Craig Callender As we navigate through life, we do so with an implicit model of time in mind. It deeply matters to us, yet as he’ll explain, physics has been gradually chipping away at it for a few hundred years. That physics doesn’t vindicate manifest time seemed to Einstein “a matter of painful but inevitable resignation” (as relayed by Carnap).Cognitive science, biology and philosophy all have much to offer – none of it, he submits, painful.
Thomas J. Weiler To accommodate the constancy of the speed of light, in 1915 Einstein changed our perspective on the meaning of the FOUR coordinates, time and position (x,y,z), that describe the when and where of an event. Ten years later he generalized his result to include gravity as a geometric phenomenon. I will describe how “faster-than-light travel“ and “backwards time travel,” while plagued with paradoxes, are not incompatible with Einstein’s theories.
Mark Charles What impact does your perception of time have on your ability to succeed academically in college? Does your time perception have a greater effect on how you worship God than your theology? Mark Charles, a Native American theologian and academic researcher on the Navajo perception of time will explore these questions keyed both to the subject of the Humanities Symposium and the University theme “Through the Eyes of Others.”
Rabbi Joshua Kullock Mark McEntire of Belmont’s College of Theology and Christian Ministry will engage Rabbi Kullock in a conversation about the Jewish understanding of time and the experience of living within dominant Christian cultures that mark time differently. The discussion will highlight differences between the Jewish and Christian calendars and the impact of those differences on the ways Jews and Christians live together in community.
Dr. Kai Evers Having witnessed the introduction of poison gas and airplanes during WWI, European post-war societies agreed that future warfare would be decided by gas attacks against Europe’s cities. This presentation analyzes how interwar Germany and other European societies responded to this strange new temporality of warfare. This event is sponsored through the generosity of the Max Kade Foundation.
Dr. Eva Brann The aim of this presentation is to show that time is neither being, thing or substance, nor does it operate as power, force or destiny. Moreover, the future has, so to speak, even less existence than past or present. It would be a better world if time were not accorded any dominion over it.
Dr. Robert Levine There are profound cultural differences in how people keep, use and think about time. Social psychologist Robert Levine will take us on a tour of time through the past and around the world. He’ll talk about different ways people keep time, what they consider wasted time and define as doing nothing, the curious ways time is bought and sold, differences in time perspective, and how time can be an expression of control and power.
Caridad Cumaná Time is the chronological support of any narrative text. In film, time strings together the plot and the story but time represents more than just an organizational tool; inside the story, time is also used as a metaphor of political and social events of a country and even could be used as a metaphor of economic status. On Friday, Ms. Cumaná will host a showing of Suite Habana, followed by questions.
Dr. David Lavery The long-running BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who (which celebrated its 50th anniversary last year) chronicles the cosmic, time-travelling adventures of an over one thousand-year-old Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey, but perhaps the program’s greatest achievement is its imaginative contributions to the ever-evolving nature of television narratology. He will examine not only the role of time travel in Doctor Who but its ingenious use of narrative time as well.
Louise Woehrle Filmmaker Louise Woehrle presents excerpts from her documentary Stalag Luft III – One Man’s Story told by her uncle, World War II U.S. Army Air Force Bombardier Capt. Charles Woehrle, one of 10,000 prisoners of war in Stalag Luft III. His B-17 was shot down May 1943, yet “miraculously” he survived. Woehrle felt the urgency to document her uncle’s incredible story. This event is sponsored through the generosity of the Max Kade Foundation.
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| 2014 | ||
| Thursday, September 18th | ||
| 7:00 PM |
Monteverde Plenary Address - Stop Time: Present, Past, and Future Walk into a Bar... John Paine, Belmont University Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 7:00 PM |
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| Friday, September 19th | ||
| 10:00 AM |
Craig Callender, University of California - San Diego Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 10:00 AM |
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| 11:00 AM |
Time Real & Imagined: Shared Themes in Biology, Literature & Film Wyeth Burgess, Belmont University Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 11:00 AM |
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| 1:00 PM |
Thomas J. Weiler, Vanderbilt University Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 1:00 PM |
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| 2:00 PM |
Fabric of the Cosmos: "The Illusion of Time" Craig Callender, University of California - San Diego Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 2:00 PM |
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| 3:30 PM |
Belmont University Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 3:30 PM |
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| Saturday, September 20th | ||
| 10:00 AM |
Workshop* Dreaming in Time...And Out: A Workshop for the Jung at Heart Laura Huff Hileman Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4098 10:00 AM |
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| Sunday, September 21st | ||
| 3:00 PM |
Andy Goldsworthy: Rivers & Tides: Working with Time David Ribar, Belmont University Leu Center for the Visual Arts (LCVA) 117 3:00 PM |
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| 7:00 PM |
Belmont University Leu Center for the Visual Arts (LCVA) 117 7:00 PM |
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| Monday, September 22nd | ||
| 10:00 AM |
Academic Success, Biblical Diversity and the Navajo Perception of Time Mark Charles, 5 Small Loaves Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 10:00 AM |
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| 11:00 AM |
Writing Out of Time: A Look at the Memoirs of Virginia Woolf and Vladimir Nabokov Andrea Stover, Belmont University Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 11:00 AM |
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| 12:00 PM |
Susan Finch, Belmont University Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 12:00 PM |
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| 1:00 PM |
"On Your Mark, Get Set, Go!": Sport & Time Ted Peetz, Belmont University Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 1:00 PM |
