Dear Colleagues,

*** Apologies for cross-posting ***

Just a gentle reminder of our panel for the upcoming "On Time" - Biennal Conference of the Finnish Anthropology Society, Helsinki 29-30 August 2019 (http://www.antropologinenseura.fi/en/events/anthropology-conference-2019/).



"Falling behind and catching up: urban (s)paces, temporal dilemmas and infrastructures in concert".

Temporalities are recognised, experienced, made and unmade through interaction with the material world. Similarly, people’s moorings are anchored in the physical and affective materiality of the infrastructural, and so are their conceptions and expectations about present, past and future. Translated through idioms of ‘catching up’, ‘falling behind’ and notions of stillness and movement, spatio-temporal dissonances are, directly or indirectly, associated with infrastructural and technological apparatuses aimed at exploiting those dissonances by creating, managing or mitigating them.

The panel seeks to further debates that explore how time is shaped by the sensorial quality of urban landscapes and how it is recognised, experienced, resisted and transformed through the mundane, repeated, practised interaction with the material and infrastructural world.

We thus welcome paper proposals concerned with one or more of following questions:

• How do infrastructures and technologies regiment, speed up, slow down or halt paces/spaces of change, and the experience of modernity? How does infrastructural failure underscore the unrealised promise that accompanies the experience of those rhythms?

• How do these material interactions alter established understandings of the space-time of the everyday?

• What visions and narratives of presents, pasts and futures are represented, encapsulated, solicited by the materiality of (un)changing urban landscapes?  What attachments, hopes and large-scale processes do those visions of times gone and coming reveal?

• What possibilities for political engagement and participation are produced by the quotidian interaction with the material and the infrastructural?


The deadline to propose papers is 1 April 2019. If you are interested, please send abstracts to both [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> and [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>


Yours sincerely,

Elisabeth Saleh, American University of Beirut
Patricia Scalco, University of Helsinki
Alice Stefanelli, Durham University



Patricia D. Scalco
Postdoctoral Fellow
Trade, Transit and Travel in the Mediterranean<https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/crosslocations/transit-trade-and-travel-1>

Social and Cultural Anthropology
Unioninkatu 37
UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI


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