Symposium program
(Brussels time = Central European Time)
Thursday May 19th
- 8.45-9am – Welcome speech Organizing Committee
- 9-10am – Keynote speech:
- “The Great Meeting Disruptions: From Face-to-face, to Virtual, to Hybrid”
Joseph A. Allen, Professor of Industrial and Organizational (I/O) Psychology and Director of the Centre for Meeting Effectiveness at the University of Utah10-10.30am – Coffee break
- “The Great Meeting Disruptions: From Face-to-face, to Virtual, to Hybrid”
- 10.30am-12.30pm – Paper presentations SESSION 1: Virtual Meetings (see below)
- 12.30-1.30pm – Lunch
- 1.30-3pm – Pitches of practitioner solutions
- 3-3.30pm – Break
- 3.30-5pm – Paper presentations SESSION 2: Meetings in Healthcare (see below)
- 5.30-7pm – City walk (optional)
- 7pm – Dinner in Brussels city center
Friday May 20th
- 9-10am: Keynote speech:
- “Teleporting, Laundry, and the Chat. Meeting Ethnographers explore the Zoomiverse”
Jen Sandler, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst & Renita Thedvall, Associate Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology, Stockholm University
- “Teleporting, Laundry, and the Chat. Meeting Ethnographers explore the Zoomiverse”
- 10-10.30am: Coffee break
- 10.30am-12.30pm: Paper presentations SESSION 3 – Meetings for Policy and Politics (see below)
- 12.30-1.30pm: Lunch
- 1.30-2.30pm: Stories on meetings
- A (Brief) Tale of Two Eco-village Meetings (Zachary Reyna)
- Telling meetings from multiple voices (Sophie Thunus & Caroline Godart)
- 2.30-3.30pm: Surprise act – Singing spontaneous reports
- 3.30pm: Goodbye drink
Paper presentation titles
SESSION 1: Virtual Meetings
Session Chair: Christoph Haug
- Contemporary formality in professionals’ video-mediated encounters (Mie Femø Nielsen)
- Designing the future of real time collaboration at Microsoft Research (Sean Rintel)
- Virtual Meetings and Well-being during the Covid-19 pandemic (Willem Standaert)
- An emotion-sociological perspective on meeting practices in virtual and hybrid meetings (Christoph Haug)
SESSION 2: Meetings in Healthcare
Session Chair: Helen Schwartzman
- The Rise of Meeting in Healthcare: Challenges of interorganizational configurations (Coralie Darcis)
- Democracy and participation through meetings at the Delta (Alexis Creten, Nicolas Marquis, Sophie Thunus)
- Interdependent collaboration in municipal health and social care organizations (Therese Dwyer Løken, Halvard Vike)
SESSION 3: Meetings for Policy and Politics
Session Chair: Richard Freeman
- Ex ante analyses as impartial spectators. Validation as a source of legitimacy (Lars Dorren)
- The Meeting Multiple: Ontological Multiplicity, Social Alchemy, and the Making of the Confidential Diplomatic Meeting (Kristin Eggeling & Rebecca Adler-Nisen)
- Contingency coordination at regional level in Norway – the role of the Regional Contingency Advisory Board (RCAB) as a meeting arena (Gunnar Vold Hansen, Catharina Bjorkquist, Helge Ramsdal)
- Seeing Meetings (Richard Freeman)