19 May 2017

9:30 Introduction (Susanne Lachenicht, Gesa Mackenthun)

Discussion of Texts on History, Temporalities and Imperial Time

9:45 Aurelius Augustinus, Bekenntnisse, ed. Herman Hefele, Berlin (East): Union 1959, Book 11, 5-31. (Julien Bérard)

10:45 Donald Wilcox, The Measure of Times Past, Chicago, London: The University of Chicago Press, 1987, Extract: 1-50. (Kristin Skottki)

12:00 Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 4/3 (Sep. 1998), 469-488. (Astrid Windus)

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Lynn Hunt, Measuring Time, Making History, Budapest: Central European University Press 2008. Extract "Post Times or the Future of the Past.'" 93-133. (Alexander Bräuer)

15:00 Alexander Nagel and Christopher S. Wood, Interventions: Toward a New Model of Renaissance Anachronism, The Art Bulletin LXXXVII 3 (2005), 403-415. (Susanne Lachenicht)

16:00 Johannes Fabian, Time and the Other. How Anthropology Makes Its Object. With a new Foreword by Matti Bunzl, New York: Columbia University Press 2002 (orig. version 1983). Extract: 71-104. (Gesa Mackenthun)

20 May 2017

9:30 Kathleen Davis, Periodization and Sovereignty. How Ideas of Feudalism and Secularization Govern the Politics of Time (The Middle Ages Series), Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 2008. Extract: 77-102. (Stefan Weiß)

Presentation of Projects

10:30 Gesa Mackenthun (Rostock): Storied Landscapes: Colonial and Decolonial Inscriptions of the Land

11:30 Stefan Krause (Rostock): The Past Expands: (Colonial) Constructions of Time from Prehistory to Deep History

12:30 Susanne Lachenicht (Bayreuth): Third Space Landscapes and Time in the Natural Histories of the French Atlantic World

14:30 Stefan Weiß (Bayreuth): Fueling the panic and the recollection of preceding crises: The perception of time during the "Sepoy Mutiny" in Britain 1857

15:30 Julien Bérard (Bayreuth): Timescapes and Cartography: Representations of Space and Time in 16th-century Europe

16:30 Astrid Windus (Hamburg): Network Transcultural epistemologies: Material and sensorial dimensions of knowledge production in cultural contact zones of colonial Latin America

17:30 Alexander Bräuer (Rostock): Tiere der Urwelt: The colonial invention of a prehistoric time on German trading cards before WWI

18:30 Conclusions

Discussants: Volker Depkat (Regensburg), Michael Hauhs (Bayreuth), Alexander Knirim (Bayreuth), Kristin Skottki (Bayreuth), Annalisa Urbano (Bayreuth)