(This is information about a conference happening in Liverpool in
September, feel free to pass on to anyone who may be interested)

On Time: History, Science, Commemoration

    "Time and change are great, only with reference to the faculties
    of the beings which note them", Charles Babbage, Ninth Bridgewater
    Treatise (2nd edn., 1838)

A conference organised by the British Society for the History of
Science, the Royal Historical Society and the
National Museums & Galleries on Merseyside

16-18 September 1999

The Merseyside Maritime Museum,
Albert Dock, Liverpool


PROGRAMME

Morning Sessions, 9:00 - 11:45 AM

Constructing Time (LT)

1. Carlene Stephens (National Museum of American History, Smithsonian
Institute) "Engineering time: re-inventing the Wristwatch"

2. Christine Kleinegger (New York State Museum) "'You snooze, you
lose': sleep and time in modern life"

3. Laura McNamara (Los Alamos National University) "Teraflops, design
lifetimes, and the comprehensive test ban treaty: changing conceptions
of time in the American nuclear weapons design community"

4. Kenton Kroker (Victoria College, Toronto) "Chronopathologies:
dreaming time in modernity"

The Economics and Business of Time (LR)

1. K. C. Cleaver (University of Liverpool) "Time in economics (and
contiguous disciplines)"

2. Andrew Tylecote (University of Sheffield) "Time horizons and
short-terminsim in business: causes and effects"

3. Scott G. Dacko (University of Warwick) "An evolution in the timing
of human and organisational actions"

Afternoon Sessions, 1:30 - 3:10 PM

History and Time (LT)

1. Rolf Petri (University of Halle) "The creation of historical time"

2. Adrian Wilson (University of Leeds) "History and Time"

3. Penelope Corfield (Royal Holloway) "Patterns in history:
medievalism, modernity, postmodernity?"

4. Pnina Abir-Am (CNRS, Paris) "The problematics of history, memory
and commemoration in the natural sciences"

Music and Time (LR)

1. Penny Gouk (University of Manchester) "Bodily time and musical
time: two concepts of pulse in early modern Europe"

2. Stuart Feder (Independent Scholar) "Nostalgia and commemoration in
the music of Charles Ives"

3. Natalie Rothman (Tel-Aviv University) "The use of military music in
shaping early modern soldierly models of conduct"

Afternoon Sessions: 3:30 - 5:30 PM

Time and Commemoration (LT)

1. Roland Quinault (University of North London) "Centennialising
History"

2. Jeffrey Richards (Lancaster University) "History and Commemoration
in the late Victorian Theatre"

3. Claire Griffiths (Wadham College, Oxford) "Radical Chronologies:
marking anniversaries and making history in the British Labour
movement"

Instrumentation and Time (LR)

1. Sara Schechner Genuth (American Institute of Physics) "Time well
spent: early modern sundials as evidence of time pressures and
consumer culture"

2. Ann Harper Fender (Gettysburg College) "From steeple to pocket: the
economic causes and consequences of time measuring devices in Great
Britain, 1700-1850"

3. Anita McConnell (Independent Scholar) "Writing their own record:
the development of self-registering scientific instruments"

Friday, 17 September

Morning Sessions, 9:00 - 11.45 AM

Early-modern Time (LT)

1. Robert Poole (University College of St Martin, Lancaster) "Time
awareness in early modern England"

2. Erhard Chvojka (University of Vienna) "Time and society in
early-modern Europe"

3. Robert Iliffe (Imperial College) "The past and the future in early
modern English natural philosophy"

Constructing Time II (LR)

1. Debra Yantis (San Jose State University) "Nostalgia - the artifice
of time"

2. Nik Brown (Anglia Polytechnic University) "Organising
Breakthroughs"

3. Michael T. Bravo (University of Manchester) "How did time became
'social'"

4. Sven Widmalm (Uppsala University) "Science, Neutrality and
Modernity in 20th century Sweden"

Afternoon Sessions, 1:30 - 3:10 PM

Confronting and Visualising Time in the 19th and early-20th centuries
(LT)

1. Crosbie Smith and Ian Higginson (University of Kent) "'Time's
Arrow': thermodynamics in early 20th century cultures"

2. Robert M. Brain (Harvard University) "Self-registering instruments
and the rise of dynamics in the 19th century"

3. Michael Roberts (Independent Scholar) "Genesis and geological time
from Archbishop Ussher to bishop Wilberforce"

Instrumentation and Time II (LR)

1. Greg Wallenborn (University of Brussels) "Physicists as
timecreators and timekeepers"

2. Jeffrey D. Tang (University of Pennsylvania) "Timely success: the
genesis of the south-west Lancashire watchmaking industry"

3. John M. Simpson (Centre for the Millennium and Time Gun Exhibition,
Edinburgh) "Time, guns and Charles Piazza Smyth"

Afternoon Sessions, 3:30 - 5:30 PM

Time and Identity (LT)

