Symposia
Shapes of Time
This two-and-a-half day event at the Yale School of Architecture brings together an interdisciplinary group of artists, architects, curators, scholars, and scientists to investigate the role time plays in their respective fields and in their individual scholarly and creative pursuits. The title hints at the diverse temporal imaginaries in various intellectual fields and artistic media; contemporary conversations about environmental uncertainty and deep time; as well as differing ways time is conceptualized, visualized, and experienced. By taking a trans-disciplinary approach to the ways in which time manifests in different cultures and religions around the globe, Shapes of Time foregrounds time as medium and method. The symposium is convened by Anthony Acciavatti and Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen of the Yale School of Architecture together with Morgan Ng of the History of Art Department
Symposium Schedule
Thursday, April 11
6:30 p.m.
Keynote Address
Alice Casey and Cian Deegan
“Moment and Overlay”
Friday, April 12
5:00 p.m.
Welcome
Musical Performance
Aaron Flagg
"Feeling Time Over Time”
6:30 p.m.
Keynote Address
Dipesh Chakrabarty
“Scaling the Political: The Challenge of the Planetary”
Saturday, April 13
9:30 a.m.
Introduction
Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen
Yale University
“Shaping Time”
10:00 a.m.
Measures of Time
Daniel Rosenberg
University of Oregon
“The Dot and the Line: Visualizing Temporal Uncertainty”
Jorge Otero-Pailos
Columbia University
“Through Bodies Unseen”
Francisca Rivero-Lake and Carla Verea
Lake Verea
“Emit Time”
David Sadighian
Yale University
Moderator
1:00 p.m.
Histories of Time
Mari Lending
Oslo School of Architecture
“Topical Chronotopes: The Parthenon”
Sylvia Lavin
Princeton University
“Tree-Movers and the Roots of ‘American Time’”
Sarah E. Lawrence
Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Entangled Durations in a Period Room”
Morgan Ng
Yale University
Moderator
3:00 p.m.
Landscapes of Time
Kathleen John-Alder
Rutgers University
“Sine Waves and Tipping Points”
Ivano dal Prete
Yale University
“The Ruins of the Earth”
Saara Ekström
Artist
Taru Elfving
University of the Arts Helsinki
“Geopsyche”
Anthony Acciavatti
Yale University
Moderator
Shapes of Time is supported in part by the J. Irwin Miller Endowment.