Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
| Date: Thursday, 19/June/2025 | |||
| 8:45am - 6:00pm |
Registration and information desk Location: Secretariat Desk - ground floor of Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo – via Balbi, 2 |
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| 9:00am - 10:30am |
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 Adventurous Travel: Children Imagining Africa Electricity as a Modern Device in the 19th Century Science Fiction Literature |
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?" 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 Heterogeneity of Time and Place in Violet Fane's Poetry Imperial Expansion and/as Historical Progress: Space and Time in British Poetry on the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria |
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" The Last Man and the Shadownomics of Celebrity “The Trial of Mivartinos”: Benjamin Disraeli and the accelerated literary marketplace in the 1820s Catherine Gore as Albany Poyntz in Bentley’s Miscellany: Satires of Aristocratic Indolence versus Middle-Class Speed |
| 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 Cotton and Corn: Social Unrest and Lancashire Cotton Famine of 1862 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) |
PS4E: Colonialism and acceleration? Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Justin Livingstone "Modern Waiting: The Slowness of Imperialism" Beyond Speed: How Empire Families’ Preference for Regularity Shaped Maritime Steam Technology ‘Pioneers of Progress’? African Exploration and Capitalist Modernity in Winwood Reade’s ‘Hollowayphobia’ Colonialism at a Standstill: On Conquering without Doing |
PS4F: Art in an Age of Acceleration Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor) Chair: Keren HAMMERSCHLAG Seasons and Sensations Burning Bright: The Dangers of Illumination in the Art of William Holman Hunt "A Moment's Monument": Oscar Wilde’s Appreciation of Dante Gabriel Rossetti The New Copy |
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| 10:30am - 11:00am |
B3: Coffee break Location: Catering area |
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| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
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 “Always hurrying from one thing to another”. British travellers in China and the pressures of modernity Moving Crowds: “Sticky” Affect in British Accounts of Chartism and China Transatlantic Temporalities: Timely Conversations Between White British and Black American Women Gardeners |
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 Ruskin's Accelerations Decelerating Turner |
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 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). Singing a Slow Mezzogiorno? Popular Songs, Resistance to Change and the Folklorists in Post-Risorgimento Italy |
| 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 “The great machine I call life”: Physical and Social Infrastructures of The House of Mirth “A Lotus Flower in the Mud”: Woman as Exchange Object in 19th-century Japan and America Fleeing the 'House on Fire': Accelerations and Changes in E. Wharton's The Mother's Recompense |
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 The Inconsistency of Imperialist temporality: Speed, War Reporting, and H. Rider Haggard’s Cleopatra Chronotopes of Province and Empire: Scaling Wessex and Brazil Romancing the Plantation: Capitalism, Colonialism, and the Canon |
PS5F: Natural Imagery and Off-Standard Temporalities Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor) Chair: Emily Harrington At a snail's pace Necroeconomics for Nonhuman Animals: Anna Sewell's Black Beauty Reversing the Great Chain of Being: devolution in Maldoror, The Island of Doctor Moreau and Redon’s paintings. |
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| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
B4: Buffet lunch Location: School of Robotics – via Balbi, 1/A |
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| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
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 The Kentucky Tragedy and Octavia Bragaldi: Time and Gothic Drama The Shadow of Progress in Ellen Wood’s The Shadow of Ashlydyat Rushing Blood and Languid Limbs: The Speed of Suspense in Le Fanu’s Carmilla |
PS6B: Fast Horses Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: kristen guest Before Chronodrometry: The Prehistory of a Victorian Technology Speed and Acceleration in 19c British Horse Racing Art “We have news by telegraph of the winner of the Derby”: Print Culture, Information Technology, and the Making of the Global Thoroughbred Nineteenth-Century Black Horsemen in "Nope" and "Horse" |
PS6C: Time and the Writing of History Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Rebecca STERN Compressing History could be wrong: Accelerated time in Galt's medievalist fiction A Past to Believe In: Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee and Gothic History Between Fear and Fate: Bridging Gothic Dread and Speculative Futures in American Literature of the Long 19th Century |
| 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 Race, Population, and the Utopian Mode Victorian Time Travel: Science Fiction, Theory, Anachronism Human Tadpoles: Rapid Transit and the Man of the Future in H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine |
PS6F: The Speed of Seriality Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor) Chair: Teresa L MANGUM Weekly Partings: Dickens and the Speed of Seriality Sherlock Holmes, Baffled: Early Cinema and the Acceleration of Visual Literacy Closing the Gap: Comics and the Rise of Accelerated Reading RUNNING IN THE FAST STRIP: THE YELLOW KID AND THE REPRESENTATION OF CULTURAL CHANGE IN LATE 19TH-CENTURY UNITED STATES |
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| 3:30pm - 4:00pm |
B5: Tea Break Location: Catering area |
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| 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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 - 7:45pm |
KT2: INCS Prize Proclamation and Keynote Talk: Clare Pettitt Location: Palazzo Ducale Speed, Relay, and the Digital Empire |
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| 8:00pm - 11:00pm |
CF: Conference Dinner Location: Cisterne di Palazzo Ducale |
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