In preparation for our next interntional conference The Material Life of Time, members of the organising team including Helge Jordheim, Hugo Reinert, Lisa Baratiser, Laura Salisbury and Thom van Dooren came together to run a pilot workshop with a small number of invited guests. Rather than try to run a full days worth of activities we took advantage of a 1.5-2 hour window which would allow us to include participants from the Americas, Western Europe and Australasia. Running over three days for two hours at a time, we heard from six speakers and tried out a range of social activities including icebreakers, coffee break networking, and world cafe. The detailed agenda is below and I have also written a longer post reflecting on the event. Our next step will be to try out other collaborative possibilities as these are what we want to particularly including in our event next year.
- Michelle Bastian
- Michelle Bastian
Agenda
Monday 23rd March
19.00-19.30 GMT
Welcome, introductions and icebreakers (Michelle Bastian)
Live polls in slid.do: What's the colour of the sky where you are?; What's your favourite time travel film?; How are you feeling right now?
19.30-20.30
Panel 1 (Chair: Thom van Dooren)
Paul Huebener (Athabasca) Clock as Poetry, Poetry as Clock
Matthew Champion (Australian Catholic University) Material Histories of the Premodern Hourglass
Q&A using standard format (virtual raising hands)
Tuesday 24th March
18.45-19.00 GMT
Arrival, check tech, and chat
7.00-7.10
Group check-in (using teleconferencing clock): Think of a favourite time in your life; what colour would it be?
19.10-20.00
Panel 2 Time in Colour (Chair: Michelle Bastian)
Laura Salisbury (Exeter) Grey Time: Anachromism and Waiting for Beckett
Helge Jordheim (Oslo) On the Colours of History: Why Rome is Red, Greece Green, and Germany Yellow
Q&A using Slido
20.00-20.05
comfort break, networking (private msg in zoom)
20.05-20.30
World Café (lightning version)
“Why explore the material life of time now?”
Using breakout rooms and prep ideas for roundtable tomorrow
20.30-20.35
Close
Wednesday 25th March
18.45-19.00 GMT
Arrival, check tech, and chat
19.00-19.05
Group check-in (using teleconferencing clock) What plant or animal tells you the time and how?
19.05-19.35
Panel 3 (Chair: Paul Huebener)
Adam Barrows (Carleton) Phenology and Literary Criticism: what ecological time has to teach us about literary time
Q&A (using Sli.do)
19.35-20.05
Fishbowl roundtable conversation
The material life of time in a pandemic with an initial short provocation by Lisa Baraitser (Birkbeck)
20.05-20.10
comfort break, networking (private msg in zoom)
20.10-20.30
Final discussion
What worked, what didn’t and how might we scale this up from workshop to conference (using sli.do and breakout rooms)
20.30-20.35
Close
19.00-19.30 GMT
Welcome, introductions and icebreakers (Michelle Bastian)
Live polls in slid.do: What's the colour of the sky where you are?; What's your favourite time travel film?; How are you feeling right now?
19.30-20.30
Panel 1 (Chair: Thom van Dooren)
Paul Huebener (Athabasca) Clock as Poetry, Poetry as Clock
Matthew Champion (Australian Catholic University) Material Histories of the Premodern Hourglass
Q&A using standard format (virtual raising hands)
Tuesday 24th March
18.45-19.00 GMT
Arrival, check tech, and chat
7.00-7.10
Group check-in (using teleconferencing clock): Think of a favourite time in your life; what colour would it be?
19.10-20.00
Panel 2 Time in Colour (Chair: Michelle Bastian)
Laura Salisbury (Exeter) Grey Time: Anachromism and Waiting for Beckett
Helge Jordheim (Oslo) On the Colours of History: Why Rome is Red, Greece Green, and Germany Yellow
Q&A using Slido
20.00-20.05
comfort break, networking (private msg in zoom)
20.05-20.30
World Café (lightning version)
“Why explore the material life of time now?”
Using breakout rooms and prep ideas for roundtable tomorrow
20.30-20.35
Close
Wednesday 25th March
18.45-19.00 GMT
Arrival, check tech, and chat
19.00-19.05
Group check-in (using teleconferencing clock) What plant or animal tells you the time and how?
19.05-19.35
Panel 3 (Chair: Paul Huebener)
Adam Barrows (Carleton) Phenology and Literary Criticism: what ecological time has to teach us about literary time
Q&A (using Sli.do)
19.35-20.05
Fishbowl roundtable conversation
The material life of time in a pandemic with an initial short provocation by Lisa Baraitser (Birkbeck)
20.05-20.10
comfort break, networking (private msg in zoom)
20.10-20.30
Final discussion
What worked, what didn’t and how might we scale this up from workshop to conference (using sli.do and breakout rooms)
20.30-20.35
Close
