Birkan Taş’s PhD thesis ‘On the Affective, Temporal, and Political Dynamics of Hope’ criticizes the instrumentalization of hope as exclusively forward-looking, individualizing, and depoliticizing. Instead, he posits the concept as a critical resource that has the potential to contribute to theories of time, affect, and knowledge production. Taş’s research interests encompass theories of gender and sexuality, as well as the politics of temporality in disability and queer theory.