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8:45am Registration and information desk Location: Secretariat Desk - ground floor of Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo – via Balbi, 2
9:00am PS4A: Travel Fiction and Travel Writing (1) Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Melissa JENKINS
Time and the Temporalities of 'Progress' in Flora Tristan’s 'Peregrinations of a Pariah', 1833-1834
Yasmin AKHTER
Adventurous Travel: Children Imagining Africa
Melissa JENKINS
Electricity as a Modern Device in the 19th Century Science Fiction Literature
Amalia COTOI
PS4B: Time and poetry Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Catherine ROBSON
"Out of Breath: What's the Force of a Galloping Poem in the Age of Steam?"
Catherine ROBSON
War Correspondence, the Wounded Body, and the Soldier’s Return in Mid-Victorian Poetry: George Meredith’s Grandfather Bridgeman and Augusta Webster’s Coming Home
Tai-Chun Ho
Heterogeneity of Time and Place in Violet Fane's Poetry
Ceylan Kosker Bevington
Imperial Expansion and/as Historical Progress: Space and Time in British Poetry on the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria
Paolo D'INDINOSANTE
PS4C: Early Nineteenth-Century Issues Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Diego SAGLIA
British Mediation of the Classical in Tighe's "Psyche" and Keats's "Hyperion"
Evan Lloyd Horne
The Last Man and the Shadownomics of Celebrity
Omar MIRANDA
“The Trial of Mivartinos”: Benjamin Disraeli and the accelerated literary marketplace in the 1820s
Luisa Villa
Catherine Gore as Albany Poyntz in Bentley’s Miscellany: Satires of Aristocratic Indolence versus Middle-Class Speed
Julie DONOVAN
PS4D: Resisting Acceleration Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Ross Forman
Enoch's Hammer, Pulling the Plug, and Ca' Canny: Evolving strategies of deceleration in working-class responses to the industrial revolution
Frank EMMETT
Cotton and Corn: Social Unrest and Lancashire Cotton Famine of 1862
Chih-yin Hsiao
Groaning under Stasis: Speed, Acceleration, and Modernity in Sun-Yat SEN’s Kidnapped in London (1898) and NG Hing-Shang’s Upheaval in Far Cathay (1904)
Ross Forman
PS4E: Colonialism and acceleration? Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Justin Livingstone
"Modern Waiting: The Slowness of Imperialism"
Emily Harrington
Beyond Speed: How Empire Families’ Preference for Regularity Shaped Maritime Steam Technology
Tamar Rozett
‘Pioneers of Progress’? African Exploration and Capitalist Modernity in Winwood Reade’s ‘Hollowayphobia’
Justin Livingstone
Colonialism at a Standstill: On Conquering without Doing
Alexandre DUBOIS
PS4F: Art in an Age of Acceleration Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor) Chair: Keren HAMMERSCHLAG
Seasons and Sensations
Anne HELMREICH
Burning Bright: The Dangers of Illumination in the Art of William Holman Hunt
Keren HAMMERSCHLAG
"A Moment's Monument": Oscar Wilde’s Appreciation of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Sandra LEONARD
The New Copy
Samantha Lukic-Scott
10:30am B3: Coffee break Location: Catering area
11:00am PS5A: Travel in Fiction and Travel Writing (2) Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Ross Forman
Pleasures of Mobility in Mary Seacole’s and Eliza Potter’s Memoirs
Lindsey Chappell
“Always hurrying from one thing to another”. British travellers in China and the pressures of modernity
Silvia GRANATA
Moving Crowds: “Sticky” Affect in British Accounts of Chartism and China
Jessica VALDEZ
Transatlantic Temporalities: Timely Conversations Between White British and Black American Women Gardeners
Alicia CARROLL
PS5B: Critical Accelerations: Time and the Image Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Clare Jane PETTITT
Hazlitt, Ruskin, and the Tempos of Seeing
Jeremy MELIUS
Ruskin's Accelerations
David Russell
Decelerating Turner
Nicholas Robbins
PS5C: Speeding up and slowing down Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Sharon Aronofsky WELTMAN
Ruskin’s Storm Cloud of Tobacco Smoke: Women, Ilth and the Enervating Cigar
Sharon Aronofsky WELTMAN
Art Against Acceleration: Mathilde Blind’s “Manchester by Night” (1881) and Ford Madox Brown’s “John Kay, Inventor of the Fly Shuttle, A.D. 1753” (1888).
