The Changing Experience of Time in the Long Nineteenth Century

WORKSHOP ITINERARY

The Changing Experience of Time

in the Long Nineteenth Century

Local, Regional, Transnational and Global Perspectives

Convenor Marie Ventura

School of History

Center for Transnational History

University of St Andrews

18-19 MAY, 2012

St Katharine's Lodge, Room 1.10

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