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).
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Session Overview | |
| Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) |
| Date: Wednesday, 18/June/2025 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Date: Thursday, 19/June/2025 | |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Date: Friday, 20/June/2025 | |
| 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" |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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