Programme

Provisional programme

Thursday, January 14th

• 09.00 – Opening of the Conference and Welcome Speeches
• 10.00 – Plenary Session 1
  – “Do people really want to be nudged towards healthy lifestyles?”, Robert Sugden
• 11.00 – Coffee Break 
• 11.30 – Parallel Sessions I*
• 13.00 – Lunch
• 14.30 – Parallel Sessions II*
• 16.00 – Coffee Break
• 16.30 – Plenary Session 2
  – “Quality of Life, Material Deprivation & Economic Stress after the Great Recession: Lessons from the Irish Case”, Dorothy Watson
  – “What makes a successful life? The role of financial deprivation”, Andrew Clark
• 18.30 – End of the first day

Friday, January 15th

• 09.00 – Plenary Session 3
  – “Eudaimonic Well-Being, Inequality and Health:  Recent Advances”, Carol Ryff
  – “Mental health and happiness: complex connections over the life-course”, Martin Knapp
• 11.00 – Coffee Break
• 11.30 – Parallel Sessions III*
• 13.00 – Lunch
• 14.30 – Parallel Sessions IV*
• 16.00 – Coffee Break
• 16.30 – Plenary Session 4
  – “Part Time for All: New Norms of Work and Care”, Jennifer Nedelsky
• 17.30 – Artistic performances on the topics of the conference, by Teatro Dimitri
• 18.30 – End of the second day
• 19.00 – Gala dinner (Cantine Lucchini, Pregassona)
  

Saturday, January 16th

• 09.00 – Parallel Sessions V*
• 10.30 – Coffee Break
• 11.00 – Plenary Sessions 5
  – “Conceptualization and measurement of disability in studies on subjective well-being and happiness: critical review and evidence from the Italian Health Survey”, Carlo Francescutti and Giampiero Griffo
  – “Happiness and its molecular fingerprints”, Nicole Probst-Hensch
• 13.00 – Farewell Lunch

* Each speaker will have 25 minutes to present his/her paper.

• Extended abstracts: at the end of each presentation 5 minutes will be devoted to discussion/questions.
• Full papers: at the end of each presentation 10 minutes will be devoted to discussant comment, 5 minutes to speaker reply and 5 minutes to general discussion.