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THE 9th MIDTERM CONFERENCE ON EMOTIONS
RN 11 “Sociology of Emotions” of the European Sociological Association (ESA)
25th–27th November 2020, online
*Please notice all times are CET
November 23rd – 24th, 2020: PhD-Workshop
9.30-14.30: PhD-Workshop
Natàlia Cantó-Milà, Yvonne Albrecht
Wednesday, November 25th, 2020
9.30-10am: Opening of the Conference
Alberto Martín Pérez, Organizer of the Conference for the Board of RN 11
Marta Soler, President of the European Sociological Association (ESA)
Link: Conference Room 1
10-12am
Panel 1: Emotional Regimes, Gender and Bodies
Chair: Nina Margies
Link: Conference Room 1
Daria Litvina: Changing Emotional Regimes of Reproductive Loss in Russia: Perspectives of Women and Specialists
Nina Hossain: Politics – Emotion – Gender: About Emotional Capital and Emotional Work
Gözde Cöbek: Beyond the Female Love-Male Sex Duality: A Non-Representational Approach to Online Dating Studies
Ayşegül Akdemir: Emotional Labour in Call Centres: Doing and Undoing Gender
Panel 2: Theorizing Affects and Emotions
Chair: Natàlia Cantó-Milà
Link: Conference Room 2
Elgen Sauerborn & Nina Sökefeld: Emotion Programs and the Fabrication of Feelings
Sandra Matthäus: Self.Worth-Feelings as the Legitimate Subject Structure of (Late) Modernity, or: Explicating Pierre Bourdieu’s Implicit Theory of Affect
Christian von Scheve: Affective Meanings and Social Relations: Identities and Positions in Social Space
Alberto Martín Pérez: ‘Emotion Makers’: Scientific Legitimation of Social Discourses on Happiness
12-13h: Lunch Break
13-15pm
Panel 1: Family, Care and Emotionality
Chair: Yvonne Albrecht
Link: Conference Room 1
Rotem Leshem & Rakefet Sela-Sheffy: Affect, Ethnic Boundaries and Social Mobility: Transforming Israeli Middle-Class Identities in Family Stories Across Generations
Anna Escobedo & José Luis Condom Bosch: Daily Life Practices and Emotions During the COVID-19 Crisis in Family Households with Children
Daniela Castillo Mansilla: Compassionate Care in a Paediatric Hospital in Chile a case study
Panel 2: Researching Emotions in Everyday Life and Digitality
Chair: Nina Törnqvist
Link: Conference Room 2
Lissette Aviles: Researching Emotions, Reflecting Emotions
Mary Holmes: Unsettling Bodies, Emotions and Gender in Internet Dating: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach
Marci Cottingham: Viral Fear: Epidemic Emotions in News and Social Media
Lidia Domínguez-Párraga: A Qualitative Study About Friendship Between Elderly Women
15 Minutes Break
15.15 -17.15 pm
Panel 1: Labour Market, Workspace and Affectivity
Chair: Alberto Martín Pérez
Link: Conference Room 1
Raluca-Alexandra Byskov Stana: “I was struggling with my own guilt for not being able to log in”. Techno Stressful Constructions of Obligation in the Digitalized Workplace
Javiera García Meneses: Between Effectiveness and Affectivity: Organizing Public Sector Work in Times of New Public Management
José Luis Condom Bosch & Anna Escobedo: The Coaching Professional Field: Managing Happiness (and other emotions)
James Brooks, Irena Grugulis & Hugh Cook: Hanging on the Telephone: Exploring the Impact of Emotional Labour on the Mental Health and Wellbeing of Debt Collection Agents
Panel 2: Politics of Emotions
Chair: Swen Seebach
Link: Conference Room 2
Sheena Bartscherer: Instrumentalization of Emotion During the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election – A Neopragmatist Analysis of the Presidential Nominees’ Media Communication
Yun Tong Tang: Emotions, Tactics, and Interactions in Non-violent Resistance: The Anti-Express Rail Campaign, 2009-2010 in Hong Kong
Christopher Day: Background Affects and the Shared Emotional Experience of People’s Vote Marches in London During 2019
15 Minutes Break
17.30-19 pm
Artistic Encounters. Sociology meets the Visual Arts – Fito Conesa and Mireia Sallarès
Moderation: Mariona Moncunill Piñas
Link: Conference Room 1
Thursday, November 26th, 2020
10-12am
Panel 1: Law and Crime and the Relation Between Emotions and Reason
Chair: Nina Margies
Link: Conference Room 1
Stina Bergman Blix: The Construction of Objectivity – Rational Emotions in Legal Decision-Making
Nina Törnqvist & Åsa Wettergren: Epistemic Emotions and Objective Decision-Making in Prosecution
Sara Uhnoo & Moa Bladini: Rape or consent? Effects of the New Swedish Rape Legislation on Legal Reasoning and Practice
Julia Wesołowska: Protecting ‘Reasonable’ Emotions: How Polish Civil Courts Handle Psychological Harm?
