Printable final conference program - (updated on 06.06.13).
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Program
| Wednesday June 5 Venue: Georg Sverdrup's Building, Blindern |
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| 10:30 | 11:00 | Registration & coffee |
| Plenary session 1 Auditorium 2 |
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| 11:00 | 11:15 | Opening of the Conference by Einar Lie, Vice Dean for Research, Faculty of Humanities Welcome by Helge Jordheim, Head of KULTRANS |
| 11:15 | 12:15 | Plenary keynote: Geoffrey C. Bowker: The times they are a-changin’ |
| 12:15 | 13:15 | Lunch |
| 13:15 | 17:30 | Parallel sessions: |
| Panel: Modern times and other times, I: Examining concepts Chair: Erling Sandmo Auditorium 2 |
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| 13:15 | 13:55 | Panel keynote. Penny Harvey: Inauguration and the time of the infrastructural |
| 13:55 | 14:25 | Thomas Hylland Eriksen: Deep and shallow time in social change |
| 14:25 | 14:55 | Ingjerd Hoëm: Genealogical time meets audit culture |
| 14:55 | 15:15 | Discussion |
| 15:15 | 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30 | 16:10 | Panel keynote. Veronica Strang: On the matter of time |
| 16:10 | 16:40 | Falko Schmieder: The temporalization of survival |
| 16:40 | 17:15 | Discussion |
| Panel: Temporalities of nature and culture, I Chair: Geoffrey Bowker Room 1 |
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| 13:15 | 13:45 | Gro B. Ween: Salmon life cycles: Death and other purposes |
| 13:45 | 14:15 | Nuno Luís Madureira: Environmental time and the threat of fossil fuel depletion (XIX and early XX century) |
| 14:15 | 14:45 | Kyrre Kverndokk: The bride of Frankenstorm. The rhetorics of hurricanes and the semiotics of weather extremes |
| 14:45 | 15:15 | Discussion |
| 15:15 | 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30 | 16:00 | Kristin Asdal: Co-modification and technologies for timing |
| 16:00 | 16:30 | Marisa Cohn: The multiple temporal embodiments of systems work in a long-lived system |
| 16:30 | 17:00 | Discussion |
| Panel: Futures Chair: Anders Ekström Room 2 |
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| 13:15 | 13:45 | Inger-Johanne Sand: Law, regimes of temporality, challenges of risk society |
| 13:45 | 14:15 | Stefan Willer: Back to the future, forward to the past - how to travel through time |
| 14:15 | 14:45 | Discussion |
| 15:15 | 15:30 | Coffee break |
| Panel: Standardisation Chair: Vidar Grøtta Room 2 |
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| 15:30 | 16:00 | Henrik Sinding-Larsen: New levels of standardization as a precondition for speed and integration in cultural evolution |
| 16:00 | 16:30 | Lars Kirkhusmo Pharo: Global and local temporal knowledge: The politics of time regimes in America |
| 16:30 | 17:00 | Oili-Helena Ylijoki: Conflicting temporalities in project-based university research |
| 17:00 | 17:30 | Discussion |
| Thursday June 6 Venue: Georg Sverdrup's Building, Blindern |
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| 08:30 | 10:30 | Parallel sessions: |
| Panel: Modern times and other times, II: Linearity Chair: Thomas Hylland Eriksen Auditorium 2 |
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| 8:30 | 9:00 | Aurogeeta Das: Old and new muggus: Contested chronological narratives in Indian art history |
| 9:00 | 9:30 | Anirudh Deshpande: The world is not flat. The dream of linear progress and existential multiplicities of a "globalized" town in transition (1985-2012) - the case of Gurgaon (India). Download concept note (pdf) |
| 9:30 | 10:00 | Shahzad Bashir: The myth of an Islamic time: Rethinking the representation of muslim societies |
| 10:00 | 10:30 | Discussion |
| Panel: Mediating time I: Synchronicities Chair: John Durham Peters Room 2 |
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| 8:30 | 9:10 | Panel keynote. Stephanie Marriott: Momentous news and the phenomenology of the live event |
| 9:10 | 9:40 | Anne Danielsen: "Once Upon a Time Called Now" – the experience of time in groove-directed music |
| 9:40 | 10:10 | Matthias Koch & Christian Köhler: Archaeological time: On "time" as epistemological category of current media histories |
| 10:10 | 10:30 | Discussion |
| Panel: Temporalities of nature and culture, II Chair: Kyrre Kverndokk Room 3 |
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| 8:30 | 9:00 | Michaela Ibrion & Mohammad Mokhtari: The intriguing temporality of earthquakes and narratives of seismic time |
| 9:00 | 9:30 | Sylvia Lysgård: The role of historical events and present experiences for visions of a renewable future |
| 9:30 | 10:00 | Discussion |
| 10:30 | 10:45 | Coffee break |
| Plenary session 2 Auditorium 2 |
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| 10:45 | 11:45 | Plenary keynote Lynn Hunt: Why time now? |
| 11:45 | 12:45 | Lunch |
| 12:45 | 14:45 | Parallel sessions: |
| Panel: Mediating time II: The event Chair: John Durham Peters Auditorium 2 |
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| 12:45 | 13:25 | Panel keynote. Anders Ekström: Times of disaster imagery |
| 13:25 | 13:55 | Katharina Niemeyer: Media, time and events or media-time-events |
| 13:55 | 14:25 | Espen Ytreberg: Media events before and after liveness |
| 14:25 | 14:45 | Discussion |
