International Conference:
"Psychology and the Conduct of Everyday Life"
Final Program
It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the International Conference “Psychology and the Conduct of Everyday Life” which will be held from June 26-28, 2013 at the Department of Psychology and Educational Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark.
The conference explores the conduct of everyday life in contemporary society. Although the study of everyday life has a long tradition within the social and human sciences, the question of how human beings as active sensuous subjects live their everyday life is rarely discussed in its own right. The conference intends to explore the conduct of everyday life as a basis for understanding the dilemmas and contradictions of how to live one’s life. How can we develop knowledge about and research into the active efforts of subjects to engage in everyday activities, tasks and participations across time and space? What kind of new forms of doing and thinking everyday life are emerging and how do they contribute to the remaking of the social world? How to reconceptualize subjectivity, agency and the possibilities for social and political change? The conference attempts to substantiate a critical situated approach to the experiences and actions of practicing human life in today’s social and technological world, and to debate how the study of subjects in the context of their conduct of everyday life can contribute to the development of psychological theory, methodology, and practice.
There will be around 100 presentations at the conference of scholars around the world contributing with theoretical, methodological as well as empirical work to the study of the conduct of life in and across the different arenas of everyday life (e.g. family, education, work, gender, health, migration, technology, environment, politics).
We look forward seeing you at the conference!
Charlotte Højholt, Kasper A. Kristensen, Ernst Schraube
Chairs of the Conference