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Suzanne Marchand - Herodotus and the Quest to Synchronize Ancient Oriental Prehistory
Welcome to the LIFETIMES webinar series where we explore some of the core themes of our project. In this lecture, you can listen to Suzanne Marchand, professor of history and Louisiane State University, talk about synchronization and the reception history of Herodotus.
Based on movies and post-colonial readings, we might conclude that Herodotus has always been read as the narrator of the first great clash between Eastern and Western civilizations in the Persian wars. We would be led to believe that the entirety of his writings describes the heroic fighting of those wars and the glorious victory of the democratic Greeks. We would, however, be almost entirely wrong.
Herodotus was in fact no hero to the Greeks. Some blamed him for overemphasizing entertainment. One critic even claimed that he supported anti-Greek laws and was a lover of barbarians. And he also wrote about much more than the Persian wars. Much of his writings deal with religion, Egypt, chronology, anthropology and geography. The view, then, that Herodotus' project was a glorification of Greek democracy in the face of Eastern civilization is misleading.
In this lecture, Suzanne Marchand unpacks a different reception history of the father of history, one that does not see him as an early origin of Western orientalism starting in the 4th-century BCE. If we recall that syncronization as a historical practice aims to establish paralells and continuities between different historical trajectories, it is possible to see the reception history of Herodotus, as found in the readings done by Josephus and Eusebius, as a means to establish continuity between pagan and Christian history. These readings were again taken up by Renaissance scholars who sought to use the writings of Herodotus to link the history of the jews and christians to the orient.
About the project: LIFETIMES is an interdisciplinary research group at the University of Oslo. We work in fields like cultural history, media studies, medical humanities, literary studies, anthropology, and and science and technology studies. Our starting point is that time is both social, natural, and biological, and that, in fact, there many kinds of time.
For more information about the project, see our website: www.temporalities.no
Or look us up on Twitter: LifetimesUiO
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Margrit Pernau - Synchronization and Periodization
มุมมอง 3273 ปีที่แล้ว
Welcome to the LIFETIMES webinar series where we explore some of the core themes of our project. In this lecture, you can listen to Margrit Pernau, Senior Researcher Center in the History of Emotions at Max Planck Institute for Human Development, talk about why periodization is both problematic and important. Periodization has historically been used to venerate certain cultures while delegitima...
Geoffrey C. Bowker - Synchronize Your Watches
มุมมอง 1943 ปีที่แล้ว
Welcome to the LIFETIMES webinar series where we explore some of the core themes of our project. In this lecture, you can listen to Geoffrey Bowker talk about some of the problems involved in conceiving a single uniform temporality that supposedly spans human and natural worlds. In his talk, Bowker has three main points. 1. Chronology History is often conceived of as a series of dates. We think...
Helge Jordheim - Synchronizing the World: Multiple Times and the Work of Synchronization
มุมมอง 3863 ปีที่แล้ว
Welcome to the LIFETIMES webinar series where we explore some of the core themes of our project. In this lecture, you can listen to Helge Jordheim, professor of cultural history at University of Oslo, and Principle Investigator of the LIFETIMES project, talk about the use of synchronistic tables in early modern universal history. Time is undoubtedly a complex phenomena. And often time is though...
Mark Bould - Time and Science Fiction
มุมมอง 3263 ปีที่แล้ว
Welcome to the LIFETIMES webinar series where we explore some of the core themes of our project. In this lecture, you can listen to Mark Bould, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of the West of England, talk about the relationship between time, history and science fiction. Science fiction is, after all, all about time. It emerged as a genre in the 19th-century as scientific disco...
Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay - Future Histories
มุมมอง 3203 ปีที่แล้ว
Welcome to the LIFETIMES webinar series where we explore some of the core themes of our project. In this lecture, you can listen to Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, associate professor at Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, UiO, talk about the multiple temporalities of future histories. What is at stake when we talk about different futures? Whether they be futures projected in a byg...
