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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.