====================== HES POSTING ================= 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. [log in to unmask] 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) ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]