2023: 5th Boredom Conference

date: 28-29 June 2023

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

28th June	29th June
10:30-10:45 INAUGURATION
10:45-11:45 CULTURE PANEL I	11:00-13:00 PHILOSOPHY & OPEN PANEL
Josefa Ros Velasco (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain) Contemporary Myths on Boredom Sonakshi Srivastava (Ashoka University, India) Administering Nostalgia: On Leisure, Boredom, and the Raj	Julia Köwitz García (Complutense University of Madrid, Spain) From Chronicled Situational Boredom to Deep Boredom Lutz Niemann (Charles University, Czech Republic) Boredom and the Lived Body – Between Fullness and Emptiness Morgan Heslop (Massey University, New Zealand) Lessons from the Bored Room: Applying Concepts of Boredom to Animals Jolien de Schepper (University of Antwerp, Belgium) Phone in Hand – A Boredom Demand? Studying the Regulation of Boredom Through Smartphone Use
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 Tirna Chatterjee (Jawaharlal Nehru University, India) Beckett in Bengal: Boredom, Waiting and Repetition in the Cinema of Ashish Avikunthak Mariusz Finkielsztein (Collegium Civitas, Poland) L’Ennui des Syrtes: Or the Boredom of Empires	Jennie Plate Blomberg (Södertörn University, Sweden) The Affective Economy of Boredom – Teachers Practical Knowledge of Boredom as “Sticky” Carrie Hall (CUNY, US) The Boredoms: Learning under Duress
14:30-16:30 KEYNOTE PANEL	15:15-16:15 KEYNOTE PANEL
SANDI MANN (The University of Central Lancashire, UK) ERIN WESTGATE (University of Florida, US)	ELIZABETH GOODSTEIN (Emory Universty, US)
16:45-18:45 PSYCHOLOGY PANEL	16:30-18:30 CULTURE PANEL III
Sumana Sri (Claremont Graduate University, USA) Boredom Experiences During the COVID-19 Lockdown James Danckert (University of Waterloo, Canada) Boredom as Information Processing: Revisiting Orin Klapp (1986) Vanessa Baaba Dadzie (University of Waterloo, Canada) Exploring Differences in the Relationship Between Boredom Proneness and the Feeling and Judgement of Agency Chantal Trudel (University of Waterloo, Canada) Connecting Interoception and Boredom Proneness: A Novel Finding	Julian Jason Haladyn (OCAD University, Canada) Chantal Akerman in the Time of Covid-19 Christian Parreno (Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador) Boredom in the Architecture of Will Alsop Tathagata Bhowmik (Case Western Reserve University, US) Endless Scrolling Through Social Media and Boredom – A Tool for Organizational Control Salamis Aysegul Sentug (University of Kent, UK) Exploring Feminine Boredom in 19th Century and Contemporary European Paintings Depicting Women Travelers CLOSURE