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Event Host: College of Arts and Sciences Office of Research, Melton Center for Jewish Studies, Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures, Department of Philosophy
Time and temporal phenomena are crucial to many disciplines and within cultures around the globe, past and present. Yet what people mean by “time” varies, and the words available in different languages, whether disciplinary or vernacular, often fall short of describing the ephemerality of temporal experience. To quote St. Augustine, “it is no simple matter even to understand what [time] is, let alone find words to explain it” (ConfessionsXI.15).
"Metaphors of Time: An Interdisciplinary Conversation across the Arts, Humanities and Sciences" will critically and creatively investigate, expand and reinvent paradigms used to explain time and temporality. Our conference will bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars, researchers and practitioners from the social and natural sciences, engineering, medicine, visual and performative arts, and across the humanities.
The goal of this conference is to foster new pathways for thinking about time that can lead to creative solutions in engineering, science, arts and humanities and especially between them.
Conference information, including a full schedule can be found here.