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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)

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)

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