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Conference Agenda

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Session Overview

Date: Wednesday, 18/June/2025
8:45am - 1:00pm	Registration and information desk - Dept. of Economics Location: Secretariat Desk - fourth floor, Department of Economics – Via Francesco Vivaldi, 5
10:30am - 12:00pm	KT1: Keynote Talk: Diego Saglia Location: Aula Boccanegra - fourth floor, Department of Economics – Via Francesco Vivaldi, 5
12:00pm - 1:00pm	B1: Buffet Lunch Location: Secretariat Desk - fourth floor, Department of Economics – Via Francesco Vivaldi, 5
1:30pm - 3:00pm	PS1A: Religious and Theological Issues Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Valerie Mendelson	PS1B: Adaptations & Afterlives 1 Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Silvana Colella	PS1C: Reading Time Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Emily Harrington	PS1D: Social Acceleration and Women’s Emancipation Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Amalia COTOI	PS1F: Time After Time: Queer Chronopolitics/Nineteenth Century American Forms Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor) Chair: Dana SEITLER
2:00pm - 6:00pm	Registration and information desk - Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo Location: Secretariat Desk - ground floor of Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo – via Balbi, 2
3:00pm - 4:30pm	PS2A: Detective Fiction, Time and Mental Speed Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Lindsey Chappell	PS2B: Time and Optical Technologies Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Frank EMMETT	PS2C: George Eliot: Time Issues Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Nancy Henry	PS2D: Acceleration in the domestic sphere Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Julie WISE	PS2E: Time, Discipline, Standardization Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Abigail Mann	PS2F: Slow Research (Round Table) Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor) Chair: Alexis Morgan Mitchell
4:30pm - 5:00pm	B2: Tea break Location: Catering area
5:00pm - 6:30pm	PS3A: Adaptations & Afterlives 2 Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Valerio Massimo De Angelis	PS3B: Deep Time and Steam-Powered Speed Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Muireann O'CINNEIDE	PS3C: Human Control over Natural Processes Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Huw Edwardes-Evans	PS3D: Acceleration and Fashion Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Leslee Thorne-Murphy	PS3E: Deceleration across the Russian Empire Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: David HERMAN	PS3F: The Pace of Evolution Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor) Chair: Kate FLINT

Date: Thursday, 19/June/2025
8:45am - 6:00pm	Registration and information desk Location: Secretariat Desk - ground floor of Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo – via Balbi, 2
9:00am - 10:30am	PS4A: Travel Fiction and Travel Writing (1) Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Melissa JENKINS	PS4B: Time and poetry Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Catherine ROBSON	PS4C: Early Nineteenth-Century Issues Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Diego SAGLIA	PS4D: Resisting Acceleration Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Ross Forman	PS4E: Colonialism and acceleration? Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Justin Livingstone	PS4F: Art in an Age of Acceleration Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor) Chair: Keren HAMMERSCHLAG
10:30am - 11:00am	B3: Coffee break Location: Catering area
11:00am - 12:30pm	PS5A: Travel in Fiction and Travel Writing (2) Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Ross Forman	PS5B: Critical Accelerations: Time and the Image Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Clare Jane PETTITT	PS5C: Speeding up and slowing down Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Sharon Aronofsky WELTMAN	PS5D: Social Acceleration and the Woman Question: US & Japan Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Paola NARDI	PS5E: Colonialism, Time and Acceleration in Fiction Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Ayşe Çelikkol	PS5F: Natural Imagery and Off-Standard Temporalities Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor) Chair: Emily Harrington
12:30pm - 2:00pm	B4: Buffet lunch Location: School of Robotics – via Balbi, 1/A
2:00pm - 3:30pm	PS6A: Narrative Time, the Gothic and Its Uses Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Claudia Capancioni	PS6B: Fast Horses Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: kristen guest	PS6C: Time and the Writing of History Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Rebecca STERN	PS6E: Time travel Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Thomas Prasch	PS6F: The Speed of Seriality Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor) Chair: Teresa L MANGUM
3:30pm - 4:00pm	B5: Tea Break Location: Catering area
4:00pm - 6:00pm	Via Garibaldi with Historical References Location: atrium of the Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo (Via Balbi, 2)		From Conference Venue to Palazzo Ducale: accompanied walk Location: atrium of the Polo Didattico delle Fontane (Via delle Fontane, 10)		Genoa Heritage Shopping – A Journey Through Timeless Shops and Artisan Traditions Location: atrium of the Polo Didattico delle Fontane (Via delle Fontane, 10)
6:15pm - 7:45pm	KT2: INCS Prize Proclamation and Keynote Talk: Clare Pettitt Location: Palazzo Ducale
8:00pm - 11:00pm	CF: Conference Dinner Location: Cisterne di Palazzo Ducale

Date: Friday, 20/June/2025
8:45am - 5:00pm	Registration and information desk Location: Secretariat Desk - ground floor of Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo – via Balbi, 2
9:00am - 10:30am	PS7A: Speeding Toward Authorship: Jewish Perspectives on Ethnicity and Opportunity Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Linda HUGHES	PS7B: Accelerating Colonizations: Time, Space, Consumption in the Arctic Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Patricia PULHAM	PS7C: Decadent Times: Drift, Drag, and Deliquescence Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Jessica Elizabeth Gossling	PS7D: Tolstoy Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Sara DICKINSON	PS7E: Exhibitions, Museums, Libraries, Postal Media and Time Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Anne HELMREICH	PS7F: 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 - 11:00am	B6: Coffee break Location: Catering area
11:00am - 12:30pm	PS8B: Accelerated Colonisations (2): Time, Space, Consumption in Museology, Sustainability and Imperialism Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Mariaconcetta Costantini	PS8C: Ethics and Aesthetics Astride the 19th and 20th Centuries Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Pamela GILBERT	PS8D: Time, Affects and Mental Faculties Location: Aula 2 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Jessica VALDEZ	PS8E: Time and the City Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Laura COLOMBINO	PS8F: Fieldwork: Interdisciplinary Michael Field Location: Aula Magna (Balbi 2, second floor) Chair: Kristin Mahoney
12:30pm - 2:00pm	B7: Buffet lunch Location: School of Robotics – via Balbi, 1/A
2:00pm - 3:30pm	PS9A: Writing and Technology at the Fin-de-Siècle Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Luisa Villa	PS9B: Time and Generational Issues in Victorian Fiction Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Claudia Capancioni	PS9C: Acceleration on Stage (1) Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Diego SAGLIA	PS9E: Challenging Speed and Acceleration in the Iberian World (1) Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Nicholas WOLTERS
3:30pm - 5:00pm	PS10A: Acceleration on Stage (2) Location: Aula A (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Kirsten Andersen	PS10B: Acceleration and Transforming Genres/Discursive Practices Location: Aula B (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Keri YOUSIF	PS10C: Against the Clock: Location and Locomotion in the 19th century Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor) Chair: Mrinalini Rajagopalan	PS10E: Challenging Speed and Acceleration in the Iberian World (2) Location: Aula 6 (Palazzo Balbi Cattaneo, ground floor) Chair: Sara Muñoz-Muriana
5:00pm - 6:00pm	B8: Farewell cocktail Location: School of Robotics – via Balbi, 1/A