Episode 4: Time

Episode 4: Time

In this episode鈥Dr. Tessa Diphoorn鈥痑苍诲鈥Dr. Brianne McGonigle Leyh鈥痙iscuss the concept of 鈥榯ime鈥 together with Dr. Jo茫o Trabucho Alexandre and Dr. Susanne Knittel. Dr. Trabucho Alexandre is a Sedimentary Geologist and Assistant Professor of Geosciences at Utrecht University, while Dr. Knittel is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Utrecht University.  

In their inspiring and discipline-bridging discussion, the guests discuss how time they encountered the different notions of 鈥榯ime鈥 in their respective research and how the concept travels between their fields. 

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Literature list and further reading

Bjornerud, Marcia. 2018. Timefulness. How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World. Princeton: Princeton University Press. 

Frisch, Max. 1979. Man in the Holocene, translated by Geoffrey Skelton. Dalkey Archive Press. 

Gould, Stephen Jay. 1987. Time鈥檚 Arrow, Time鈥檚 Cycle. Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 

McPhee, John. October 20, 1980. 鈥淚-Basin and Range. Annals of the Former World.鈥 New Yorker. October 20, 1980, page 68. 

Powers, Richard. 2018. The Overstory. W. W. Norton. 

Proulx, Annie. 2016. Barkskins. 4th Estate.