Panel 2: Emotions, Morality and Normativity
Chair: Rotem Leshem
Link: Conference Room 2
Christine Campen & Oliver Dimbath: Faces of Moral Outrage
Poul Poder: The Sociology of Love – Its Main Approaches, Concerns, Achievements and Future Challenges
Avihu Shoshana: Beyond Gratitude, Towards Emotions of Thankfulness
Stephanie Parsons: Saying ‘Thank You’: Emotionally Managing Letter Writing in Organ Transfer
12-13h: Lunch Break
13-15pm
Panel 1: Migration, Globalization and Emotions
Chair: Åsa Wettergren
Link: Conference Room 1
Laia Folguera, Verónica Anzil & Jordi Roca Girona: Geographies of Love and Desire in Transnational Couples: A Comparative Study Between Different European Countries
Esra Demirkol Colosio: The (Im)possibility of Constructing Emotional Relations in Transnational Social Space
Helen Schönborn: The Contested Right to Grieve in Refugees and Migrants Narratives in Catalonia (Spain) and NRW (Germany)
Yvonne Albrecht & Serhat Karakayali: The Sensibility to Marginalization as Emotional Connecting Factor? Feeling Solidarity and Creating ‘Postmigrant Alliances’ in Civil-Society Organizations
Panel 2: Emotions, Politics, Protest and the State
Chair: Monika Verbalyte
Link: Conference Room 2
Pınar Gümüş Mantu: Tracing Emotions in Movement: Reflections on Hope, Disappointment and Trauma in Turkey’s Gezi Protests
Rosa Sánchez Salgado: Emotions and Power in the Catalan Conflict
Josefina Jaureguiberry: Affective Experience in Radical Collective Housing Projects in Berlin
Yannicke De Stexhe: Evaluative, Expressive, Mean of Resistance…: The Numerous Places and Roles of Emotions within the Social Movement Black Lives Matter
Jigyasa Sogarwal: Politics of Emotions: Role of Shame in Protest and Implications for Democracy
15 Minutes Break
15.15-16.15 pm
Business Meeting
Yvonne Albrecht, Nina Margies, Alberto Martín Pérez, Natàlia Cantó-Milà
Link: Conference Room 1
15 Minutes Break
16.30-18pm
KEYNOTE: Amparo Lasén: Digital mediations and inscriptions of ordinary affects: shame and shaming
Moderation: Alberto Martín Pérez
Link: Conference Room 1
Friday, November 27th, 2020
9.30-11.30 am
Panel 1: The Emotionality of Social Change and Inertia
Chair: Stina Bergman Blix
Link: Conference Room 1
Nina Margies: Feeling Hysteresis: Emotions and Structural Change
Elizabeth Olsson: Relational Curiosity and Constructive Conflict: A Study in Classrooms
Yvonne Wechuli: Feelings for Social Change? Emotional Strategies promoted in Disability Studies
Sabine Gabriel: The Lived Body as a Resource of Social Capital. Collective Emotions and the Reproduction of Gender Norms on the Example of Ballet Dancers
Panel 2: Cinema, Art, Body and Emotions
Chair: Mary Holmes
Link: Conference Room 2
Gökhan Albayrak & Haktan Ural: Gay-Straight Friendships and Gay Men’s Heroism in Turkish Popular Cinema
Renida Baltrušaitytė: The Body of Artist in Emotional Production of Contemporary Performing Arts
Cansu Okan & Haktan Ural: Re-Imaging the Housewives: Cultural Translation and National Anxiety in the Turkish Adaptation of Desperate Housewives
Havva Yılmaz: Urban Affects: An Investigation of Urban Theme in the Context of Sociology of Emotion in Modern Turkish Literature
11.30 – 12.30 am: Lunch Break
