Time and Space on the Way to Modernity

International symposium of IUB and Bremen University explores the creation of public and private networks for the transmission of political news. How were stories born, how did they grow and mature during their transmission from source to source, from country to country?

[ Dec 15, 2006]  On December 15 and 16, the workshop “Time and Space on the Way to Modernity” takes place in Bremen. Participants from different countries will study the major features of the shared consciousness of European reality in modern times: namely, the emergence of contemporaneity. This feature, defined by Anderson and others as one of the hallmarks of cultural identity-formation, appeared in Europe between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. During this period, and for the first time, large numbers of Europeans began to share the sensation that the same developing political affairs occurred in a common diachronic framework. What happened in Venice was soon the talk of Paris; what happened in London soon found its way to Bremen. This shared sensation was made possible by the widespread creation of public and private networks for the transmission of political news, both in manuscript and print.

The workshop will be opened on Friday 15 at 2 p.m. at the University of Bremen. On Saturday 16, IUB will host the workshop.

For detailed information please visit the website of the workshop