Programme of the International Symposium: New perspectives and interventions: “The state of play in cultural sociology and sociology of the arts”
European Sociological Association
Research Network 02 Sociology of Arts & Research Network 07 Sociology of Culture
In cooperation with
Bulgarian Sociological Association
Department of Sociology and Department of Cultural Studies,
Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
New perspectives and interventions:
The state of play in cultural sociology and sociology of the arts
Sofia, August 31 – September 2, 2023
With the financial support of The Bulgarian National Science Fund (BNSF)
31 August
8:00-9:00 Registration (in front of the Mirror Hall)
9:00-9:30 Opening of the symposium (Mirror Hall)
Welcoming addresses
Prof. Rumyana Stoilova, President of the BSA,
Prof. Boyan Znepolski, Head of Department of Sociology,
Prof. Daniela Koleva, Head of the Department of Cultural Studies.
9.30-10:30 Plenary session (Mirror Hall)
Chair: Chris Mathieu
Oleksandra Nenko: “Troubled Home”: Displaced Place Identity in the Wartime Works of Ukrainian Artists
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:30 Thematic parallel sessions
Session 1. Culture and inequalities (Hall 2)
Chair: Guido Nicolosi
Predrag Cvetičanin, Lucas Page Pereira, Mirko Petrić, Inga Tomić-Koludrović, Frédéric Lebaron, Željka Zdravković: Cultural practices and socio-digital inequalities in Europe: empirical findings and theoretical considerations
Mirko Petrić, Inga Tomić-Koludrović, Augustin Derado, Iva Žunić: The relevance of exploratory approaches in cultural policy: analysing understandings of culture in Croatia
Voica Pușcașiu: Mapping Eastern-Europe Political Discourse and Inequalities through Public Monuments: A Digital Cartography Crowdsourcing Project
Simon Stewart: Swift falls and stretched time: using vignettes and life stories to understand migrants’ experiences of homelessness in the UK
Session 2. Creativity, cultural production and dialogue (Mirror Hall)
Chair: Chris Mathieu
Marie Buscatto: Can sociological research change art worlds? Learnings from 25 years of research on gender inequalities
Helena Santos: The urgency of cross-dialogues in culture and the arts: reflecting on sociology and economics
Stoyan Sgourev: External Disruptions in Culture: When the West Looked Eastward
Sara Malou Strandvad (online): From fields and worlds to a multiplicity of spheres? Theorizing cultural production in the 21st century
12:30-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-15:00 Thematic parallel sessions
Session 3. Theoretical debates and developments in Cultural Sociology (Mirror Hall) Chair: Michaela Pfadenhauer
David Inglis: When Will You (We) Ever Get Over Bourdieu?
Svetlana Hristova: Cultural sociology of the new normal: The new horizons of old perspectives?
Philipp F. Hennch: Re-Measurements of Human-World Relations in Posthuman Fictions and Contemporary Art
Dominik Zelinsky: “To the moon and beyond”: Investment Manias, Elon Musk’s Dogecoin Pump, and Economic Practices of Charismatic Communities
Session 4. Experience, meaning and aesthetics (Hall 2)
Chair: Oleksandra Nenko
Nina Tessa Zahner: Aesthetic experience as association? Researching the experiencing of aesthetic artefacts with ANT in a critical way
Caterina Filareti: Art as a communicative vehicle in the pathological experience
Andrea Lombardinilo: The art of simulacrum. The double connection of images and risk
Nikola Guinev: The Unhappy Consciousness and the Comicality of Culture Industry
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-17:00 Thematic parallel sessions
Session 5. Arts: Transnational and intercultural (Mirror Hall)
Chair: Tal Feder
Júlia Perczel (online): Cosmopolitans in the museum: Agents of inter-level brokerage in the global art field
Matteo Jacopo Zaterini (online): Idle animations as narrative device
Jekaterina Karelina (online): Pandemic distortion: new perspectives of sociology of creativity
Olga Vatkova: The International Triennial “Spirit of Watercolor” 2016 – 2022, Varna, Bulgaria, as a means of achieving intercultural dialogue on a global scale
Session 6. Arts and activisms (Hall 2)
Chair: Helena Santos
Marie Rosenkranz: Activism as a topic and dimension of art sociology
Signe Grube: Artistic Expression and Societal Impact: Latvian Artists during Wartime (The Reality after February 24, 2022)
Adam Havas: Rituals of Resistance, ‘Culture Wars,’ and Social Activism: The Cultural Politics of Barcelona’s and Budapest’s Scenes of Improvised Music
17:30-19:00 Plenary Thematic Session: Cultural policies to the arts & institutional collaborations
Place: National Art Gallery „Square 500“
19:00-20:00 – Reception
1 September
9:30-10.45 Plenary session (Mirror Hall)
Chair: Simon Stewart
David Inglis: Quo Vadis? Fads, Fashions, and Long-Term Trends in Arts and Cultural Sociologies
10:45-11:15 Coffee break
11:15-12:45 Thematic parallel sessions:
Session 7. Fashion and social change (Mirror Hall)
Chair: Dominik Zelinsky
Luuc Brans: ReSet the Trend: how the European Commission and influencers makes fashion sustainable – or not
Anna-Mari Almila: From whether to how: decolonizing fashion scholarship and teaching
Kirsti Sippel, Luuc Brans, Iida Kukkonen: “If you’re a man and at the bottom of the barrel, you get nothing, it’s fucking brutal” – How members of the incel community build a beauty regime in times of aesthetic inequality
Aurélie Van de Peer: “When they go fast, we go slow”: Temporality and boundary work in fashion media texts during the pandemic
Session 8. Value(s) and hierarchies (Hall 2)
Chair: Chris Mathieu
Tal Feder, Siobhan McAndrew, Dave O’Brien, Mark Taylor: Pandemic culture: Understanding the impact of digital modes of delivery on aesthetic hierarchies
Mariano Martín Zamorano Barrios, Arturo Rodríguez Morató, Victoria Sanchez Belando: Understating cultural policy influence in (e)valuation methodologies and practices
Alexander Donev: What sociological value do contemporary Bulgarian films actually have?
