Conference Agenda

Session
PS5D: Social Acceleration and the Woman Question: US & Japan
Time:
Thursday, 19/June/2025:
11:00am - 12:30pm

Session Chair: Paola NARDI
Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)


Presentations

Nakajima Shōen (1861-1901): Accelerated Speed from subservience to independence

Aiko OKAMOTO-MACPHAIL

Indiana University, United States of America



“The great machine I call life”: Physical and Social Infrastructures of The House of Mirth

Emma Fox

Brigham Young University, United States of America



“A Lotus Flower in the Mud”: Woman as Exchange Object in 19th-century Japan and America

Coleman NUMBERS

Brigham Young University, United States of America



Fleeing the 'House on Fire': Accelerations and Changes in E. Wharton's The Mother's Recompense

Simona PORRO

Università di Firenze, Italy