The Changing Experience of Time in the Long Nineteenth Century: Local, Regional, Transnational and Global Perspectives
Workshop | 18-19 May 2012, St Andrews
Convenor: Marie Ventura (PhD candidate)
Programme
FRIDAY 18 MAY
3:00-3:30 pm
Welcome and Introductions
Refreshments
PANEL ONE PRESENTATIONS AND DISCUSSIONS
Chair: Heidi Mehrkens
3:30-4:15 pm
Theo Jung, Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
Modern Times: ‘Temporalization’ as a Historiographical Concept
4:15-5:00 pm
Eoin Phillips, University of Cambridge
Making Time Fit: Marine Timekeepers and Routine on the Bounty
5:00-5:15 pm
Coffee Break
5:15-6:00 pm
Marie Ventura, University of St Andrews
Train Schedules and Factory Bells: The Changing Experience
of Time During Britain’s Industrial Revolution
DAY ONE WRAP-UP
7:00 pm
Group Dinner
SATURDAY, 19 MAY
10:00-10:30 am
Refreshments
PANEL TWO PRESENTATIONS AND DISCUSSIONS
Chair: Bernhard Struck
10:30-11:15 am
Sebastian Sprute, Humboldt University Berlin
Time-Conflicts in Colonial Senegal, 1880- 1930
11:15-12:00 pm
Katja Schmidtpott, Philipps University Marburg
The Punctuality Campaign in Japan after the First World War
12:00-12:45 pm
Aleksandra Ðuric, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Hungary
Clash of Two Worlds: A Battle Between Folk and Popular Culture on the Time Field
12:45-1:00 pm
Lunch Break
PANEL THREE PRESENTATIONS AND DISCUSSIONS
Chair: James Koranyi
1:00-1:45 pm
Marketa Balcarova, Charles University Prague
Escape from the Accelerating Life Style and the Shaking Historical Events of the Epoch in the Literary Work of the Austrian Author Adalbert Stifter
1:45-2:30 pm
André Dombrowski, University of Pennsylvania
Painting Time: Impressionism and the Modern Temporal Order
2:30-3:15 pm
Coffee Break
FINAL DISCUSSION
6:30 pm
Group Dinner