Conference | LIVED TIME Routines, Temporal Norms and Identities from Antiquity to the Modern World

Van 26 tot en met 28 november organiseert het onderzoeksproject LIVED TIME (Universiteit van Amsterdam) een internationaal congres getiteld Lived Time: Routines, Temporal Norms and Identities from the Antiquity to the Modern World.  Gelieve hier te registreren indien u wenst deel te nemen.

Nov 26-28 | University Library at Singel 425 |
Doelenzaal, Belle van Zuylenzaal

Tuesday 26 November (Doelenzaal, University Library at Singel 425)

14:00-14:15 Coffee and registration
14:15-14:50 Welcome and introduction by Sofie Remijsen
14:50-15:30 Eugenio Garosi (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen): Temporal Repertoires in early Islamic Arabic Documentary Texts

Coffee break

Time and epidemics
16:00-16:40 Ignace Glorieux (Vrije Universiteit Brussel): The Counter-revolution of Habits: On Time and Steadiness
16:40-17:20 Max-Quentin Bischoff, Sara Budts, Sanne Hermans, Jeroen Puttevils and Nicolò Zennaro (Universiteit Antwerpen): Tempore Mortalitatis. Future Thinking, Temporalities and Plague in Premodern Europe
17:20-18:00 Kristine Johanson (Universiteit van Amsterdam): Plague Times: Early Modern English Literature and the Temporal Experience of Disease

Wednesday 27 November (Doelenzaal, University Library at Singel 425)

Festive times
9:30-10:10 Stefan Feuser (Universität Bonn): Time(s) of Festivals and Religious Processions in 5th BCE Athens
10:10-10:50 Elsa Lucassen (Universiteit van Amsterdam): Customized Festival Calendars and Festive Rhythm in Late Antique Egypt

Coffee break

Bath time
11:20-12:00 Anna Geurts (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen): Travelers, Their Bodies, Unfamiliar Spaces, and the Temporalities of Washing
12:00-12:40 Uta Heil (Universität Wien): Time for a Bath, Christian Ideas and Conflicts

Lunch

Clocks, Schedule and Work
14:00-14:40 Daniel Soliman (Rijksmuseum voor Oudheden): Lived Time in a Community of Ancient Egyptian Royal Necropolis Workmen (Ca. 1292-1077 BCE)
14:40-15:20 Gerrit Verhoeven (Universiteit van Antwerpen / KMSKA): Feeling the Strain? Latecomers, Time Clocks, and Work Discipline in the Royal Museums of Art and History (ca 1890-1940)

Coffee break

15:40-16:20 Mark Hailwood (University of Bristol): Time and Work in Pre-Industrial Rural England
16:20-17:00 Renate Dekker (Universiteit van Amsterdam): On Prayer and Work in the Lives of Monks in Late Antique Egypt

Thursday 28 November (Belle van Zuylenzaal, University Library at Singel 425)

Material history of time
9:00-9:40 Angelika Koch (Universiteit Leiden): Incense and Time in Early Modern Japan
9:40-10:20 Matthew Champion (University of Melbourne): Living with the Sandglass: Material HIstories of Lived Time (Online)

Coffee break

Time of sleep and idleness
10:40-11:20 Sarit Kattan-Gribetz (Fordham University): Rabbinic Nightscapes: Lived Time between Sunset and Sunrise
11:20-12:00 Brigitte Steger (University of Cambridge): Timing Sleep and Wakefulness, Timing Kingship and Social Order at the Medieval Heian Court in Japan
12:00-12:40 James Ker (University of Pennsylvania): Unlived Time in Seneca’s Prose Writings

Time in a world of fossil fuels
13:40-14:20 On Barak (Tel Aviv University): Petrofutures Past and Present
14:20-15:00 Peter van Dam (Universiteit van Amsterdam): Spending Time with(out) Cars: The Car-free Sunday in the Netherlands, 1939-2009

 

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