3 - 4 pm (CET)

Venue:

Einstein Center Chronoi

Otto-von-Simson-Straße 7, 14195 Berlin

Prof. Dr. Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum and PD Dr. Felix Wiedemann

There are very different ways in which societies make temporal entanglements between the past and the present. The focus will be set on a special type of drawing such connections that might be called “telescopic genealogy.” What is meant by this is the creation of direct genealogical links between individuals or societies over long periods of time and/or from very different historical contexts. Telescopic genealogies make room for presenting individuals and societies as if they were contemporaneous, thereby disregarding or fading out the temporal distance between them. In this lecture, it will be demonstrated how this model of temporal entanglements was present in highly different historical contexts: ancient Mesopotamia and ‘classical modernity’.

Participants can join the online Chronoi Talk by clicking on the following link:

https://fu-berlin.webex.com/fu-berlin-en/j.php?MTID=m15e4a5f6361d28d740647b790184514c

The conference room can be accessed using the following methods:

• Joining directly in your browser; simply click the link above, and look for a button with this option near the bottom of the webpage.

• Downloading the program to your computer (instructions can be found by following the meeting link)

• Using the smartphone app called "Cisco Webex Meetings."

You are welcome to enter the online conference room up to 15 minutes in advance of the start time.