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Doctoral Talks on Campus | Social Acceleration, Resonance, and Social Energy: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding Burnout and Meaning in Life

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The Doctoral Talk: “Social Acceleration, Resonance, and Social Energy: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding Burnout and Meaning in Life” will take place on 13 February at 7PM in the USJ Conference Room.

ABOUT THE TALK:

Social Acceleration, Resonance, and Social Energy: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding Burnout and Meaning in Life

In response to the widespread contemporary experience of chronic fatigue, anxiety, burnout, and loss of meaning, this lecture questions the reduction of these phenomena to mere individual fragility, proposing instead to understand them as symptoms of an accelerated social way of life that drains energy and blocks meaning. The objective, drawing on the work of sociologist Hartmut Rosa, is to offer an integrated reading through the concepts of social acceleration, resonance, and social energy. It develops a diagnosis of exhaustion beyond psychologization; analyzes acceleration in its three dimensions (technical, social change, and pace of life) and its effect of turning the world into a “world of tasks”; presents social energy as the link between structure and experience; and explores resonance as a form of relationship that affects, provokes response, and transforms, thereby restoring energy and meaning. Finally, it discusses interdisciplinary implications for mental health, philosophy, and spirituality, noting the ambivalence between resonance and “spiritual acceleration.” As a contribution, it proposes an analytical model that connects social critique and existential experience, arguing that the recovery of meaning in life depends on the construction of ecologies of resonance – relational and institutional contexts that allow the world to “speak” again and the individual to rediscover the energy to invest in common life.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Professor Agemir Bavaresco is PhD in Philosophy from the University of Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne, 1997). Bachelor’s degree in Law from the Catholic University of Pelotas (2007). Graduated in Theology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (2010). Research and interinstitutional exchange. Development of interdisciplinary research networks and international cooperation and exchange. Currently, he is a professor in the Graduate Program in Philosophy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS). Researches from an interdisciplinary perspective in the areas of Modern Philosophy, Social Philosophy, and Brazilian Political Philosophy. He is also dedicated to themes and problems of Decolonial Methodology, Global South, and Multipolar World. (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7967-4109)

DETAILS:

Date: Friday, 13 February 2026
Time: 7 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Location: Conference Room, 2/F, Residential Hall Building, USJ Ilha Verde Campus
Language: English

Organised by: USJ Doctoral School
General Coordinator: Professor Adérito Fernandes-Marcos
Associate Coordinator: Dr. António Maneira
Contact: doctoral@usj.edu.mo

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