Conference Agenda

Time for School

Donal Edmund MULCAHY

The Time Machine Society and the Epoch of Rest, Or, Prison and Its Abolition

Shea Hennum

Diagrams of Generation, Duration, and Relation: Mapping Serial Passage, Experimental Animals, and Pathology at the Imperial Institut Pasteur

Kathleen PIERCE

The Idea of Autocracy in Russia's Long Nineteenth Century

Alison Smith

From Woman Wanderer to Feminotopia: Traversing Temporalities in Aleksandra Murzina’s The Blossoming Rose

Amanda Ewington

“Acceleration and Gender in Sevastopol: Tolstoy and Bakunina Recount the Siege”

Sara DICKINSON

"Modern Waiting: The Slowness of Imperialism"

Emily Harrington

Beyond Speed: How Empire Families’ Preference for Regularity Shaped Maritime Steam Technology

Tamar Rozett

‘Pioneers of Progress’? African Exploration and Capitalist Modernity in Winwood Reade’s ‘Hollowayphobia’

Justin Livingstone

Colonialism at a Standstill: On Conquering without Doing

Alexandre DUBOIS

Timing Imperialism: Reproductive Time and National Fantasy in Wilkie Collins’s Armadale

Katherine CARITHERS

The Inconsistency of Imperialist temporality: Speed, War Reporting, and H. Rider Haggard’s Cleopatra

Katy BRUNDAN

Chronotopes of Province and Empire: Scaling Wessex and Brazil

Victoria BAENA

Romancing the Plantation: Capitalism, Colonialism, and the Canon

Chandrica BARUA

“Strong Shall Be the Tyranny of the Latter Days”: The Shifting Speeds of Time in William Morris’s Time-Travel Fiction

Thomas Prasch

Race, Population, and the Utopian Mode

Sophia Hsu

Victorian Time Travel: Science Fiction, Theory, Anachronism

Sarah Alexander

Human Tadpoles: Rapid Transit and the Man of the Future in H. G. Wells’s The Time Machine

Clayton TARR

Nostalgic Modernity: Preservation, Display, and the Technology of Progress in 1880s London

Frank Christianson

The Pages of Time: Libraries as Emblems of Social Acceleration

Abigail Mann

Looting Time: Deceleration in Anglo-Indian Museum Culture and Rudyard Kipling’s Kim

Johana GODFREY

Fear and FOMO in the Late Nineteenth Century. Social Anxieties Surrounding the Picture Postcard and a New Media Landscape

Ann Kristine Eriksen

Fatal Flânerie: The Violent Velocity of Modernity in Edgar Allan Poe

Megi MECOLLI

Deep Time and the City: From the Mid-Nineteenth Century to Ford Madox Ford’s The Soul of London

Laura COLOMBINO

Flâneur Vision in the Work of Medardo Rosso and Eugène Carrière

Jane R. BECKER

Interferences: The Link between Schreber’s Memoirs of my Mental Illness and 19th Century Technological Developments

Melissa ETZLER

Manso, the Ghost or the Useful Obsolescence of Knowledge

Elena Cueto Asín

Speed, Crime, and Danger on the Rails: The Night Train from Paris to Madrid in Two Short Stories by Emilia Pardo Bazán

Linda WILLEM

“Tiene usted una enfermedad nueva, muy rara, de las de última moda…” Religion, Science and Medical Practices in the Spanish Nineteenth-Century

Sara Muñoz-Muriana

“The Pace and Space of Barcelona’s Modernisme: How a Swift Urban Modernization Transformed the Catalan Capital’s Self-Understanding”

Leigh MERCER

Accelerated Collecting: Japanese Ceramics as a Metonymy of Spanish Modernity in Benito Pérez Galdós's Lo prohibido (1885)

David R. George Jr.

Amazons and Centaurs: Equestrian Culture and Unbridled Modernity in 19th-Century Spain

Nicholas WOLTERS

The Threat of Women’s Emancipation in María del Pilar Sinués’ El ángel del hogar (1857)

Gabrielle MILLER