Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
2024 ANNUAL MEETING
IDENTITIES, BOUNDARIES AND SOCIAL DIVISIONS.
RECONCILING COMPETING FRAMES
June 5th-7th, 2024 – University of Pisa, Italy
Final Program
June, 5th
8:30 Registration Desk
9:30 Plenary Session: Conference Introduction and Welcome
Institutional Welcomes
10:00 Introductory Panel: Identities, Boundaries and Social Divisions
The Limits of Knowledge and Real Boundaries. Sociological Dilemmas and Perspectives
Paolo De Nardis, Emeritus Professor, Sapienza University of Rome
The Classical Roots of Peace Sociology: The Contribution of Jane Addams and Symbolic
Interactionism
Aula A Vessela Misheva, Uppsala University
Population Mobility and the Everyday Dynamics of Frontier Medicine
Joseph A. Kotarba, Texas State University
Chair: Irene Psaroudakis, University of Pisa
11:15 Coffee Break
11:45 Parallel Sessions I
- From Little Things, Big Things Grow: Building a Grounded
Advances in Theory Research Community of Practice - Wendy De Luca,
Methodological Yazdan Mansourian, Charles Sturt University, Australia
- The Validity of Photographs as Analytical Data - Viðar
Theory and Practice
Halldórsson, University of Iceland
Aula A 1 - Becoming a Grounded Theory User - Gerben Moerman,
University of Amsterdam
Chair - Pushing the Boundary Too Far: Some Thoughts on
Viðar Halldórsson Autoethnography - Stefania Tusini, University for Foreigners
of Perugia
Theorizing in - “Quiet Sustainability”: How to Introduce the External
Symbolic Categories in Social Theorizing - Anna Kacperczyk,
Interactionism University of Lodz
Aula B - The Hobbesian Problem of Order from a Symbolic
Interactionist Perspective - Vessela Misheva, Uppsala
Chair
University
Dirk vom Lehn
- On the Production of Common Sense and the Reproduction
of the Social Order - Matteo Puoti, Sapienza University of
Rome
- Experimenting with Sociology. New Iowa School and
Ethnomethodology’s Breaching Procedures as Alternative
Sociologies - Dirk vom Lehn, King’s College London
- Usera Between Urban Transformations, Borders, and
Multiculturalism - Costanza Gasparo, University of Florence
Migrations Processes - “200 Million People in The U.S. and You Had To Import
Someone?”: Stigmatization of Intercultural Relationships On
and Integration
90-Day Fiancé - Beth Montemurro, Andrea Laurent-
Aula C Dynamics Simpson, Penn State University, Abington, USA; Southern
Methodist University, USA
Chair - Collective Narratives and Meta-Stories: How Iranian
Andrea Laurent-Simpson Immigrant Groups Emerge and Function in the Atlantic
Canadian Cities? - Foroogh Mohammadi, Acadia University
13:15 Light Lunch
14:30 Parallel Sessions II
- SI and Environmental Sociology: The Role of Symbolic
Interaction in Theorizing the Human-Environment
Relationship - Nicholas Baxter, Indiana University Kokomo
- The Construction, Maintenance, Weaponization, and
Defence of Migrant Identities on Social Media - Luke Roach,
The Social
Bath Spa University
Construction of Media - Home, Boundaries and Privacy: A Comparative Study of
Aula A The Representation of Privacy and Home in The Pre- and
Chair Post-Revolutionary Iranian Cinema - Pouya Morshedi,
Nicholas Baxter Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador
- Designers’ Social Media Experiences during Cloud
Transformation - Julija Naskova, The Hong Kong
Polytechnic University School of Design
- The Dark Path of German Terrorist Fighters. Radicalization
Processes, Social Network and Jihadist Preachers as
Combining Methods Important Key Players - Kristin Weber, Center for
Criminological Research Saxony
Aula B - (Co-)Creating Meanings of Experiencing the Social
Chair
Andrea Salvini Researcher's Profession in a Contemplative Interview -
Hanna Kroczak, University of Lodz
- Automating Interaction Order? Continuity and Change -
William Housley, Cardiff University School of Social
Artificial Intelligence Sciences
and Human-Machine - Mundane AI intelligibility: ‘Lay’ Explanations of the Social
Communication Implications of Automated Systems - Patricia Jimenez,
Aula C Paderborn University, Germany
Chair - Social Magic and Its Decadence. How Technological
Patrick Williams Rationalization Is Undermining Human Communities - Viðar
Halldórsson, University of Iceland
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Parallel Sessions III
Gender and Identity - The Moral Order in Gender Issues. What Role Do Male
Work Issues Play? - Alessandro Vetrano, Sapienza University of
Aula A Rome
Chair - Sex Education at School: The Italian Case - Ramona
Irene Psaroudakis Cavalli, University of Verona
- Knowing My Name: Experiencing Names and Surnames in
the Gender Transition Process in Poland: An Analysis of In-
Depth Interviews - Aleksandra Płaczek, University of Lodz,
Poland
- The Biopolitics of Weight and Disordered Eating - Alison
Fixsen, University of Westminster
- Buurland (Neighbour Land): Community as a Form of
Transgression - Thaddeus Müller, Lancaster University Law
New Forms of School
