Material Histories of Time. Objects and Practices 14th-18th Centuries

Material Histories of Time. Objects and Practices 14th-18th Centuries

Veranstalter
Gianenrico Bernasconi, Université de Neuchâtel; Susanne Thürigen, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; Musée international d'horlogerie
Veranstaltungsort
La Chaux-de-Fonds, Musée international d'horlogerie
Ort
La Chaux-de-Fonds
Land
Switzerland
Vom - Bis
29.11.2017 - 01.12.2017
Website
Von
Susanne Thürigen

The historiography of timekeeping is traditionally characterized by a dichotomy between research that investigates the evolution of technical devices, and research concerning the examination of cultures and uses of time. One of the main consequences of this dichotomy has been the scarcity of studies that take into account the influence of socio-cultural factors on the layout of technical devices. Contributions that conversely investigate cultures and practices of timekeeping through the analysis of objects are equally rare.

This conference aims to contribute to a dialogue between these two approaches by taking table clocks, portable watches, astronomical clocks, marine chronometers, carriage clocks, tact watches, alarm clocks, bells and hands as the starting point of a joint reflection that will get specialists of the history of horology together with scholars studying the social and cultural history of time.

Programm

29 November

17.00pm REGISTRATION

17.15pm WELCOME

Théo Bregnard (Municipal councilor of La Chaux-de-Fonds)
Prof Dr Kilian Stoffel (Rector, Université de Neuchâtel)
Dr Philippe Cordez (Research Group “Premodern Objects”, Munich)

17.30pm GUIDED VISIT OF THE MUSÉE INTERNATIONAL D’HORLOGERIE

18.15pm OPENING LECTURE

Ludwig Oechslin (Musée international d’horlogerie),
Les modèles du cosmos à leur limite: Homann/Landeck contra Ducommun

19.00pm Aperitif & Dinner

30 November

09.00am INTRODUCTION

CHAIR: REGIS HUGUENIN (Musée international d’horlogerie)

09.30am Günther Oestmann, Technische Universität Berlin
Designing a Model of the Cosmos. Theoretical Considerations in the Construction of Astronomical Clocks of Medieval and Early Modern Times

10.00am Philippe Cordez, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Les machines musicales. Automates et figuration de la musique de l’univers à la fin du Moyen Âge

10.30am Discussion

11.00am Coffee break

CHAIR: GIANENRICO BERNASCONI (Université de Neuchâtel)

11.15am Víctor Pérez Álvarez, National Maritime Museum Greenwich, London
A Close Approach to a Renaissance Astronomical Table Clock. The Buschmann Clock of the National Maritime Museum of Greenwich

11:45am Susanne Thürigen, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Instruments for Exercise – Book Shaped Table Clocks around 1600

12.15pm Discussion

12.45pm Lunch at the museum (for speakers)

CHAIR: LAURENT TISSOT (Université de Neuchâtel)

14.15pm Grégoire Besson, Université Grenoble Alpes
Les voyageurs européens et leurs montres: entre précision technique et flou temporel

14.45pm Catherine Herr-Laporte, Université de Neuchâtel / Université Paris-Diderot
Montres de carrosse et autres garde-temps utiles aux voyageurs: constitution et analyse d’une collection (1700-1850)

15.15pm Nicolas Verdier, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris
La montre et l’odomètre: aux origines de la diffusion du concept
de vitesse Louis Dutens et son itinéraire des routes les plus fréquentées 1775-1793

15.45pm Discussion

16.30pm Coffee Break

CHAIR: SUSANNE THÜRIGEN (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

17.00pm Gerrit Verhoeven, Universiteit Antwerpen
Clockwise? Time Awareness in Early Modern London

17.30pm Discussion

18.00pm KEYNOTE Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum, Technische Universität Chemnitz
Clocktime and Time Consciousness in the Visual Arts. William Hogarth’s ‘Modern Moral Subjects’

20.00pm CONFERENCE DINNER

1 December

CHAIR: PHILIPPE CORDEZ (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

09.00am Marie-Agnès Dequidt, Institut d’Histoire Économique et Sociale – IDHES, Paris
De l’acquisition au réglage: réflexions sur l’horlogerie parisienne du XVIIIe siècle et ses utilisateurs

09.30am Alexis McCrossen, Southern Methodist University, Dallas / Texas
Broken Watches. Sources and Methods for the Study of Time Consciousness

10.00am Discussion

10.30am Coffee break with finger food

CHAIR: ESTELLE FALLET (Musée d’art et d’histoire, Genève)

11.00am Gianenrico Bernasconi, Université de Neuchâtel
Temps et cuisine au XVIIIe siècle: quelques remarques sur la relation entre objets et pratiques

11.30am Fabio Pruneri, Università degli Studi di Sassari, Sardegna
From Whom Does the Bell Toll? Time Devices and Time Management in School from 16th to 20th Centuries

12.00am Johannes Graf, Deutsches Uhrenmuseum Furtwangen
The First Black Forest Clock. How a Fake Affected Our Idea Of Clock History

12.30am Discussion

13.15am Lunch at the museum (for speakers)

Kontakt

Susanne Thürigen

Zentnerstraße 21

susanne.thuerigen@kunstgeschichte.uni-muenchen.de