[ecrea] cfp: Investigating the Plurality and Order of Times Across Histories, Cultures, Technologies, Materialities and Media

Investigating the Plurality and Order of Times Across Histories, 
Cultures, Technologies, Materialities and Media
International conference at the University of Oslo, June 5-7, 2013.

Humans live and work in different times. The standardized global clock 
time, both homogenous and linear, is only one of them. Our lives unfold 
through a variety of time frames: cyclical or linear, repetitive or 
cumulative, slow or fast, measured or experienced, short or long. During 
the last years a series of new times have emerged due to globalization, 
technological innovation and climate change, e. g. the instantaneity of 
digital communication, the many time scales of CO2 emissions and 
temperature rise and the collapse of the idea of unilinear global progress.
The goal of this conference, hosted by the interdisciplinary research 
program KULTRANS at the University of Oslo, is to open a dialogue 
between disciplines and fields, such as history, anthropology, media 
studies, sociology, STS, biology, geology, philosophy, literature and 
others on the emergences, conflicts, and hierarchies of different times 
in past, present and future.
Call for papers and information on venue, keynotes, travel and 
registration can be accessed at this web site:
http://www.uio.no/forskning/tverrfak/kultrans/aktuelt/konferanser/regimesoftemporality/

For inquiries, contact Espen Ytreberg: (espen.ytreberg /at/ media.uio.no) 
<mailto:(espen.ytreberg /at/ media.uio.no)>