Conference Agenda

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Session

PS2A: Detective Fiction, Time and Mental Speed Time: Wednesday, 18/June/2025: 3:00pm - 4:30pm Session Chair: Lindsey Chappell Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)

Presentations

“Mental Speed: Accelerating Intelligence in the Nineteenth-Century” Suzy ANGER University of British Columbia, Canada Speed and Detective Fiction at the Turn of the Century: the Case of Sherlock Holmes Andrea BELMONTE University of Genoa, Italy Conan Doyle’s Sorting Demon: Sherlock and Information Entropy Barri J Gold University of Pennsylvania, United States of America