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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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Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)

Date: Wednesday, 18/June/2025
1:30pm - 3:00pm	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 - 4:30pm	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 - 6:30pm	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

Date: Thursday, 19/June/2025
9:00am - 10:30am	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 - 12:30pm	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 - 3:30pm	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

Date: Friday, 20/June/2025
9:00am - 10:30am	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 - 12:30pm	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 - 3:30pm	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 - 5:00pm	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

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