2 October 2012               James Nye (King’s College, London)

                                     The Tricky Business of Selling Time

 

 

16 October 2012             Peter Soppelsa (University of Oklahoma)

                                     Stopping Time in Paris, 1830–1910

 

30 October 2012             Carlos Galvis (Royal Holloway, London)

                                     Circles of Discontinuity: the Time of Railways and the Time of Cities, London & Paris 1860-1900

 

 

13 November 2012         Charles Withers (University of Edinburgh)

                                     The Prime Meridian, Metrology and the Internationalisation of Science, Space and Time

 

 

27 November 2012         Mustafa Dikeç (Royal Holloway, London)

                                     Pumping Time: Temporal Infrastructures in Fin-de-siècle Paris

 

 

These seminars are held on Tuesdays at 5.15pm in the Torrington Room 104, South Block, Senate House, University of London (apart from 13 November when the venue is Stewart House, STB8). 

This term’s guest convenor is Mustafa Dikeç. For further details, or to have your name added to our e-mail list, please contact Felix Driver, Royal Holloway ([log in to unmask]) 

or Miles Ogborn, Queen Mary ([log in to unmask]). We are grateful to AHRC, Queen Mary, Royal Holloway, Kings, Birkbeck, UCL, LSE, University of Sussex, Open University 

and the IHR for supporting this seminar series.