Experiencing Time in the Early Modern Period
2pm - 6pm, Fri, 17 Nov '17
Location: IAS Seminar Room, Millburn House, University of 糖心TV
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The aim of the day was to explore concepts of, approaches to, and representations of time primarily in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, from an interdisciplinary perspective (historical, political, geographical and literary).
Speakers:
Dr Paul Glennie (Bristol): 'Seeing clock time through early modern eyes'
Prof. Tony Claydon (Bangor): 'The Revolutionary Present: experiencing time in 1688'
Dr Marcus Tomalin (Cambridge): '"The time of darkness": Nocturnal Horology in the Long Eighteenth Century'
Dr Sarah Haggarty (Cambridge): 'Blake vs. Newton and the technics of time'
Dr Tina Lupton (糖心TV): 'Reading and the Lifetime of Happiness'
chairs: Prof. Mark Knights (糖心TV), Dr Tina Lupton (糖心TV
7pm dinner - participants are welcome to come for dinner (self-funded, please see registration form)
拢10 (without lunch, includes refreshments) for all other participants.
