[Commlist] CfA: Theorising Media and Time - workshop at Uni of Copenhagen

Call for Abstracts for a workshop on



*Theorising Media and Time*



9 & 10 November 2023 @ University of Copenhagen



Building on the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Media
Anthropology Network’s latest discussions at EASA conferences, network
workshops and the network’s e-seminar series (e.g.
https://easaonline.org/networks/media/eseminars), we are organizing a
workshop on the intricate relationship between media and time. In this
workshop, we want to connect recent advances in the anthropological
thinking about time (e.g. Bryant and Knight 2019, Janeja and Bandak 2018;
Schielke 2015, Stewart 2016) with anthropological theorisations of media
(e.g. Boyer 2012, Bräuchler and Postill 2010, Budka and Bräuchler 2020,
Ginsburg et al. 2002, Postill and Peterson 2009) in order to develop a
better understanding of how media enable different temporal orderings.
Media can upset, accelerate and slow down time. They can allow immediate
immersion in ongoing dynamics, but also engagement with events from the
past and enable new ways of envisioning or creating the future. They can
experientially bring us beyond the time and space of the present. To
explore these intersections of media and time, this workshop addresses
questions like 1) How do media disrupt, accelerate and decelerate time? 2)
How do media change the temporalities of its users and audiences? 3) What
are the social and cultural implications of this? 4) How do media
facilitate remembering, reconstructing and manipulating the past (including
conflict and war or a more peaceful past, environmental destruction and
protection, etc.)? and 5) How do they open up space for envisioning and
enabling futures?

Confirmed workshop participants: Ann Rigney (Utrecht University), Anne Kaun
(Södertörn University), John Postill (RMIT) and Emily Keightley
(Loughborough University).

We still have a few spots open in the workshop and invite contributions
that engage with one or more of these questions, ideally drawing on both
empirical research and theoretical reflections. If you are interested,
please send us an abstract of no more than 350 words and a brief bio of no
more than 100 words to Birgit Bräuchler ((birgit.braeuchler /at/ anthro.ku.dk))
and Nina Grønlykke Mollerup ((ninagm /at/ hum.ku.dk)) *by 15 June 2023*. We have
limited workshop funding to provide subsidies for travel expenses, if
needed.


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