organized The Cultural Unit In The College of Arts  a scientific lecture on time in plays of William Shakespeare which was presented by Dr. Tiffany Stern, the lecturer in the Department of English, University of Birmingham.

The lecture dealt with presentation and analysis, the concept of time in the works of the writer William Shakespeare in which he employed those concepts and instruments in his various plays. Dr. Tiffany Stern reviewed several instruments for measuring time, including the earthen bottle, the sundial, in addition to the instrumental watch. The researcher referred to the symbolic meanings of time, including death and old age. She showed the centrality of the concept of time in many plays, including the play (The Storm), and she referred to many examples from a large number of plays in which the writer referred to those instruments, indicating how the different characters interact with the concept of time and the instruments used to measure it.

     The lecturer called to study this subject from a comparative cultural point of view, such as searching for the instruments that were used to measure time in the Arab culture and the concepts of time in this culture and comparing them with the concept of time in European cultures