Program
Thursday, 23 January 2025
| 09:45-10:15 | Registration & coffee/tea |
| 10:15-10:30 | Opening words by the organizers (Olivia Killias, Anja Orschulko, Eva Soom Ammann and Sandra Staudacher) |
| 10:30-12:30 | Session 1 Chair: Sandra Staudacher (University of Basel) |
| 10:30-11:00 | God’s Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning in South African Elder Care Casey Golomski (University of New Hampshire) |
| 11:00-11:30 | Still in the Danwei: How Danwei Memory Anchors People with Dementia in China Yuan Yan (University of Amsterdam) |
| 11:30-12:00 | The Afterlives of Empire: Sociality and Belonging in a Dutch Nursing Home Olivia Killias (University of Zurich) |
| 12:00-12:30 | Comment by Anne Aronsson & General Discussion |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch for presenters and registered participants |
| 14:00-17:00 | Session 2 Chair: Eva Soom Ammann (Bern University of Applied Sciences) |
| 14:00-14:30 | Sustaining and Keeping Alive Resident’s Sociability: an Emic Perspective on the Organization of Sociality in Nursing Homes Alexandre Lambelet, Fabienne Malbois, Benjamin Tremblay (HETSL / HES-SO) |
| 14:30-15:00 | Common Room Interactions: How Care Homes Shapes Residents’ Social Life (cancelled) Matouš Jelinek (University of Amsterdam) |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30-16:00 | Framed sociality: Societal context of nursing home residents’ participation Sandra Staudacher (University of Basel) |
| 16:00-16:30 | "Make yourself at home": Residents in Swiss Nursing Homes as Passive Consumers and Active Agents Jago Wyssling (University of Bern) |
| 16:30-17:00 | Comment by Cristina Douglas & General Discussion |
| 17:00 | Conference apéro (drinks and snacks) |
Friday, 24 January 2025
| 09:00-09:30 | Registration & coffee/tea |
| 09:30-12:30 | Session 3 Chair: Anja Orschulko (University of Basel) |
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09:30-10:00 |
UK Care Home Sociality Through the Prism of the Activity Provider Role: Dualistic Care Divides, Debates around Meaningful and Meaningless Activities, and Tales of Social Inequality and Difference (cancelled) Carrie Ryan (University College London) |
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10:00-10:30 |
Doing Social Spaces – Exploring Elements in Care Staff Practices that Provide Scope for Crafting ‘Good Care’ Rhoda Moramba & Eva Soom Ammann (Bern University of Applied Sciences) |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00-11:30 | Together and apart: more-than-human sociality in a Scottish care home Cristina Douglas (University of Edingburgh) |
| 11:30-12:00 | Theorizing the Real in Social Robot Care Technologies in Japan Anne Aronsson (University of Bern) |
| 12:00-12:30 | Comment by Casey Golomski & General Discussion |
| 12:30-13:00 | Final discussion / closing words by the organizers |