‘Juvenescence: A Cultural History of our Age’ by Pogue Harrison (The University of Chicago Press, 2014). Juvenescence is the consciousness of being young; which can be ascribed to an individual or a civilization. Robert Pogue Harrison delves into how people, places, and moments in history, are young. The book asks Read more…
We are pleased to announce the second meeting of the Time and Temporality Network, a one-day workshop focusing on temporality in relation to medicine and what might be called disordered or atypical experiences of the body and mind. The workshop will take place at the University of Warwick on Read more…
Royal Institute of Philosophy, Birmingham Branch Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham Friday 6th of June 2014 Room G51, ERI Building, University of Birmingham Campus Workshop on Time and Well-Being 13.00-14.20 “The Passing of Momentary Well-Being” Ben Bramble (University of Vienna) 14.20-14.40 Tea and Coffee Break 14.40-16.00 “What Is Child Well-Being?” Read more…
Institute of Advanced Study ‘About Time’ Public Lecture Series Professor Lynn Bothelo, Indiana University of Pennsylvania ‘Keeping Time at Bay: old age, medicine, and money in early modern England’ 1 May 2013, 6.15 – 7.15pm Kingsley Barrett Room, Calman Learning Centre, Durham University Abstract: The desire to live forever has Read more…
Institute of Advanced Study Fellows’ Public Lecture Mary Manjikian:’Emergency Time, Crisis and the Role of the State: Reflections on the Past, Present and the Future’ 28 February 2013, 5.30 – 6.30pm, Howlands Hall, Ustinov College, Durham University Attendance to this event is free and open to all. Abstract: Despite the Read more…
Greg Atkinson: “The human body: a journey round the clock” Arc: Dovecot Street Stockton on Tees Tuesday 15 January at 8pm Greg will take the audience on a journey through time to see how various functions in the body are affected by body clocks. He will explain why we are Read more…
Festivals: Time for Wellbeing? Presented by Prof. Chris Cook 21 November 2012 18:15 in Elvet Riverside 140 Recent research has explored various aspects of spirituality in relation to health and wellbeing, but festivals are conspicuously absent from this research. The lecture is a foray into this field. Are festivals good Read more…
Rhythm, time experience and the body: Re-thinking musical time Professor Udo Will, Ohio State University, USA Institute of Advanced Study Fellows’ Public Lecture 06 November 2012, 8.00 – 9.00pm Senate Suite, University College, Durham University Abstract: In Western Music one meets the idea that time is a pre-existing framework that Read more…
The Institute of Advanced Study and Centre for Medical Humanities present: Times of Transition A workshop held under the ‘Experiencing Time’ IAS sub-theme 14 November 2012, 2 – 5pm Kenworthy Hall, St Mary’s College, Durham University Ritually celebrated yet sometimes invisible, momentous and gradual, buoyed by hope and laced with Read more…
Industriousness and Daydreaming: Cognitive Neuroscience’s Revaluation of Rest Dr Felicity Callard Senior Lecturer in Social Science for Medical Humanities, Durham University Friday 2nd of November, 3:30pm East Quadrangle Lecture Theatre, University of Glasgow Wine Reception to follow Abstract: How might human geography respond to the epistemological and ontological challenges posed Read more…