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                Terrains of Time:
<br>Modern Temporality(ies) in Social Sciences and Beyond
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<br>An International Workshop, Bar Ilan University, Israel June 14-15, 2020
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<br>Time has been studied, researched, and thought over for thousands of years and
<br>across cultures. In recent decades, some accounts of the role of time and
<br>temporality in human (and non-human) experiences proved fruitful for
<br>contemporary thought and research. Those who dared to ask St. Augustine’s
<br>renowned question—“what, then, is time?”— developed vital and
<br>fascinating insights about human and non-human nature(s), cultures, societies,
<br>environments, emotions, personalities, and politics. A nuance- sensitive
<br>understanding of the social, cultural, and political dimensions of time is of
<br>immense potential.
<br>Nevertheless, time as a category is an understudied topic in the traditional
<br>humanities and social sciences. Even though Time Studies is now
<br>institutionalized in academia (societies, journals, etc.), the field has
<br>hardly crystalized into an organized body of knowledge with its own defined
<br>and structured vocabulary, working assumptions, controversies, and research
<br>agendas, to be reflected in other disciplines. Today, the scholar of space,
<br>body and other similar categories can draw from these fields’ respective
<br>bodies of knowledge. But this is not always the case with Time Studies. Is it
<br>a mere problem of institutionalization, or rather does it have to do with
<br>Augustin’s wonder, i.e. with the elusiveness of the concept of time?
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<br>The international workshop “Terrains of Time” is aimed at developing an
<br>integrative and interdisciplinary conversation about time as a social and
<br>cultural phenomenon, while accounting for global and local contexts.
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<br>Topics:
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<br>¨    Time and temporality: definitions, analytical frameworks, narratives,
<br>and symbolizations.
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<br>¨    Time and related categories: space, body, and subjectivity.
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<br>¨    Time and humanity; time in (or after) the Anthropocene.
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<br>¨    Time and the social: The role of time in assembling and disassembling
<br>individuals and groups, personalities and collectives, actors and networks;
<br>measurement, standardization, multi-temporalities, synchronization, and
<br>desynchronization.
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<br>¨    Time and power: social and political struggles waged about time as a
<br>resource, for example regarding status, gender, and labor; time in public
<br>policy, social stratification (e.g. age stratification), evaluation and
<br>criticism; Time regimes; Global, local, and networked temporalities.
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<br>¨    Time and the market: commodification, trading, and soliciting time; Time
<br>poverty and affluence.
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<br>¨    Micro-interactions: waiting, rushing, getting prepared, aging, time
<br>wasting, “quality time,” transitions, cheating on time.
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<br>¨    Rituals of time, times of rituals.
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<br>¨    Time and morality: temporal distributive justice.
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<br>¨    Time in ecological challenges and technological developments.
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<br>¨    Risk, readiness, and uncertainty (e.g. in future studies).
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<br>¨    Time and cultural relativity: Are there groups that experience
<br>“more” or “less” time, or groups that have “more” or “less”
<br>temporality? Do certain groups care about time more than others?
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<br>¨    Time and “the moderns”: was the modern period embedded in
<br>“temporalization of the experienced life”, as maintained by Koselleck and
<br>echoed in Latour’s conceptualization of the modern?  Did a “temporal
<br>turn” take place in history, and/or in theory? On the other hand, are
<br>industrialized societies poorer in time (while being affluent in other
<br>resources), as common wisdom so often holds?
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<br>The workshop will explore the social, cultural, political, economic, human,
<br>and environmental dimensions of time and temporality(ies) from a variety of
<br>disciplinary perspectives, including, but not limited to: philosophy,
<br>literature, psychology, geography, history, linguistics, sociology,
<br>anthropology, gender studies, cultural studies, and science and technology
<br>studies.
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<br>The workshop will take place at Bar Ilan University on June 14-15, 2020. No
<br>registration fee is required, but we cannot assist with travel expenses.
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<br>Confirmed guest speakers:
<br>¨    Barbara Adam, Emerita Professor, Cardiff University and Affiliate
<br>Scholar, IASS Potsdam
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<br>¨    Judy Wajcman, Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology, London School of
<br>Economics
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<br>¨    Frédéric Worms, Professor of Philosophy, École normale
<br>supérieure
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<br>Abstracts of up to 300 words for a 20-minute paper, with a short bio, may be
<br>sent to: terrainsoftime2019@gmail.com  no
<br>later than January 15, 2020. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by
<br>February 15, 2020.
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<br>The international workshop is organized by the Research Group “It’s about
<br>Time”, sponsored by Bar Ilan’s Rector, Prof. Miriam Faust; and under the
<br>auspices of the Bar Ilan Center for Cultural Sociology. Organizing committee
<br>(alphabetical order): Anat Leibler, Miri Rozmarin, Hizky Shoham, Dror Yinon
<br>(Interdisciplinary Studies Unit, Bar Ilan University).
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<br>Anat Leibler, Ph.D
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<br>The Graduate Program in Science, Technology and Society
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<br>Bar Ilan University
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<br>https://www.sts-biu.org/anat-e-leibler
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<br>https://sts-biu.academia.edu/AnatLeibler
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