Thursday 25th April 2024
2.30-3.30 pm Meeting with Alison Baker, Bloomsbury Publishing: demystifying book publishing, for early career researchers (Room 13)
4.00 pm Opening of the conference: Julian Stern, the President of the ISRS (Room 13)
Welcome by: Professor Karen Stanton, Vice-Chancellor of the Bishop Grosseteste University and by Professor Waldemar Tarczyński, Rector of the University of Szczecin Chair: Julian Stern
4.30-5.30 pm Keynote session by Michael Cholbi, Professor and Personal Chair in Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland: Attention, Solitude, and the Social Dimensions of Grief (40 minutes plus 20 minutes discussion) (Room 13) Chair: Julian Stern
6.00 pm Gala Dinner (Refectory)
Friday 26th April 2024
9.00 am Karl Stern The Artist and Solitude (and introduction to the exhibition) Chair: Małgorzata Wałejko (Room 13)
9.30 am Panel session: Mapping the Field: Challenges and Futures, with attendance of distinguished experts: Sandra Leanne Bosacki (Brock University, Canada), Eva Alerby (Luleå University of Technology, Sweden) Piotr Domeracki (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland) Chair Dat Bao (Monash University, Australia) (including general discussion) (Room 13)
10.45 am Coffee break (Room 13)
11.00 am Parallel session 1: Understanding Solitude
Each paper 20 minutes plus ten minutes discussion
Moderator: Julian Stern (Room 13)
- Piotr Domeracki, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland: Pejorativisation of Solitude. A Narratological Deception?
- Leslie J. Francis, Bishop Grosseteste University, UK: Alone but not Lonely: Conceptualising, Measuring, and Valuing Introversion within Empirical Theology
- Piotr Błaszczyk, SWPS University, Poland; Marta Roczniewska, SWPS University, Poland; Ewelina Purc, The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland: (Un)shared Reality: How Does a Lack of Common Perspectives in the Nation Affect an Individual
Moderator: Aleksander Cywiński (John Tomlinson Room)
- Marcin Muszyński, University of Łódź, Poland: The Spectrum of Being Alone
- Randolph J.K. Ellis, Bishop Grossteste University, UK: At the volcano’s lip. A dynamic dimension of solitude
- Elżbieta Dubas, University of Łódź, Poland: Aloneness as a Difficult Situation – the Burden of Loneliness and the Experience of Positive Solitude
12.30 pm Lunch (Refectory)
1.30 pm Parallel session 2: Solitude at the Edge: Understanding Loneliness
Each paper 20 minutes plus ten minutes discussion
Moderator: Małgorzata Wałejko (Room 13)
- Małgorzata Wałejko, University of Szczecin, Poland: Abandoned by Myself. Forms of Self-Rejection
- Yordanka Dimcheva, University of Birmingham, UK: Feeling ‘Cut-Off’ from the World: Phenomenological Experiences of Lonely Grieving and Counteractive Commemorative Commitments of Bereaved Parents in the Aftermath of Terrorism Violence in France (2015-16)
- Amelia Reszka, Julia Jordan, Schoolgirls from 14 High School, Szczecin, Poland: Less than 86 Percent. High School Students in the Fight Against Youth Loneliness
Moderator: Richard Cleveland (John Tomlinson Room)
- Rafał Iwański, Edyta Sielicka, University of Szczecin, Poland: Loneliness after Loss. Bereaved Carers
- Lorena Hall, Bishop Grosseteste University, UK: Loneliness and Epistemic Injustice in Constant Loss for People with Learning Disabilities
- Anna Szafranek, University of Białystok, Poland: Loneliness in the Situation of Violence Experienced by Elderly People
3.30 pm Coffee Break (Room 13)
3.45 pm Parallel session 3: Case Studies
Each paper 20 minutes plus ten minutes discussion
Moderator: Francis Davis (Room 13)
- Francis Davis, Bishop Grosseteste University and Birmingham University, UK: Accounting for English Monasticism: Exploring the Enterprise of Christian Contemplative Orders
- Marta Ciechowicz, University of Wroclaw, PL: The Historian’s Solitude: Examining the Life and Work of Joachim Lelewel (1786-1861)
- Kalina Kukiełko, Aleksander Cywiński, University of Szczecin, Poland: Loneliness of the Artist: Daphne Oram and Her World of Electronic Music
Moderator: Barbara Żakowska (John Tomlinson Room)
- Barbara Żakowska, University of Szczecin, Poland: Solitude at the Border. A Story of a Borderlander
- Mauro Fornasiero, independent researcher, UK: Exploring Silence as a Spiritual Practice amongst Retiring Ministers in the Church of England
- Richard Cleveland, Georgia Southern University, US: Standing Alone or Alone Standing: Law Enforcement Officers Experiencing Solitude
6.00 pm Dinner (Refectory)
Saturday 27th April 2024
9.30 am Keynote session by Julian Stern, Professor of Education and Religion at BGU and the President of the ISRS, on The Art, Literature and Music of Solitude. This will be accompanied by a book launch of his book of the same title. Chair: Rafał Iwański
10.30 am Coffee break
10.45 am Parallel session 4: Contexts of Solitude
Each paper 20 minutes plus ten minutes discussion
Moderator: Gillian Simpson (Room 13)
- Gillian Simpson, Bishop Grosseteste University, UK: Re-imagining Community: an Autoethnographic Exploration of a Christening as a Movement from Alienation to Belonging
- Seiko Harumi, University of London, UK: Nexus of L2 Classroom Interaction and Language Socialisation: Loneliness to Togetherness
- Claudia Capancioni, Bishop Grosseteste University, UK: On the Value of the Solitary State in Nineteenth-Century Literature
Moderator: Kalina Kukiełko (John Tomlinson Room)
- Sunny Dhillon, Bishop Grosseteste University, UK: A Gentle Dissolve: Knowledge, Wisdom and Letting Go
- Joanna Nowicka, The Angelus Silesius University of Applied Sciences in Wałbrzych, Poland: Loneliness and Silence in the Context of Business
- David Weir, York St John University, UK: Solitude in Work, Play and Leisure in Nineteenth Century England
12.00 Plenary session and summary of the conference: Julian Stern, Małgorzata Wałejko, Rafał Iwański (Board of the ISRS) (Room 13)
Lunch available for those staying on (Refectory)
Aleksandar Dimitrijević, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in Berlin. He worked as a university lecturer for more than twenty years. He has given lectures, seminars, university courses, and conference presentations throughout Europe and in the US. He is the author of many conceptual and empirical papers about attachment theory and research, psychoanalytic education, and psychoanalysis and the arts, some of which have been translated into German, Hungarian, Italian, Slovenian, Spanish, and Turkish. He has also edited or co-edited twelve books or special journal issues, the most recent of which are Silence and Silencing in Psychoanalysis and From the Abyss of Loneliness to the Bliss of Solitude (both with Michael B. Buchholz).
