Time in Early Modern Thought

A two day conference at the University of York – 9th and 10th May 2014, run jointly by the universities of Lancaster and York as a Northern Renaissance Roses Seminar. The first day will take place in the Treehouse, Humanities Research Centre, and the second in the beautiful surroundings of York Minster Old Palace Library, and will conclude with a concert given by the Minster Minstrels, a renaissance-baroque early music wind group.

There is no charge for the conference, but because numbers are restricted in the Old Palace Library on Saturday 10th, I would very much appreciate if you could contact me for an informal registration / ticketing, e-mailing:[email protected]  by Tuesday 22nd April. Please note disable access is restricted for this historic venue.

Provisional Programme

Friday: Treehouse, Humanities Research Centre

10.00-11.30

Horology and Technology

Zoe Gibbons, Objectified Time in Shackerley Marmion’s The Antiquary (Princeton)

Jane Desborough, The Clock and Watch Dial as a Reflection of Perceptions and Experiences of Time (Leeds)

Natalie Kaoukji, Writing, progress and the history of inventions (Cambridge)

Alexander Cummins, Time and Magic in Early Modern England (Bristol)

11.30-12.00 Coffee

12.00-1.30

Drama and Clocks

Denise Kelly, ‘Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time’: ‘Keeping’ Time in Early Modern English Theatre and Culture (Queens, Belfast)

Robert Stagg, Shakespeare’s Clocks (Southampton)

Helen Davies, ‘Tyrants expect no time’: constructing the temporally impaired body of Richard III in the ableist space of Tudor England (Lancaster)

1.30-2.30 (lunch)

2.30-3.30

Philosophy and Time

Joanne Paul, ‘An instance of grasped time’: Kairos in the Tudor Art of Politics (NCH)

Oliver Dubouclez, Time and Contemplation in Francesco Piccolomini’s Naturae Totius Universi (Université de Liège)

Grigol Gegelia, The Machiavellian Occasion (European University Institute)

3.30-4.00

4.00 – 5.00

Chronotopes and the Time to Come

L.D. Haydon, Milton and the Problem of Epic Time (University of Kent)

Sharon Galbraith, Short Death, Long Sleep: Timing Mortality in Early Modern Perceptions of Piers Plowman (Lancaster University)