TEMPORAL COMPARISONS AS VALUATION TOOLS: HISTORICAL SEMANTICS AND BEYOND
Flyer_Temporal_Comparisons_Program
PROGRAM
Wednesday, 05.12.2018 (X-A2-103)
16.00. Registration & coffee
16.30. Willibald Steinmetz (Bielefeld University, Germany):
Historical Semantics of Temporal Comparisons: A Short Introduction
17.00. François Hartog (EHESS, France):
From Parallel to Comparison (18th – 19th centuries)
18.00. Reception (XA2-103)
Thursday, 06.12.2018 (X-A2-103)
9.00. Coffee
9.30. Anna Karla (University of Köln, Germany):
Temporalities, architecture, and politics: “Reconstruction“ in Europe after World War I
10.15. Javier Fernández Sebastián (University of the Basque Country, Spain):
Waving the Historians’ Wand. Comparisons and Parallels in the Writing of History
11.00-11.15. Coffee break
11.15. Zoltán Boldizsár Simon (Bielefeld University, Germany):
Domesticating Novelty through History
12.00. Michael Götzelmann (Bielefeld University, Germany):
Stitching Time / Space: Towards the Functions of Temporal Comparisons in Utopias and Dystopias
12.45 -14.00. Lunch
14.00. Jussi Kurunmäki (University of South Stockholm, Sweden) /Jani Marjanen (University of Helsinki, Finland):
How temporal comparisons shape political language in early nineteenth-century Finland
14.45. Kirill Postoutenko & Olga Sabelfeld (Bielefeld University, Germany):
Post-War Consensus in British Parliament (1945-1959) through the Prism of Temporal Comparisons
15.30-15.45. Coffee break
15:45. Final discussion