About Time

Public Lecture Series

In 2012-13, under the auspices of the Institute of Advanced Study, visiting Fellows and Durham researchers are exploring the theme of Time. How has time been imagined in different cultural and historical contexts? How have ideas about time shaped nations and their ‘heritage’? How is temporality experienced and described? And how have technological advances in ways of measuring time changed people’s experiences of it, and enabled different ways of moving through and narrating time and space? These questions, and others, are illuminated in this series of public lectures about time.

Resources

• About Time (last modified: 9 November 2012)

Programme

• 03 December 2012, 6.15pm, Ken Wade Room, Calman Learning Centre
  Sir Arnold Wolfendale, FRS, Durham University
  Navigation, Astronomy and Time-Keeping

to listen to the lecture please follow the link below:

Resources

• Wolfendale Light Year Lecture (last modified: 22 October 2013) - MP3 file
  

• 10 December 2012, 6.15pm, Kingsley Barrett Room, Calman Learning Centre
  Mr Alex Nelson
  The Wrong Kind of Time
  

Resources

• Alex Nelson's About Time Lecture - Listen (last modified: 21 October 2013) - MP3 file
  

• 28 January 2013, 6.15pm, Kingsley Barrett Room, Calman Learning Centre
  Dr Kristen Lippincott
  What time was it? A closer look at time-telling conventions from antiquity to the 21st century
  
  

Resources

• Kristen Lippencott's About Time Lecture - Listen (last modified: 21 October 2013) - MP3 file
  

• 04 February 2013, 6.15pm, Kingsley Barrett Room, Calman Learning Centre
  Professor Mike Crang, Durham University
  Putting Time in its Place: multiple times, multiple spaces, and complicating space times
  
  

• 23 April 2013, 6.15pm, Holgate Room, Grey College
  Professor Kimberly Hutchings, London School of Economics
  Cosmopolitan Times
  
  

Resources

• Dr Kim Hutchings About Time Lecture - Listen (last modified: 21 October 2013) - MP3 file
  

• 01 May 2013, 6.15pm
  Professor Lynn Bothelo, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
  Keeping Time at Bay: Old Age, Medicine, and Money in Early Modern England
  

Resources

• Lynn Bothelo's About Time Lecture - Listen (last modified: 21 October 2013) - MP3 file
  

• 13 May 2013, 6.15pm,
  Professor Chris Gosden, University of Oxford
  Time and Nationhood: beyond the Invention of Tradition and Imagined Communities

These public lectures are free to attend and open to all. For further information please contact the Institute of Advanced Study