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1:30pm PS1C: Reading Time Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Emily Harrington
“Serial Media and Slow Reading in the Victorian Studies Classroom”
Kirsten Andersen
Speed-Reading World Literature: Sir John Lubbock’s Liberal Education
Alexander BUBB
Victorian Fiction at 1.5x - Accelerated Reading from the Assembly Line to the Audiobook
Ashley Nadeau
Open Assembly: Strategies for Combating the Collapse of the Humanities
Dino Franco FELLUGA
3:00pm PS2C: George Eliot: Time Issues Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Nancy Henry
George Eliot and the Interweaving of Abstract and Concrete Time
Ayşe Çelikkol
"While the heart beats, bruise it": Circulation, Poison, and Narrative Collapse in Eliot's "The Lifted Veil"
Rebecca SHEPPARD
Middlemarch: Love at First Sight?
Kathleen MCCORMACK
Tempo Deviant: Dorothea Brooke’s Stilled Pose as Accelerated Time Exposure in Talbot’s Calotype
Rebecca Warburton BOYLAN
5:00pm PS3C: Human Control over Natural Processes Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Huw Edwardes-Evans
How to Accelerate a Ruin
Ivan Ortiz
“Steady Cadence, Tempering”: Eco-Industrial Speed in the Romantic Poetry of Rivers
Michael Ziser
Controlling the Climate of Fiction: The Acceleration of Narrative in Mark Twain’s The American Claimant (1892)
Sebastian LUND
Stéphane Mallarmé and Paper Acceleration in fin-de-siècle France
Karen Quandt
9:00am 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"
Evan Lloyd Horne
The Last Man and the Shadownomics of Celebrity
Omar MIRANDA
“The Trial of Mivartinos”: Benjamin Disraeli and the accelerated literary marketplace in the 1820s
Luisa Villa
Catherine Gore as Albany Poyntz in Bentley’s Miscellany: Satires of Aristocratic Indolence versus Middle-Class Speed
Julie DONOVAN
11:00am 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
Sharon Aronofsky WELTMAN
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).
James Keith Diedrick
Singing a Slow Mezzogiorno? Popular Songs, Resistance to Change and the Folklorists in Post-Risorgimento Italy
Heloise FAUCHERRE-BURESI
2:00pm PS6C: Time and the Writing of History Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Rebecca STERN
Compressing
Rebecca STERN
History could be wrong: Accelerated time in Galt's medievalist fiction
Clare SIMMONS
A Past to Believe In: Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee and Gothic History
Joelle Faith Troiano
Between Fear and Fate: Bridging Gothic Dread and Speculative Futures in American Literature of the Long 19th Century
Alexis Morgan Mitchell
9:00am PS7C: Decadent Times: Drift, Drag, and Deliquescence Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Jessica Elizabeth Gossling
Drift: Art After Decadence
Frankie DYTOR
Drag: Decadence in the Time of the Culture Wars
Alice CONDE
Painting a Queer Future: The Character, the Artist, and Questions of Agency in The Picture of Dorian Gray
Cas Lisko
Deliquescence: Decomposition, Rot, and Ornamented Decay
Jessica Elizabeth Gossling
11:00am 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
Pamela GILBERT
Vernon Lee's Deconstructivist Feminist Aesthetics
Sharon WORLEY
Accelerated spots of time: Wordsworthian time in Woolf’s nonfiction
Paolo Bugliani
2:00pm 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
Matthew BUCKLEY
Rhythmic Acceleration in Melodramatic Form
Carolyn WILLIAMS
“‘They’d Fly Along the Lines with the Speed of Lightning’: Telegraphy, Telephony, and Phonography on the Victorian Stage”
Daniel A Novak
Dramatization as Accelerated Reading
Marty Gould
3:30pm 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
Peter CHRISTENSEN
Entangled: Colonial and Genealogical Temporalities
Mrinalini Rajagopalan
Parowan Gap: making and preserving slow time
Shundana YUSAF
On Island Time
Judith MADERA
