Routines, rhythms and affective intimacy in everyday life, a One day CSJR Symposium

One day CSJR Symposium: 11^th June 2024; 10.30am-4.30pm

University of Westminster, New Cavendish Campus, 115 New Cavendish Street London W1W 6UW

This interdisciplinary symposium invites scholars across the social and geographical sciences working in the field of affective intimacies to share their research as part of a one-day symposium, hosted by Dr Tom Thurnell-Read (Loughborough University) and Dr Emily Falconer from the Centre for Social Justice Research (CSJR) at the University of Westminster, London UK. This event is particularly interested in how mundane, everyday rhythms and routines of personal life affect family practices, intimate relationships, or momentary public encounters, and importantly what these temporal and rhythmic repetitions can tell us about wider social structures and systems of power.

This is a free event funded by the CSJR.  Lunch and Refreshments provided. Enquiries about the event to be sent to the organiser, Dr Emily Falconer: e.falconer@westminster.ac.uk 

Please register for the event by the 28th May 2024.

PROGRAMME

10.30am: Arrivals and Tea and Coffee

11.00-11.25: Welcome and Introduction (Emily Falconer and Tom Thurnell-Read)

11.30-13.00: Panel 1: Rhythms and Temporalities (Chair: Emily Falconer)

11.30-11.45: Accomplishing children’s sleep: affective negotiations of family routines in Kyoto’s night-time nurseries (Sieun Lee)

11.45-12.00: “Time’s a wastin’”: Examining dating rhythms on dating apps before, during and after COVID-19 (Neta Yodovich, Brian Heaphy, Jaime Garcia-Iglesias)

12.00-12.15: The maternal body and research rhythms: exploring embodied experience of pregnancy in the field (Erin Sanders McDonagh)

12.15-12.30: Underperformativity: Emotional Impotentiality as Self Care (Victoria Jones)

12.30-13.00: Panel Q&A

13.00-13.45: Lunch

13.45-14.30: Keynote: 'Mundane materialities of nothing: the rhythms, routines and affinities of invisible, hidden and transient things' (Helen Holmes)

14.30-14.45: Break

14.45- 16.15: Panel 2 and Panel 3

Panel 2: Material Culture (Chair: Emily Falconer TBC)

14.45-15.00: Capturing Domestic Intimacies: the Smart Home as Living Archive  (Nicola Horsley, Esther Dermott, Natasha Carver)

15.00-15.15: Lovely Little Things: Materiality and Intimate Practices in the Consumption of Vintage Costume Jewelry in Modern China (Jingrui Hu)

15.15-15.30: Dwelling in dreams and drawing out reflections: creative ethnography as affective method in dress research (Imogen Carter de Jong)

15.30-15.45: Hidden Culture: Power, Identity and Affect in Leicester Food Practices (Laura Taggart)

15.45-16.15: Panel Q&A

Panel 3: Domestic Intimacies and everyday patterns (Chair: Tom Thurnell-Read TBC)

14.45-15.00: Insidious Intimacies: Everyday Gendered Relationships, Routines and Power in the Global South (Shannon Kuriakose Philip)

15.00-15.15: Creating Family Intimacy in the Everyday After Domestic Abuse (Brenda Herbert)

15.15-15.30: Mother’s Ruin? The Relational Alcohol Consumption Practices and Experiences of Mothers and their Children (Sam Wilkinson)

15.30- 15.45: The impact of an acquired brain injury on the experiences of everyday life, routines, emotions and relationships (Laura Boubert)

15.45- 16.15: Panel Q&A

16.30: Close