Communities - The Brotherhood: Promoting Social Support through Group
Aula B Identity - Brandon A. Jackson, John Jay College, The City
Chair University of New York
Thaddeus Müller - Micro-Solidarity in Superdiverse Neighborhoods - Richard
Cimino, Hans Tokke, University of New York
- Cracks in the Interaction: The Unfolding of Social Life
Dynamicity - Selene Greco, Sapienza University of Rome
New Theories of - Power, Domination, and Deformed Interaction - Andrew
Interaction Blasko, The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Aula C - P.O.V. on the Contested Identity Between Generalised
Chair Others. The Construction of Identity between School and
Silvia Pezzoli Digital Media - Silvia Pezzoli, Carlotta Bizzarri, University of
Florence
June, 6th
9:30 Parallel Sessions IV
Gary Jaworski – Author of the Book "Goffman and the Cold War"
and winner of this year publication award by the ASA Section
Author Meets Critics: History of Sociology and Social Thought (HSST)
"Goffman and the
Cold War" Discussants:
Aula A - Dirk vom Lehn, King’s College London
Chair - Greg Smith, University of Salford
Dirk vom Lehn - Stacey Hannem, Wilfrid Laurier University
- Chiara Bassetti, University of Trento
- Identities, Boundaries and Land: Bridging Symbolic
Interactionism with a Conflict Resolution Perspective -
Borders and Identity Valentina Bartolucci, University of Pisa
- Cultural Practices in Border Areas: The Case of Gorizia -
Construction Monica Pascoli, University of Udine
Aula B - Transformative Journeys: Chinese Students’ Experiences in
Chair Sino-Foreign Joint-Venture Universities - Marius Wamsiedel,
Brenda Fedi Duke Kunshan University
- Monkeying Around: Animals, Borders and Nation - Jon
Ablitt, Cardiff University
Advances in - Empathic Revelations: Shining a Light on Mental Illness
Methodological Through Autoethnography - Alison Fixsen, University of
Theory and Practice Westminster
Aula C - Symbolic Interactionist Duoethnography: An Exploration of
2
the Borders Between Military and Civilian Life for Military-
Civilian Couples - Jennifer K. Gardner, Cubby L. Gardner,
Chair
Alison Fixsen American College of Education, Indianapolis, IN; University
of Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD
- Grounded Theory and Symbolic Interactionism: An
Encounter - Irene Psaroudakis, University of Pisa
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Parallel Sessions V
- Borders of Knowledge: Thoughts on Traveling Concepts for
Ethnography - Martin Harbusch, University of Siegen
- Fixed or on the Move? Identities and Reputation of Migrants
and Their Groups - Davide Donatiello, University of Turin
People on the Move
- Purposeful Escapism: Reexamining the “Tourist Gaze” -
Aula A Amanda Koontz, Ray Eddy, University of Central Florida
Chair - One Border, But Two Polands? Examining Polish Media
Martin Harbusch Discourse on The Humanitarian Crisis at The Polish-
Belarusian Border: A Qualitative Analysis - Natalia
Ożegalska-Łukasik, Jagiellonian University
- No Bars, No Boundaries? Media as Home in the Prison
Experience - Aaron Bielejewski, Center for Criminological
Research Saxony
Prison and Total - The Boundaries of Time: Meanings and Perceptions of the
Institutions Temporal Dimension in the Words of Drug-Addicted Mothers
Aula B - Paola Di Carlo, University of Siena
Chair - Autoethnography Behind the Bars: Culture and Self-Therapy
Charlie Barnao in a Maximum Security Prison - Charlie Barnao, University of
Catanzaro
- Howard Becker, Charles Seeger, and the Promise to
Ethnomusicology - Jeffrey van den Scott, Memorial
University of Newfoundland
- Performing Protection: Chivalry, Vulnerability, and Gender in
Heavy Metal Music Scenes - Stacey Hannem, Christopher J.
Music in the Air Schneider, Wilfrid Laurier University (Canada), Brandon
University (Canada)
Aula C - Power of sound, power of authenticity. Radio reportage
Chair
Jeffrey van den Scott creation as interactive storytelling - Rafał Wiśniewski,
Izabela Bukalska, Grażyna Pol, Magda Ostrowska,
University in Warsaw
- Gospel Choir as Group Life. Evidence from Italian
Experiences - Andrea Salvini, University of Pisa
13:00 Light Lunch
14:00 Parallel Sessions VI
- Inverting Mead’s Theory of Socialization: How Parents
Revisiting Central Decodify Their Children’s Symbolic Conduct - Vincenzo
Concepts in Symbolic Romania, University of Padua
Interactionism - Is There No Future? Planning in Times of Crises - Piotr
Aula A Statucki, University of Lodz
Chair - Reifying Empathy: An Examination of an Interactionist
Natalia Ruiz-Junco Concept - Natalia Ruiz-Junco, Auburn University
- Dealing with Socio-Emotional Challenges Via Social Media:
Social Media, Self, A Case Study Using Hermeneutic and Computational
Society Methods to Study Social Action - J. Patrick Williams, Samuel
Aula B Judah, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Chair - Anchoring the Self in the Vastness of Cyberspace: MBTI
Elena Salamino Subculture Among Chinese Social Media Users - Wu Si, J.
