Talks & events

UPCOMING

* 29 July 2026: ‘Linnaeus’s Floral Clock: Telling Time by Living Blooms’, with Sylvain Aubry, The Linnean Society (online)
* 1 August 2026: ‘Steps in Time: A Guided Hunt for ‘Clock’ Flowers’ for The Linnean Society
* 28 September 2026: Wigtown Book Festival, Dumfries & Galloway

PAST (SELECTED)

* 27 June 2026: ‘Sensing time without a clock’, Garden Museum Literary Festival, Melbourne Hall, Derbyshire
* 15 June 2026, 6pm BST: ‘How to live by nature’s rhythms’, with Hannah MacInnes, How To Academy (online)
* ‘Seeing the Crescent: Faith, Time and the Skies Above’, with Imad Ahmed, at 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 LUNÄ 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