Cultures of Time

Research Modalities

• Primary Research on temporal infrastructures: bell towers, clock towers, calendars

Published Research

Architects of Time: Coloniality, Clocktowers, and Calendars on the East African Coast,’ in Architectures of Colonialism: Constructed Histories, Conflicting Memories, ed., V. Egbers, C. Kamleithner, Ö. Sezer, and A. Skedzuhn-Safir, De Gruyter-Birkhäuser, 2024, pp. 53–69.

Presentations

‘Time and Tide: Temporal Materialities in the Port-City of Mombasa in the Early Modern Period,’ Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, McGill University (Montreal, Canada), April 13, 2023.

‘Architects of Time: Coloniality, Clocktowers and Calendars on the East African Coast,’ Conference on ‘Architectures of Colonialism: Constructed Histories, Conflicting Memories,’ BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, DFG Research Training Group ‘Cultural and Technological Significance of Historic Buildings’ (Virtual), June 17, 2021.