Talks & events

UPCOMING

* 15 June 2026, 6pm BST: ‘How to live by nature’s rhythms’: Cathy Haynes in conversation with Hannah MacInnes, How To Academy (online)
* 27 June 2026: Garden Museum Literary Festival, Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire
* 28 September 2026: Wigtown Book Festival, Dumfries & Galloway

PAST EVENTS: SELECTED TALKS, WORKSHOPS & INTERVIEWS

* ‘Seeing the Crescent: Faith, Time and the Skies Above’: Imad Ahmed in conversation with Cathy Haynes, SD Projects, Folkestone (May 2026)
* ‘Marking Time’, with Tara Vallente, Words by the Water Festival, Keswick (March 2026)
* ‘Nothing is Ever Finished’, a conversation with Lena Sjöstrand, Råängen seminar convened by Jes Fernie, Lund Cathedral, Sweden (April 2018)
* ‘On the periphery’, a conversation with Stella Duffy and Jenifer Toksvig for The Lush Speakeasy podcast, London (August 2017)
* Inaugural address for the first Longplayer Day in celebration of Jem Finer’s 1000-year musical composition, Artangel/Goldsmiths University of London (Summer Solstice 2017)
* ‘Circus time’, introduction to the film Lola Montès (Dir. Max Ophüls, 1955) for Central St Martin’s Fashion in Film Festival: Wearing Time, Genesis Cinema, London (2017)
* A presentation with dubious timelines, as part of a seminar on progress with Jay Griffiths and Stephen Boyd Davies, for Marjolijn Dijkman’s LUNÄ project, Fig. 2/ICA London (2015).
* ‘Why the clock is to time what laminate flooring is to trees’, lecture at Chisenhale Gallery, London (2014)
* Guest interview for the BBC R4 Digital Human episode on Time (7 April 2014)
* Guest interview on the exhibition A Storm Is Blowing for Robert Elms’ show on BBC London (3 July 2013)
* ‘On Certainty‘, leader piece for BBC R4’s Human Zoo episode on Ambiguity (9 April 2013)
* Interview on the history of ideas about what time looks like for Monocle Weekly episode 189 on Monocle 24 radio (17 February 2013).
* Leading 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 in Studium Generale: We Are The Time, Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (2012)
* ‘Free Time’ for the 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