The submission period is now open for the seminar ‘Time, Science, Culture & Society – Reconfigurations of Time and Temporalities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence’, to be held on 6 and 7 February 2026 at the University of Minho.
Time has always played a central role in the social sciences, as an instrument of power and an essential condition for individual and collective action. Its study allows us to reflect on the intersection between individual agency, institutional dynamics and broader social processes. Today, the expansion of the digital society has profoundly transformed the social structures of time, changing the way we relate to each other, organise our daily lives and conceive of the past, present and future.
With the advancement of digital technologies and artificial intelligence, applied to a growing number of social processes, which are becoming increasingly fast and subject to unique chronologies, it is urgent to revisit social studies on time and temporality in order to question the implicit processes, values and transformations underway.
This seminar, which will take place in person and online, is part of the project ‘TIME.HUB – Time Studies: Societies, Science and Cultures’, coordinated by Emília Araújo, and aims to bring together researchers studying time and temporality in contexts of accelerated transformation.
Critical and empirical proposals on the following topics (among others) are welcome:
– Slowness, waiting and slowing down
– Acceleration and speed
– Experience, anticipation and expectation
– Duration and disruption
– Politics of time and temporal regulation
– Rhythms, routines and temporal regimes
– Social time and implications of the pandemic
– Time and activism
– Urgency, control and chronometries
– Imagined temporalities, displacements and waits
– Time and violence
Different formats of participation are accepted: oral presentations, performances, posters, film analysis/debate, among others.
Guidelines for Abstract Submission
1. Abstract: Up to 400 words, clearly framed within social time studies and explicitly contributing to the conceptual understanding of time and temporality.
2. Submission: Through the abstract submission form.
3. Deadline: 30 June 20254. Registration deadline: 30 November 2025
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