date: 26-27 June 2025
venue: online conference [UTC +2 / Central European Summer Time (CEST)]
| 26th June | 27th June |
|---|---|
| 11:00-13:00 PHILOSOPHY & HISTORY PANEL | |
| Thomas G. M. Blank (Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany) «If you don’t have anything to write to me, write that.» The ostentatious boredom of the ‘political animal’ in Cicero’s Letters. João Miguel Alves Ferreira (University of Coimbra, Portugal) The theory of boredom as a sign of existential disconnection – Alves Ferreira’s theory of subjective anomie. Jyun-Tang Lai (Adrian) (National Taiwan Normal University) “Bored and dead and dull”: Ernest Hemingway’s existential boredom in The sun also rises. Isabel Argüelles Rozada (University of Oviedo, Spain) Idle strolls: The role of boredom in Western urban narratives. | |
| 14:00-15:45 PSYCHOLOGICAL PANEL | 12:00-14:00 SOCIOLOGY PANEL |
| Johannes P.-H. Seiler (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany) Low sensory information affects cortical activation and drives boredom-related behavior in humans and mice. Wijnand van Tilburg (University of Essex, UK) Nature adds color to life: Less boredom in natural versus artificial environments. BOOK PRESENTATION Routledge International Handbook of Boredom. Corinna Martarelli (UniDistance Suisse) and Wanja Wolff (University of Hamburg) + Discussion with the editors: Future Boredom Research. | Joydip Dutta (Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai) The profound boredom and refugee camp: Exploring indeterminateness, emptiness, and silence. Johanne Miller (University of the West of Scotland) Killing time: Introducing destructive boredom as a typology of youth boredom in Scotland. Sergio Pirla (University of Zaragoza, Spain) Income and boredom: Evidence from 30 countries. Jimena Mazzucco (UNED, Spain) and Josefa Ros Velasco (ESIC University, Spain) The induction of boredom through the clothing of people in prison. |
| 16:00-17:15 KEYNOTE PANEL | 15:00-16:30 KEYNOTE PANEL |
| JOSEFA ROS VELASCO (ESIC University, Spain) BOOK PRESENTATION Boredom Experience and Associated Behaviors. Josefa Ros Velasco (ESIC University, Spain) and Christian Parreno (Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador) | MARIUSZ FINKIELSZTEIN (University of Gdańsk, Poland) Sociology of boredom: The relational-expectational theory of boredom LARS SVENDSEN (University of Bingen, Norway) |
| 17:30-19:30 CULTURE PANEL | 16:45-18:45 OPEN PANEL |
| Busra Copuroglu (Western University, Canada) The art of killing time: Boredom, work, and not-doing. Christian Parreno (Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador) Bodies, boredom and the architecture of home in the adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. Julia Köwitz García (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain) Between Kant and Schopenhauer. Romantic boredom as nuntius of an existence within the realm of art and pure cognition. Julian Jason Haladyn (OCAD University, Canada) Bored with history: Art and post-modernism. | Sierra Sheard (University of Louisville, USA) Racialized boredom: Exploring the affective consequences of racial marginalization. Álvaro Artaza (UNED, Spain) Understanding boredom through Ortega y Gasset’s moral philosophy. Lídia Vinczéné Fekete and Judit Sass (Corvinus University of Budapest / Pannon University, Hungary) How to make instructional videos more student-friendly? Effects of multimedia principles on boredom and emotions. Martin Weiner (Independent Scholar / Architect, USA) Plastic: The banal and the «interesting.» |
MARIUSZ FINKIELSZTEIN, Ph.D. 