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VIU also organizes two VIULECTURES series each year in which guest speakers debate interesting, topical issues. These events are open to the public.
Wednesday, 23 November 2016
Mariusz Finkielsztein, sociologist, is specialised in interdisciplinary boredom studies and organizer of the International Interdisciplinary Boredom Conference. He is a qualitative researcher interested mainly in workplace and academic boredom, especially in university context (teachers, researchers and students).
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Monday, 10 October 2016
Prof. Sébastien Chauvin, University of Lausanne
Immigration regimes and policy categories seem to deal with international migrants seeking entry or legalization with diametrically opposed ways of assessing and asserting deservingness: one based on vulnerability, another based on civic, economic or cultural performance. Are these moral and legal routes that distant? By combining the sociology of real-life migrants with a deconstructive approach to frame analysis, prof. Chauvin’s talk will put in the spotlight how host country concerns for redeemable victimhood often construct the vulnerability approach not just as an alternative to, but also as a variant of, the performance implication.
This open lecture forms a part of Prof. Avanza’s course at VIU on Contemporary Migration and Refugee Crisis and of Prof. Schönherr-Mann's course on Globalization, Ethics, Welfare and Human Rights.
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Boredom is strongly linked to Venice. First of all, it is the native city of Giacomo Casanova (1725), one of the world’s most famous strugglers with boredom in Western history. A second connection is Josif Brodskij, one of the best known boredom essayists, who was totally in love with this city. However, boredom is widespread and can affect everyone, everywhere. Mostly neglected and underestimated throughout the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st Century, boredom has increasingly been a focus of studies in different disciplines: it is one of fundamental concepts in philosophical existentialism, an influential emotion directing social behaviour (both at work and during leisure), an important issue in psychology, a state believed to have a great contribution to social change and to be essential for human constitution. The lecture aims to provide an overview on boredom studies throughout the scientific disciplines and to show the significance of this frequently hidden and rejected emotion.
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