Events

Aug
20

Temporality, Indigeneity, and Encounter in the Early Modern World

Programme

Arrival: 9:30am – 9:40am

9:40am: Dr Matthew S. Champion – University of Melbourne

Framing the History of Temporal Encounters

10:00am: Dr Beatríz Marin-Aguilera – University of Liverpool

Transcending Gender, Power, and Temporalities: Machis between Medical and Satanic Healing in Colonial Chile

10:40am: Prof. Francisco Bethencourt – King’s College London

Indigeneity and Temporalities in the Portuguese Empire

11:20am: Dr Jessica O’Leary – Monash University

Time, Temporality and Encounter in Early Colonial Brazil

12:00pm: Concluding Discussion

12:30pm: Lunch & Further Discussion

Venue: Arts West Room G20 (entry from inside Arts West Gallery, University of Melbourne)

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Nov
14

Globalizing the History of Time

A workshop discussing problems and methods in the history of temporalities in global contexts with participants from the University of Melbourne, Australian Catholic University and the École française d’Extrême-Orient.

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July
7

Sound, Time, Matter

On 7 July 2023, the workshop Sound, Time, Matter was held at the British Museum in London. Co-hosted by Matthew Champion (University of Melbourne) and Oliver Cooke (British Museum), this curated collaborative workshop featured presentations by Víctor Pérez Álvarez (London), Kat Hill (London), Susanne Thüringen (Germanisches Nationalmuseum) and Matthew Laube (Baylor), with participation from Ian Fenlon (Cambridge), Stefan Hanß (Manchester), Mary Laven (Cambridge), Harriet Lyon (Cambridge), and Philippa Ovenden (Toronto). For full details, see event page here.

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Mar
6

Alle Thing hath Tyme

Panel discussion at Queen Mary University of London to celebrate the publication of Paul Strohm and Gillian Adler’s Alle Thing hath Tyme (London: Reaktion, 2023). With contributions from Prof. Gillian Adler (Sarah Lawrence College), Dr Matthew Champion (Melbourne), Prof. Alfred Hiatt (Queen Mary), Prof. Miri Rubin (Queen Mary), Gabrielle Schwarzmann (Queen Mary), Prof. Paul Strohm (Columbia), and Prof. Dan Todman (Queen Mary).

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Dec
11

Calendars, Clocks and Crossings: Religious Temporalities in Medieval and Early Modern Middelburg

Paper by Matthew Champion as part of Temporality, Urbanity, and Religion: Reconsidering Sacred Time in Ancient and Modern Cities, hosted by Duke University and the University of Erfurt.

Friday December 10, 2021, 8-10am EST (East Coast) | 2-4pm CET (Germany) | 9-11pm (Singapore and Beijing) | Saturday December 11, 12-2am AEDT (Melbourne)

Zoom ID: 991 1215 9423 https://duke.zoom.us/j/99112159423

Jörg Rüpke on Ancient Rome
Matthew Champion on Medieval and Early Modern Middelburg
Christopher Witmore on Ancient Argos

Papers available upon request. Please email (anna.x.sun@duke.edu) or (joerg.ruepke@uni-erfurt.de).

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Dec
6

Between Sound and Silence: Clocks in the Visual Culture of the Long Fifteenth Century

This paper assembles a collection of images of clocks from the manuscript tradition of northern Europe across the long fifteenth century to investigate the possible relationships they suggest between sound, image and devotional practice. This was the period that the domestic wall clock became a commonplace in the interiors of courtly and urban elites, as is evident from the witness of wills and inventories, surviving objects and manuscript images themselves. These images of clocks testify to the clock’s rising importance in the practice of devotional time. They seem to provoke reflection on the gap between the silent image and the sounding bells of the clock and to signal the sensory complications of attempts to mediate time and eternity.

Presented by Matthew Champion. Medieval Round Table, University of Melbourne.

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