With Prof. Dr. Tom Bratrud, University of Bergen, Dr. Sultan Doughan, Goldsmiths, University of London, Dr. Veronica Ferreri, Ca’ Foscari University; Moderator: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Julia Binter, Global Heritage Lab, University of Bonn.

How do our understandings of the past, present, and future shape today’s pressing issues – climate change, migration, technological innovation, economic uncertainty, and democracy? Temporal concepts are not just abstract; they’re mobilised in public discourse and in personal processes of identity, belonging, and political engagement. This round table brings together contributors from the international workshop Past Tense, Future Imperfect: Temporalities as Mobilising Force to explore how anthropology engages with time as a lived, contested, and relational phenomenon. Drawing on global perspectives and diverse research contexts, the discussion considers how people remember, anticipate, and act through time – rethinking linear chronologies, reimagining ethnographic methods, and experimenting with new ways of sharing knowledge.

Join us at the Global Heritage Lab and online.

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