Patrick Williams, Nanyang Technological University
- Penelope's Web 3.0. Old and New Inequalities in the
Fashion of the Future - Michele Varini, Catholic University of
the Sacred Heart
- Rationalization of Work Process: Organizational Contexts
and the Use of E-work - Xiaoli Tian, Sining Wang, University
of Hong Kong
- Stigma as Contextured Phenomenon: Categorial
Orientations to ‘Stigma’ in the Search for Help - Robin
James Smith, Cardiff University
Stigma in - Marked Identities within Unmarked Work Practices:
Contemporary Revealing a Hierarchy of Disability in Singapore’s
Society Employment Context - Kerri Heng Yi Ping, Nanyang
Aula C Technological University, Singapore
Chair - Non-Intersubjective Experiences: The Limits of Inclusion in
Eve Gardien Ordinary Life - Eve Gardien, Rennes 2 University
- Stigma and Exclusion in Addiction Recovery Trajectories -
Max Dennehy, Thaddeus Müller, University of Lancaster
15:30 Coffee Break
16:00 Plenary Session. Keynote Speech
Meaning-Making and Sense-Making: Distinctions, Delineations, and a
Aula A Conceptual Model
Staci Newmahr, SUNY Buffalo State
17:30 SSSI Business Meeting - Aula A
20:00 Banquet – Ristorante “Il Quore”
June, 7th
9:30 Parallel Sessions VII
- Caregiving Narratives: Stories of Everyday Violence in the
Home - Deana Simonetto, University of British Columbia,
Okanagan Campus
Social Support and - Practices of Destigmatization. Social Work in Homeless
Social Work Assistance - Saskia Amira Appel, University of Siegen
Aula B - More than ‘Doing Death’ and ‘Doing Dying’? ‘Doing Mortality’
Chair in Professional Practices of Social Work in Hospice Care
Deana Simonetto Services - Lisa-Marie Gewalt, University of Siegen
- Associations: Mirrors for People Living with Parkinson’s
Disease - Lucia Landolfi, University of Salerno
- Shpilkes and Other Needles: The Sensory Experience of
Professional Tattoo Spaces - William Ryan Force, California
State University, Fresno
- Sociology of the Senses: Researching Lived Experiences -
Krzysztof T. Konecki, University of Lodz
Senses and Emotions - The (Ir)Relevance of Subjective Discomfort. Interactionist
Perspectives on the Borders Between the Intimate and the
Aula C Public - Giuseppe Toscano, University of Catania
Chair
Vincenzo Romania - Shameful Digital Traces: How the Internet Transformed the
Social Emotion of Shame. A case study - Vincenzo
Romania, University of Padua
- Senses and emotions as social phenomena – a sociological
performance - Emma Engdahl, University of Gothenburg
11:00 Coffee Break
11:30 Parallel Sessions VIII
- Symbolic Interactionist Approaches to Cultural Conflict - Eric
O. Silva, Georgia Southern University
- Cultural Democracy Between Urban Borders and Peripheral
Culture, Violence,
Subjectivities - Giulia Crippa, University of Bologna
War, and Democracy - A Mirror of Society? The Alienation Between Police and
Aula A People - Lisa Düerr, Antonio Vera, German Police University
Chair - Adult Self-Change from a Radical Interactionist Perspective
Eric O. Silva - Lonnie Athens, Seton Hall University South Orange, New
Jersey
Social Construction - Making Ambiguity: How Diagnostic Categories Socially
Organize Mothering Responsibility - Dan Liu, University of
of Health Hong Kong
Aula B - Borders in Hospital Wards. The Job Relations of Medical
Chair Staff - Beata Pawlowska, University of Lodz
Beata Pawlowska
- The Workings of Authenticity: How and What Constitutes to
Authenticity, ‘Be Authentic’? - Ramón Menéndez Domingo, UDIT
Ethnicity, Identity - ‘I Am Not a Conspiracy Theorist’: Relational Identifications in
Work the Dutch Conspiracy Milieu - Jaron Harambam, University
Aula C of Amsterdam
Chair - The Crucible of Identity: The Precarity of National Identity in
Patrick Williams Southeast Asia - Mohamed Haikel Fansuri Bin Mohamed
Latiff, Forward College Berlin
13:15 Farewell speech - Aula A
13:30 Light lunch