The social life of time:
power, discrimination and transformation

The 1st Temporal Belongings International Conference
Supported by the Wellcome Trust
5th - 7th June 2018, Edinburgh, Scotland

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Call for Papers details

The aim of this conference is to share current research on the social nature of time and to collaboratively reflect on key issues, problems and methodological approaches. In keeping
with previous Temporal Belongings events, we will include a mixture of presentation styles, and plenty of time for discussion. 

Confirmed keynote speakers for the conference include:

• Charles W. Mills (Philosophy - CUNY)
• Jackie Sumell (Artist and activist)
• Sarah Sharma (Communications - Toronto)
• Paul Huebener (English - Athabasca)

Contributions might address topics such as:

• Time, power and resistance
• Time and care
• Embodied social times
• Representing time, including temporal narratives, stories, visualisations
• Temporal affects
• Methods for studying the social nature of time
• Environments and materials of time
• Organising time
• Critical temporalities, counter-stories and alternatives
• Time and agency
• Cultural concepts and experiences of time

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Michelle Bastian
Lisa Baraitser
Andrew Hom
Laura Salisbury
Conference Committee