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Session Overview
Session
PS4D: Resisting Acceleration
Time:
Thursday, 19/June/2025:
9:00am - 10:30am

Session Chair: Ross Forman
Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)


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Presentations

Enoch's Hammer, Pulling the Plug, and Ca' Canny: Evolving strategies of deceleration in working-class responses to the industrial revolution

Frank EMMETT

none, United States of America



Cotton and Corn: Social Unrest and Lancashire Cotton Famine of 1862

Chih-yin Hsiao

Soochow University, Taiwan



Groaning under Stasis: Speed, Acceleration, and Modernity in Sun-Yat SEN’s Kidnapped in London (1898) and NG Hing-Shang’s Upheaval in Far Cathay (1904)

Ross Forman

University of Warwick, United Kingdom