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| 2:00 PM |
From Billions of Years to Attoseconds: Experiments and Their Timescales Davon Ferrara, Belmont University Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 2:00 PM |
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| 3:00 PM |
It's the Dead Folks That Do Her the Damage: Time As a Living Force in Faulkner Sue Trout, Belmont University Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 3:00 PM |
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| 4:00 PM |
Joshua Kullock, West End Synagogue Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 4:00 PM |
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| 5:00 PM |
Salvaging the Homeless Person's Self & Time Through Lived Religion Cynthia Curtis, Belmont University Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 5:00 PM |
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| 7:00 PM |
Sarah Cote, Belmont University Belmont Mansion 7:00 PM |
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| Tuesday, September 23rd | ||
| 10:00 AM |
Eva Brann, St John's College - Annapolis Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 10:00 AM |
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| 10:00 AM |
Historical Consciousness, Time & Social Movements Peter Kuryla, Belmont University Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 10:00 AM |
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| 11:00 AM |
Generations Enough & Time: Deep Past, Tiny Chances & Human Myopia John Niedzwiecki, Belmont University Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 11:00 AM |
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| 1:00 PM |
No Abiding Place: Jane Austen in Space & Time Douglas Murray, Belmont University Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 1:00 PM |
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| 2:00 PM |
Gas Attack! The Strange New Temporality of Warfare After WWII Kai Evers, University of California, Irvine Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 2:00 PM |
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| 3:00 PM |
John Paine, Belmont University Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 3:00 PM |
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| 4:00 PM |
Reflections on Deep Time: From the Big Bang to the End of Planet Earth Daniel Schafer, Belmont University Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 4:00 PM |
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| 7:00 PM |
Eva Brann, St John's College - Annapolis Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 7:00 PM |
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| Wednesday, September 24th | ||
| 11:00 AM |
Informal Conversation & Reception with the Speakers Belmont University Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 11:00 AM |
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| 12:00 PM |
Borrowed Time, Hegel & the End of History Andy Davis, Belmont University Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 12:00 PM |
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| 2:00 PM |
Other Worlds, Other Lives, Other Times Kathryn Skinner, Belmont University Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 2:00 PM |
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| 3:00 PM |
"That Time of Which We Have No Knowledge" Maggie Monteverde, Belmont University Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 3:00 PM |
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| 4:00 PM |
Defining the Present via the Past: A Reading of Creative Work Susan Finch, Belmont University Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 4:00 PM |
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| 7:00 PM |
Robert Levine, California State University, Fresno Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 7:00 PM |
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| Thursday, September 25th | ||
| 10:00 AM |
References to Time in Three Cuban Films by Director Fernando Perez Caridad Cumaná, Miami Dade College Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 10:00 AM |
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| 11:30 AM |
Belmont University Frist Lecture Hall (4th Floor IHSB) 11:30 AM |
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| 1:00 PM |
Ann Coble, Belmont University Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 1:00 PM |
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| 2:00 PM |
Paulo Boero, Belmont University Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 2:00 PM |
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| 3:30 PM |
Where in the World Is Sir Cloudsley Shovell? Or Finding Your Way When You're All at Sea Michael Jackson, Vanderbilt University Law Library Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 3:30 PM |
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| 4:30 PM |
Time & Literature: A Joint Session Hillary Rector, Belmont University Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 4:30 PM |
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| 7:00 PM |
Neverending Time: Time Lords and Narrative Time in Dr. Who David Lavery, Middle Tennessee State University Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 7:00 PM |
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| Friday, September 26th | ||
| 10:00 AM |
Philologoi: "Is Time Independent of Perception?" Belmont University Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 10:00 AM |
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| 11:00 AM |
Belmont University Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 11:00 AM |
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| 1:00 PM |
Time & Timing in Film, Digital Storytelling & Documentary Louse Woehrle Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 1:00 PM |
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| 2:00 PM |
Bridging the Gap in Time: "One Man's Story - Stalag Luft III" Louise Woehrle, Whirlygig Productions Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 2:00 PM |
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| Saturday, September 27th | ||
| 9:00 AM |
Community Service Opportunity *Giving Time Cynthia Cox, Belmont University 9:00 AM |
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| Sunday, September 28th | ||
| 2:00 PM |
Humanities Symposium Writing Workshop* Writing Poetry & the Lyric Essay in a Vacuum Gary McDowell Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4098 2:00 PM |
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| 4:00 PM |
Gary McDowell Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 4:00 PM |
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| Monday, September 29th | ||
| 10:00 AM |
Symposium Wrap-Up: Reflecting on Worlds Enough and Time Maggie Monteverde, Belmont University Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094 10:00 AM |
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