A Geography of Time
Location
Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094
Presentation Type
Presentation
Start Date
24-9-2014 7:00 PM
Description
There are profound cultural differences in how people keep, use and think about time. In this session relevant not just to the Symposium but the University Theme “Living in a Global Community,” 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. He will also talk about his studies of the pace of life across the United States and around the world.
Recommended Citation
Levine, Robert, "A Geography of Time" (2014). Humanities Symposium. 16.
https://repository.belmont.edu/humanities_symposium/2014/2014/16
A Geography of Time
Wedgewood Conference Center, Room 4094
There are profound cultural differences in how people keep, use and think about time. In this session relevant not just to the Symposium but the University Theme “Living in a Global Community,” 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. He will also talk about his studies of the pace of life across the United States and around the world.
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