Susanne M. Winterling - Times of Planetary Algae
มุมมอง 1903 ปีที่แล้ว
Welcome to the LIFETIMES webinar series where we explore some of the core themes of our project. In this lecture, you can listen to Susanne M. Winterling, artist, filmmaker, photographer, and professor at Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, talk about new ways of conceptualizing human-animal relations in the anthropocene and capitalocene from the perspective of the arts. Which times and which lives ...
Einar Wigen - Progress and Synchronization in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey
มุมมอง 1313 ปีที่แล้ว
Welcome to the LIFETIMES webinar series where we explore some of the core themes of our project. In this lecture, you can listen to Einar Wigen, associate professor at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, UiO, talk about modernity and synchronization in the context of the Ottoman Empire and Turkey. Societies and nations are profoundly shaped by the kinds of collective times...
Erik Ljungberg - New Times in the 18th-Century
มุมมอง 353 ปีที่แล้ว
This talk by Erik Ljungberg is from one of the LIFETIMES panels at the Material Life of Time conference organized in March 2021. If you're interested in the kind of work we do, and want to learn more, check out our channel to see our six other talk from this conference. Panel title: Materialising Lifetimes II: 18th-century Presents Abstract: 18th-century England saw the emergence of attempts to...
Laura op de Beke - Temporally Dissecting a Videogame
มุมมอง 603 ปีที่แล้ว
This talk by Laura op de Beke is from one of the lightning talk panels at Material Life of Time conference organized in March 2021. If you're interested in the kind of work we do, and want to learn more, check out our channel to see our six other talk from this conference. Abstract: Videogames are temporally curated experiences. They invite players to set aside some time for leisure - from minu...
Helge Jordheim - What is the Meaning of Traffic Jams?
มุมมอง 613 ปีที่แล้ว
This talk by Helge Jordheim is from one of the LIFETIMES panels at the Material Life of Time conference organized in March 2021. If you're interested in the kind of work we do, and want to learn more, check out our channel to see our six other talk from this conference. Panel title: Materialising Lifetimes III: Infrastructural Timescapes Abstract: Traffic jams means thousands of people moving, ...
Leonoor Borgesius - Emptiness and Infrastructure in the Construction of Modernity
มุมมอง 533 ปีที่แล้ว
This talk by Leonoor Zuiderveen Borgesius is from one of the LIFETIMES panels at the Material Life of Time conference organized in March 2021. If you're interested in the kind of work we do, and want to learn more, check out our channel to see our six other talk from this conference. Full title: The role of emptiness and infrastructure in the construction of modernity in the Netherlands and col...
Emil Flatø - Time Is Our Most Precious Resource
มุมมอง 373 ปีที่แล้ว
This talk by Emil Flatø is from one of the LIFETIMES panels at the Material Life of Time conference organized in March 2021. If you're interested in the kind of work we do, and want to learn more, check out our channel to see our six other talk from this conference. Full title: Time Is Our Most Precious Resource: The Historical Temporalities of Modeled Environmental Futures Panel title: Materia...
Anne Kveim Lie - The Lifetimes of Resistant Pathogens
มุมมอง 303 ปีที่แล้ว
This talk by Anne Kveim Lie is from one ofthe LIFETIMES panels at the Material Life of Time conference organized in March 2021. If you're interested in the kind of work we do, and want to learn more, check out our channel to see our six other talk from this conference. Panel title: Materialising Lifetimes I: Bio-chronologies in Bodies, Models, and Pathogens Abstract: During the last decades, pa...
Sine Halkjelsvik Bjordal - The Life-times and Mind-times of Natural History
มุมมอง 373 ปีที่แล้ว
This talk by Sine Halkjelsvik Bjordal is from one of the LIFETIMES panels at the Material Life of Time conference organized in March 2021. If you're interested in the kind of work we do, and want to learn more, check out our channel to see our six other talk from this conference. Panel title: Materialising Lifetimes II: 18th-century Presents Abstract: Time, as we know it, materializes: The seco...
Brita Brenna - Fast Forwards to the Great Conflageration
มุมมอง 583 ปีที่แล้ว
Brita Brenna - Fast Forwards to the Great Conflageration
Mauro Caraccioli - Writing the New World
มุมมอง 1223 ปีที่แล้ว
Mauro Caraccioli - Writing the New World
Sir Christopher Clark - Time and Power
มุมมอง 7K3 ปีที่แล้ว
Sir Christopher Clark - Time and Power
Helge Jordheim - When is the Anthropocene?
มุมมอง 1403 ปีที่แล้ว
Helge Jordheim - When is the Anthropocene?