1. Angela Schwartz (Gerhard Mercator Universitat Gesamthochschule
Duisberg) "A new age dawing: conceptions of a new era in late 19th
century popular science in Britain and Germany"

2. Klaus Thien (Protestant Academy of Vienna) "Time-myths and national
identity"

3. Patricia Fara (Max-Planck Institute) "Sir Isaac Newton lived here:
sites of memory and scientific heritage"

4. Jonathan R. Topham (Cambridge University) "Time and meaning: the
long history of the Bridgwater Treatises"

Local Time (LR)

1. Maxine Rhodes (Westhill College) "Pregnant Pauses: negotiating time
and space in maternity care before the NHS"

2. Andrew Walker (Humberside university) "Feasting in a South
Yorkshire colliery district: resistance and accommodation to customary
change 1860-1900"

3.Alyson Brown (University of Luton) "Prison time"

4. Ulf Brunnbauer (University of Graz) "'League of Time': the making
of a Soviet working class"


6.15: BSHS Presidential Address "Remembrance of Science Past"
by Professor Ludmilla Jordanova

8.15 Conference Banquet


Saturday, 18 September

Morning Sessions, 9:00 - 11:45 AM

Annihilating Space Through Time (LT)

1. Gijs Mom (HTS-Antotechnick, Arnhem) "The culture of the 'adventure
machine': speed and speed change in personal transportation during
19th century 'fin-de-siecle'"

2. Jennifer Tann and Christine MacLeod (University of Birmingham)
"Time and tide: the measurement of steam boat speed, 1813-30"

3. Iwan Rhys Morus (Queen's University) "'The nervous system of
Britain': space, time and the electric telegraph in Victorian England"

4. C.K. Raju (Centre for Study in Civilizations, New Delhi)
"Relativity: history and history dependence"

Time Tables (LR)

1. Harald Gropp (Independent Scholar) "The calendar of Coligny"

2. Eve Rosenhaft (University of Liverpool) "How long is a marriage?
How long is a life? The discussion about sex-specific life expectancy
in Germany in the 18 and 19th centuries"

3. Petra Schmidl (Frankfurt University) "The lunar mansions as a star
clock in a medieval Yemeni text"

4. Robert Hannah (University of Otago) "The Athenian star-calendar:
tool of the state?"


Afternoon Sessions, 1:30 - 3:10 PM

Time-consciousness and Socio-economic Development Among Peoples of the
African Diaspora (LT)

1. Ronald P. Atkinson (University of South Carolina) "Reckoning time
in East Africa: case studies from precolonial Uganda"

2. Mark M. Smith (University of South Carolina) "Questioning colored
peoples' time: the importance of punctuality for black resistance in
the American south, 1739 and 1955"

3. Louis A. Ferleger (University of Massachusetts -Boston)
"Technology, time and southern development after reconstruction"

Age and Time (LR)

1. Amy Ione (Independent Scholar) "Adding time to timeless questions:
the convergence of nature, society and individuals"

2. Ronald P. Gruber (Stanford University) "Measuring human age"

Afternoon Sessions, 3:30 - 5:30 PM

Forging time in 19th century Britain and the USA (LT)

1. Timothy L. Alborn (Lehman College, City University of New York)
"Time's thievish progress: Anglo-American finance and the end of
atonement"

2. Graeme Gooday (University of Leeds) "Ironizing industrial time:
machinery, secularity and subversion"

3. Ben Marsden (University of Kent) "Analysis, architecture, anatomy:
Robert Willis and the cultural apparatus of mechanics teaching in
Cambridge and London 1837-1870"

Local Time II (LR/ES)

1. Sandra Billington (University of Glasgow) "Midsummer in the
medieval calendar"

2. Christopher Humphrey (University of York) "Time and memory in
medieval urban society"

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Accommodation

Recommended Hotels are:

The Dolby Hotel, Wapping Dock, Liverpool
All rooms ensuite, 15 minutes from conference
Rate: stlg34 Room Only
Tel: (0151) 708 7272
Fax: (0151) 708 7266

St George's Hotel, Lime Street, Liverpool
Located in the heart of the city, 20 minutes walk from conference
Rate: stlg36 per person B&B Single, stlg32 per person B&B Dlb/Twin
Tel: 0151 709 7090
Fax: 0151 709 0137

The Holiday Inn Express, Albert Dock, Liverpool
Rate: stlg55 per room including continental breakfast. This hotel is only
a 5 minute walk from the conference

The Liverpool Moat House, Paradise Street, Liverpool
Four star hotel in city centre, 10 minutes from conference
Rate stlg75 B&B single, stlg95 B&B Dbl/Twin
Telephone: 0151 471 9988 Fax: 0151 709 2706

The Liverpool Crowne Plaza, Pier Head, Liverpool
Four-star, 10 minutes from conference
Rate: stlg85 B&B Single, stlg95 B&B Dbl/Twin
Tel: +44(0)151 243 8000 Fax: +44(0)151 243 8111


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