Timetable

Day 1. Friday May 20th

11.15-11.30h coffee

11.30-12.30h Sessions 1 and 2 (parallel)

Session 1: Loneliness and isolation (room 0.100c; chair: Bert)

(i)  Keming Yang “Religion and Loneliness in Europe”

(ii) Jody Moore-Ponce “Broken Signposts - The unmoored experience of modern individuals”    

Session 2: Paradoxes of Solidarity (room 0.100a; chair: Carmen)

(i)  Robert Bolton. “’Unacknowledged Shame’ in Modernity - The Obstacle to Solidarity”

(ii) Domonkos Sik: “From the paradoxes of ‘organic solidarity’ towards the actor-networks of emergency”

12.30-14h Lunch A38 ship

14-15h Sessions 3 and 4 (parallel)

Session 3: Solidarity and Covid (room 0.100c; chair: Jody)

(i)  Angela Flynn  “’We’re all in this Together’: Solidarity and Collectivism in the context of COVID-19”

(ii) Felicity Daly: “Exposing fault lines in solidarity in the COVID-19 response: analysing the Houses of Oireachtas Special Committee”  (online)

Session 4: Kinship, Alienation and Reification (room 0.100a; chair: Domonkos)

(i)  Sara Abutaleb “Kinship and its Effect on the Social Ties in the Middle East”

(ii) Csaba Olay “Lukács’s conception of reification in the light of recent interpretations”

15-15.15h coffee

15.15-16.15h Sessions 5 and 6 (parallel)

Session 5:  Psy Praxes (room 0.100c; chair: Angela)

(i)  Melissa Isabella Meyer “Disconnect or Dissonant: Uncovering and exploring the origins and implications of what it means to be ‘untethered’ through through interviews with counsellors in Ireland”

(ii) Carmen Kuhling  “’It would be good to talk to someone’: A Discourse analysis of Representations of Psychotherapy on Irish Radio”

Session 6:  Suffering and Euphoria (room 0.100a; chair: Kieran K)

(i)  Dominik Koesling “From suffering to solidarity: Remarks from (early) critical theory’s critique of society”

(ii)  Kieran Bonner  “Desire and Euphoria: Drinking, Thinking and Thoughtlessness”

16.30-17.30h “Musical – Visual Intermezzo” by Elke van Buggenhout, Adriaan Severins and Ans Mertens, followed by conversation & discussion  (room 0.100c; intro: Bert)

17.30 City walking tour  (guide: Vigvári András )  and on to dinner, at Koleves

Day 2. Saturday May 21nd

9.45-10h coffee

10-11 Keynote (ii): Máté Zombory “Social pathology in practice, or how the rise of memory politics put an end to international solidarity”  (room 0.100c; intro & chair: Domonkos)

11-11.15h coffee

11.15-12.15h Sessions 7 and 8 (parellel)

Session 7: Transformative words and objects (room 0.100c; chair: Kieran B)

(i)  Kieran Keohane “’Love loves to love love’: good words that may turn things around”

(ii) Blahoslav Rozbořil, Josef Daněk & Ken G. Hay "Wooden web - Ground Plan of Togetherness"

Session 8: Public spheres: IRL and Online (room 0.100a; chair: Czaba)

(i)  Amin Sharifi Isaloo “How tricksters form the public sphere and create schismogenic processes”

(ii) Dániel Hegedűs  “Solidarity in video blogger discourses online”

12.15-12.20h short break

12.20-13.20h Sessions 9 and 10 (parallel)

Session 9: Insurgencies and injustices (room 0.100c; chair: Melissa)

(i)  Anioke Blessing Nkiruka & Joseph Aigbolosimon Famous.  “Effect of Boko-Haram Insurgency on the Health Status of Internally Displaced Persons in Monguno IDPs Camp, Borno State, Nigeria”

(ii)  Sumit Kumar “Decolonising Justice in India” 

Session 10: Seafarers and Students (room 0.100a; chair: Amin)

(i)  Marjorie Maido. “The ‘Key Workers’: Boosting Seafarers’ Morale and a Solidarity Call among Major Maritime Stakeholders”

(ii)  Verdi Ahern. “A re-turn to the University: mimesis reloaded, wherein ‘antidotes contra the pathologies of homo mimeticus…’ are developed and disseminated ‘…via therapeutic forms of mimetic practices’”

13.20-14.30h Lunch, A38 ship

14.30-15.30h session 11 (plenary)

Session 11: Against (neo)liberalism? (room 0.100c; chair: Sumit)

(i)  Bert van den Bergh. “Isolism and populism: the blood-curdling case of TB”

15.30-16.00h coffee; and Book Launch:  D. Sik (2022), Empty Suffering: A Social Phenomenology of Depression. London: Routledge   (room 0.100c; chair: Máté Zombory)

16.00h transport to Budapest Museum of Fine Arts for  Bosch exhibition

20h Dinner at  Mostbisztro