Conference Agenda
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Session Overview | |
| Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) |
| Date: Wednesday, 18/June/2025 | |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm |
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” “Victorian Orphans / Postmodern Clones: Figures of Time in Dickens and Ishiguro” Queer Nineteenth Century Retellings: Accelerating Jane Austen and Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 3:00pm - 4:30pm |
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 Lapse and Collapse: Perceptions of Time and Memory in 19th Century Spirit Portraiture Olive Schreiner's Hallucinatory Realism Seeing and Being Seen: Perception, Power, and The Claude Glass |
| 5:00pm - 6:30pm |
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 Soundscapes of Deep Time: Experiencing Geological Time in the 19th Century Speed on the Flowing Frontier: Western Rivers and Antebellum Steamboats “‘[T]here’s more than engines to a ship’: Steamships & Accelerated Unities in Rudyard Kipling’s The Day’s Work (1898). |
| Date: Thursday, 19/June/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
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 |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
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 |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
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" |
| Date: Friday, 20/June/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
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 |
| 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) |
| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
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 |
| 3:30pm - 5:00pm |
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” |
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