CfP: Materials and Time: An Anthology
Scholars from a wide spectrum
of research fields are exploring the temporalities of materials, each
from their own disciplinary perspective.
We invite texts of no more
than 1000 words discussing the topic of ‘Materials and Time’ for a
forthcoming transdisciplinary publication and workshop. How authors wish
to interpret this topic is left open, but they
should focus on a single material, however construed. We welcome
contributions from any discipline. Aspects of time to consider might
include:
- lifetimes, lifecycles, use, trajectories, persistence, endurance, ageing
- depletion, peak, criticality, erosion, alteration, degradation, conservation
- re-use, remaining, recycling, returns, inheritances
- birthdays and anniversaries, death, decline, rebirth
- genealogies, time travel
- ephemerality, regimes of temporality,mimetism
- ages, epochs
- chronomarkers, signatures, records and measurements
Selected texts will be
included in an anthology publication on this broad topic and their
authors may be invited to a one-day workshop to be held in 2021. The
workshop will contribute to the development of an interdisciplinary
network on materials.
The deadline for submitting texts is April 30, 2020. Texts should be submitted at the following web address: