABSTRACT][VIDEO] Josefa ROS VELASCO (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain) Boredom as a risk factor for the physical and mental health of institutionalized elders: An overview [ABSTRACT][VIDEO]	KEYNOTE: Andreas ELPIDOROU (University of Louisville, KY) Boredom, Poverty, and Social Justice [ABSTRACT][VIDEO] Alex GILHAM (St. Bonaventure University, NY) Toward an Epicurean Mechanics of (Painful) Boredom [ABSTRACT]	Abel FRANCO (California State University, Northridge) Aesthetic Boredom: The Case of Architecture [ABSTRACT][VIDEO] Christian Rafael Parreño Roldán (San Francisco de Quito University, Ecuador) Boredom, Suicide and the Architecture of 1 Poultry Street, London [ABSTRACT][VIDEO]
16:40-18:40 PSYCHOLOGY PANEL II	16:40-18:40 SOCIOLOGY PANEL II	16:10-18:30 DISCUSSION
KEYNOTE: John EASTWOOD (York University, Canada)  Self-focused but lacking self-insight: The relationship between boredom and self-consciousness [ABSTRACT][VIDEO] Annie RUNKEL (University of Dundee, UK) Boredom and Creative Constraints [ABSTRACT][VIDEO] Anna POCHMARA & Łukasz Muniowski (University of Warsaw, Poland) Excessive Stimulation, Loss of Meaning, and Boredom in Sam Levinson’s Euphoria [ABSTRACT][VIDEO]	KEYNOTE: Michael GARDINER (Western University, Canada) Make the Holocene great again! Or, why is climate change boring? [ABSTRACT][VIDEO] Izabela Wagner (Collegium Civitas, Poland) “Strategic Boredom”: The Experience and Dynamics of Boredom in Refugee Camp [ABSTRACT][VIDEO]	OPEN DISCUSSION [VIDEO] ISBS* PRESENTATION [VIDEO] (International Society of Boredom Studies)