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CALL FOR PAPERS
On Time: History, Science, Commemoration
at National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside (NMGM), Liverpool
a British Society for the History of Science (BSHS), Royal Historical
Society (RHS) and NMGM conference
16-19 September 1999
The approach of the millenium has heightened awareness of the
conventions and cultures of time. But what is time? This question has
been of growing interest amongst historians. Their research is
markedly interdisciplinary, spilling over the boundaries between
social, economic and cultural historians, and historians of science,
technology, medicine and mathematics. 'On Time', organised by the
British Society for the History of Science (BSHS), Royal Historical
Society (RHS) and NMGM responds to this interdisciplinarity.
The conference will be held at the NMGM (which includes the Merseyside
Maritime Museum, in the heart of Liverpool's historic Albert Dock), a
holder of a highly significant collection of timepieces.
Papers with a wide interest and historiographical scope are invited.
Possible sessions include:
Beginnings and Origin Stories
Commemoration
Maritime Time
Timetables and Technology
Workplaces and Time
Lifetimes and Servitude
Units of Time
Calendars
Time and Political Economies
Scientific Instruments and Time
Cultures of Time and Space
Religion and Time
Nostalgia
Rhythms and Cycles in the Natural Sciences
Evolution
Relativity
Anthropology and Time
Past-Futures
Ends of Time
Immortality
Roughly thirty minutes will be given for each paper chosen. Abstracts of
50-100 words should be sent before 1 September 1998 to either:
Dr William J. Ashworth (BSHS)
Department of Economic and Social History, The University of
Liverpool, 11 Abercromby Square, Liverpool, L69 3BX.
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or
Dr Roland Quinault (RHS)
School of Historical, Philosophical and Contemporary Studies,
Faculty of HTE, University of North London, 166- 220 Holloway Road,
London N7 8DB, England
Interested speakers will be informed by the end of September 1998 as to
whether their paper has been accepted. The On Time programme committee
are: Dr Jon Agar (University of Manchester), Dr Jeff Hughes (University of
Manchester), Dr Roland Quinault (University of North London), Dr William
J. Ashworth (Liverpool University)
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