Disciplining Relative Times

This session considers practices of temporalization between the sciences and the humanities. How might we take on board the strangeness of time that physicists or geologists routinely encounter in their academic practice? How might our practices of making meaning, and morality, be affected if we live in a universe in which all human action and geophysical movement is understood to have “already occurred”?  

Caroline Winterer is the William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies at Stanford University. She teaches courses on American history before 1900, the history of ideas, and the history of science. She is the author of five books—most recently, How the New World Became Old: The Deep Time Revolution in America. She speaks and lectures widely on the relationship between the present and the past.

Moderation:
Mannat Johal