| Panel: Synchronies and asynchronies Chair: Stefan Willer Room2 |
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| 12:45 | 13:15 | Helge Jordheim: Temporal Regimes and the Work of Synchronization |
| 13:15 | 13:45 | Einar Wigen: Synchronising history |
| 13:45 | 14:15 | Georg P. Mueller: Revolutions of time in revolutionary times. On the de- and re-synchronisation of socio-political clocks |
| 14:15 | 14:45 | Discussion |
| 14:45 | 15:15 | Coffee break |
| Open lecture (Plenary session 3) Auditorium 1 |
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| 15:15 | 16:30 | Plenary keynote Bruno Latour: Kosmokoloss |
| 19:30 | Conference dinner for speakers at the Restaurant Olympen, Grønlandsleiret 15, Metro: Grønland | |
| Friday June 7 Venue: Georg Sverdrup's Building, Blindern |
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| 09:00 | 11:00 | Parallel sessions: |
| Panel: Bringing together present and past Chair: Staffan Ericson Room 1 |
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| 9:00 | 9:30 | Theo Röhle: From stateless to staleness. Temporality, rankings and the canon |
| 9:30 | 10:00 | Anna Soulsby: Time, memory and the construction of history in post-communist organisations |
| 10:00 | 10:30 | Discussion |
| Panel: Mediating time III: Politics of media technologies Chair: Stephanie Marriott Room 2 |
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| 9:00 | 9:30 | Tarik Sabry: The Arab revolutions: The aporia of time revisited |
| 9:30 | 10:00 | Anna Grigoryeva: It's all happening at once. Emergency temporality and media technologies in Moscow's protest movement |
| 10:00 | 10:30 | Audun Solli: The politics of temporality in Venezuelan cinema |
| 10:30 | 11:00 | Discussion |
| Panel: Progress Chair: Lucian Hölscher Room 3 |
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| 9:00 | 9:30 | Ronald Aronson: Whatever Happened to Progress? |
| 9:30 | 10:00 | Anton Jansson: Progress into freedom. Political and religious temporalities in Staatslexikon by Rotteck and Welcker |
| 10:00 | 11:30 | Discussion |
| 11:00 | 11:15 | Coffee break |
| Plenary session 4 Auditorium 2 |
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| 11:15 | 12:15 | Plenary keynote: John Durham Peters: Cultural Techniques of Time-Keeping, especially from the sky |
| 12:15 | 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 | 17:15 | Parallel sessions: |
| Panel: Political time Chair: Hilde Reinertsen Room 1 |
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| 13:00 | 13:30 | Alessandra von Burg: Stochastic citizenship and time: Randomness through a history of movement |
| 13:30 | 14:00 | Anna Friberg: The temporalization of democracy: The transformation from a political concept to an economic |
| 14:00 | 14:30 | Discussion |
| Panel: Time and historiography, I Chair: Stefan Willer Room 2 |
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| 13:00 | 13:40 | Panel keynote. Lucian Hölscher: Time gardens. Structures of temporality in modern historiography |
| 13:40 | 14:10 | Erling Sandmo: Heterotopia and heterochronia in Olaus Magnus |
| 14:10 | 14:40 | Peter Tietze: Concepts of time. Historicism, historical semantics, and the plurality of historical times |
| 14:40 | 15:00 | Discussion |
| Panel: Temporalities of the everyday Chair: Veronica Strang Room 3 |
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| 13:00 | 13:30 | Kinneret Lahad: What are you waiting for? In the end you will die alone! Waiting and the temporal experiences of single women |
| 13:30 | 14:00 | Thorgeir Kolshus: Chronometry for eternity. A multitemporal approach to the virtues of punctuality in Melanesia |
| 14:00 | 14:30 | Cicilie Fagerlid: Co-presence and the public place |
| 14:30 | 15:00 | Discussion |
| 15:00 | 15:15 | Coffee break |
| Panel: Development Chair: Penny Harvey Room 1 |
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| 15:15 | 15:45 | Hilde Reinertsen: Technologies of timing in development aid: A study of planning, monitoring, and evaluation documents from Norwegian energy aid projects, 1990-95 |
| 15:45 | 16:15 | Marie-Christine Boilard: International politics of development time. A perspective from the United Nations General Assembly |
| 16:15 | 16:45 | Ida Jahr: Academic disciplines as predicated on specific metaphorical constructions of time: Regimes of temporality in American Studies |
| 16:45 | 17:15 | Discussion |
| Panel: Time and historiography, II Chair: Falko Schmieder Room 2 |
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| 15:15 | 15:45 | Staffan Ericson: Media and maelstroms. (McLuhan and Benjamin) |
| 15:45 | 16:15 | Stefan Helgesson: The writing of colonial time |
| 16:15 | 16:45 | Ulrike Kirchberger: Cultures of time in the Atlantic world, 1760-1830 |
| 16:45 | 17:15 | Discussion |
| 17:15 | End of conference | |
Speaker presentation guidelines
Time limit for presentations: 25 minutes. Keynotes: 45 minutes. Keynotes in parallel sessions: 40 minutes.
Bring your presentation on a memory stick. All rooms are equipped with a computer, beamer, DVD player (Region 2 Europe) and loud speakers.
If you plan to use your own Mac, bring an adapter. We do prefer memory sticks though.
Handouts: Please contact the conference staff at least 24 hours before your session if you need printing service.
Photo: Espen Ytreberg