The conference aims to constitute an interdisciplinary space for dialogue: a point of confluence where different streams of knowledge meet around time as a shared object of inquiry and an emerging question: what new possibilities arise when we begin to think of time as capital?
Time rarely belongs to one discipline. Like a river crossing different territories, it moves across the boundaries we have drawn between fields of knowledge, acquiring different meanings, forms, and intensities along the way. It can be an economic resource and a social construct, a psychological experience and a cultural framework, an organizational variable and a biological rhythm, a physical dimension and an everyday reality. Each discipline follows and describes a particular current of time, yet no single perspective can contain its complexity.
The conference therefore invites disciplines to meet at their confluence. Different intellectual traditions (each with its own sources, methods, concepts, and trajectories) flow into a shared space of inquiry. Perspectives from the social and behavioural sciences, arts and humanities, biology and medicine, physics and exact sciences, computer science and technology, and other fields are brought into conversation. These disciplinary currents are not expected to merge into a single stream or lose their distinctiveness. On the contrary, the aim is to explore what happens where they meet: where different scientific languages encounter one another, where methods intersect, and where questions originating in one field alter the course of questions asked in another. It is precisely at such confluences that new directions of inquiry may emerge.
At the centre of this interdisciplinary confluence lies the concept of time capital. The conference explores what happens when time is commodified and subsequently exchanged, invested, shared, accumulated, and transformed. It asks what forms of value emerge through these processes and what unexpected effects become visible when time capital is approached from different disciplinary directions.
Within this framework, time capital is understood as a concept in motion. Its meaning is not fixed in advance. Like a current entering different intellectual landscapes, the concept may change as it passes through economics, sociology, psychology, philosophy, biology, medicine, physics, technology, the arts, and other domains. The conference is interested precisely in these transformations: what each field contributes to the concept, how the concept is redirected by different disciplinary questions, and what becomes visible when these separate currents of knowledge begin to intersect.
The conference agenda itself reflects this philosophy of confluence. Academic presentations coexist with more exploratory and experiential formats, allowing ideas to be tested not only through argument, but also through conversation, movement, observation, and visual expression. The intention is not simply to place different disciplines alongside one another, as parallel streams sharing the same programme, but to create conditions in which they can genuinely flow into, disturb, redirect, and enrich one another.
Time capital thus becomes both the subject of inquiry and a point of passage between disciplines: a concept through which different forms of knowledge can meet without becoming identical, enter into productive tension, and perhaps reveal something that would remain unseen from within the boundaries of a single field.
Time capital is the shared question. The confluence of disciplines is where we look for new answers.