Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
| Date: Friday, 20/June/2025 | |||
| 8:45am - 5:00pm |
Registration and information desk Location: Secretariat Desk - ground floor of Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo – via Balbi, 2 |
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| 9:00am - 10:30am |
PS7A: Speeding Toward Authorship: Jewish Perspectives on Ethnicity and Opportunity Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Linda HUGHES Overtaken by the Past: National Trauma and Fictions of Authorship in Charles Dickens and Grace Aguilar Speeding Toward Fame: Precocity and Intersectionality in Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Amy Levy "At the Speed of Life: A Scholar and her Subject" |
PS7B: Accelerating Colonizations: Time, Space, Consumption in the Arctic Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Patricia PULHAM Accelerative Energy v. Haunting Memory in Jules Verne’s The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras ‘Accelerated Arctic Scientific and Technological Ambitions’ Speed and Frozen Time in Arctic Explorations: New Experiences of the Unknown |
PS7C: Decadent Times: Drift, Drag, and Deliquescence Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Jessica Elizabeth Gossling Drift: Art After Decadence Drag: Decadence in the Time of the Culture Wars Painting a Queer Future: The Character, the Artist, and Questions of Agency in The Picture of Dorian Gray Deliquescence: Decomposition, Rot, and Ornamented Decay |
| PS7D: Tolstoy Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Sara DICKINSON Backward Desires: Sex Work in Tolstoy’s Late Fiction and Russia’s Late Landlord Economy Holding Difficult Stories: Russian Literature and the Slow Work of Listening for Medical Professionals "Inflatable Globules": Tolstoy's Deceleration |
PS7E: Exhibitions, Museums, Libraries, Postal Media and Time Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Anne HELMREICH Nostalgic Modernity: Preservation, Display, and the Technology of Progress in 1880s London The Pages of Time: Libraries as Emblems of Social Acceleration Looting Time: Deceleration in Anglo-Indian Museum Culture and Rudyard Kipling’s Kim Fear and FOMO in the Late Nineteenth Century. Social Anxieties Surrounding the Picture Postcard and a New Media Landscape |
PS7F: Slowing Down Time: Embodied and Generational Resistances to Speed and Acceleration (ROUND TABLE) Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor) Discussants: Eileen Cleere (Southwestern University); Jessica Howell (Texas A&M University); Teresa Mangum (University of Iowa); Narin Hassan (Georgia Tech)
Slowing Down Time: Embodied and Generational Resistances to Speed and Acceleration |
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| 10:30am - 11:00am |
B6: Coffee break Location: Catering area |
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| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
PS8B: Accelerated Colonisations (2): Time, Space, Consumption in Museology, Sustainability and Imperialism Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Mariaconcetta Costantini Second-Hand Clothes and the Material Anxieties of Accelerated Waste Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century Imagination New Imperialism and the Occult in Richard Marsh’s The Goddess: A Demon (1900) |
PS8C: Ethics and Aesthetics Astride the 19th and 20th Centuries Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Pamela GILBERT Victorians at War: Vernon Lee and Times out of Joint Vernon Lee's Deconstructivist Feminist Aesthetics Accelerated spots of time: Wordsworthian time in Woolf’s nonfiction |
PS8D: Time, Affects and Mental Faculties Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Jessica VALDEZ Novel Familiarity: Deja Vu & Technologies of Perception ‘Trying to get rid of the time’: speeding up and slowing down plot in Lady Audley’s Secret From Chronos to Affect: Residual Exhaustion and the Disruption of “Moving-on” Time in the Late Nineteenth-Century |
| PS8E: Time and the City Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Laura COLOMBINO Fatal Flânerie: The Violent Velocity of Modernity in Edgar Allan Poe Deep Time and the City: From the Mid-Nineteenth Century to Ford Madox Ford’s The Soul of London Flâneur Vision in the Work of Medardo Rosso and Eugène Carrière Interferences: The Link between Schreber’s Memoirs of my Mental Illness and 19th Century Technological Developments |
