Conference Agenda

Session Overview
 
Date: Wednesday, 18/June/2025
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)
Session Chair: Valerie Mendelson
1:30pm - 3:00pmPS1B: Adaptations & Afterlives 1
Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
Session Chair: Silvana Colella
1:30pm - 3:00pmPS1C: Reading Time
Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
Session Chair: Emily Harrington
1:30pm - 3:00pmPS1D: Social Acceleration and Women’s Emancipation
Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)
Session Chair: Amalia COTOI
1:30pm - 3:00pmPS1F: Time After Time: Queer Chronopolitics/Nineteenth Century American Forms
Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor)
Session Chair: Dana SEITLER
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)
Session Chair: Lindsey Chappell
3:00pm - 4:30pmPS2B: Time and Optical Technologies
Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
Session Chair: Frank EMMETT
3:00pm - 4:30pmPS2C: George Eliot: Time Issues
Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
Session Chair: Nancy Henry
3:00pm - 4:30pmPS2D: Acceleration in the domestic sphere
Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)
Session Chair: Julie WISE
3:00pm - 4:30pmPS2E: Time, Discipline, Standardization
Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)
Session Chair: Abigail Mann
3:00pm - 4:30pmPS2F: Slow Research (Round Table)
Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor)
Session Chair: Alexis Morgan Mitchell
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)
Session Chair: Valerio Massimo De Angelis
5:00pm - 6:30pmPS3B: Deep Time and Steam-Powered Speed
Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
Session Chair: Muireann O'CINNEIDE
5:00pm - 6:30pmPS3C: Human Control over Natural Processes
Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
Session Chair: Huw Edwardes-Evans
5:00pm - 6:30pmPS3D: Acceleration and Fashion
Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)
Session Chair: Leslee Thorne-Murphy
5:00pm - 6:30pmPS3E: Deceleration across the Russian Empire
Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)
Session Chair: David HERMAN
5:00pm - 6:30pmPS3F: The Pace of Evolution
Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor)
Session Chair: Kate FLINT

 
Date: Thursday, 19/June/2025
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)
Session Chair: Melissa JENKINS
9:00am - 10:30amPS4B: Time and poetry
Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
Session Chair: Catherine ROBSON
9:00am - 10:30amPS4C: Early Nineteenth-Century Issues
Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
Session Chair: Diego SAGLIA
9:00am - 10:30amPS4D: Resisting Acceleration
Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)
Session Chair: Ross Forman
9:00am - 10:30amPS4E: Colonialism and acceleration?
Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)
Session Chair: Justin Livingstone
9:00am - 10:30amPS4F: Art in an Age of Acceleration
Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor)
Session Chair: Keren HAMMERSCHLAG
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)
Session Chair: Ross Forman
11:00am - 12:30pmPS5B: Critical Accelerations: Time and the Image
Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
Session Chair: Clare Jane PETTITT
11:00am - 12:30pmPS5C: Speeding up and slowing down
Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
Session Chair: Sharon Aronofsky WELTMAN
11:00am - 12:30pmPS5D: Social Acceleration and the Woman Question: US & Japan
Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)
Session Chair: Paola NARDI
11:00am - 12:30pmPS5E: Colonialism, Time and Acceleration in Fiction
Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)
Session Chair: Ayşe Çelikkol
11:00am - 12:30pmPS5F: Natural Imagery and Off-Standard Temporalities
Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor)
Session Chair: Emily Harrington
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)
Session Chair: Claudia Capancioni
2:00pm - 3:30pmPS6B: Fast Horses
Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
Session Chair: kristen guest
2:00pm - 3:30pmPS6C: Time and the Writing of History
Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
Session Chair: Rebecca STERN
2:00pm - 3:30pmPS6E: Time travel
Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)
Session Chair: Thomas Prasch
2:00pm - 3:30pmPS6F: The Speed of Seriality
Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor)
Session Chair: Teresa L MANGUM
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

 
Date: Friday, 20/June/2025
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)
Session Chair: Linda HUGHES
9:00am - 10:30amPS7B: Accelerating Colonizations: Time, Space, Consumption in the Arctic
Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
Session Chair: Patricia PULHAM
9:00am - 10:30amPS7C: Decadent Times: Drift, Drag, and Deliquescence
Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
Session Chair: Jessica Elizabeth Gossling
9:00am - 10:30amPS7D: Tolstoy
Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)
Session Chair: Sara DICKINSON
9:00am - 10:30amPS7E: Exhibitions, Museums, Libraries, Postal Media and Time
Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)
Session Chair: Anne HELMREICH
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)
Session Chair: Mariaconcetta Costantini
11:00am - 12:30pmPS8C: Ethics and Aesthetics Astride the 19th and 20th Centuries
Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
Session Chair: Pamela GILBERT
11:00am - 12:30pmPS8D: Time, Affects and Mental Faculties
Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)
Session Chair: Jessica VALDEZ
11:00am - 12:30pmPS8E: Time and the City
Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)
Session Chair: Laura COLOMBINO
11:00am - 12:30pmPS8F: Fieldwork: Interdisciplinary Michael Field
Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor)
Session Chair: Kristin Mahoney
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)
Session Chair: Luisa Villa
2:00pm - 3:30pmPS9B: Time and Generational Issues in Victorian Fiction
Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
Session Chair: Claudia Capancioni
2:00pm - 3:30pmPS9C: Acceleration on Stage (1)
Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
Session Chair: Diego SAGLIA
2:00pm - 3:30pmPS9E: Challenging Speed and Acceleration in the Iberian World (1)
Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)
Session Chair: Nicholas WOLTERS
3:30pm - 5:00pmPS10A: Acceleration on Stage (2)
Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
Session Chair: Kirsten Andersen
3:30pm - 5:00pmPS10B: Acceleration and Transforming Genres/Discursive Practices
Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
Session Chair: Keri YOUSIF
3:30pm - 5:00pmPS10C: Against the Clock: Location and Locomotion in the 19th century
Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)
Session Chair: Mrinalini Rajagopalan
3:30pm - 5:00pmPS10E: Challenging Speed and Acceleration in the Iberian World (2)
Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor)
Session Chair: Sara Muñoz-Muriana
5:00pm - 6:00pmB8: Farewell cocktail
Location: School of Robotics – via Balbi, 1/A