The 2019 Conference of the European Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction

EU SSSI 2019 University of Iceland

Reykjavik, Iceland July 3-6

Preliminary Conference Program

The Conference is hosted by the University of Iceland, Veröld - Hús Vigdísar, Brynjólfsgötu 1, 107

Reykjavik. The whole program will take place in room VHV-007, except the latter Plenary Address on

Thursday, from Professor Knorr Cetina, which will take place in Lecture Hall VHV-023.

Wednesday, July 3 17.00 Registration opens 17.00-19.00 Opening Reception

Thursday, July 4 09.30-09.45 Conference Opening: Dr. Vidar Halldorsson from the Organizing Committee 09.45-10.45 Plenary Address: Dr. Thorolfur Thorlindsson “Sociality, Emergence and the Importance of Nonlinear Relationships: Towards a Meadin Structural Theory of Social Processes in Multilevel Systems“

10.45-11.00 Coffee Break

11.00-12.30 Group Session - The Micro Order Revisited § Structure and symbolic interaction: Revisiting negotiated order – Corey J. Colyer § The gift economy of emotions: Theorizing the role of emotions in structural inequalites – Ailsa

Craig § Tracking the significant pause: Emerging social structures of silence – Stella M. Čapek § Symbolic communication in sports: Analyzing team spirit through a micro-sociological lens – Vidar

Halldorsson 12.30-13.15 Lunch 13.15-14.15 Plenary Address: Dr. Karin Knorr Cetina “Minimal Interaction Order: Synthetic Actors and their Interaction with Humans“ (in Lecture Hall VHV-023)

14.15-14.30 Coffee Break 14.30-16.00 Group Session - Politics, Power and Protest I § Addams´ sociology of peace and its European roots – Vessela Misheva § Puppets gone wild: How young police officers covertly rebel against dancing on their bureaucratic

strings – Lisa Dürr § On the pathology of power and submission – Andrew Blasko § A few questions regarding the images on the Berlin wall fragment by Höfði – Sveinn Eggertsson

16.00-16.10 Coffee Break 16.10-17.20 Group Session - Politics, Power and Protest II § A conflict on legitimacy of innovation of the protest reportoire – František Znebejánek § The challenge of studying mass protests – Jon Gunnar Bernburg § Research as an interaction: A case of interviews with victims of ethnic conflict – Izabela Bukalska

20.00-21.00 Social Event: Reykjavik Music Walk (Optional – free of charge) – An informative and entertaining one hour tour through the city center of Reykjavik, detailing the acclaimed Icelandic popular music scene, guided by Iceland's foremost popular music scholar and sociologist Dr. Arnar Eggert Thoroddsen. The downtown walk is a good way to freshen up after dinner and of course we´ll end the tour at a cozy pub.

Friday, July 5 09.30-10.30 Plenary Address: Dr. Natalia Ruiz–Junco “Empathy and Symbolic Interaction“ 10.30-10.45 Coffee Break 10.45-12.15 Group Session – The Micro Order: Gender and Justice § Cultivating the self and performing gender – Alison Fixsen, Damien Ridge & Alan Porter § Gender, agency, and time use among doctorate holders in Iceland – Maya Staub & Guðbjörg

Linda Rafnsdóttir § Defendant-jury interactionality in the American criminal justice system – Ali Khan § Dramaturgical dimensions of restorative justice meetings – Gregory Smith

12.15-13.30 Lunch/EUSSSI Business Meeting 13.30-15.15 Group Sesson – Media, Networks and Self Presentation § Imposed burden of the objectified self: Conceptualizing the process of values replacement through

the social act on Instagram – Olga Solovyeva, Alexander Zhigaylov, Phillip Smirnov & Polina Boyarshinova

§ Who are those elementary particles and why they dance? A grounded theory on identity construction in social networks – Judita Kasperiuniene

§ The audience as ´supervisory committee´: How the late modern ideal of authenticity is negotiated in YouTube comments – Anna Lena Oltersdorf

§ Masturbation rituals in networked societies –Alina Vogelgesang & Michael Dellwing § Icelandic popular music: The village factor – Arnar Eggert Thoroddsen

15.15-15.30 Coffee Break 15.30-16.30 Group Sesson – The Mirco Order: Meaning and Identity § Envy in the making – Bogna Dowigallo § The ambivalence of proper cheating – Michael Dellwing § Constructing a framework of multicultural values as a sensitizing instrument for empirical research

on adolescents´ interpretations of multiculturalism – Loh Soon How

19.00 Social Event: Conference Dinner (Optional). A three course dinner at Skólabrú Restaurant.

Saturday, July 6 09.00-10.30 Group Session – Health, Lifestyle and Disability I § Beyond healthy: Orthorexia nervosa – Alison Fixsen, Anna Cheshire & Michelle Berry § Medical experts, moral entrepreneurship and normalisation: The case of opiod painkillers in the

United States – Thaddaus Muller § Exploring engagement: A grounded theory study of young people´s interaction with healthcare

professionals – Jay Vickers § Bridging the gap: How social workers transfer psychiatric categories in every-day-life situations –

Martin Harbusch 10.30-10.45 Coffee Break 10.45-12.15 Group Session – Health, Lifestyle and Disability II § A phenomenology of trash: On the social practices of waste production, processing and

management – Anna Kacperczyk § Ethnography of a new self and anti-group: A journey for “exploring the self in nature“ – Avihu

Shoshana § A phenomenological understanding of hatha yoga practice: Coping with multiple realities -

Krzysztof T. Konecki § Application of symbolic interactionism in understanding the phenomenon of deafblindness –

premliminary analysis of resarch – Tomas Kasprzak 12.15-12.30 Final Remarks

13.30-22.00 Social Event: Sight Seeing (Optional). Golden Circle Tour with Secret Lagoon.

University of Iceland, Veröld - Hús Vigdísar, Brynjólfsgötu 1, 107 Reykjavik.