AIAS Workshop: Time Work: New Research on Temporal Agency
Info about event
Time
Location
AIAS, Building 1632, Conference room 203, Høegh-Guldbergs Gade 6B, 8000 Aarhus C
Abstract
In its original formulation, "time work" is defined as personal or interpersonal enterprise directed toward provoking or preventing various kinds of temporal experience (Flaherty 2003, 2011). The study of time work reveals human effort to intervene in the trajectory of events. With this intervention, we attempt to control, manipulate, or customize our own temporal experience or that of others.
In effect, one asks oneself, "What type of temporal experience would I prefer?" Then, having answered this question, one employs folk theories and practices (i.e., time work) to bring into being circumstances that elicit the desired form of temporal experience. As such, time work is temporal agency, and it is derived from the general theory of action espoused by Anthony Giddens (1979:56): "It is a necessary feature of action that, at any point in time, the agent 'could have acted otherwise'." From this perspective, choice is an essential attribute of social interaction as well as temporal experience.
For elaboration, please consult the following readings:
Michael G. Flaherty. 2003. “Time Work: Customizing Temporal Experience.” Social Psychology Quarterly 66:17-33.
Michael G. Flaherty. 2011. The Textures of Time: Agency and Temporal Experience. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/2093_reg.html
Anne Line Dalsgård, Martin Demant Frederiksen, Susanne Højlund, and Lotte Meinert (eds.). 2014. Ethnographies of Youth and Temporality: Time Objectified. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/2287_reg.html
Previous research has examined time work within the context of social interaction--that is, the micromanagement of one's involvement with self and situation. We are interested in papers that continue that line of inquiry, but we also welcome papers that extend the study of temporal agency to cross-cultural settings as well as large-scale social movements and organizational or collective efforts to manage temporal experience.
Schedule
DAY 1: Thursday, 24 August 2017
09:15-16:30: Talks
18:30- : Dinner for invited speakers only
DAY 2: Friday, 25 August 2017
09:00-15:30: Talks
Invited speakers
- Adeline Masquelier, Professor, Tulane University, USA
https://www2.tulane.edu/liberal-arts/anthropology/adeline-masquelier.cfm - Clarissa Martins Lima, Phd Student, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil
http://www.bv.fapesp.br/en/pesquisador/104652/clarissa-de-paula-martins-lima/ - Carolina Sanchez Boe, Post Doc, Aalborg University, Denmark
http://personprofil.aau.dk/136762?lang=en# - Crystal Fleming, assistant Professor, Stony Brook University, USA
http://www.stonybrook.edu/commcms/sociology/people/faculty/fleming.html - Dorthe Refslund Christensen, Associate professor, Aarhus University, Denmark
http://pure.au.dk/portal/da/persons/dorthe-refslund-christensen(dbe2f9a4-0b39-4401-a5d7-fa65364f03fd).html - Kjetil Sandvik, Associate professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
http://mcc.ku.dk/staff/?pure=en/persons/269353 - Lars Williams, Phd student, Aarhus University, Denmark
http://pure.au.dk/portal/da/persons/id(eca6a381-c363-452a-b112-c8f4487bbe28).html - Line Dalsgård, Associate professor, Aarhus University, Denmark
http://pure.au.dk/portal/da/persons/line-dalsgaard(fb943dcc-aa48-42ea-9157-e1791b94267f).html - Lotte Meinert, Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark
http://pure.au.dk/portal/da/persons/lotte-meinert(13b81c44-51ee-4c50-94f6-e53ccb77cdda).html - Maria Louw, Associate professor, Aarhus University, Denmark
http://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/maria-elisabeth-louw(be85df4f-ba38-4a0e-9563-a3a57ea6e03b).html - Martijn van Beek, Associate professor, Aarhus University, Denmark
http://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/martijn-van-beek(3fd9252b-ebab-4e5e-a7eb-52690fb23180).html - Martin Demant Frederiksen, Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
http://ccrs.ku.dk/staff/?pure=en/persons/446172 - Michael Flaherty, Professor, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark, and Eckerd College, USA
http://aias.au.dk/aias-fellows/michael-flaherty/ - Mikka Nielsen, Phd Student, Aalborg University, Denmark
http://personprofil.aau.dk/130669 - Mille Kjærgaard Thorsen, Phd student, Aarhus University, Denmark
http://pure.au.dk/portal/da/persons/id(f1c77b55-b2b3-4692-ba3f-4df0c73917d6).html - Noa Vaisman, Assistant professor, Aarhus University, Denmark
http://pure.au.dk/portal/en/persons/id(b01be969-ee52-48d6-a45f-4271b6bbd3b2).html
Participation
The workshop is open for attendance of 8 academic participants who are interested in the topic (without giving a talk). To attend please contact Michael G. Flaherty at mflaherty@aias.au.dk or phone +4587153753.
Organizers
Michael G. Flaherty, AIAS Fellow and Professor at Eckerd College, USA in collaboration with Prof. Lotte Meinert and Associate Prof. Anne Line Dalsgård from the Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University.
Contact
Michael G. Flaherty, AIAS Fellow and Professor at Eckerd College, USA
mflaherty@aias.au.dk
Phone: +4587153753