2023: 5th Boredom Conference

date: 28-29 June 2023

venue: online conference [UTC +2 / Central European Summer Time (CEST)]

28th June	29th June
10:00-10:15 INAUGURATION
Josefa Ros Velasco & Mariusz Finkielsztein [VIDEO]
10:15-11:45 CULTURE PANEL I	11:00-13:00 PHILOSOPHY & OPEN PANEL
Josefa Ros Velasco (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain) Contemporary Myths on Boredom [VIDEO] Salamis Aysegul Sentug (University of Kent, UK) Exploring Feminine Boredom in 19th Century and Contemporary European Paintings Depicting Women Travelers [VIDEO]	Julia Köwitz García (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain) From Chronicled Situational Boredom to Deep Boredom [VIDEO] Lutz Niemann (Charles University, Czech Republic) Boredom and the Lived Body – Between Fullness and Emptiness [VIDEO] Morgan Heslop (Massey University, New Zealand) Lessons from the Bored Room: Applying Concepts of Boredom to Animals [VIDEO] Jolien de Schepper (University of Antwerp, Belgium) Phone in Hand – A Boredom Demand? Studying the Regulation of Boredom Through Smartphone Use [VIDEO]
12:00-13:30 CULTURE PANEL II	14:00-15:00 EDUCATION PANEL
Annie Runkel (University of Dundee, UK) Boredom and the Unoriginality of Romance Fiction [VIDEO] Tirna Chatterjee (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) Beckett in Bengal: Boredom, Waiting and Repetition in the Cinema of Ashish Avikunthak [VIDEO] Mariusz Finkielsztein (Collegium Civitas, Poland) L’Ennui des Syrtes: Or the Boredom of Empires [VIDEO]	Jennie Plate Blomberg (Södertörn University, Sweden) The Affective Economy of Boredom – Teachers Practical Knowledge of Boredom as “Sticky” [VIDEO] Carrie Hall (CUNY, US) The Boredoms: Learning under Duress [VIDEO]
14:30-16:30 KEYNOTE PANEL	15:15-16:15 KEYNOTE PANEL
SANDI MANN (The University of Central Lancashire, UK) Why bored people don’t eat nuts: The effect of boredom on food choices [VIDEO] ERIN WESTGATE (University of Florida, US) Why boredom is interesting [VIDEO]	ELIZABETH GOODSTEIN (Emory Universty, US) Spectacular desolation: The politics of boredom today [VIDEO]
16:45-18:45 PSYCHOLOGY PANEL	16:30-18:00 CULTURE PANEL III
Sumana Sri (Claremont Graduate University, USA) Boredom Experiences During the COVID-19 Lockdown [VIDEO] James Danckert (University of Waterloo, Canada) Boredom as Information Processing: Revisiting Orin Klapp (1986) [VIDEO] Vanessa Baaba Dadzie (University of Waterloo, Canada) Exploring Differences in the Relationship Between Boredom Proneness and the Feeling and Judgement of Agency [VIDEO] Chantal Trudel (University of Waterloo, Canada) Connecting Interoception and Boredom Proneness: A Novel Finding [VIDEO]	Julian Jason Haladyn (OCAD University, Canada) Chantal Akerman in the Time of Covid-19 [VIDEO] Christian Parreno (Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador) Boredom in the Architecture of Will Alsop [VIDEO] Tathagata Bhowmik (Case Western Reserve University, US) Endless Scrolling Through Social Media and Boredom – A Tool for Organizational Control [VIDEO] CLOSURE