When are we? is a question we want to raise in the midst of a time of uncertainty, violence and precariousness: in a time of ignoring of human dignity and respect as reflected in numerous authoritarian leadership across the world, recurring forms of colonialism and imperialism, the climate emergency, the continuous struggle for social justice brought forth by the Black Lives Matter movement, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the ongoing genocide in Palestine. The disorientating situation in which we find ourselves now, after a moment of ‘suspended temporality’ during the Covid-19 pandemic, is pushing humanities scholars, social scientists, and creative practitioners to reflect on our own understanding of temporalities as linked to the contemporary world crisis and to investigate When are we? Reflecting on time highlights the long duration, repetition [or recurrence], interruption, practices of resistance over time, and forms of memory recollection. How are key events reflected in the representation, construction, and narration of temporalities in our disciplines? What is the contribution of current scholarship to critically utilising temporalities? What is the role of new technologies in the study of time? How can our recognition of the Anthropocene and the Capitalocene raise awareness of more-than-human temporalities and highlight the significance of working with palimpsests and ‘deep times’ in the context of the environment we all share and live in? This conference aims to create a space to explore these questions; for instance, we can build on the definitions of time in the political, social, and cultural analysis by Achille Mbembe (On the Postcolony, 2001). From a literary point of view, time as defined by Saidiya Hartman (The Time of Slavery, 2002; Lose Your Mother. A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route, 2007) provides critical tools for fruitful discussions. Furthermore, Afrofuturism offers novel ways to think of time and artistic representations of temporalities as outlined by Anderson, Reynaldo, and Charles E. Jones (Afrofuturism 2.0: The Rise of Astro-Blackness, 2016). Further thoughts for reflection derive from critical studies in Social Sciences; Oliver Harris, Alfredo Gonzáles-Ruibal, Gavin Lucas, and Tim Ingold have thoroughly explored the relationship between time and archaeology/anthropology. Further back in time, Norbert Elias (Über die Zeit, 1988) has offered a sociological view on temporalities by considering time as deeply entrenched in our human life and generational experiences, thus seeing it as a profoundly relational concept. These are just a few examples of possible paths we could take. When are we? This is the starting point of our conversation, which aims to consider and explore time from a multiplicity of perspectives and interdisciplinary approaches.