Conference Agenda

Session

PS5C: Speeding up and slowing down

Time:

Thursday, 19/June/2025:

11:00am - 12:30pm

Session Chair: Sharon Aronofsky WELTMAN

Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)

Presentations

Ruskin’s Storm Cloud of Tobacco Smoke: Women, Ilth and the Enervating Cigar

Sharon Aronofsky WELTMAN

TCU, United States of America

Art Against Acceleration: Mathilde Blind’s “Manchester by Night” (1881) and Ford Madox Brown’s “John Kay, Inventor of the Fly Shuttle, A.D. 1753” (1888).

James Keith Diedrick

Agnes Scott College, United States of America

Singing a Slow Mezzogiorno? Popular Songs, Resistance to Change and the Folklorists in Post-Risorgimento Italy

Heloise FAUCHERRE-BURESI

Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3, France