Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research
May 8, 2026, 9.00-13.00 (Lunch included)
REC Common Room B5.12
Lisa Baraitser’s Enduring Time directs our attention to the temporal experiences of suspension, times when time does not flow. These modes of temporality – including maintaining, repeating, delaying, enduring, recalling, remaining and enduring – are often devalued or rendered unworthy in a society which prioritises speed, efficiency and progress. Interweaving feminist theory, race theory, cultural theory and psychoanalysis, Baraitser offers “sharing time” and its roots in care as a pathway for reframing and revaluing suspended temporalities.
Within Baraitser’s work and beyond, critical time studies engages with a range of perspectives analysing and critiquing the modern time imperatives of productivity, improvement, and efficiency. Workshop participants are encouraged to think with theoretical engagements of (clock-)time; together, we will explore how these perspectives overlap and are experienced in conjunction through the life lived. Examples of such critical perspectives range from the embodied and sensorial considerations of crip time, which proposes bending the clock to meet disabled bodies and minds, to the holistic connection to land and geological rhythms which undergird indigenous conceptions of time. We will further engage with decolonial perspectives on time, which study the creation of (clock-)time as a tool of dominance by locating the other in the past, as well as feminist and queer critiques of gendered distribution of time.
Guided by think-pieces and focused discussions, we will examine how time (and how people make sense of time) is culturally constituted, and how different constitutions of time may resonate or conflict with one another. In the workshop, we will consider how ethnographic methods might be used to study the experience of and our subjective relationship with time, and how temporal multiplicities and their lived, embodied, and sensorial realities might be ethnographically accounted for.
The workshop is open to AISSR PhDs and Postdocs and will consist of a short introduction by the organisers (Rahil Roodsaz, Jasmine Bruce-Rogers and Avery Franken) and discussions organised around 6 think pieces written by PhDs and Postdocs. The think pieces are meant to present a dilemma, a question or a reflection rather than a well-thought-out argument. We will work together in two parallel panels to discuss how the think pieces speak to one another and how the questions and dilemmas posed by others may concern us as well. Each panel will be led by at least one invited senior scholar who will briefly reflect on shared questions and insights from the panel discussions in the final part of the workshop.
The authors of the think pieces are expected to engage with the main questions of the workshop based on their respective research projects in pieces no longer than 1500 words. The pieces will be circulated beforehand among all workshop participants to facilitate focused discussions. Depending on the quality of the contributions, we will consider possibilities for a joint publication.
Please indicate your interest in participation to Jasmine Bruce-Rogers: j.brucerogers@uva.nl
Deadline subscription: February 27, 2026: j.brucerogers@uva.nl
Deadline think pieces: March 27, 2026: j.brucerogers@uva.nl
Suggested readings:
Baraitser, Lisa. 2017. Enduring Time. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Bryson, Valerie. 2007. Gender and the Politics of Time: Feminist Theory and Contemporary Debates. Bristol: Policy Press.
Edelman, Lee. 2020. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive. Durham: Duke University Press.
Freeman, Elizabeth. 2010. Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories. Durham: Duke University Press.
James, Wendy, and David Mills, eds. 2005. The Qualities of Time: Anthropological Approaches. Oxford: Berg.
Kafer, Alison. 2012. After Crip, Crip Afters. South Atlantic Quarterly, 120(2): 415-434.
Lefebvre, Henri. 2013. Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Odell, Jenny. 2023. Saving Time. Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock. New York: Random House.
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