Hosted by Rebecca Rashid
About Rebecca Rashid
Rebecca Rashid is a creator and independent podcast producer who has developed wide-ranging experimental concepts for a variety of media projects, ranging from the hit podcast How to Keep Time with The Atlantic to multiple independent musical albums of her own. She was formerly the producer and co-host of How to Keep Time, which analyses why people struggle to reclaim their relationship with time in modern life. From how society creates unspoken schedules in Bernice Neugarten's concept of the "social clock" to how constant documentation of our lives on social media reshapes our memories, her work sits at the intersection of media and behavioural insight. She explores how constant connectivity, borderless work and shifting cultural rhythms, from the always-on schedules of digital nomads to the distinct time norms shaping American life versus those abroad, influence how we relate to time and, in turn, to one another.
About the event
Time feels like the one thing we all share. In practice, few things are shaped more by where we come from and by the tools we use.
Anyone who has lived and worked across borders knows it: meetings that follow other people's clocks, work that no longer stops at an office door, and the constant adjustment to places where schedules carry entirely different meanings. Technology has made time infinitely flexible, and somehow scarcer than ever.
Culture does the rest. What counts as being on time, what free time signals about your status, when you are expected to have achieved what: none of it is universal, and most of it we never chose consciously.
Drawing on her reporting for The Atlantic podcast How to Keep Time, Rebecca Rashid brings a journalist's eye to how our conception of time governs behaviour, wellbeing and connection across cultures.
