Conference AgendaOverview and details of the sessions of this conference. Please select a date or location to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available).
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8:45am - 1:00pmRegistration and information desk - Dept. of Economics Location: Secretariat Desk - fourth floor, Department of Economics – Via Francesco Vivaldi, 5
10:30am - 12:00pmKT1: Keynote Talk: Diego Saglia Location: Aula Boccanegra - fourth floor, Department of Economics – Via Francesco Vivaldi, 5
12:00pm - 1:00pmB1: Buffet Lunch Location: Secretariat Desk - fourth floor, Department of Economics – Via Francesco Vivaldi, 5
1:30pm - 3:00pmPS1A: Religious and Theological Issues Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
1:30pm - 3:00pmPS1B: Adaptations & Afterlives 1 Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
1:30pm - 3:00pmPS1C: Reading Time Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
1:30pm - 3:00pmPS1D: Social Acceleration and Women’s Emancipation Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)
1:30pm - 3:00pmPS1F: Time After Time: Queer Chronopolitics/Nineteenth Century American Forms Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor)
2:00pm - 6:00pmRegistration and information desk - Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo Location: Secretariat Desk - ground floor of Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo – via Balbi, 2
3:00pm - 4:30pmPS2A: Detective Fiction, Time and Mental Speed Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
3:00pm - 4:30pmPS2B: Time and Optical Technologies Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
3:00pm - 4:30pmPS2C: George Eliot: Time Issues Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
3:00pm - 4:30pmPS2D: Acceleration in the domestic sphere Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)
3:00pm - 4:30pmPS2E: Time, Discipline, Standardization Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)
3:00pm - 4:30pmPS2F: Slow Research (Round Table) Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor)
4:30pm - 5:00pmB2: Tea break Location: Catering area
5:00pm - 6:30pmPS3A: Adaptations & Afterlives 2 Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
5:00pm - 6:30pmPS3B: Deep Time and Steam-Powered Speed Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
5:00pm - 6:30pmPS3C: Human Control over Natural Processes Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
5:00pm - 6:30pmPS3D: Acceleration and Fashion Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)
5:00pm - 6:30pmPS3E: Deceleration across the Russian Empire Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)
5:00pm - 6:30pmPS3F: The Pace of Evolution Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor)
8:45am - 6:00pmRegistration and information desk Location: Secretariat Desk - ground floor of Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo – via Balbi, 2
9:00am - 10:30amPS4A: Travel Fiction and Travel Writing (1) Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
9:00am - 10:30amPS4B: Time and poetry Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
9:00am - 10:30amPS4C: Early Nineteenth-Century Issues Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
9:00am - 10:30amPS4D: Resisting Acceleration Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)
9:00am - 10:30amPS4E: Colonialism and acceleration? Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)
9:00am - 10:30amPS4F: Art in an Age of Acceleration Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor)
10:30am - 11:00amB3: Coffee break Location: Catering area
11:00am - 12:30pmPS5A: Travel in Fiction and Travel Writing (2) Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
11:00am - 12:30pmPS5B: Critical Accelerations: Time and the Image Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
11:00am - 12:30pmPS5C: Speeding up and slowing down Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
11:00am - 12:30pmPS5D: Social Acceleration and the Woman Question: US & Japan Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)
11:00am - 12:30pmPS5E: Colonialism, Time and Acceleration in Fiction Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)
11:00am - 12:30pmPS5F: Natural Imagery and Off-Standard Temporalities Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor)
12:30pm - 2:00pmB4: Buffet lunch Location: School of Robotics – via Balbi, 1/A
2:00pm - 3:30pmPS6A: Narrative Time, the Gothic and Its Uses Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
2:00pm - 3:30pmPS6B: Fast Horses Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
2:00pm - 3:30pmPS6C: Time and the Writing of History Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
2:00pm - 3:30pmPS6E: Time travel Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)
2:00pm - 3:30pmPS6F: The Speed of Seriality Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor)
3:30pm - 4:00pmB5: Tea Break Location: Catering area
4:00pm - 6:00pmVia Garibaldi with Historical References Location: atrium of the Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo (Via Balbi, 2)
4:00pm - 6:00pmFrom Conference Venue to Palazzo Ducale: accompanied walk Location: atrium of the Polo Didattico delle Fontane (Via delle Fontane, 10)
4:00pm - 6:00pmGenoa Heritage Shopping – A Journey Through Timeless Shops and Artisan Traditions Location: atrium of the Polo Didattico delle Fontane (Via delle Fontane, 10)
6:15pm - 7:45pmKT2: INCS Prize Proclamation and Keynote Talk: Clare Pettitt Location: Palazzo Ducale
8:00pm - 11:00pmCF: Conference Dinner Location: Cisterne di Palazzo Ducale
8:45am - 5:00pmRegistration and information desk Location: Secretariat Desk - ground floor of Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo – via Balbi, 2
9:00am - 10:30amPS7A: Speeding Toward Authorship: Jewish Perspectives on Ethnicity and Opportunity Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
9:00am - 10:30amPS7B: Accelerating Colonizations: Time, Space, Consumption in the Arctic Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
9:00am - 10:30amPS7C: Decadent Times: Drift, Drag, and Deliquescence Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
9:00am - 10:30amPS7D: Tolstoy Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)
9:00am - 10:30amPS7E: Exhibitions, Museums, Libraries, Postal Media and Time Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)
9:00am - 10:30amPS7F: Slowing Down Time: Embodied and Generational Resistances to Speed and Acceleration (ROUND TABLE) Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor) Discussants: Eileen Cleere (Southwestern University); Jessica Howell (Texas A&M University); Teresa Mangum (University of Iowa); Narin Hassan (Georgia Tech)
10:30am - 11:00amB6: Coffee break Location: Catering area
11:00am - 12:30pmPS8B: Accelerated Colonisations (2): Time, Space, Consumption in Museology, Sustainability and Imperialism Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
11:00am - 12:30pmPS8C: Ethics and Aesthetics Astride the 19th and 20th Centuries Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
11:00am - 12:30pmPS8D: Time, Affects and Mental Faculties Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)
11:00am - 12:30pmPS8E: Time and the City Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)
11:00am - 12:30pmPS8F: Fieldwork: Interdisciplinary Michael Field Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor)
12:30pm - 2:00pmB7: Buffet lunch Location: School of Robotics – via Balbi, 1/A
2:00pm - 3:30pmPS9A: Writing and Technology at the Fin-de-Siècle Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
2:00pm - 3:30pmPS9B: Time and Generational Issues in Victorian Fiction Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
2:00pm - 3:30pmPS9C: Acceleration on Stage (1) Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
2:00pm - 3:30pmPS9E: Challenging Speed and Acceleration in the Iberian World (1) Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)
3:30pm - 5:00pmPS10A: Acceleration on Stage (2) Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
3:30pm - 5:00pmPS10B: Acceleration and Transforming Genres/Discursive Practices Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
3:30pm - 5:00pmPS10C: Against the Clock: Location and Locomotion in the 19th century Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
3:30pm - 5:00pmPS10E: Challenging Speed and Acceleration in the Iberian World (2) Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)
5:00pm - 6:00pmB8: Farewell cocktail Location: School of Robotics – via Balbi, 1/A