Conference Agenda

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