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SUMMARY:CIDRAL Public Lecture: Elizabeth Stephens (Queensland): The Optim
 ised Self: A Brief History of Time Management and the Quantified Body
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DESCRIPTION:This event is part of CIDRAL's Work\, Leisure\, Culture stran
 d.\n\nElizabeth Stephens (University of Queensland) will deliver a publi
 c lecture entitled 'The Optimised Self: A Brief History of Time Manageme
 nt and the Quantified Body'.\n\nThe history of time management\, as it i
 s understood and practised in the present day\, has its origins at the t
 urn of the twentieth century. It is closely associated with the increasi
 ng dominance of quantified forms of knowledge at this time and\, related
 ly\, to the development of new devices for measuring and assessing the b
 ody. This presentation takes as its starting point the early photographi
 c motion studies of Frank and Lilian Gilbreth\, produced in the 1910s an
 d 1920s. Attaching small lamps to workers’ wrists or fingers\, the Gilbr
 eths filmed their movements using time-lapse film and photography\, capt
 uring their motion paths as streaks of light. For the Gilbreths\, these 
 photographic motion studies were a key research tool in their developmen
 t of a new field of expertise they called “scientific management\,” and 
 which would come to establish a new type of professional as integral to 
 the organisational structure of the modern workplace: the efficiency exp
 ert or scientific manager\, whose role was to continually measure\, asse
 ss\, and improve worker productivity. This paper focuses on the emergenc
 e of the ideas of improvement and optimisation that underlies the Gilbre
 ths’ work\, and the emerging logics of productivity and optimisation of 
 which it was a part.\n\nElizabeth Stephens is an Australian Research Cou
 ncil Future Fellow and Associate Professor of Cultural Studies in the In
 stitute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Quee
 nsland. She is the author of three monographs: A Critical Genealogy of N
 ormality (University of Chicago Press\, 2017)\, co-authored with Peter C
 ryle\; Anatomy as Spectacle: Public Exhibitions of the Body from 1700 to
  the Present (Liverpool University Press\, 2011)\; and Queer Writing: Ho
 moeroticism in Jean Genet's Fiction (Palgrave 2009). Her Future Fellowsh
 ip examines the cultural history of the experiment\, from early modern s
 cience to contemporary experimental art. 
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LOCATION:A113\, Samuel Alexander Building\, Manchester
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