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1:30pm 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”
Michael LEWIS
“Victorian Orphans / Postmodern Clones: Figures of Time in Dickens and Ishiguro”
Leslie S. Simon
Queer Nineteenth Century Retellings: Accelerating Jane Austen and Robert Louis Stevenson
Melanie A. Marotta
3:00pm 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
Dariusz PNIEWSKI
Lapse and Collapse: Perceptions of Time and Memory in 19th Century Spirit Portraiture
Tabetha Madsen
Olive Schreiner's Hallucinatory Realism
Jayda Coons
Seeing and Being Seen: Perception, Power, and The Claude Glass
Anna Mae Tempus
5:00pm 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
Bruce Levy
Soundscapes of Deep Time: Experiencing Geological Time in the 19th Century
Leore Joanne Green , Naomi Yuval-Naeh
Speed on the Flowing Frontier: Western Rivers and Antebellum Steamboats
Gabriele Ferracci
“‘[T]here’s more than engines to a ship’: Steamships & Accelerated Unities in Rudyard Kipling’s The Day’s Work (1898).
Muireann O'CINNEIDE
9:00am 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
11:00am 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
2:00pm 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
