Urban Co-Temporalities

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Urban Co-Temporalities

Veranstalter
Erfurter RaumZeit Forschung & KFG “Religion and Urbanity” (FOR 2779)
Veranstaltungsort
Campus University of Erfurt
Gefördert durch
DFG and Ernst Abbe Stiftung
PLZ
99099
Ort
Erfurt
Land
Deutschland
Findet statt
In Präsenz
Vom - Bis
21.02.2024 - 23.02.2024
Website
https://urbrel.hypotheses.org/4709
Von
Aaron French, Religious Studies, Universität Erfurt

The Erfurt RaumZeit-Forschung announces an international conference on urban co-temporalities together with the Kolleg-Forschungsgruppe "Religion and Urbanity" (FOR 2779). The conference will take place from February 21 to 23, 2024 at the University of Erfurt and deals with multiple temporalities in an urban environment that seem to coexist.

Urban Co-Temporalities

The conference focuses on multiple temporalities within an urban environment that appear to coexist. It investigates the question of co-temporalities in the urban setting and asks whether such a concept could prove useful for analysing the connectivity between co-extensive spaces. In 2003, the related concept co-spatiality was introduced by the French geographer Jacques Lévy to describe space in terms of multiple layers. Lévy outlined a specific relation between spaces and the idea of interspatiality, a space of overlapping realities. Since then co-spatiality has received significant attention within the fields of social geography, spatial sociology, and the history of urban ways of life.

Within these same fields, a notion of cotemporalities has not yet been sufficiently theorized. The present conference aims to fill this gap by developing the idea of multiple strata or layers of temporalities co-existing, and contesting, within urban space. Co temporalities are located; they must take place. The goal is therefore to seek an understanding of co-temporalities of pasts, presents and futures coexisting in a single urban space, and how different accounts of time and history occupy the same space.

The conference is jointly organised by the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences “Religion & Urbanity” (FOR 2779) and the SpatioTemporality group at the University of Erfurt.

Programm

Wednesday, 21 February 2024

2:00-2:15 /Welcome Coffee & Introduction with Susanne Rau
& Katharina Waldner (both Erfurt)
Panel: Urban Rhythms (Chair: Sabine Schmolinsky)
2:15-2:55 /Robin Chang (Aix-la-Chapelle): “A Multi-Level and
Rhythmic Approach: Temporalities of Urban Regeneration“
3:00-3:40 /Vera Henkelmann (Eschweiler): “Rhythms of
Light—Multiple Temporalities in Medieval Cities and Their Religious
Implications“
4:15-6:00 /Guided tour with Dr Karin Sczech, municipal archaeologist and Appointee to the UNESCO World Heritage of
Erfurt
Meeting point: Alte Synagoge (city centre)
7:00 /Dinner (city centre)

Thursday, 22 February 2024

Panel: Co-Rituality (Chair: Jörg Rüpke)
9:30-10:10 /Ken Chitwood (Berlin): “Encountering Berlin‘s
Religio-city and Co-Rituality in Urbanised Space(s)“
10:10-10:50 /Kristine Iara (Rome): “Co-Spatiality, CoTemporality, Co-Rituality in Late Antique Rome“
10:50-11:05 /Coffee Break
11:05-11:45 /Beate Löffler (Dortmund): “Asynchronicity in
Urbant Religions. Social Change and Spatial Permanence“ 11:45-12:35 /Harry O. Maier (Vancouver): “Arrhythmia, Eurhythmia, and Co-Temporalities of Urban Spatial Practice in Clement of Alexandria“

12:35-2:00 /Lunch at Luftbad Nord

Panel: Co-Spatialities & Co-Temporalities (Chair: Aaron French) 2:00-2:40 /Anna-Katherina Rieger (Graz): “Co-Temporal and Heterochron—The Archaeology of Various Temporalities in Shared Sacred Spaces of Roman Pompeii“
2:40-3:20 /Federica Mirra (Birmingham): “Overlapping
Temporalities: Square Dancing and Contemporary Visual Arts in
Kunming“
3:20-3:40 /Coffee Break
3:40-4:20 /Fraya Frehse (São Paulo) & Nina Baur (Berlin):
“The Historicity of Interaction Patterns and the Reproduction of
Urban Public Space: Street Food as Empirical Pretext“
4:20-5:00 /Heiner Stahl (Siegen): “Eating Ice Cream between 1780 and 1830: Urban Co-Temporalities, Courtly and Civic Cultures of Luxurious Food and Contested Gastronomical Spaces“ 5:00-5:40 /Joseph Kretzschmar (Bremen/Erfurt): “Between
‘Fish-Time‘ and Northern Renaissance: Co-Temporalities in the
Bremen ‘local timezone‘, 1400-1600“
7:00 /Conference Dinner (city centre)

Friday, 23 February 2024

Panel: Competing Histories (Chair: Holt Meyer) 9:30-10:10 /Aimée Plukker (Ithaca): “Rhythms of the Other":
Urban Temporalities and Tourism in the Work of Henri Lefebvre “
10:10-10:50 /Maryam Rahmani (Leipzig): “Religious Sorrow &
National Joy: Conflicting Rhythms of Commemoration in PostRevolutionary Iran“
10:50-11:10 /Coffee Break
11:10-11:50 /Paladia Ziss (Birmingham): “Chronotopes of
Communality and Disconnection: How Temporality Shapes Local
Relationships between Refugees and Longer -Term Residents in
Turkey“

Kontakt

Max-Weber-Kolleg
University of Erfurt
PostBox 900221
99105 Erfurt, Germany

https://urbrel.hypotheses.org/4709