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