Talks, interviews & events

UPCOMING

* 22 August 2026: ‘The Fullness of Time’, with Abbie Clements, Librarium, Folkeast, Suffolk
* 28 September 2026: Wigtown Book Festival, Dumfries & Galloway
* 17 February 2027: ‘Telling time by the stars’, Society for the History of Astronomy (online)

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PAST (selected) – click on a link to listen, read or watch

* ‘The Fullness of Time’, interview by Kara Kavensky, Record Scratch podcast (6 August 2026)
* A Guided Hunt for ‘Clock’ Flowers in SE London, The Linnean Society (August 2026)
* ‘Linnaeus’s Floral Clock: Telling Time by Living Blooms’, with Sylvain Aubry, The Linnean Society (July 2026)
* ‘“There Is So Much We Don’t Ask”: Cathy Haynes on Time, Attention and Curiosity’, interview by Musa Igrek (July 2026)
* ‘Sensing time without a clock’, Garden Museum Literary Festival, Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire (June 2026)
* ‘How to live by nature’s rhythms’, with Hannah MacInnes, How To Academy online (June 2026)
* ‘Seeing the Crescent: Faith, Time and the Skies Above’, with Imad Ahmed, SD Projects, Folkestone (May 2026)
* ‘Marking Time’, with Tara Vallente, Words by the Water Festival, Keswick (March 2026)
* ‘Nothing is Ever Finished’, with Lena Sjöstrand for the Råängen seminar convened by Jes Fernie, Lund Cathedral, Sweden (April 2018)
* ‘On the periphery’, with Stella Duffy and Jenifer Toksvig, for The Lush Speakeasy podcast (August 2017)
* Inaugural address for Longplayer Day, celebrating Jem Finer’s 1000-year musical composition, Artangel/Goldsmiths University of London (Summer Solstice 2017)
* ‘Circus time’, introduction to Lola Montès (Dir. Max Ophüls, 1955) for Central St Martin’s Fashion in Film Festival: Wearing Time, Genesis Cinema, London (2017)
* On progress, with Jay Griffiths and Stephen Boyd Davies, for Marjolijn Dijkman’s LÜNA seminar, Fig. 2/ICA London (2015).
* ‘Why the clock is to time what laminate flooring is to trees’, Chisenhale Gallery, London (2014)
* Guest interview, BBC R4 Digital Human episode on Time (7 April 2014)
* ‘On Certainty’, leader piece for BBC R4’s Human Zoo episode on Ambiguity (9 April 2013)
* Guest interview, Monocle Weekly episode 189 on Monocle 24 radio (17 February 2013).
* Small-group discussions on ‘Progress’, ‘Genius’ and ‘Utopia’ at How the Light Gets In philosophy festival in Hay-on-Wye (2012)
* ‘On Trying to Map a Life’, lecture and collective experiment for Alfredo Cramerotti’s programme for Studium Generale: We Are The Time, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (2012)
* ‘Free Time’, D&AD President’s Lecture series (2011)

Image: Cathy Haynes presenting ‘Why the clock is to time what laminate flooring is to trees’, Chisenhale Gallery, April 2014. Photo: Manuela Barczewski