Lifetimes Roundtable

Funded by the research council of Norway, the Lifetimes project ran from 2018-2023. Lifetimes presents a new way of studying time across the socio-natural divide, using concepts like synchronization, entanglement, materiality, and futurity. Emerging from discussions in postwar theories of history, our framework draws on approaches to time in anthropology, STS, and critical time studies. Time is approached both as part of the real, and as analytical lens through which we study objects, practices and events. In this roundtable, Lifetimes researchers will discuss how the project enabled them to do their research and how they each benefitted from thinking through notions of time in their different disciplines.