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  • @EquipteHarry
    @EquipteHarry 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Rodriguez Steven Thomas Betty Rodriguez Barbara

  • @Portents-Magic-imagination
    @Portents-Magic-imagination ปีที่แล้ว

    Capitalism is the only game in town or the world or the future of outer space. It knows no boundaries, borders, subsumes all narratives. It is the black hole of reality.

  • @Rako_Studios
    @Rako_Studios ปีที่แล้ว

    I really liked the simple format, no long-winded introductions, just straight to content. I don't mind Sir Christopher being in a little box so the slides are visible, very nice. Many historians do arithmetic history, names and dates, what we all suffered through in high school. Some historians are up to algebra, the structures, not events crowd, those that concede people and structures are variable. Clark is a calculus history. People, structures and relationships not only interact, they change over time, often quickly and unexpectedly. Human psychology enters, the dismal science of economics is a factor. How bracing, though complex. I have heard a rumor, just a rumor mind you. NASA sent a space probe with a recording of the art and music and history of the human race, hoping intelligent space aliens would see it. Years later, an alien probe came back, with the sole message, "Send more Clark!" This channel is looking a bit neglected, so I hope the fine folks at U Oslo keep it up, and thanks for the English-language content.

  • @dianasitek3595
    @dianasitek3595 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very interesting and persuasive. Thank you.

  • @nataljanastakreiter9787
    @nataljanastakreiter9787 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Susanne Winterling was one of the greatest art-professors of my University (HfG, University of art and design, Offenbach am Main). It is a pitty that we don't have her anymore :( Students need professors like her! Her classes inspired me so much. I got deeper and deeper into the topics of sustainability and I tell you her input was one of the driving-forces without knowing it from the starting point! I wish our University would see the imporantce of people like Susanne. But their focus is unfortunally yet somewhere where art is just repeating itself from old traditions :( Everyone who has the chance to work with Susanne. You are a lucky one! :) <3

  • @alexnort2791
    @alexnort2791 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    great video

  • @JeffreyAndrewWeinstock685
    @JeffreyAndrewWeinstock685 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wonderful!

  • @kingcrazymani4133
    @kingcrazymani4133 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I could endure 8 minutes of this. I imagine myself sitting in the Harry Helmsley bench in Manhattan overlooking Central Park South, with lights, TV and HVAC off everywhere on a dark summer day, as it was 4 years ago when I sat there, figuring out the Fiat-driven pretend economy’s mechanics…. Realizing that anything other than “nobody’s home, so how do they pretend?” was the only question worth asking. Historicity? Really? It didn’t even get corrected by my “Icky Bum Wrong Again” Marxist spell checker. Integrated ridiculous notions don’t fill the buildings or pay actual rents along Central Park or throughout the rest of a city that has looked empty for 20 years. Not only was BoJo mischaracterized here, but straw Trump was mischaracterized as well. As to M. Macron, I did not get beyond the “he has been awful except for this great Marxist speech at the Sorbonne.” I was hoping for better.

  • @McIntyreBible
    @McIntyreBible 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Christopher Clark certainly knows history and how that relates to the present!

  • @matthewkelly2399
    @matthewkelly2399 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Imagine a dinner party with Sir Christopher and Stephen Kotkin. Marvellous

    • @skuzapo9365
      @skuzapo9365 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I wouldn’t say anything. I would just listen. Wish more people would do the same.

    • @RachelleLeigh-tk5oc
      @RachelleLeigh-tk5oc 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I wouldn't be able to keep my eyes off Clark 😉❤️