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Time is suddenly everywhere in the eyes of humanities scholars and social scientists: in the webs of life that have evolved to maintain life on this planet; in the everyday lives of cab drivers, scientists and calendar software developers; in the stories we turn to in order to understand the present; in histories of growth and expansion; in the timelines, plans, and deadlines defining fundamental stakes of politics.

There is growing interest in historiographies of time, ethnographies of time, media theories, social theories and aesthetics of time. But ultimately, why does it matter that time is multiple and ubiquitous? 

The Lifetimes project’s concluding conference is dedicated to the issues that arise when we no longer live the same histories, endure the same experiences, follow the same beat, or even conceptualize the times we live in with the same vocabulary, the same timekeeping technologies, or from within the same academic disciplines.

For more details, please refer to the full call at the link above.

Time is fast approaching! The deadline for short abstracts for the interdisciplinary conference ‘Temporalities in Migration Law’, that I am organizing together with Patricia Mindus and Rebecca Stern is next week, the 24th of March. The conference will take place in Amsterdam, 1-2 June 2023. I would be grateful if you could further disseminate this final call for abstracts within your network and of course I very much hope that many of you will consider submitting an abstract for what promises to be an exciting event.