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This course will explore time from an anthropological perspective. What is time? An object, a dimension, a sensation? Can we “have” time? What is the relation between power and the control of time? Through readings and discussions of classical and current anthropological theories and ethnographies, we will analyze the meaning, experience and textures of time in different cultural settings. Case studies will explore the US, the West and the Global South, with special emphasis on conceptions of the future: expectations, anticipations, preemption, emergence, possibility. We will study imaginations of temporality and futurity in relation to fields such as politics, custom, finance, security, labor, climate change and so on, looking into the role that emotions play in relation to time.