Fourth Max Weber Lecture by Professor Dr Sebastian Conrad
Max Weber Stiftung India Branch Office
About the Speaker:
Sebastian Conrad is Professor of Modern History (FU Berlin). He joined the faculty in 2010 after teaching for several years at the European University Institute in Florence. He was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, a visiting professor at the Ècole des Hautes Études in Paris, and held the Theodor Heuss Chair at the New School, New York. Sebastian Conrad is the director of MA "Global History", a joint-degree program at Free University and Humboldt University, Berlin; he is also the director of the graduate school "Global Intellectual History". He is on the editorial board of History and Society, of Past & Present (2012-2019), and of Modern Intellectual History. His most recent publications include What is Global History? (Princeton University Press, 2016) and An Emerging Modern World, 1750-1870 (Harvard University Press, 2018, edited with Jürgen Osterhammel).
Abstract:
The nineteenth century witnessed a fundamental transformation of notions of time on a global scale. Around the world, time-hallowed practices of time measurement and of time-related cosmologies had to come to terms with a new global regime. This new time regime constituted a four-fold revolution, introducing the concepts of standardization, of global synchronicity, of progressive time, and of deep historical time. In this talk, Sebastian Conrad will argue that this temporal revolution cannot be equated with the diffusion of European temporality, but needs to be understood as a multifaceted response to global challenges.
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