Call for proposals

We invite papers, panels, and workshops from across disciplines, methodologies, and creative practices that engage time as a concept, method, or problem. Contributions may approach time as an object of study, a methodological framework, a socio-political condition, or an intrinsic dimension of research and creative practice, or foreground shared questions, concepts, or practices. We especially encourage submissions that use time as a shared lens for interdisciplinary dialogue, collaborative inquiry, and imaginative rethinking across disciplines.

Potential submissions could include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

• Methods: Archives, data, and memory
• Time in and through scientific discovery: experimentation, iteration, failure, and breakthrough
• Temporal scales: planetary, evolutionary, historical, AI, automation, and acceleration
• Modeling the future: prediction, simulation, risk, and uncertainty
• Ethics and justice: Time, history, and power
• Afterlives of research: citation, reuse, replication, and failure
• Alternative temporalities: indigenous, migratory, futurity
• Crisis time: pandemics, disasters, and states of emergency

Submissions are open to all current or past Royster fellows in addition to doctoral students from international partner institutions.