PS8F: Fieldwork: Interdisciplinary Michael Field Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor) Chair: Kristin Mahoney Tempus (re)fugit: Michael Field's House Beautiful Queer Crip Michael Field: Rethinking “Poets and Lovers” (in and) “against the world” ‘Fighting the Dragon of Deficit’: Michael Field and Financialization |
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| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
B7: Buffet lunch Location: School of Robotics – via Balbi, 1/A |
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| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
PS9A: Writing and Technology at the Fin-de-Siècle Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Luisa Villa The Speed of Slender Fingers: access and acceleration in Grant Allen’s The Type-Writer Girl Neoclassical Economics and the Specter of Automation in George Gissing’s New Grub Street Value of a Kind: New Grub Street, Intellectual Labor, and Generative AI “Nineteenth Century Up-to-Date with a Vengeance”: Intimacy and Technology in Dracula |
PS9B: Time and Generational Issues in Victorian Fiction Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Claudia Capancioni Empire and the Unseen Deaths of Jane Eyre Victorian vindictiveness and the rise of the PMC Generations beyond supersession in Margaret Oliphant’s fiction |
PS9C: Acceleration on Stage (1) Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Diego SAGLIA Hastening Forgetting: Historical Erasure and Melodrama's Rise Rhythmic Acceleration in Melodramatic Form “‘They’d Fly Along the Lines with the Speed of Lightning’: Telegraphy, Telephony, and Phonography on the Victorian Stage” Dramatization as Accelerated Reading |
| PS9E: Challenging Speed and Acceleration in the Iberian World (1) Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Nicholas WOLTERS Manso, the Ghost or the Useful Obsolescence of Knowledge Speed, Crime, and Danger on the Rails: The Night Train from Paris to Madrid in Two Short Stories by Emilia Pardo Bazán “Tiene usted una enfermedad nueva, muy rara, de las de última moda…” Religion, Science and Medical Practices in the Spanish Nineteenth-Century |
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| 3:30pm - 5:00pm |
PS10A: Acceleration on Stage (2) Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Kirsten Andersen Destroyed, Dispatched, Delivered: Dynamic Christian Ethics and the Fallen Woman on the fin de siècle Stage A Whirlwind of Disparate Forms: Dollie Radford’s Avant-Garde Drama Decelerating the Modern: Queer Timing, Slow Motion, and Wilde's "Salome" at Dublin's Gate Theater |
PS10B: Acceleration and Transforming Genres/Discursive Practices Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Keri YOUSIF Parataxis in the Age of Speed: Fragmented Discourse in the Long Nineteenth Century A New Form for a New Crisis: the emergence of the novel-essay and the case of Walter Pater’s Marius the Epicurean Accelerated Celebrity and the Rise of Biography in France: The Case of Empress Eugénie Fin-de-siècle prose poetry and weird fiction: Arthur Machen’s “Ornaments in Jade” and C. F. Keary “‘Twixt Dog and Wolf” |
PS10C: Against the Clock: Location and Locomotion in the 19th century Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Mrinalini Rajagopalan Architectural Biometrics: Lidar Scanning and Subaltern Impressions in Architecture Entangled: Colonial and Genealogical Temporalities Parowan Gap: making and preserving slow time On Island Time |
| PS10E: Challenging Speed and Acceleration in the Iberian World (2) Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Sara Muñoz-Muriana “The Pace and Space of Barcelona’s Modernisme: How a Swift Urban Modernization Transformed the Catalan Capital’s Self-Understanding” Accelerated Collecting: Japanese Ceramics as a Metonymy of Spanish Modernity in Benito Pérez Galdós's Lo prohibido (1885) Amazons and Centaurs: Equestrian Culture and Unbridled Modernity in 19th-Century Spain The Threat of Women’s Emancipation in María del Pilar Sinués’ El ángel del hogar (1857) |
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| 5:00pm - 6:00pm |
B8: Farewell cocktail Location: School of Robotics – via Balbi, 1/A |
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