12.30 – 14.30 pm
Panel 1: The Instrumentalization of Emotions in Right-Wing-Parties,
Movements and Discourses
Chair: Alberto Martín Pérez
Link: Conference Room 1
Daniel Thiele, Birgit Sauer & Otto Penz: Affecting Citizens. Emotional Right-Wing Populist Discourses in Austrian Parliamentary Debates on Migration
Anton Gazarek: Emotions in the Rhetoric of Slovakia’s Far Right
Monika Verbalyte: Populist Anger vs. Anger about Populists: Discourse Network Analysis of European Election Campaigns 2009 and 2019 in Germany
Nerija Putinaitė: Emotional Narratives of Patriotic Suffering: Personal Pain, Homeland and the Nation
Panel 2: Love, Dating and Relationships
Chair: Katharina Scherke
Link: Conference Room 2
Ina Schaum: Love Between Reconciliation, Exotization and Transformation: “I thought it simply wouldn’t work with a non-Jewish person.”
Victor Coutolleau: Who says to who to “dump” who? Gender and Sexuality in the Collective Management of Romantic Disappointments
José A. Rodríguez Díaz & Aitor Domínguez: Love and Happiness: A Social Relation, a Sociological Analysis
30 Minutes Break
15-17pm
Panel 1: Young People and Collective Emotions
Chair: Christian von Scheve
Link: Conference Room 1
Natàlia Cantó-Milà, Mariona Moncunill Piñas & Swen Seebach: Resignation and Feelings of Helplessness in Young People’s (lack of) Involvement in Shared Futures
Sarah Makar: States of Feelings of International students
Sabine Haring-Mosbacher & Karin Scaria-Braunstein: YouthPerspective: Wishes.Fears.Goals
Giedrė Plepytė-Davidavičienė: Why are we unhappy? Happiness Discourses Among Young People in Lithuania
Panel 2: The Sociality of Suffering: Fear, Risk, Shame and Harm
Chair: Poul Poder
Link: Conference Room 2
Swen Seebach, Mariona Moncunill Piñas & Natàlia Cantó-Milà: Risk, Fear and Preparedness in times of Covid19
Katharina Scherke: A New Look into Shame-Anger-Spirals: Feeling Rules for Nostalgia.
Dominik Drexel: The Shame of Veiled Muslim Women: Psychoanalysis Reconsidered
Katarina Bogosavljevic & Jennifer M. Kilty: Prosecuting and Propagating Emotional Harm: The Criminalisation of HIV Nondisclosure in Canada
15 Minutes Break
17.15-18.45 pm
Panel 1: Culture, Media, Politics and Emotions
Chair: Rotem Leshem
Link: Conference Room 1
Ariel Remund: ROADKILL: Emotion, Culture, Action
Roberto Sánchez Reina & Adrián Scribano: The Politics of Sensibilities and Emotions in Food Advertising to Children
Käthe von Bose: Feeling Exceptional? The Role of Emotions in Practices of Collectivity, Belonging and Exclusion in Exclusive Clubs
Alessandro Pratesi: Rethinking the Theoretical Relevance of Emotions in Light of Emerging Social and Political Phenomena
Special parallel session: Book presentation “Anger. The Conflicted History of an Emotion“
Chair: Nina Margies
Link: Conference Room 2
Barbara H. Rosenwein, Professor Emerita at Loyola University Chicago. “A Brief History of Righteous Anger”. Presentation of her book “Anger. The Conflicted History of an Emotion“, Yale University Press (2020).
15 Minutes Break
19-20 pm:
KEYNOTE: Arlie Russell Hochschild: Battle of Deep Stories and the American Election
Moderation: Yvonne Albrecht
Link: Conference Room 1
ca. 20.15 pm: End of the conference