Conference Agenda
Overview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).
Please note that all times are shown in the time zone of the conference. The current conference time is: 14th June 2025, 01:21:15pm CEST
|
|
|
Session Overview |
| Date: Wednesday, 18/June/2025 | |||
| 8:45am - 1:00pm |
Registration and information desk - Dept. of Economics Location: Secretariat Desk - fourth floor, Department of Economics – Via Francesco Vivaldi, 5 |
||
| 10:30am - 12:00pm |
KT1: Keynote Talk: Diego Saglia Location: Aula Boccanegra - fourth floor, Department of Economics – Via Francesco Vivaldi, 5 The Spectacle of Speed: Crossing the Channel on the Romantic-Era Stage |
||
| 12:00pm - 1:00pm |
B1: Buffet Lunch Location: Secretariat Desk - fourth floor, Department of Economics – Via Francesco Vivaldi, 5 |
||
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
PS1A: Religious and Theological Issues Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Valerie Mendelson Woman and God: Shaping the Divine Feminine In Nineteenth-Century Print Culture “Reading ‘Hieroglyphical’ Geologies: Racialist Images of Natural Theology in Poe’s Pym” Worshipped as Mercury Against Speed: Mabel Gardner's Painted Virgins and the Workshop Tradition |
PS1B: Adaptations & Afterlives 1 Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Silvana Colella “Back to the Future: Dickens, Ali Smith, and (Un)Changing Times” “Victorian Orphans / Postmodern Clones: Figures of Time in Dickens and Ishiguro” Queer Nineteenth Century Retellings: Accelerating Jane Austen and Robert Louis Stevenson |
PS1C: Reading Time Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Emily Harrington “Serial Media and Slow Reading in the Victorian Studies Classroom” Speed-Reading World Literature: Sir John Lubbock’s Liberal Education Victorian Fiction at 1.5x - Accelerated Reading from the Assembly Line to the Audiobook Open Assembly: Strategies for Combating the Collapse of the Humanities |
| PS1D: Social Acceleration and Women’s Emancipation Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Amalia COTOI ‘I had no idea a scullery could be such a cosy place’: Domestic Labour, Social Hierarchy and Professional Women’s Identity in Institutional Spaces Home, Alone: Subversive Female-led Households in Walter Besant’s Children of Gibeon and George Gissing’s The Unclassed Revisions of Romance in Amy Levy’s The Romance of a Shop and Ella Hepworth Dixon’s The Story of a Modern Woman “The More Things Change…”: The Legislative and Literary Treatments of Prostitutes |
PS1F: Time After Time: Queer Chronopolitics/Nineteenth Century American Forms Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor) Chair: Dana SEITLER Temporalities of Childlessness: Queerness, Psychoanalysis, and the Narrative Speed of Demography in C19 America Depressive Realism, Arrested Generations Sex Work and the City Toward A Black Trans*Ecology |
||
| 2:00pm - 6:00pm |
Registration and information desk - Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo Location: Secretariat Desk - ground floor of Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo – via Balbi, 2 |
||
| 3:00pm - 4:30pm |
PS2A: Detective Fiction, Time and Mental Speed Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Lindsey Chappell “Mental Speed: Accelerating Intelligence in the Nineteenth-Century” Speed and Detective Fiction at the Turn of the Century: the Case of Sherlock Holmes Conan Doyle’s Sorting Demon: Sherlock and Information Entropy |
PS2B: Time and Optical Technologies Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Frank EMMETT Perceiving time: technoscience and the sublime in late 19th century photography Lapse and Collapse: Perceptions of Time and Memory in 19th Century Spirit Portraiture Olive Schreiner's Hallucinatory Realism Seeing and Being Seen: Perception, Power, and The Claude Glass |
PS2C: George Eliot: Time Issues Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Nancy Henry George Eliot and the Interweaving of Abstract and Concrete Time "While the heart beats, bruise it": Circulation, Poison, and Narrative Collapse in Eliot's "The Lifted Veil" Middlemarch: Love at First Sight? Tempo Deviant: Dorothea Brooke’s Stilled Pose as Accelerated Time Exposure in Talbot’s Calotype |
| PS2D: Acceleration in the domestic sphere Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Julie WISE Houses and other gimmicks: new domestic sciences in Victorian popular literature Modernity Across the Threshold: Augusta Webster and Co-Operative Housekeeping Annie Thomas’s The Modern Housewife and Trad Wives: The Persistence of Nineteenth-Century Domestic Ideology in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries |
PS2E: Time, Discipline, Standardization Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Abigail Mann Time for School The Time Machine Society and the Epoch of Rest, Or, Prison and Its Abolition Diagrams of Generation, Duration, and Relation: Mapping Serial Passage, Experimental Animals, and Pathology at the Imperial Institut Pasteur |
PS2F: Slow Research (Round Table) Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor) Chair: Alexis Morgan Mitchell “Stops and Starts: the Frustrations and the Revelations of Slow Travel” Slow Across Disciplines Slow Archives “Slow Undisciplining” Slow Projects Slow Curation |
|
| 4:30pm - 5:00pm |
B2: Tea break Location: Catering area |
||
| 5:00pm - 6:30pm |
PS3A: Adaptations & Afterlives 2 Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Valerio Massimo De Angelis Crossing times and building worlds. On steampunk seriality in the 19th century futuristic novel Cultural Acceleration and 19th-Century Aftermaths: Bridgerton and the Erasure of Empire “Time is everything with him:” Podcasts and Playing with Chronology in Re:Dracula |
PS3B: Deep Time and Steam-Powered Speed Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Muireann O'CINNEIDE A Chaos of Contending Times: Social Acceleration and the Compensations of Deep Time in Hugh Milelr's Geology Soundscapes of Deep Time: Experiencing Geological Time in the 19th Century Speed on the Flowing Frontier: Western Rivers and Antebellum Steamboats “‘[T]here’s more than engines to a ship’: Steamships & Accelerated Unities in Rudyard Kipling’s The Day’s Work (1898). |
PS3C: Human Control over Natural Processes Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Huw Edwardes-Evans How to Accelerate a Ruin “Steady Cadence, Tempering”: Eco-Industrial Speed in the Romantic Poetry of Rivers Controlling the Climate of Fiction: The Acceleration of Narrative in Mark Twain’s The American Claimant (1892) Stéphane Mallarmé and Paper Acceleration in fin-de-siècle France |
| PS3D: Acceleration and Fashion Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Leslee Thorne-Murphy Bazaar Futures: Women’s Dress Reform and Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Coming Race The Bicycle Craze in Women’s Fashion: Dress Reform, the New Woman, and Modernity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Spanish Periodicals and Visual Culture Kate Chopin: Change Through Fashion |
PS3E: Deceleration across the Russian Empire Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: David HERMAN The Idea of Autocracy in Russia's Long Nineteenth Century From Woman Wanderer to Feminotopia: Traversing Temporalities in Aleksandra Murzina’s The Blossoming Rose “Acceleration and Gender in Sevastopol: Tolstoy and Bakunina Recount the Siege” |
PS3F: The Pace of Evolution Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor) Chair: Kate FLINT SLOWING THINGS DOWN: COULD DARWIN AND LAMARCK BOTH HAVE BEEN RIGHT? Fiction’s Rush to Perfect the Species: Lamarckian and Darwinian Time “How Charles Darwin sped up George Eliot’s sense of time.” |
|
Contact and Legal Notice · Contact Address:  Privacy Statement · Conference: INCS Conference Genoa 2025 |
Conference Software: ConfTool Pro 2.6.154 © 2001–2025 by Dr. H. Weinreich, Hamburg, Germany |