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DESCRIPTION:Historical narratives of East-Central Europe have traditionally
  centered on nationalism and empire. This talk approaches the region throu
 gh a different analytical lens: time. It challenges familiar accounts of t
 he nineteenth century as an era of acceleration and growing temporal unifo
 rmity\, arguing instead that Bohemia’s modernity emerged through the neg
 otiation of multiple temporalities. Time was not a neutral measure or a to
 ol of imperial order\; it shaped how people organized work\, formed identi
 ties\, articulated ambitions\, and imagined pasts and futures. Focusing on
  the industrial and curative landscapes of northern Bohemia\, the talk exa
 mines how mining and spa environments produced distinct but interconnected
  experiences of time. These spaces illustrate how temporal cultures - whet
 her tied to labor\, healing\, seasonality\, or geology - structured everyd
 ay life and shaped the possibilities of social and political change. Viewe
 d together\, these sites operated as liminal pockets of modernity which\, 
 in an age increasingly described as one of nervousness and sensory strain\
 , made visible the contrasting ways temporal pressure was produced\, felt\
 , and momentarily relieved. By foregrounding temporality as a method\, the
  talk reframes East-Central Europe’s modernity as something constructed 
 through the management and imagination of time itself\, offering a new way
  of situating the region within broader histories of capitalism\, environm
 ent\, nation\, and empire.\n\nPlease RSVP here.\n\nJana Hunter is a histor
 ian of modern Central and Eastern Europe\, with interests in time\, scienc
 e and technology\, modernity\, and environmental change. She received her 
 M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge and her D.Phil. from the Universi
 ty of Oxford in 2024. She has held fellowships at Princeton University\, t
 he Czech Academy of Sciences\, the University of Vienna\, and the Herder I
 nstitute.  Before joining Stanford\, she was a Lecturer in Modern European
  History at New College\, University of Oxford.\n\nHer first book project\
 , Living Modernity through Time: Bohemia from Revolution to Republic c. 18
 48-1918\, examines how individuals and communities in Bohemia navigated mo
 dernity through shifting experiences of time. Through case studies of rura
 l\, industrial\, urban\, and religious spaces\, it explores how temporal f
 rameworks shaped daily life\, cultural identity\, and political claims in 
 this multilingual Habsburg region. Rather than seeing modern time as a tot
 alising force\, she shows how Bohemians actively reworked temporal regimes
  to serve imperial\, national\, regional\, and commercial aims. Her second
  project\, Testing Grounds: From Marx to Oppenheimer—Czechoslovakia’s 
 Global Legacy\, 1918 to the Present\, builds on this work by tracing how 2
 0th-century ideologies of modernity were lived\, imposed\, and resisted th
 rough the uranium-mining town of Jáchymov. Once dubbed the “cradle of t
 he atomic bomb\,” Jáchymov became a testing ground for empires and ener
 gy regimes\, ultimately transformed by extractive ambition\, political vio
 lence\, and environmental fallout. The project explores how modern states 
 manipulate landscapes and how landscapes remember these scars.
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SUMMARY:Rethinking Time in East-Central Europe: Modernity\, Empire\, and th
 e Temporal Life of Bohemia
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 tral-Europe
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