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IAS workshop: Time and Social Cohesion
25 April 2022, 9:30 am–5:00 pm
Can people live together with different time frames and calendars? Is a common time frame essential for a sense of common belonging and identity, or does different time reckoning mean social breakdown and schism? This workshop explores these questions from theoretical and historical perspectives, ranging from late antiquity to the modern world.
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Nadia Vidro and Sacha Sternsacha.stern@ucl.ac.uk
Location
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IAS ForumGround floor, South Wing, UCLLondonWC1E 6BT
Programme:
- 9:30 Registration and coffee
- 9:55 Welcome and introduction
- 10:00 Sacha Stern (UCL): Jewish sects and Christian heresies: the origins of the myth of ‘time and social cohesion’
- 11:00 François de Blois (UCL): Calendars in the ancient and medieval Iranian world: coexistence and competition
- 12:00 Coffee break
- 12:15 Nadia Vidro (UCL): Calendar differences and social cohesion in medieval Jewish societies of the Near East
- 13:15 Lunch
- 14:15 Andreas Schönle (Bristol): Peter the Great’s calendar reforms, plural times, and community building in 18th-century Russia
- 15:15 Rafael Fuentes Tarin (UCL and Ashoka University): Calendars and power: unravelling the political economy of Sikh timekeeping practices in India
- 16:15 Concluding discussion
- 17:00 End of workshop
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