Talks, interviews & events

UPCOMING

* 22 November 2026: ‘Finding Wonder in the Natural World’, a conversation with Mark Cocker, Cambridge Literary Festival, Cambridge, UK
* 17 February 2027: ‘Telling Time by the Stars’, Society for the History of Astronomy (online)
* 11 March 2027: ‘Telling Time Without Clocks’, Antiquarian Horological Society London Lecture

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

* ‘Light & human experience of time’, an Interfaith Week schools webinar for teachers and education professionals, with Iona Hine and Baber Siddiqi, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge (10 October 2026)
* ‘Time Without Clocks’, with Cara Santa Maria, Talk Nerdy podcast (28 September 2026)
* ‘The Fullness of Time’, with Charlène Busalli, Wigtown Book Festival, Dumfries & Galloway (28 September 2026)
* ‘The Fullness of Time’, with Abbie Clements, Folkeast Festival, Suffolk (22 August 2026)
* ‘How to tell time with your garden (and not a watch’, with Maria Failla, Growing Joy podcast (18 August 2026)
* ‘Effort, Efficiency, and Ease’, with Greta Johnsen, The 87% Club – Happy to Be Here podcast (14 August 2026)
* ‘How to Live by Nature’s Rhythms’, with Hanna McInnes, How To Academy podcast (11 August 2026)
* ‘The Fullness of Time’, with Kara Kavensky, Record Scratch podcast (6 August 2026)
* A Guided Hunt for ‘Clock’ Flowers in SE London, Linnean Society (1 August 2026)
* ‘Linnaeus’s Floral Clock: Telling Time by Living Blooms’, with Sylvain Aubry, Linnean Society (online, 29 July 2026)
* ‘”There Is So Much we Don’t Ask”: Cathy Haynes on Time, Attention and Curiosity’, interview by Musa Igrek (29 July 2026)
* ‘Sensing time without a clock’, Garden Museum Literary Festival, Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire (27 June 2026)
* ‘How Nature Tells Time Without a Clock’, with Blaine DeSantis, Books and Looks podcast (29 May 2026)
* ‘The Fullness of Time’, with Paul Samuel Dolman, What Matters Most podcast (22 May 2026)
* ‘Seeing the Crescent: Faith, Time and the Skies Above’, with Imad Ahmed, SD Projects, Folkestone, Kent (1 May 2026)
* ‘Marking Time’, with Tara Vallente, Words by the Water Festival, Keswick, Cumbria (13 March 2026)
* ‘Nothing is Ever Finished’, with Lena Sjöstrand, Råängen seminar convened by Jes Fernie, Lund Cathedral, Sweden (April 2018)
* ‘On the periphery’, with Stella Duffy and Jenifer Toksvig, Lush Speakeasy podcast (August 2017)
* Inaugural address for Longplayer Day celebrating Jem Finer’s 1000-year musical composition, Artangel/University of London, Goldsmiths College, London (Summer Solstice 2017)
* ‘Circus time’, introduction to Lola Montès (Dir. Max Ophüls, 1955), Central St Martin’s Fashion in Film Festival: Wearing Time, Genesis Cinema, London (2017)
* On progress, with Jay Griffiths and Stephen Boyd Davies, Marjolijn Dijkman’s LÜNA seminar, Fig. 2, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (2015).
* ‘Why the clock is to time what laminate flooring is to trees’, Chisenhale Gallery, London (2014)
* Guest interview, BBC R4’s Digital Human episode on Time (7 April 2014)
* ‘On Certainty’, leader piece for BBC R4’s Human Zoo (9 April 2013)
* Guest interview on the history of mapping time, The Monocle Weekly, Monocle Radio (episode 189, 17 February 2013).
* Small-group discussions on ‘Progress’, ‘Genius’ and ‘Utopia’, How the Light Gets In, Hay-on-Wye (2012)
* ‘On Trying to Map a Life’, lecture and collective experiment, Studium Generale: We Are The Time, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (2012)
* ‘Free Time’, D&AD President’s Lecture series, London (2011)

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