Full Schedule
Tuesday 24th June 2025
9:30
Welcome
9:40
Talk 1: Jamie A Ward - Studies on Social Interaction using Wearables and Theatre
10:10
Talk 2: Sam Wass - 'There, the dance is– at the still point of the turning world’ – a dynamic systems perspectives on coregulation and dysregulation during early development.
10:40
Coffee Break
11:00
Talk 3: Antonia Hamilton – How and why to measure social connections
11:30
Talk 4: Daniel Richardson - Collective Experiences and Social Connections
12:00
Discussion 1: New methods - what should we do with them?
12:20
Lunch and Poster Session
13:50
Talk 5: Lucio Vinicius & Andrea Migliano - Hunter-gatherer social structure and the evolution of friendships
14:20
Talk 6: Aliaksandr Dabranau - How the structures of existing social connections manifest in real-time interaction dynamics
14:50
Tea
15:10
Talk 7: Daisy Fancourt – The Arts as Social Connections: theory and evidence on health benefits
15:40
Talk 8: Emily Cross - The Social Fabric of Aesthetic Experience: How Liveness and Individual Differences Create Collective Engagement in Dance
16:10
Discussion 2: Bringing people together - this is the stuff that matters
16:30
Closing Remarks
Speakers Drinks
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Discussion Questions
What types of social connections matter?
What do we still need to learn about social connections?
How would you create a new social group and why?
How much can context / circumstance create a group?
What is homophily and why does it matter?
Are connections embodied or cognitive?
Why does shared experience matter? Is this why culture works?
Friends for a reason / Friends for a season
How does online communication change things?