(one aim of this conference is to encourage greater interaction
between 'mainstream' historians and historians of science, technology
and medicine, so please forward to any one/list who you think might
be interested)
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On Time: History, Science, Commemoration
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 at the Merseyside Maritime Museum,
Albert Dock, Liverpool, UK
In the following '(LT)'means that the session is in the Lecture
Theatre, whereas '(LR or ES)' means that it will be in the Long Room
or Educational Suite
FULL SESSION SCHEDULE (Draft)
Morning Sessions, 9:00 - 11:45 AM
Constructing Time (LT)
1. Carlene Stephens (National Museum of American History, Smithsonian
Institute) "How and why clock time became significant in American
Culture"
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"
The Economics and Business of Time (LR or ES)
1. Andri Werner Stahel (Independent Scholar) "Mechanical time,
systemic times, modernity and economic value"
2. K. C. Cleaver (University of Liverpool) "Time in economics (and
contiguous disciplines)"
3. Andrew Tylecote (University of Sheffield) "Time horizons and
short-terminsim in business: causes and effects"
4. 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. Antoine Capet (Rouen University) "The second world war as a
foundation of the British perception of 20th century chronology"
4. Penelope Corfield (Royal Holloway) "Patterns in history:
medievalism, modernity, postmodernity?"
Music and Time (LR or ES)
1. Penny Gouk (University of Manchester) on Music, Time and the Body
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. Clare Griffiths (Wadham College, Oxford) "Radical Chronologies:
marking anniversaries and making history in the British Labour
movement"
Instrumentation and Time (LR or ES)
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 or ES)
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"
4. Angela Schwarz (Gerhard Mercator Universitat Gesamthochschule
Duisburg) "A new age dawning: conceptions of a new era in late 19th
century popular science in Britain and Germany"
Instrumentation and Time II (LR or ES)
1. Greg Wallenborn (University of Brussels) "Physicists as
timecreators and timekeepers"
2. Jeffrey D. Tang (Independent Scholar) "Timely success: the genesis
of the south-west Lancashire watchmaking industry"
4. George Robinson ("One o'clock Gun" Millennium Committee) "Time,
guns and Charles Piazza Smyth"
Afternoon Sessions, 3:30 - 5:30 PM
Time and Identity (LT)
1. Juan Pimentel (Madrid University) "A peripheral and late
enlightenment? Spanish science in the 18th century"
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"
Local Time (LR or ES)
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 (Independent Scholar) "Prison time"
4. Ulf Brunnbauer (University of Graz) "'League of Time': the making
of a Soviet working class"
Friday evening: Presidential Address by Professor Ludmilla Jordanova:
"Remembrance of Science Past"
followed by Conference Banquet
Saturday, 18 September
Morning Sessions, 9:00 - 11:45 AM
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"
Time Tables (LR or ES)
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
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 (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"
Age and Time (LR or ES)
1. Steven T. Ostovich (College of St. Scholastica) "Eschatological
time and history"
2. Amy Ione (Independent Scholar) "Adding time to timeless questions:
the convergence of nature, society and individuals"
3. Matthias Doerries (Deutsches Museum) "Hysteresis and Nachwirkung in
19th century physics"
4. 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. Ian R. Bartky (Retired US civil servant) "Towards uniform public
time: 19th century American timekeeping"
3. Graeme Gooday (University of Leeds) "Ironizing industrial time:
machinery, secularity and subversion"
4. 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. Henrik Agren (University of Uppsala) "A modern year for a modern
mind: the replacement of holidays by dates in Swedish legal
ordinances"
2. Sandra Billington (University of Glasgow) "Midsummer in the
medieval calendar"
3. Christopher Humphrey (University of York) "Time and memory in
medieval urban society"
Note: programme and forms can be found below, and at
http://www.man.ac.uk/Science_Engineering/CHSTM/bshs/time.htm
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Registration Form: On Time: History, Science, Commemoration
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Recommended Hotels are:
The Dolby Hotel, Wapping Dock, Liverpool
All rooms ensuite, 15 minutes from conference
Rate: stlg34 Room Only
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
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
The Liverpool Crowne Plaza, Pier Head, Liverpool
Four-star, 10 minutes from conference
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