{"id":9342,"date":"2025-06-20T10:30:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T08:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/?post_type=news&p=9342"},"modified":"2025-08-13T15:11:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T13:11:27","slug":"cfp-multiple-temporalities-in-research-on-war-violence-and-crisis-affected-societies","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/news\/cfp-multiple-temporalities-in-research-on-war-violence-and-crisis-affected-societies\/","title":{"rendered":"CfP: Multiple Temporalities in Research on War-, Violence-, and Crisis-Affected Societies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\nCall for Papers for an international workshop to be held from 2 to 4 February 2026 in Warsaw, organised in partnership with the C\u00b2DH.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

War and conflict disrupt the usual flow of time. The speed at which events unfold rarely matches the pace of their academic comprehension. Scholars often arrive after the event has ended. However, as societies live in a state of crisis \u2014 facing pandemics, wars, and natural disasters \u2014 researchers must adapt to these conditions and reconsider the temporalities of their work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Studies of wars and crises are typically conducted in an emergency, rapid-response mode. As conflicts evolve over time, academics must consider their duration. They must also navigate the event’s development, its effects on those at the core of their studies, the speed of knowledge production, and institutional chronologies. We propose joining the discussion on researching war-, violence-, and crisis-affected societies with a focus on temporalities and longitudinal approaches. This approach has traditionally been used to study stable and predictable populations (Henderson, Holland, & Thomson, 2006). Scholars also track small samples of research participants to study the effects of traumatic events on life trajectories and self-perception, conducting interviews at multiple time points, sometimes spanning several decades (Cohen, 2014; Connolly et al., 2023; Jordan et al., 2022). However, such projects inherently assume an unthreatened present when people can reflect on events from a temporal distance. This workshop aims to demonstrate that societies subjected to constant missile threats, warfare, mobilization, occupation, and large-scale displacement driven by fear of aggression cannot be considered stable research samples, but can be effectively examined through a longitudinal approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In contexts of ongoing violence and threats to safety, the logistical and ethical dimensions of research become particularly complex and demanding (Boulanger, 2014; Caruth, 2014; Jessee, 2017; Wosi\u0144ska, 2022). Constant adjustments to changing security conditions, transformations of the psychological state of the participants and the research team, searching for optimal ways of communication, balancing roles and loyalties \u2013 these are just some of the conditions in which scholars have to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drawing from the organizers’ expertise in longitudinal qualitative research on the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, this workshop aims to bring together scholars reflecting on various temporalities in the study of other war- and crisis-affected societies. Together, we can discuss how studying a fluid and vulnerable population affected by an ongoing crisis presents new challenges to us as researchers and our research partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While we might consider other related topics, we encourage you to address the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n