James Keith Diedrick
Singing a Slow Mezzogiorno? Popular Songs, Resistance to Change and the Folklorists in Post-Risorgimento Italy
Heloise FAUCHERRE-BURESI
PS5D: Social Acceleration and the Woman Question: US & Japan Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Paola NARDI
Nakajima Shōen (1861-1901): Accelerated Speed from subservience to independence
Aiko OKAMOTO-MACPHAIL
“The great machine I call life”: Physical and Social Infrastructures of The House of Mirth
Emma Fox
“A Lotus Flower in the Mud”: Woman as Exchange Object in 19th-century Japan and America
Coleman NUMBERS
Fleeing the 'House on Fire': Accelerations and Changes in E. Wharton's The Mother's Recompense
Simona PORRO
PS5E: Colonialism, Time and Acceleration in Fiction Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Ayşe Çelikkol
Timing Imperialism: Reproductive Time and National Fantasy in Wilkie Collins’s Armadale
Katherine CARITHERS
The Inconsistency of Imperialist temporality: Speed, War Reporting, and H. Rider Haggard’s Cleopatra
Katy BRUNDAN
Chronotopes of Province and Empire: Scaling Wessex and Brazil
Victoria BAENA
Romancing the Plantation: Capitalism, Colonialism, and the Canon
Chandrica BARUA
PS5F: Natural Imagery and Off-Standard Temporalities Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor) Chair: Emily Harrington
At a snail's pace
Kate FLINT
Necroeconomics for Nonhuman Animals: Anna Sewell's Black Beauty
Deborah Denenholz MORSE
Reversing the Great Chain of Being: devolution in Maldoror, The Island of Doctor Moreau and Redon’s paintings.
Eloise SUREAU
12:30pm B4: Buffet lunch Location: School of Robotics – via Balbi, 1/A
2:00pm PS6A: Narrative Time, the Gothic and Its Uses Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Claudia Capancioni
The Quickening: Pregnancy and Pronatalism in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility
Eileen CLEERE
The Kentucky Tragedy and Octavia Bragaldi: Time and Gothic Drama
Jennifer CAMDEN
The Shadow of Progress in Ellen Wood’s The Shadow of Ashlydyat
Mason Patterson
Rushing Blood and Languid Limbs: The Speed of Suspense in Le Fanu’s Carmilla
Kelsey Rall
PS6B: Fast Horses Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: kristen guest
Before Chronodrometry: The Prehistory of a Victorian Technology
Richard NASH
Speed and Acceleration in 19c British Horse Racing Art
Karen HLADIK
“We have news by telegraph of the winner of the Derby”: Print Culture, Information Technology, and the Making of the Global Thoroughbred
kristen guest
Nineteenth-Century Black Horsemen in "Nope" and "Horse"
Nancy Henry
PS6C: Time and the Writing of History Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Rebecca STERN
Compressing
Rebecca STERN
History could be wrong: Accelerated time in Galt's medievalist fiction
Clare SIMMONS
A Past to Believe In: Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee and Gothic History
Joelle Faith Troiano
Between Fear and Fate: Bridging Gothic Dread and Speculative Futures in American Literature of the Long 19th Century
Alexis Morgan Mitchell
PS6E: Time travel Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Thomas Prasch
“Strong Shall Be the Tyranny of the Latter Days”: The Shifting Speeds of Time in William Morris’s Time-Travel Fiction
Thomas Prasch
Race, Population, and the Utopian Mode
Sophia Hsu
Victorian Time Travel: Science Fiction, Theory, Anachronism
Sarah Alexander
Human Tadpoles: Rapid Transit and the Man of the Future in H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine
Clayton TARR
PS6F: The Speed of Seriality Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor) Chair: Teresa L MANGUM
Weekly Partings: Dickens and the Speed of Seriality
Huw Edwardes-Evans , Helena Michie
Sherlock Holmes, Baffled: Early Cinema and the Acceleration of Visual Literacy
Sara HACKENBERG
Closing the Gap: Comics and the Rise of Accelerated Reading
Corey Knox CREEKMUR
RUNNING IN THE FAST STRIP: THE YELLOW KID AND THE REPRESENTATION OF CULTURAL CHANGE IN LATE 19TH-CENTURY UNITED STATES
Valerio Massimo De Angelis
3:30pm B5: Tea Break Location: Catering area
4:00pm Via Garibaldi with Historical References Location: atrium of the Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo (Via Balbi, 2) From Conference Venue to Palazzo Ducale: accompanied walk Location: atrium of the Polo Didattico delle Fontane (Via delle Fontane, 10) Genoa Heritage Shopping – A Journey Through Timeless Shops and Artisan Traditions Location: atrium of the Polo Didattico delle Fontane (Via delle Fontane, 10)
6:15pm KT2: INCS Prize Proclamation and Keynote Talk: Clare Pettitt Location: Palazzo Ducale
Speed, Relay, and the Digital Empire
Clare Jane PETTITT
8:00pm CF: Conference Dinner Location: Cisterne di Palazzo Ducale
