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The uncertainties of our time are manifold: wars and geopolitical shifts disrupt existing orders; digital transformation and artificial intelligence reshape labour markets and knowledge regimes; changing border and migration regimes create unequal mobilities and decide who is left to die; the ageing of European societies and the shrinking of welfare regimes pose insecurities to our livelihoods; and environmental crises threaten the present and future of our planet. These dynamics not only transform political and economic structures but also profoundly impact on temporal regimes – meaning the way time is perceived and measured. After the age of modernity based on the imagination of progress and a better future, the future now is often seen as scary, and possibly even as a movement backwards. The rapid transformations and uncertainties impact on how people relate to the past, experience the present, and imagine possible future. Based on their individual positions in relation to certain societal contexts, people may experience their own life as moving forward, standing still, or even breaking apart. This workshop takes temporality at the center of analysis and asks how uneven temporal regimes shape political imaginaries, institutional arrangements, and everyday life trajectories in Kosovo and beyond. This is especially relevant in contexts where political, institutional, or historical contingencies produce prolonged waiting, suspension, stuckedness, uncertainty, and delayed or conditional access to futures as socially and politically recognisable horizons of possibility.