12:45-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-15:00 Thematic parallel sessions:
Session 9. Aesthetics, politics and representation (Mirror Hall)
Chair: Anna-Mari Almila
Alessandro Gerosa, Giulia Giorgi, Fabio Bertoni: The Aesthetics and Politics of Youth Street Cultures
Iida Kukkonen: The gendered labour of looking “right” – Appearance work and occupational appearance expectations
Zhaoying Gou: Cultural Practices of Online Fiction: Homosexual Online Fiction and Consequences of Individual Perceptions of Sexual Minorities in New Forms of Media
Session 10. Cultural practices, lifestyles and tastes (Hall 2)
Chair: Mirko Petric
Öznur Yılmaz Altun: Taste Cultures in Turkey
Jan Fredrik Hovden: The changing cultural lifestyles of the mass university students: The case of Norway, 1998-2020
Michaela Pfadenhauer, Theresa Vollmer: The canon of the choric
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-16:30 Plenary session (Mirror Hall)
Chair: Boyan Znepolski
Ivaylo Ditchev: The death of the author revisited: digital folklore, corporations, chat-bots
16:30-17:30 Hybrid plenary session (Mirror Hall)
Chair: Arturo Rodríguez Morató
Presentation of the newly published book: Sociology of the Arts in Action, Springer, 2022.
With the participation of the book editors and authors Arturo Rodríguez Morató, Alvaro Santana-Acuña (online), Adam Havas and Matías Zarlenga (online).
17:30-18.30 RN02 and RN07 Business meetings (Mirror Hall and Hall 2)
2 September
9:30-11:00 Thematic parallel sessions:
Session 11. Memory, culture and political engagement (Mirror Hall)
Chair: Daniela Koleva
Guido Nicolosi: Media between memory, art, and religion
Milla Mineva: Memes as political engagement from below
Josip Majsec: Decadence or politization of pop culture?
Session 12. Emotion and the creative process (Hall 2)
Chair: Helena Santos
Chris Mathieu: Occupational intimacy in feature film production
Lía Durán Mogollón: Between mediation and literary passion: the work and image of the literary translator
Julia Rothenberg: Teaching Sociology of the Arts at an Urban Community College during the Pandemic: Reflections on Structure, Agency and Community Engagement
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Plenary session/Roundtable discussion: New perspectives and interventions: The state of play in cultural sociology and sociology of the arts. (Mirror Hall)
Chair: Svetlana Hristova
Panelists: David Inglis, Chris Mathieu, Simon Stewart
13:00-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-16:30 Reading the city through its monuments: in situ experiment of visual anthropology. Meeting point: Mirror Hall
16:30 – 18:30 Plenary Thematic Session: The visual arts and urban environment
Margarita Dorovska, Kiril Vassilev and Alexander Kiossev
Place: The Center for Contemporary Art ‘TOPLOZENTRALA’ (‘The Heating Plant’)
18:30 – 19:30 A glass of wine for farewell
PRACTICAL INFORMATION:
- For the hybrid sessions 2 and 5 on August 31st and the presentation of the book Sociology of the Arts in Action, Springer on September 1st there will be provided an online connection, based on the TEAMS platform. The link, meeting ID and Passcode is the same for the three events:
Meeting ID: 357 819 237 409
Passcode: btR7hM
- The entrance to the University is from ‘Shipka’ St. (in Bulgarian „Шипка“) turning to ‘St. Clement of Ohrid’ St. (in Bulgarian: „Св. Климент Охридски“) and taking on the right the first entrance to the inner yard of the University. There will be signposts on the walls with the name of the conference pointing in the direction of the Mirror Hall and Hall 2.
- Please, pay attention that the Registration time has been changed: from 8 to 9 a.m. August 31st. You will find the Registration desk in front of the Mirror hall. If you are late, there will be the possibility to register and take your conference package during the first coffee break: 10.30-11.00 a.m.
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