What is the connection between clocks and feelings, time and power? What is the social and political meaning of waiting? How did modern technologies such as the train and the steamship influence the norms of punctuality and tardiness? And when and how did someone start deciding for us what time it is?
Dr. Dotan Halevy invited Prof. Avner Wyshnitzer to Polonsky Salon to talk about his recent book , Reading Clocks, Alla Turca: Time and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire (University of Chicago Press, 2015), published in Hebrew by Magnes Press in 2022,