Occupied with time and temporalities within the humanities and social sciences, the Lifetimes project’s concluding conference was "dedicated to the issues that arise when we no longer live the same histories, endure the same experiences, follow the same beat, or even conceptualize the times we live in with the same vocabulary, the same timekeeping technologies, or from within the same academic disciplines".
Stine Engen chaired a panel on "green transitions" and presented her research on the changing and complex temporality of the EU carbon market.
Kristin Asdal presented two papers with a common theme: time, nature and parliaments. The first paper continued her ongoing work on the history of whale fishing in Norway and its influence on parliamentary history, while the second paper focussed more detailed on the tools and "nature-entities" which become part of political procedure, parliamentary settings and economic practice. Perhaps parliaments are not such exclusively human affairs as they are often thought to be?
The conference program and book of abstracts can be found here.