Conference Agenda

Session
PS5E: Colonialism, Time and Acceleration in Fiction
Time:
Thursday, 19/June/2025:
11:00am - 12:30pm

Session Chair: Ayşe Çelikkol
Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)


Presentations

Timing Imperialism: Reproductive Time and National Fantasy in Wilkie Collins’s Armadale

Katherine CARITHERS

Duke University, United States of America



The Inconsistency of Imperialist temporality: Speed, War Reporting, and H. Rider Haggard’s Cleopatra

Katy BRUNDAN

University of Oregon, United States of America



Chronotopes of Province and Empire: Scaling Wessex and Brazil

Victoria BAENA

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom



Romancing the Plantation: Capitalism, Colonialism, and the Canon

Chandrica BARUA

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor